Modern materials are often exposed to extraordinary loads. In order to achieve the best results in their field of application, they must combine a wide variety of characteristics. For example, metals used in an aircraft engine must be highly stable and heat-resistant at the same time as being easy to shape. MAX-phase materials combine these and other qualities. In order to be able to use MAX phases industrially, scientists of the team around JARA-ENERGY member Prof. Olivier Guillon have developed a new manufacturing process.
A few days ago, the German Research Foundation (DFG) announced the newly selected priority programmes for 2019. From the 53 submitted initiatives, the Senate selected 14 projects for funding as priority programmes. One of the selected priority programmes, entitled " Auditive Kognition in interaktiven virtuellen Umgebungen – AUDICTIVE", is coordinated by JARA-BRAIN scientist Prof. Janina Fels.
The harmful emissions released from energy production in Southeast Asia have an impact on the regional and global climate. The Asian monsoon has an impact on the spatial redistribution of emissions. The Institute for Energy and Climate Research, Stratosphere, headed by JARA-ENERGY member Prof. Martin Riese, is investigating these effects in cooperation with the Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP) in Beijing and the Bergische Universität Wuppertal.
For the 33rd time, the Israel Institute of Technology (Technion), RWTH Aachen University and Forschungszentrum Jülich are jointly organizing the Umbrella Symposium to exchange information on the state of the art in current research and to strengthen cooperation. The symposium will take place from 27 to 29 May 2019 in the Forschungszentrum Jülich.
The Materials Research Society (MRS) elected JARA Professor Matthias Wuttig as MRS Fellow 2019. For the fourth time a German scientist will receive this honour. With this award, MRS honors the physicist's outstanding and groundbreaking contributions to the advancement of phase-change materials, including unraveling their unique bonding mechanism, unconventional transport properties and unusual kinetics.
