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Collaboration between the startup alqem AI and MPI CPfS more

Through the “Quantum Materials – Rice and Max Planck Partnership” they advance global leadership in quantum materials and technology. more

International collaboration led from Halle and Dresden demonstrates a chiral fermionic valve without magnets more

A new member of the Kagome metal family that overcomes long-standing geometric constraints has been discovered and studied by an international research team led by scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids (MPI CPfS). The results, published in Nature Materials, introduce the compound TbTi₃Bi₄ as a model system for designing next-generation quantum materials with highly tunable magnetic and electronic properties. more

Claudia Felser, Director and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden, received the ‘E-MRS Professor Jan Czochralski Award 2025’ for her contributions and achievements in materials science. more

Claudia Felser, Director and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden, has been named the European Laureate of the 2025 L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science International Awards. more

Prof. Claudia Felser has been honoured with election as a foreign member of the British Academy of Sciences, the Royal Society of London. more

In a revolutionary study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids have unveiled a new catalyst to significantly enhance the efficiency of the Oxygen Reduction Reaction (ORR) crucial for energy conversion systems like fuel cells and metal-air batteries. more

MPI CPfS researchers are part of the QG3D research project on quantum geometry and next-generation superconductors more

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The application of a weak magnetic field can significantly improve the cooling performance of topological materials at low temperatures. This breakthrough has been published in Nature Materials by an international team of researchers from the MPI CPfS, Chongqing University and the Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics.
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Scientists have discovered an exciting new approach to generating clean hydrogen energy using a remarkable class of crystals that harness the quantum properties of electrons. more

Claudia Felser has been awarded the prestigious Von Hippel Award by the Materials Research Society. She is also, once again, listed as Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher. These recognitions are a testament to her ground-breaking contributions to the field of materials science, particularly in the area of topological quantum materials.
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Congratulations to Kakali Santra on her Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in the Department of Topological Quantum Chemistry! more

During an MPG delegation's trip to Asia, Patrick Cramer hands over the certificate of appointment as head of a Max Planck Partner Group at the MPI CPfS to Satya Guin. more

When the music changes, so does the dance: Controlling cooperative electronic states in kagome metals. This is the title of the press release from the MPI for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) on a paper published in Nature in February 2024, which was led by scientists from the Max Planck Institute in Hamburg. The authors also include Maia Vergniory and Claudia Felser (Department TQC) of the MPI CPfS. more

Congratulations to Sushmita Chandra, Xialong Feng und Ning Mao, who have all been awarded Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in the Topological Quantum Chemistry department! more

Prof. Claudia Felser, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, has been named to the prestigious "Hall of Fame of German Research” of the German “manager magazin”. She receives this honor for her pioneering contributions to the advancement of research in quantum chemical topology. more

The Condensed Matter Division of the European Physical Society awards its 2023 EPS Europhysics Prize to Claudia Felser, director at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden and B. Andrei Bernevig, professor of physics at Princeton University “for seminal contributions to the classification, prediction, and discovery of novel topological quantum materials”. more

Dr. Yu Pan won the International Thermoelectric Society (ITS) Postdoctoral Scholar in Thermoelectrics Award at the 39^th International Conference on Thermoelectrics in Seattle (June 21-25, 2023).
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Dr. Qun Yang belong to the Topological Quantum Chemistry department has been awarded both the precious Otto-Hahn-Medal and the Otto Hahn Award as one of the leading young researchers at Max Planck Society. more

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The Academy of Sciences and Literature (Mainz) elected Claudia Felser as a member of the mathematical and natural sciences class.
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Maia G. Vergniory, a researcher in our department of Solid State Chemistry, has recently been elected as APS Fellow by the American Physical Society (APS) for her pioneering work developing a new theory known as Topological Quantum Chemistry that has allowed to identify thousands of new topological materials. more

A team of researchers from MPI for Chemical Physics of Solids and the MPI for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter in collaboration with researchers from Switzerland and Spain has reported the first observation in a structurally achiral crystal, the Kagome superconductor CsV₃Sb₅. Their work has been published in the current issue of Nature. more

Our former PhD student Qun Yang has been awarded the “2021 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad” by the China Scholarship Council. more

New experiments reveal an elaborate linked quantum structure.

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An international research team has discovered that topological electronic states are present in nearly every known material for every electron in the crystal configuration. Appearing this week in Science, the team’s discovery of ubiquitous band topology has motivated re-examining previous experimental data for overlooked topological features, and suggests that the century-old field of band theory should be restructured, with topology joining chemistry and geometry on equal footing.
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We are happy to announce that Professor Joshua Goldberger from The Ohio State University in the United States has been awarded a Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel fellowship sponsored by the Humboldt foundation. This prestigious fellowship entitles him to spend a sabbatical in Germany, most of the time at our institute in the department of Solid State Chemistry. more

Maia Vergniory co-authored the feature story in Physics Today more