Am 29.01. um 19:00 Uhr ist es soweit - die DRESDEN-concept Tram rollt erstmalig als Science Café durch die Stadt. Sechs Experten aus dem Max-Planck-Institut für molekulare Zellbiologie und Genetik (MPI CBG), dem Max-Planck-Institut für Chemische Physik fester Stoffe (MPI CPfS), der Technischen Universität Dresden (TUD) und der Staatlichen Kunstsammlung Dresden (SKD) stellen sich den Fragen der Dresdner Öffentlichkeit zum Thema „Universum“. [more]

It was with great sadness that we learned of the sudden death of Shoucheng Zhang, who was external member of our institute and one of the leading condensed matter theorists of his generation. [more]

High-temperature superconductors can transport electrical energy without losses. However, a rigid charge order prevents superconductivity. In an international collaboration, researchers have studied the competing states with high-resolution inelastic X-ray scattering and found that high uniaxial pressure orders the electrons. Their study provides new insights into the function of electronically correlated materials. [more]

76 Max Planck scientists among the most highly cited researchers 2018 [more]

Warmest congratulations to Dr Hilary Noad, who has been awarded a Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers. [more]

The topological nature of the surface states in SmB₆ is exposed by means of scanning tunneling spectroscopy on samples with magnetic substituents or by using magnetic tunneling tips. These local measurements are complemented by global transport measurements on identical samples. [more]

Professor Andy Mackenzie has been awarded a Hanna Visiting Professorship at Stanford University. [more]

We are very pleased to announce that Dr. Claudia Felser was awarded with the James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials for the year 2019. [more]

Marmor, Stein und Eisen bricht, aber Quantenmaterialien nicht - Exzellenzcluster ct.qmat der Universitäten Dresden und Würzburg [more]

On 19^th Sept. 2018, there was a racially motivated assault on a foreign PhD student in a tram of DVB. In an open letter, the PhD representatives from six Dresden research institutes clearly position themselves against any violence and oppression towards other people on the basis of their origin or culture. Furthermore, they emphasize the importance of an open and diverse society, especially for Dresden as a research location. [more]

A universal strategy based on electrochemically induced fast reconstruction of amorphous nanofilm precursors is proposed for exploring ultrahigh mass activity and extremely stable bifunctional water splitting catalysts. The facile reconstruction strategy is promising for the development of novel efficient catalysts for other advanced energy conversion and storage devices. [more]

Hydrodynamic electron flow can only be observed in high-purity quantum materials. An international team of members from the IBM Research Laboratory Zurich, the University of Hamburg and the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids has now found signatures of electron hydrodynamics in the semimetal tungsten diphosphide. The results were published in the journal Nature Communications. [more]

We are very pleased to announce that in this year Johannes Gooth’s 2017 paper in Nano Letters on “Ballistic One-Dimensional InAs Nanowire Cross-Junction Interconnects” was selected by the committee. [more]

Dr. Iryna Antonyshyn was awarded with the Best Poster Prize at the 2^nd Global Conference on Catalysis, Chemical Engineering and Technology (Rome, September 13-16, 2018). [more]

In a recent study, scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden have performed a comprehensive study of thermoelectric and thermomagnetic properties of polycrystalline Weyl semimetal NbP. [more]

Die drei Dresdner Max-Planck-Institute – das MPI für die Chemische Physik fester Stoffe, das MPI für die Physik komplexer Systeme und das MPI für molekulare Zellbiologie und Genetik – organisieren eine gemeinsame Veranstaltung zum bundesweiten „Max-Planck-Tag“ in der Dresdner Innenstadt, genauer gesagt im Plenarsaal des Rathauses, um die Arbeit speziell ihrer Institute den Dresdnern und ihren Gästen zu präsentieren. [more]

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The Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids welcomes the physicist Dr. Johannes Gooth, who will build and manage his Max Planck Research Group from the beginning of October. [more]

Magneto-transport experiments of GdPtBi show anomalous Hall effect, chiral anomaly effect and non-zero Berry phase which establish the properties of Weyl physics. All these properties are independent of crystallographic directions. This study confirm that magnetism plays a major role in creating Weyl Fermions via exchange splitting of bands in GdPtBi. [more]

Scanning tunneling spectroscopy data on the archetypical heavy fermion metal YbRh₂Si₂ establish a hierarchy of energy scales, with the dominance of the lattice Kondo effect requiring temperatures well (about an order of magnitude) below the single-ion Kondo temperature of about 25 K. Only if the lattice Kondo correlations are sufficiently established, quantum critical fluctuations can evolve. [more]