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Magnetocaloric effect for more efficient hydrogen liquefaction

Hydrogen will play a key role in the transformation towards a carbon-neutral society. By comparison with current usage, it is estimated that global hydrogen requirements will increase fivefold by 2050 to some 550 million tons. But in order to store hydrogen, enormous amounts of energy are needed. During liquefaction, approximately a third of the energy content of hydrogen is lost, which makes the process largely uneconomical. In the Horizon Europe project HyLICAL with a budget of about some five million euros, a team including the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), TU Darmstadt and the start-up MAGNOTHERM wants to significantly improve the technologies for storing liquid hydrogen. To this end, the team is building on magnetocaloric materials that change their temperature when they are exposed to a magnetic field.

FAIRMat has appointed Prof. Dr. Hongbin Zhang as a new PI for its Task E4 on Magnetism and Spintronics.

A look at the activity in electronic components

In its current funding round, the European Research Council ERC has awarded Professor Leopoldo Molina-Luna a Consolidator Grant of around 2.1 million euros for his project “ELECTRON – Enabling spatially-resolved mapping of electric activity in operational devices at atomic-resolution”.

26.03. – 31.03.2023 in Dresden

We congratulate our colleague Kilian Schäfer for the poster award at the MRS Fall Meeting 2022 in Boston.

We congratulations Georgia Gkouzia for winning the best poster award at the MMM 2022 (Magnetism and Magnetic Materials) in Minneapolis.

Under the theme “World of Materials”, the Institute for Materials Science at TU Darmstadt opened its doors to the public on October 15th.

A new instrument has been installed at beamline ID12 for simultaneous measurements of microscopic and macroscopic magnetic properties. It combines synchrotron-based techniques such as X-ray magnetic circular dichroism and X-ray diffraction with laboratory techniques such as magnetisation, magnetostriction, magnetocalorics and magnetoresistance.

International research team publishes universal framework in the journal Science

Novel materials are the key for our transition to a more sustainable economy.

Powerful magnets can be used for effective cooling, heat and power generation.

We congratulate our colleague Kilian Schäfer to the Best Poster Award at MSE 2022.

Humboldt-Preisträger entscheidet sich für UDE

Als einer von nur fünf Wissenschaftler:innen ist Prof. Hari Srikanth (University of South Florida, USA) mit dem Humboldt-Forschungspreis 2022 ausgezeichnet worden. Mit der Auszeichnung ist ein Forschungsaufenthalt an einem deutschen Institut nach Wahl verbunden. Srikanth hat sich für die Physik der Universität Duisburg-Essen (UDE) entschieden. Seine Arbeiten ergänzen insbesondere das Spektrum des großen Forschungsverbunds TRR270 „HoMMage“ zu magnetischen Materialien für die effiziente Energieumwandlung.