23 October 2015
EMPA
Europe/Zurich timezone

Program

Program NCCR MARVEL – Second Experimental verification workshop
23 October 2015, 10:00 – 17:00
 
10:00    Welcome / Short Introduction                                                     Pierangelo Gröning (Empa)
10:15    Realistic Material Design & Simple Computational             Patrice Bujard (BASF)
modeling closed-loop in an industrial environment
 
Presentation of ongoing projects from the first call
10:45    Functional Oxides: Growth, characterisation and reactivity  Claudia Cancellieri (Empa)
11:00    RNiO3 perovskites: exploring the boundary between localized         Marisa Medarde (PSI)
and itinerant behaviour
11:15    Time-resolved XAS to verify mechanisms of photocatalytic  Grigory Smolentsev (PSI)
reactions
11:30    Novel oxynitrides for visible-light-driven photoelectrochemical         Si Wenping (PSI)
water splitting
 
12:00    Lunch Break
13:30    Computational Design of Novel Materials for Energy                     Teodoro Laino (IBM)
Storage Applications
Short Talks presenting project ideas
14:00    Theoretical study of photocatalysis on perovskite oxynitrides           Ulrich Aschauer (ETHZ/Uni BE)
14:10    Realisation of the Kitaev model in strongly spin orbital coupled       Alun Baffin (PSI)
systems with three-fold connectivity                     
14:20    Two-dimensional boron structures                                               Stefan Goedecker (Uni BS)
14:30    Probing weak interactions in low dimensional materials                  Oliver Gröning (Empa)
14:40    Materials Design at the Nanoscale using Combinatorial                  Johann Michler (Empa)
Deposition Techniques
14:50    Electronic structure of TMO interfaces by soft-X-ray ARPES            Vladimir Strocov (PSI)
15:00    Experimental test of a recent model for superconductivity               Dirk Van der Marel (Uni GE)
in doped SrTiO3
 
15:10    Coffee Break
15:45    Transmission electron microscopy of complex oxides for                 Rolf Erni (Empa)
energy applications
Short Talks presenting project ideas
16:15    xxx                                                                                          Thomas Jung (PSI)
16:25    Na-ion batteries: new challenges                                                 Claire Villevieille (PSI)
16:35    Angle-resolved Photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES)                      Ming Shi
on topological semimetals
16:45    Closing Remarks and End of the Workshop