Highlights
Publications
Conferences
From February 9-14 the 23rd International School on Solid State Physics took place in Mauterndorf castle. 240 participants from 25 countries listened to 27 invited talks and tutorials, given by international experts in their fields including two Nobel Prize winners, Klaus von Klitzing and Andre Geim. An important part of the school is also the poster session with about 140 contributions.
Since its beginnings in the 1970s this biannual conference was organised as a “winterschool” with a free afternoon break for skiing between the morning and the evening sessions. The main organiser is the Institute of Semiconductor and Solids State Physics at the JKU Linz, but an important contribution is always provided from the Chair of Physics at the MU Leoben. Not only the programme committee was supported this year again by a member of our chair (Christian Teichert), but also the poster session of the winterschool is enabled by providing the majority of the poster boards for presenting about 140 posters!
The transport of these poster boards owned by the Chair of Physics was organised by Rainer T. Lechner using one of the MUL transporters. As the poster session could not be held at Mauterndorf castle, but in the old city hall of Mauterndorf the MUL transporter was parked during the week either in the town centre or in front of the castle and therefore allowed a high visibility of the Montanuniversitaet Leoben, not only for the international conference participants but also for international winter tourists.
The Flatlands Beyond Graphene conference took place in Wroclaw, Poland, from September 9-13, 2024, providing a dynamic platform for scientists to exchange latest exciting developments on the theoretical modelling and experimental progress in the field of layered materials beyond graphene. Key topics included breakthroughs in material synthesis, characterization techniques, theoretical modeling, and practical applications in electronics, and energy storage.
The 2D_Mat_Lab group contributed through presentations by Muhammad Zubair Khan and Simon Leitner, focusing on the imaging of magnetic domains in phyllosilicates and their dielectric properties.
NESY Winterschool 2024
Hosted in the picturesque town of Bad Aussee, the 12th NESY Winterschool took place from 25th of February to 1st of March, 2024, after being on Covid-related hiatus since 2019. Organized by Dr. Lechner from the Chair of Physics at MUL, it presented a valuable opportunity to expand knowledge about the usage of synchrotron and neutron radiation sources, and to exchange insights with the Austrian user communities.
Keynote lectures by internationally acclaimed scientists like C. Detlefs (ESRF, Grenoble), T. Grüne (Univ. Vienna), T.C. Hansen (ILL, Grenoble), R. Treusch (FLASH, DESY Hamburg) and H.-G. Steinrück (FZ Jülich) were the highlights of the symposium, while tutorials by experienced users from local universities and contributed talks by participants of the school made for a comprehensive program.
In the afternoons, some free time was allocated to leisure activities, which was used by participants for skiing, exploring the town or socializing around the pool billiard table.
Our group attended with M. Zubair Khan and Simon Leitner, who each presented a poster at the session taking place in the evenings.
We want to thank Rainer Lechner and Nadine Aichberger for organizing such a successful winter school, and giving so many young scientists the opportunity to enter deeper into the reciprocal space opened up by scattering methods.
Rainer T. Lechner presented his results on x-ray characterisation of colloidal nanocrystals with a talk and a poster at the international conference NaNaX 10-Nanoscience with Nanocrystals. This traditional bi-annual conference brought international experts from all over the world to ISTA in Klosterneuburg from July 3-7, 2023.
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Graphene Week 2023, hosted by the Graphene Flagship, took place in Gothenburg, Sweden, from 04 - 08 September, 2023. The mission of the Graphene Flagship is to unite both academic and industrial researchers with the goal of transitioning graphene from academic laboratories into society. This endeavor aims to foster economic expansion, create fresh employment opportunities, and open up novel prospects. In addition, the 2D-Experimental Pilot Line project is working within the Graphene Flagship, to establish an ecosystem for integrated 2D materials in the semiconductor industry. The ultimate goal is to harness these materials for applications as CMOS readout integrated sensors, Hall sensors, photodetctors and GFETs based bio/chemical sensors.
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The 2nd Symposium on Hydrogen and Carbon (H2-C), organized by Robert Obernaus-Emler (Resources Innovation Center) and the Rectorate of the Montanuniversität Leoben within the frame of the Strategic Core Research Area (SCoReA+) Hydrogen & Carbon, took place on July 10th – 11th at CCD of Voestalpine Donawitz in Leoben. Sebastain Stock delivered a talk, while Max Rauscher and Malina Seyffertitz presented their findings through posters to an audience of approximately 100 participants from Montanuniversität Leoben as well as industrial partners such as Voestalpine, RAG and OMV.
From July 29th to August 4th, Malina Seyffertitz took part in the Gordon Research Seminar and Conference (https://www.grc.org/chemistry-and-physics-of-liquids-conference/2023/) held in Holderness, New Hampshire (USA). During this event, she shared her latest research findings on "Investigating Aqueous Electrolytes in Nanoconfinement at Charged Interfaces Using In-Situ Small Angle X-Ray Scattering (SAXS) and Small Angle Neutron Scattering (SANS)" through a poster presentation. The conference served as a valuable forum for scientific discourse and the interchange of ideas, fostering opportunities for potential future collaborations.
The ‘’ Focused Ion Technology for Nanomaterials -"FIT4NANO’’ workshop occurred in Lisbon, Portugal between July 17th and 19th 2023 with primary objective of establishing a platform to enable new applications of Focused Ion Beam (FIB) techniques in structuring functional materials at nanoscale. MSc Zubair Khan presented a talk on the topic of "Engineering magnetism in two-dimensional phyllosilicates via ion implantation".2D_Mat_Lab
Awards
Best Poster Prize Award by the Royal Society of Chemistry @the Flatlands for Simon Leitner (far right)
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