MAPEX Symposia

Particle-Based Materials Symposium

"Processing of functional nanoparticles into higher-order structures"

The Particle-Based Materials Symposium took place on September 23 and 24, 2024, at the House of Science in Bremen. With 70 participants from across Germany and neighboring countries, the symposium successfully fulfilled its promise: bringing together scientists and engineers from different communities that share the goal of creating functionality in materials using particles. With this year’s focus on "processing of functional nanoparticles into higher-order structures" and an introduction to the MAPEX research landscape by Kurosch Rezwan, the symposium effectively connected to ongoing research at the University of Bremen. In addition to the excellent keynote presentations, there were 33 oral presentations delivered by scientists at various career levels, ranging from Ph.D. students to experienced professors. The poster session featured 23 posters, with three selected for the poster prize. A tour of the Schnoor quarter and a dinner at Ratskeller Bremen rounded out the program, giving participants ample time to explore the historic sights and network with each other. We look forward to the next Particle-Based Materials Symposium, which will be held at FAU Erlangen in 2025!

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MAPEX Symposium 2023

"Materials for Environmental Engineering – Sensing, Control, Sustainability"

The symposium brought together researchers working on material-based approaches to tackle urgent environmental issues, especially anthropogenic climate change and the pollution of air, water, and soils. It took place on October 11 and 12, 2023.

The programme comprised 13 keynote talks by invited experts from Bremen, Augsburg, Oldenburg, Kiel, Ferrara (IT) and Paris (FR). With backgrounds in physics, chemistry, biology, geosciences, and engineering, their presentations offered a platform for lively discussions paving the way for new interdisciplinary collaboration.

The programme was rounded off by a poster session with short presentations.

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MAPEX Symposium 2022

"Electrochemical Material Processes"

The MAPEX Symposium 2022 took place at 5^th October 2022 at the University of Bremen.

MAPEX invited 8 keynote speakers from various national and international research institutions as guests to Bremen, who provided exciting insights in current research trends in electrochemistry.

From atomistic modeling of electrochemical reactions, photoelectrochemical devices for human space travel, energy storage and conversion or corrosion to the emergence of life itself, a broad spectrum of electrochemistry was covered by the speakers.

In addition to the keynote presentations, several young researchers from the University Bremen presented their work in various poster presentations and gave insight into current research in electrochemistry at the university. In between the informative presentations, there was time for discussion and networking and many new contacts were made. The successful day ended with a joint dinner and informal get-together. The MAPEX team would like to thank all participants for making this event such a success.

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MAPEX Symposium 2019

"Excited Materials – field-induced out-of-equilibrium phenomena"

' Excited Materials' were in the focus of the MAPEX Symposium 2019, touching topics from electronic structure modeling to electrical power devices . Over the two days , more than 50 MAPEX members and guests excitedly followed the 26 contributions on ' field induced phenomena ' in 2D semiconductors , in electrical power devices , in organic functional materials as well as during electron induced reactions or laser-induced thermomechanical surface smoothing .

In the opening lecture , David Field from Aarhus University reported on his idea of ​​THz emission from spontaneously electrical solids . How to use two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy to probe ultrafast nonadiabatic dynamics in organic photovoltaic materials was demonstrated by Antonietta de Sio from the University of Oldenburg. During the first day’s flashlight session early career researchers from the research training group QM³ - Quantum Mechanical Materials Modeling presented their projects , giving short presentations that were discussed in depth during the subsequent poster session . After contributions from Nando Kaminski and Fabio La Mantia , the first day closed with an inspiring talk by Georg Pesch , who exploits dielectrophoretic forces for material-selective particle separation with the final aim of detecting cancer cells in human blood.

The second day started with a lecture on electronic and optical properties of atomically thin semiconductors by Frank Jahnke and was followed by six keynote talks as well as a poster session with corresponding flashlight presentations . Special highlights were the talks of Andreas Rosenauer , who showed how to measure electrical polarization on the atomic scale using STEM . Furthermore , Ruchira Pereira impressively demonstrated how self-reporting micro-fibers can be produced by centrifugal force spinning . The program was rounded off by the welcome address of Nicola Marzari , the new U Bremen Excellence Chair from EPFL in Lausanne.

Further keynote speakers were : Petra Swiderek (" Electron-induced chemistry - Versatile reactions beyond ground state equilibria "), Alexander Kothe (" Lasing in II-VI semiconductor quantum structures "), Mathias Schulz ( Otto Diels Institute , University of Kiel , " Photoswitchable Silicones : Effects of Azobenzene Isomerization in Solution and in a Free-Standing Film"), Sandro Eckert (BIAS, " Mechanisms of laser-induced thermochemical surface smoothing ").

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MAPEX Symposium 2018

" Process Monitoring"

Process monitoring was in the focus of this year’s MAPEX Symposium, taking place on 18 and 19 June 2018 in the Haus der Wissenschaft in the city centre. More than 60 participants closely followed the manifold scientific programme. With Sybrand van der Zwaag (TU Delft), Erica Lilleodden (Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht), Raimund Horn (Hamburg University of Technology), and Jörn Viell (RWTH Aachen University) four external experts followed our invitation. Inspiring talks by Erica Lilleodden on “in situ mircomechanical testing” and Andreas Fischer on “speckle-based in-process measurements” were the highlights of the first day with monitoring of manufacturing processes as the main topic. The contributions on the second day were mostly related to catalysis and spectroscopy as a tool for process monitoring. Besides the invited talks, 16 early-career researchers presented a brief overview of their work during the flashlight sessions, inviting the audience for in depth discussion during the subsequent poster exhibition. Two special sessions were dedicated to interdisciplinary research projects that received an “impulse funding” from MAPEX in order to establish and foster new internal cooperation within the MAPEX community. After two days and more than 30 contributions, Kirsten Tracht closed the event with the final talk on “Monitoring of Trends”.

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