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Magnetoresistance, the change in electrical resistance of a material when exposed to a magnetic field, is used in a variety of applications, such as memory in hard disk drives! Learn more in this #Primer from @mpi_CPfS, @ChangjiangYi, and team 🧲🧭nature.com/articles/s43586-0…
Claudia Felser (2nd from left) receives the 2025 L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Award alongside fellow laureates. Felser is honored for her groundbreaking work on topological quantum materials.👏
🔴 Livestream at 7:30 PM (CEST):
piped.video/live/qk4743UdhRc#ForWomenInScience
Congrats to the 2025 #ForWomenInScience Laureates!
Special cheers to our Director, @claudia_felser, honored for her work on topological quantum materials & advocacy for women in STEM.
👏 Baker, Wang, Felser, Dova & Finlayson-Pitts — true role models!
@UNESCO@FondationLOreal
ALT https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/five-exceptional-researchers-win-2025-loreal-unesco-women-science-international-awards
Group portrait of the five 2025 L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science International Laureates. Top row (left to right): María Teresa Dova, Priscilla Baker, Claudia Felser. Bottom row (left to right): Barbara Finlayson-Pitts, Xiaoyun Wang. Right side shows the For Women in Science logo with UNESCO and Fondation L'Oréal.
Applying a magnetic field to the topological material Bi88Sb12 enhances the Seebeck coefficient, resulting in a high thermoelectric figure of merit zT of 1.7 at 180 K and 0.7 T. @claudia_felser@mpi_CPfSnature.com/articles/s41563-0…
Xia Wang, @BinghaiYan @claudia_felser and colleagues @mpi_CPfS use topological semimetals with intrinsic chirality to control spin in oxygen evolution catalysts and explore the role of spin-orbit coupling in determining activity. buff.ly/3OxAlNQ
Claudia Felser receives the #VonHippelAward 🏆 and is named a 2024 Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher! Her groundbreaking work in topological #quantumMaterials reshapes condensed matter science. Congratulations on this well-deserved recognition! 👏
cpfs.mpg.de/3694669/20241122
🌊🔋Breakthrough in Clean #hydrogen - Scientists have developed spin-powered chiral crystals that boost water splitting efficiency by 200x. This leap in renewable energy tech brings us closer to a #CleanEnergy future. 🌍
cpfs.mpg.de/3695333/20241125…
Excited to share a groundbreaking paper showing 2D and 3D magnetic imaging of samples too thick to be measured until now. From spintronics to paleomagnetism. Happy that @HZBde could make a small contribution to the work lead by the Spin3D group @mpi_CPfSphysics.aps.org/articles/v17…
Structural Analysis and Redox Properties of Oxygen-“Breathing” A(Mn1–xCux)O3 (A = La, Pr) Perovskites
By Annette Trunschke et al. @fhi_mpg_de@mpicec_press@mpi_CPfS
Read the paper 👉 go.acs.org/aod
New Nanocomposites Derived from Cation-Nonstoichiometric Bax(Co, Fe, Zr, Y)O3−δ as Efficient Electrocatalysts for Water Oxidation in Alkaline Solution
By Xiaomin Xu, Zongping Shao et al. @CurtinUni@HongKongPolyU@mpi_CPfS
Read the paper 👉 go.acs.org/ak7
Many body physics in heavy fermions. Hybridization of the electrons energy scheme in a sample made of YbPtBi, ytterbium (Yb), lead (Pt), and bismuth (Bi) under controlled symmetry-breaking and uniaxial pressure. YbPtBi has been hypothesized to possess one of the highest Sommerfeld coefficient γ(*), which relates to the electron density at the Fermi level. Thermodynamic measurements of elastocaloric effects, and capacitance of the material placed across a gap in a sample carrier screwed into a pressure cell and connected to a thermocouple, reports the extremely high γ value at the quasi-sextet crystal electric field level. The experiment which agree with the predictions, provides insight into the limits of the γ factor indicating its proximity to the Van Hove singularity. Credits: @mpi_CPfS. Info:
nature.com/articles/s41535-0…