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The German President Mr. Steinmeier had the oppurtunity to meet the AvH Fellow Dr. Shaoxiong Xie during the recent Annual Alexander von Humboldt Meeting. Dr. Shaoxiong has joined the Institute of Glass and Ceramics in 2024 and is researching high-throughput development of two-dimensional halide pero...

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Ahmed Gadelmawla successfully defended his doctoral thesis on “Stress Modulated Electromechanical Coupling of Lead-Free Ferroelectrics”. During his research he characterized the macroscopic properties of lead-free ferroelectrics, focusing on the influence of stress in the vicinty of phase boundaries...

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Udo Eckstein successfully defended his doctoral thesis on “Structural and Chemical relaxation in aerosol-deposited barium titanate thick films". During his research he developed a method to produce freestanding films that he used to investigate the influence of defects on the functional properties. ...

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Every Year, students of the Elite Master’s Programme Advanced Materials and Processes (MAP) select two of their lecturers for the Best Lecturer Award. This year, the students opted for Stephan since “he also showed us how things that we take for granted can be deeply intriguing. The last time I ...

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At the recent event for Alexander von Humboldt Fellows, the German President got a chance to meet Prof. Ali Hussain, who is currently working at the Institute of Glass and Ceramics. Prof. Hussain is research more sustainable lead-free materials for solid state energy storage devices. These systems a...

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Dr. Stephan E. Wolf, Privatdozent am Lehrstuhl für Glas und Keramik des Departments Werkstoffwissenschaften, ist in das prestigeträchtige Heisenberg-Programm der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) aufgenommen worden. In seinem Heisenberg-Projekt widmet sich Stephan Wolf amorphen, also „ungeor...

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In the recently published paper in physica status solidi (b) basic solid state physics on "Stress and Deformation Behavior of 2D Composite Cellular Actuator Structures of Ceramic Building Blocks and Epoxy Resins" from Dr. Fey's group in collaboration with Prof. Kakimoto from Naygoya Institute of Tec...

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