Magnetism without metal: a milestone for materials science

“This is fundamentally new”

09-Oct-2024 - Dr Hongde Yu and Prof Thomas Heine from TUD Dresden University of Technology have succeeded for the first time in predicting metal-free organic magnetic materials using precise computer simulations. These magnetic two-dimensional (2D) polymers could play an important role in data storage, medical ...

Innovative computational method unveils high-performance ceramics for extreme environments

Research team identifies hundreds of representatives of a particularly heat-resistant class of materials

31-Jan-2024 - An international research team has developed a method for rapidly discovering new types of materials that function at extremely high temperatures of several thousand degrees Celsius. These high-performance ceramics could one day form the basis for more robust coatings, batteries and ...

New Fur for the Quantum Cat

Quantum materials: entanglement of many atoms discovered for the first time

07-Sep-2022 - Be it magnets or superconductors: materials are known for their various properties. However, these properties may change spontaneously under extreme conditions. Researchers at the Technische Universität Dresden (TUD) and the Technische Universität München (TUM) have discovered an entirely new ...

Spin-off develops and distributes solutions for high-precision multi-material 3D printing

The technology forms a "missing link" for a wide variety of new application areas

24-May-2022 - In the framework of an EXIST Transfer of Research project, the HETEROMERGE team is developing a technology for automated material exchange for high-precision 3D printers toward market maturity, enabling multi-material printing even in the area of extremely small structure sizes of down to 100 ...

Compression or strain – the material expands always the same

Regardless if strained or compressed, the new material always expands

08-Mar-2021 - An international research team led by chemist Prof. Thomas Heine of TU Dresden has discovered a new two-dimensional material with unprecedented properties: regardless if it is strained or compressed, it always expands. This so-called half-auxetic behavior has not been observed before and is ...

When predictions of theoretical chemists become reality

Making 2D Topological Polymers a reality

26-May-2020 - Thomas Heine, Professor of Theoretical Chemistry at TU Dresden, together with his team, first predicted a topological 2D polymer in 2019. Only one year later, an international team led by Italian researchers was able to synthesize these materials and experimentally prove their topological ...

Scientists discover new phenomenon in the field of gas-solid interactions

11-Apr-2016 - Prof. Dr. Stefan Kaskel and his team of scientists at the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry I at TU Dresden discovered in cooperation with the Helmholtz-Centre Berlin (HZB) and French researchers a new phenomenon in the field of gas-solid interactions: the so-called Negative Gas Adsorption (NGA). ...