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In a recent Advanced Functional Materials publication, researchers from the Complex Materials group have developed a manufacturing route to tune the levels of mineral bridges and platelet interconnectivity in a transparent glass-platelets reinforced composite. These bulk transparent materials show an unprecedented combination of strength and fracture toughness, that can potentially fulfil currently unmet demands in electronic displays and related technologies.

Claire Donnelly, former PhD student and Postdoc at the Laboratory for Mesoscopic Systems of Prof. L. Heyderman, is the winner of the 2020 Young Scientist Award of the European Magnetism Association (EMA) “For advances in the experimental characterization of spin textures and their dynamics in three dimensions with X-ray techniques.”

In a recent Advanced Science publication, Güven Kurtuldu and Jörg F. Löffler of the Laboratory of Metal Physics and Technology (LMPT) illustrate that metastable crystals can be isolated via ultrafast calorimetry. Investigating their thermophysical properties, they find that even a simple binary Au–Si eutectic alloy reveals four distinctly different melting points.

A European Grant allows the Laboratory of Multifunctional Ferroic Materials to build an "atomic camera" that will greatly improve the quality of materials for consumer electronics.