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Material Shapes the Ages Media Kit

ETH Zurich Material Shapes the Ages Media Kit

Welcome to the media kit for ETH Zurich research exhibited in Museum für Naturkunde at the Berlin Science Week 2022 and in the House of Switzerland at the Milano Design Week 2022. For an overview of the projects please see the Material Shapes the Ages Exhibition page. To get more background information from the researchers, plase contact  Marianne Lucien, responsible for international media or the exhibition's curator Simone Bucher van Ligten.

Downloads Exhibition "Material Shapes the Ages"

Intelligent, property changing materials on the cutting edge of science

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Download Brochure Material Shapes the Ages (PDF, 3.6 MB)
Credit: ETH Zurich / Simone Bucher van Ligten

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external page Materials Animation
Credit: ETH Zurich / Daniel Barnbeck

external page Short explainer videos exhibition  

external page Online Talk on Materials Science with Julia Carpenter, Nicole Kleger, Susan Kish (Moderator)

 

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external page Photos all Materials
Credit ETH Zurich / Andreas Eggenberger

external page Photos Exhibition at Milano Design Week
Credit: ETH Zurich / Andreas Eggenberger

A Modern Tree

Modern Tree -1
A modern Tree: Aerogels enable the conversion of CO2 into solar fuels with the help of light - a form of modern photosynthesis. © ETH Zurich / Fabian Matter
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Further information

Aerogel cube
Highly porous, 1g of aerogel has the same surface as two tennis courts. © ETH Zurich / Fabian Matter  
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Big Bang in a Multiferroic Crystal

ErMnO3 Domains blue
The pattern of electric charges in ErMnO3 (image above) simulates processes that happened in the early universe right after the Big Bang. © ETH Zurich
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SMOonLSAT
Multiferroic Crystal - SMOonLSAT. © ETH Zurich
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Weakness Illuminated

Structural Color Sensors
Structural colour sensors track thermal history of materials.  ©ETH Zurich
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Weakness illuminated diagram
Colour sensors identifiy weaknesses in wind turbines and jet engines.
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Implant and Forget

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Biodegradeable magnesium implants
Polyurethane hand with finger implants of a biodegradable magnesium-zinc-calcium alloy. ©ETH Zurich
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Bone screws made of a biodegradable magnesium-zinc-calcium alloy.
Bone screws made of a biodegradable magnesium-zinc-calcium alloy. ©ETH Zurich
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Reborn from Ashes

Fly Ash
Fly ash recycled into a nonflammable foam insulation. ©FenX / Etienne Jeoffroy
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Fly Ash
Fly ash recycled into a nonflammable foam insulation. ©ETH Zurich
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Sprinting Magnetic Memory

Prototype array of magnetic bits.
Prototype array of magnetic bits. Image: imec Leuven
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Cross-section
Cross-section of a magnetic tunnel junction pillar. Image: imec Leuven
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