2019-05-20: Magnetite-Gold nanohybrids as ideal all-in-one platforms for theranostics
Maria V. Efremova, Victor A. Naumenko, Marina Spasova, Anastasiia S. Garanina, Maxim A. Abakumov, Anastasia D. Blokhina, Pavel A. Melnikov, Alexandra O. Prelovskaya, Markus Heidelmann, Zi-An Li, Zheng Ma, Igor V. Shchetinin, Yuri I. Golovin, Igor I. Kireev, Alexander G. Savchenko, Vladimir P. Chekhonin, Natalia L. Klyachko, Michael Farle, Alexander G. Majouga and Ulf Wiedwald

was published in Scientific Reports in July 2018 and is listed by the journal among the top 25 articles in the collection 'Chemistry Top 100' articles in 2018. This list is based on most highly accessed chemistry articles covering January-December 2018.
(DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-29618-w | https://www.uni-due.de/agfarle/highlights)

2019-04-29: Energy Technology "Best of 2018"
Our review article "Hysteresis Design of Magnetocaloric Materials—From Basic Mechanisms to Applications" Franziska Scheibel, Tino Gottschall, Andreas Taubel, Maximilian Fries, Konstantin P. Skokov, Alexandra Terwey, Werner Keune, Katharina Ollefs, Heiko Wende, Michael Farle, Mehmet Acet, Oliver Gutfleisch, Markus E. Gruner, (Collaboration partners from TU Darmstadt and U. Duisburg-Essen)
published in Energy Technology in 2018 has been named one of the top articles of the year as the "Best of 2018".
This selection is based upon the download and citation numbers as well as the opinions and feedback of the editorial office of the journal.

Understanding hysteresis: Materials with magnetostructural phase transitions (MSPT) show a large magnetocaloric effect (MCE). The understanding of MSPT and its thermal hysteresis requires the knowledge about the electronic, magnetic, and lattice entropy contributions. In this Review, we provide an overview of the properties of MSPT in La–Fe–Si, Heusler alloys, Mn3GaC, and Fe2P‐type materials with respect to the MCE and its reversibility based on studies under static/dynamic conditions at micro‐ and mesoscopic scales.

2019-04-10: MA PhD Focus Session “Biogenic Spin Phenomena”, DPG SKM Spring Meeting, Regensburg, March 31- April 5, 2019
The PhD Focus session “Biogenic Spin Phenomena”, which was organized by Ph.D. students from the group of M. Farle, H. Wende and T. Weßels from FZ Jülich, assembled a group of prominent experts to share insights and perspectives of Biomagnetism. The symposium with about 80 participant and funded by the DPG was successful and established new links between research groups.
Link: https://www.dpg-verhandlungen.de/year/2019/conference/regensburg/part/ma/session/27

The picture shows: Front row: Prof. M. Winklhofer, Prof. C. Monzel, Prof. R. Dunin-Borkowski, Prof. G. V. Kurlyandskaya; Back row: Prof. M. Farle, I. Iglesias, T. Weßels, Th. Feggeler, N. Rothenbach, I. Novoselova, B. Zingsem. We thank all speakers for their excellent contribution and an extraordinary panel discussion. For us, PhD students, the organization of the event was a great experience. We are very grateful to the DPG, the jDPG, the University of Duisburg-Essen, and the Forschungszentrum Jülich for enabling this experience. In particular, we would like to acknowledge the Center of Nanointegration of Duisburg-Essen University CENIDE for financial support.

Organization Committee:

2019-04-10: MA Focus Session “Magnetic Materials for Energy Efficient Applications”, SKM Spring Meeting, Regensburg, March 31- April 5, 2019
Coordinators:Katharina Ollefs (katharina.ollefs@uni-due.de), Franziska Scheibel (scheibel@fm.tu-darmstadt.de)
The focus session which was organized by Franziska Scheibel and Katharina Ollefs turned out to be a success after having been selected by the biggest Magnetism Association ("Fachverband Magnetismus" of DPG) of the world as one of its 5 Focus session in 2019.
High performance magnetic materials are at the heart of many energy-related technologies, such as direct drive wind turbines and e-mobility. They are also important in robotics and automatization, sensors, actuators, and information technology as well as in solid state-based refrigeration. All of these technologies are expected to grow significantly in the next decades and especially, so-called green energy technologies are likely to see an exponential increase. Several international experts in the field of permanent magnets and magnetocalorics reported on different aspects of magnetic materials:
Microstructure optimization for rare-earth efficient permanent magnets (Thomas Schrefl)

2019-03-18: 69th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting (30 June–5 July 2019) with Iuliia Novoselova and Benjamin Zingsem
Only 600 young scientists from around the world are invited to participate at the 69th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting ( https://www.mediatheque.lindau-nobel.org/meetings/2019 ) dedicated to physics . They have the chance to meet and discuss with 41 Nobel Laureates– including the 2018 laureates in physics Donna Strickland and Gérard Mourou.
Congratulations to our Group Members !!!

2019-03-05: Neue Mitarbeiterin: Dr. Anna Semisalova

New colleague: Dr. Anna Semisalova
We welcome Dr. Anna Semisalova as a new colleague and Habilitation candidate in our group.
Anna brings a DFG-funded project to the University of Duisburg-Essen and is looking for students for bachelor or master theses on topics related to spin dynamics and magnonics.
Also, a PhD position for investigation of magnetization dynamics in nanostructures is available..