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Advanced Materials and Processes (GS AMP)

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Engineering of
Advanced Materials (EAM)
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GS AMP News

GS AMP members meet for an interdisciplinary dialogue

16. February 2018 – For the first time in 2018 the members of the Graduate School AMP met for an interdisciplinary dialogue and scientific exchange. The speaker of the graduate school Prof. Hannsjörg Freund gave a talk with new numbers of the GS AMP and the program for 2018. The candidates for the representatives 2018... more »
Merry Christmas - Frohe Weihnachten - Joyeux Noël

20. December 2017 – We wish you and your family a Merry Christmas and a happy and prosperous New Year! On behalf of the EAM team we warmly thank all our partners for their support. To all EAM researchers thank you for all your dedicated work and congratulations for your impressive scientific achievements. The... more »
Picture of the month: Nanodiamonds entrapped by neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs)

01. December 2017 – Due to the increasing use of nanotechnology, humans are daily exposed to nanoparticles which may trespass the body’s barriers. Within the EAM project Nanosafety, we showed that small (10 – 40 nm) hydrophobic nanoparticles lead to the fast damage of plasma membranes and instability of the lysosomal... more »
Picture of the month: Optical Tamm defect states in hybrid photonic-plasmonic crystals

06. November 2017 – Optical Tamm states are interface waves confined between Bragg and metal mirrors. They are formed in photonic bandgaps and diminish functionality of photonic crystals. Under the umbrella of EAM, we have discovered and explained interface resonances in self-assembled 3-dimensional plasmonic-... more »
FUMIN cluster proposal takes important hurdles in the nationwide competition

02. October 2017 – On 29 September 2017 the German Research Foundation (DFG) announced which of the 195 submitted draft proposals of Clusters of Excellence made the leap into the second round of the excellence competition within the framework of Germany’s Excellence Strategy. The FAU has now been selected to proceed... more »
Picture of the month: 2D diffusion and growth: Rationalising the wide range of morphologies seen in experiments

02. October 2017 – Experimental work at EAM has shown that under certain conditions, thin metallic patches with morphologies ranging from fractal to radial can be produced on planar and curved substrates made of glass or polymer. This type of non-equilibrium crystal growth makes use of previously unexplored... more »
Ausstellung: EAM Science meets Fiction

15. September 2017 – Ab 16. September sind 16 Forschungsbilder aus den Forschungsbereichen des EAM mit literarischen Beiträgen in der Ausstellung „EAM Science meets Fiction“ in Erlangen zu sehen. Dazu gibt es ein abwechslungsreiches Begleitprogramm – darunter eine Lesung und Podiumsdiskussion mit Thea Dorn und... more »
Picture of the month: Self-organized fractal structure of a nano-powder subjected to repeated fragmentation and agglomeration

04. September 2017 – The evolution of a nanopowder due to repeated fragmentation and reagglomeration can lead to fractal structures of robust statistical properties. By means of a novel efficient algorithm, we study a model agglomerate and obtain an asymptotic loosely packed structure of fractal dimension 2.1± 0.1,... more »
3rd CENEM Summer School for X-ray Scattering 2017 Report

04. August 2017 – The 3rd CENEM Summer School for X-ray Scattering 2017 took place on 24–27 July 2017 at the Institute for Crystallography and Structural Physics (ICSP) in Erlangen. The summer school was sponsored by Anton Paar and provided a detailed insight into a variety of modern X-ray scattering techniques... more »
Picture of the month: Self-assembled honeycomb network of carboxyl-substituted triphenylamine derivates on Au (111)

01. August 2017 – Molecular self-assembly is a key concept in nanoscience allowing for the construction of complex molecular architectures in a bottom-up approach. We are carrying out in-depth studies on the subtle balance between intermolecular and molecule-surface interactions, and on how it affects the structure... more »