In a joint appointment procedure of the Leibniz Association and Saarland University, Professor Wilfried Weber was selected for a dual function: He was appointed Scientific Director of INM – Leibniz Institute for New Materials on March 15. He also received a professorship for new materials at Saarland University. This continues the close cooperation between the two institutions to advance joint projects in materials science.
The current publication list of INM is released online:
INM Publications in 2023, February
Contact: NTNM Library
Das INM sucht zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt eine kaufmännische Geschäftsführung.
Die Position ist mit der Mitgliedschaft in der Gesamtgeschäftsführung, bestehend aus zwei wissenschaftlichen Geschäftsführern und einem kaufmännischen Geschäftsführer, verbunden.
Die Kaufmännische Geschäftsführung ist im Rahmen ihrer Ressortzuständigkeit verantwortlich für das Personal-, Finanz- und Organisationsmanagement und ist in die strategische Entwicklungsplanung des Instituts eingebunden.
Die Stelle ist zunächst auf fünf Jahre befristet; Wiederbestellung ist möglich.
Whether for tablets, smartphones, cars, clothing or medical devices – touch screens, foldable screens, displays and sensors of the future must be bendable and flexible. And the printed electronics applied to them must be just as bendable and flexible to enable tapping and swiping, for example. At LOPEC, the trade fair for printed electronics, INM presents electrospinning as a promising process.
Dr. Morgan Delarue
Université Toulouse, team MILE, LAAS-CNRS, France
Host: Prof. Dr. Aránzazu del Campo
Prof. Dr. Christian Kübel
Karlsruhe Institut of Technology (KIT)
Host: Prof. Dr. Tobias Kraus
Research teams from INM – Leibniz Institute for New Materials in Saarbrücken, the Fraunhofer Institute for Silicate Research (ISC) in Würzburg, and Friedrich Alexander University (FAU) in Erlangen-Nuremberg will launch the AdRecBat project on February 1, 2023, which looks at the recycling of lithium-ion batteries not at the end of their life, but already at the time of product design. The project aims to delineate the battery components from each other so that recycling by type is possible.
Have you graduated in the natural sciences or successfully completed your doctorate and are now looking for new challenges? The INM employs scientists from the materials sciences, biology, physics, chemistry and related disciplines. There is no standstill with us, we are constantly developing and are looking for new colleagues who would like to follow this path with us.
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The INM – Leibniz Institute for New Materials says goodbye to its scientific director and chairman Prof. Eduard Arzt who retired at the end of 2022. Arzt headed the Saarbrücken-based materials research institute since October 2007 and led it to worldwide recognition. He is known nationally and internationally for his research on gecko-inspired polymer surfaces,
At 9:25 a.m. on Oct. 21, 2022, the German Aerospace Center’s (DLR) MAPHEUS-12 research rocket lifted off from Sweden’s ESRANGE rocket base near Kiruna. It reached an altitude of 260 kilometers and then sailed back to Earth on a parachute. On board were gold nanoparticles from the INM – Leibniz Institute for New Materials in Saarbrücken. In a special experimental setup, they were used to study how particles agglomerate when no gravity acts on them.
Does glue work in space? More generally, do the properties of materials change when they form from liquid precursors in zero gravity? Researchers at INM – Leibniz Institute for New Materials in Saarbrücken have studied how the agglomeration of nanoparticles changes in the absence of gravity and published surprising differences in the journal Small.
Researchers at INM – Leibniz Institute for New Materials in Saarbrücken, Germany, in collaboration with scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shanghai, have developed a new electrochemical process for extracting lithium ions from seawater. In ACS Energy Letters, the German-Chinese team led by Prof. Volker Presser presents the process, which on the one hand, requires little energy input and, on the other hand, ensures continuous separation of lithium.
Congratulations to INM Group Leader Professor Volker Presser for receiving the 2022 Zhaowu Tian Prize for Energy Electrochemistry. This outstanding award by the International Society of Electrochemistry recognizes his achievements in the field of electrochemistry for energy.
The list of former awardees ranges from Xiangfeng Duan (2017), Fabio la Mantia (2018), Zhichuan (Jason) Xu (2019), to Joaquín Rodríguez-López (2021).
Congratulations to Dr. Lola González-García, Head of the Program Division Electrofluids, for receiving the “Best Oral Presentation” award. She received the award for her talk on “Sinter-free inks of metal-polymer hybrid particles for printed electronics,” which she gave at the 16th International Conference on Nanostructured Materials, Nano 2022, in Seville.