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The second M+M Symposium took place on 29. October 2024 in the Wilhelm-Köhler-Saal of the TU Darmstadt. The M+M Symposium is an open format for valuable exchange and free discussions on the broad spectrum of the Research Field Matter and Materials and the four profile topics, Materials for Circularity, Networks for Industry 4.0, Nuclear Science and Synthetic Biology. It is an excellent opportunity for the members to meet, network and discuss burning matters for the research field, which in turn strengthens its core values and identity.

Machine learning for electron microscopy: Leopoldo Molina-Luna receives EU funding

Leopoldo Molina-Luna, Professor of Electron Microscopy at TU Darmstadt, is the first TU researcher to receive funding from the European Research Council (ERC) for the fourth time. Following Starting and Consolidator Grants, Molina-Luna is now receiving a Proof of Concept Grant. The new project “BED-TEM”, which is receiving 150,000 euros of funding for 18 months, aims to make methods of machine learning accessible for use in electron microscopy in a user-friendly manner. In doing so, it should help to optimise the design of experiments.

Millisecond pulsars are rotating neutron stars that emit regular electromagnetic signals, similar to lighthouses. The pulsar PSR J0437-4715 is the closest to Earth and thus the brightest. Researchers with the participation of TU Darmstadt have now gained new insights into the neutron star’s radius and its consequences for the equation of state of dense matter. The results are published in a series of papers in the renowned journal “The Astrophysical Journal Letters”.

TU research team publication in renowned journal “Physical Review Letters”

Neutron stars are extreme objects whose inner matter can take on exotic forms. Researchers at TU Darmstadt and the University of Copenhagen have now been able to predict a new phase that favours “nuclear pasta”.

Publication by TU researchers in the renowned journal “Physical Review Letters”

Atomic nuclei can be tiny magnets. Their magnetic moment can be precisely measured, but the corresponding calculations have been deficient until now. Physicists from TU Darmstadt have now solved this problem, as they report in the journal “Physical Review Letters”.

Veröffentlichung in Nature

Forschende des Adolphe-Merkle-Instituts (AMI, Université de Fribourg, Schweiz), der TU Darmstadt und weiterer internationalen Forschungsgruppen haben eine neue Methode zur Herstellung dünner, energieumwandelnder Membranen entwickelt, die die Struktur und Funktion biologischer Zellmembranen nachahmen. Diese Entdeckung könnte bedeutende Anwendungen in Bereichen haben, die von implantierbaren künstlichen elektrischen Organen bis zur Wasserentsalzung reichen.

Wednesday July 3rd, 2024 at Georg-Christoph-Lichtenberg-Haus TU Darmstadt

Publication by TU Darmstadt researchers in renowned journal “Science Advances”

In an amazing phenomenon of quantum physics known as tunneling, particles appear to move faster than the speed of light. However, physicists from Darmstadt believe that the time it takes for particles to tunnel has been measured incorrectly until now. They propose a new method to stop the speed of quantum particles.

The DFG extends the “MatComComMat” Research Training Group

The German Research Foundation (DFG) has announced that it will fund the “MatComComMat” Research Training Group (GRK), in which TU Darmstadt is participating, for a further four and a half years. The DFG approved a budget of more than four million euros for the second funding period from 1 October 2024 to 31 March 2029.

Researchers at TU Darmstadt present new approaches to a problem of statistical physics

Whether bacteria in search of food or microrobots that automatically collect toxins or waste, again and again this is a problem in statistical physics that has not yet been clarified satisfactorily: how does an “agent” have to move in order to collect randomly distributed targets as skilfully as possible? Researchers at TU Darmstadt have now presented an approach in the renowned journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) that can be used to systematically determine efficient search strategies. It could help to intelligently design tasks such as the search for cancer cells or environmental rehabilitations in the future.