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September 8 - Dr. Carlos L. Bassani has received an ERC Starting Grant for his project "kineticSHAPES – Kinetic Pathways to Control Nanocrystal Shapes". The project will investigate how nanocrystal morphologies emerge under non-equilibrium conditions. By developing simulation methods that span from ...

July 14 - Dr. habil. Sudeshna Roy has successfully completed her habilitation in the field of Granular Materials. Her topics for the Habilitation was „Simulation of Granular Flows: Insights into Additive Manufacturing, Rheology, and Capillary Force“. She received her certification from the Dean of t...

June 14 -  the MSS had the special opportunity to take part in the 44th parabolic flight campaign of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) to conduct an innovative experiment under weightlessness. Preparations began with the integration week (June 2-6), during which our experiment was installed and t...

June 3, 2025 - In his thesis, Federico Tomazic investigated the relation betwen nanoparticle interaction and the formation of a desired self-assembled suprastructure. He used coarse-grained models to represent nanoparticles and predict self-assembly outcomes, including the ordering of colloidal part...

May 19, 2025 - In his thesis, Angel Santarossa investigated the mechanical phenomena in granular materials underlying the functionality of granular grippers using X-ray imaging for various granular sizes. Additionally, he investigated the substitution of air inside the gripper with a density-matched...

May 22, 2024 - In his thesis, Holger Götz investigated and characterized the granular gripper and granular metamaterials, two systems in which granular jamming is used to achieve variable stiffness. Additionally, he studied vibrated granulates in zero gravity conditions, investigating the causes of ...

October 13-17, 2024 - Olfa D'Angelo is co-organizing, with Thomas Voigtmann and Norman Wagner, a mini-session on Space Applications and Low-gravity Research at the Society of Rheology in Austin (TX), Oct. 13-17, 2024. This mini-session offers a platform for rheology and space-related science to m...

Continuing our 2024 ATOMS Seminar Series, we would like to invite you to our next seminar, which will be held next Thursday, May 16th, at 12h (Brasília time, UTC – 3). We will open the Zoom meeting at 11h30 (Brasília time, UTC – 3) so everyone can enter in advance and the webinar starts on time. Fo...

March 11, 2024 - Olfa D’Angelo and Geovane de Jesus Rodrigues used the new generation drop tower, the Gravity Tower Bremen (GTB) at ZARM in Bremen, for the first ever commercial campaign simulating Moon’s gravity. Their experiments will help future space missions planning by better understanding the...

March 5, 2024 - MSS annual report 2023 has been published. Click here.