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On Tuesday, April 9, WW8 hosts the Focus Meeting B of the DFG Priority Program SPP 2206 KOMMMA (Cooperative, multi-stage, multi-stable microactuators). Around 22 scientists from Freiburg, Saarbrücken, Berlin, Dresden, Karlsruhe and Fürth will meet here to exchange about the recent progress in cooper...

Article “Determining thermal activation parameters for ferroelectric domain nucleation in BaTiO3 from molecular dynamics simulations” by D. Durdiev, M. Zaiser, F. Wendler, T. Tsuzuki, H. Azuma, S. Ogata, R. Kobayashi and M. Uranagase chosen as Editor’s Pick in Applied Physics Letters Volume 124, Iss...

Dr. Luca Ghiringhelli has been appointed W2 Professor for “Data-based Materials Modeling” at the Institute of Materials Simulation. His term of office starts on 1.10.2023.

Work by WW8 researchers on design of disordered mechanical metamaterials featured on the cover of Nature Reviews Physics.