Chair of

High Temperature Materials

Krüger group at Kloster Banz (From left to right):  Weiguang Yang, Georg Hasemann, Rachid Touzani, Janett Schmelzer, Maximilian Regenberg, Manja Krüger.

On the far right as visiter: Shintaro Ida (Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan)

Finally! A Conference in person!!

From October 4th until October 8th 2021 the Intermetallics 2021 conference took place at Kloster Banz and our group presented their latest results and research activities to international groups of experts. We presented:

Georg Hasemann: High-energy synchrotron X-ray in-situ observations of ternary eutectic growth in a directionally solidified Mo-Si-B alloy

Maximilian Regenberg: A novel alloy development approach – biomedical high-entropy alloys

Janett Schmelzer: Particle strengthening of additively manufactured Me-Si-B (Me = Mo, V) alloys

Rachid Touzani: First principles density functional theory prediction of the crystal structure and the elastic properties of Mo₂ZrB₂ and Mo₂HfB₂

We also showed two posters during the poster session:

Maximilian Regenberg: Biocompatibility of pure refractory metals and their combinations as high entropy alloys

Weiguang Yang: Ternary V_SS-V₃Si-V₅SiB₂ eutectics in the V-Si-B system

It was a real pleasure to have Dr. Shuntaro Ida, a research from Tohoku University with us, who visited us multiple times before. Thanks to him we had fruitful and inspiring discussions leading to new projects with his group in Japan.  For us it was evident, that conferences in person improve the scientific work and also the social connections to each other.  Especially the talks in private and the discussions after the presentations stabilized ongoing collaborations, while the socializing events in the evening got us closer together as persons and led to new ideas, projects and collaborations.

We are really looking forward to the Intermetallics 2023!