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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

In collaboration with scientists in Germany, EPFL researchers have demonstrated that the spiral geometry of tiny, twisted magnetic tubes can be leveraged to transmit data based on quasiparticles called magnons, rather than electrons.
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Warm congratulations to Dr Haijing Zhang, who has been appointed to a professorship at Southeast University in Nanjing, China. more

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We warmly congratulate Francisco Lieberich on winning a poster award at this year's conference “Current Trends in Strongly Correlated and Frustrated Systems” (SCF25). more

At the beginning of the 2025/26 winter semester, two of our scientists won important scientific promotions. Coincidentally, both are named Elena: Elena Hassinger and Elena Gati. We congratulate both of them on their appointments to full W3 professorships. more

Congratulations to Hilary Noad, who has received the Wilhelm Heraeus Junior Visiting Professorship for Physics 2025, awarded by the President of Goethe University Frankfurt am Main and the Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Foundation. more

An international team led by researchers at MPI-CPfS used irradiation with extremely high-energy electrons to controllably introduce atomic defects in superconducting nickelate thin films. Their systematic investigation recently published in Physical Review Letters helps to narrow down the possible answers to fundamental questions of how superconductivity emerges in these materials. 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

Jordan Tierney, a recent graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (United States), has received a Fulbright U.S. Student Award to conduct research at MPI CPfS. more

An international team led by MPI-CPfS researchers has provided experimental evidence of bulk altermagnetism in MnTe. Using resonant X-ray nanoimaging, they resolved magnetic domains and confirmed their altermagnetic nature, establishing a powerful tool for future 3D and real-time studies of magnetic textures.
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A team of researchers from MPI CPfS has uncovered why the unconventional superconductor UTe₂ exhibits such striking variations in its behavior from sample to sample. more

Vom 1. bis 5. September 2025 war das MPI CPfS Gastgeber der 6. Internationalen Schule für aperiodische Kristalle (ISAC-6). more

MPI CPfS is proud to announce that Gulchin Aliyeva, a talented student from Koc University (Turkey), has been selected for an Erasmus + internship at our institute. more

An international team led by researchers at MPI-CPfS has used targeted anisotropic strain to tune frustrated quantum materials. This allowed precise control of geometric frustration in a Mott insulator and enabled access to previously unexplored regions of the phase diagram.
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Congratulations to Rahel Ohlendorf on receiving a poster prize at this year’s SCES conference (Strongly Correlated Electron Systems) in Montreal, Canada.
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During the 4^st International and 7^th Asian Conference on Thermoelectrics 2025 (June 2025, Sendai, Japan), Professor Yuri Grin, Director em. at the Max-Planck-Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, was honoured by the ITS Outstanding Achievement in Thermoelectrics Award. more

Congratulations and welcome to Jan Knapp, who has been awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship to work in the Physics of Quantum Matter Department of MPI CPfS. more