Fresh start of a third day of lectures and seminars at #PlasmonicaSchool2026 with clear skies and an attentive audience.

Kick off of Plasmonica School 2026! Looking forward to an intensive week of nano-optics in Florence!

@plasmonica.bsky.social

🚀Are you at #TMS2026 in San Diego?

Tomorrow at 8:30 AM in Hilton Aqua E, Ralph Spolenak will present "From the Titanic to Nanopillars: Brittle to Ductile Transitions as a Function of Temperature and Size", opening a session honoring the remarkable legacy of William Gerberich.

Last talk from LNM tomorrow at #DPG2026! @marpozzi.bsky.social will present "Self-assembled dielectric network metamaterials based on vanadium oxide" at 12.15 in HSZ/0403. Don't miss it!

🔬 16:15 — SCH/A216
@oliverwipfli.ch - “Diffusion processes in magnetron sputtered copper–gold thin films: layer design, argon pressure tuning and Kirkendall effect”

💧11:45 — SCH/A251
Ralph Spolenak - “Additive manufacturing and nanomechanics – where is the link?”

🔥9:30 — REC/C213
Nensi Toncich - “An on-chip heating platform for localized thin-film repair, non-equilibrium microstructures, and phase control”

🚀 More LNM talks tomorrow at #DPG2026 ! If you're interested in thin films, nanomechanics, and diffusion processes... we hope to see you there!!

LNM is ready for #DPG conference in Dresden this week! 😎 Tomorrow at 11:45 in HSZ/0201 @fabian_haake will start with his presentation “Probing electromagnetic chirality in nanoresonators using scanning reflection anisotropy microscopy”. Don't miss it! 😉

Electrohydrodynamic redox printing vs. physical vapour deposition: a comparative study of nanoporous Ag morphology and SERS performance - Discover Nano The increasing demand for miniaturised, high-performance sensing platforms necessitates materials that can be deposited with high spatial precision. Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) has emer...

🚀New paper out! Nanoporous Ag for SERS: PVD vs EHD-RP. Both show strong enhancement, with EHD-RP slightly outperforming. <30 nm pores and network disorder are key. EHD-RP substrates are stable and enable plasmonic catalysis at ultralow laser powers 🔬👏.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Multi-Material Nanoscale Additive Manufacturing at Its Limits - Resolution, Chemistry & Purity. Are we ready to print devices?

Don’t miss Prof. Ralf Spolenak’s talk at @Materials_MRS
- Hynes, Level 3, Room 303 @ 1:30 PM! 🚀

Micromechanical Insights into Sinter‐Based Additively Manufactured NiTi with Nb as a Sintering Aid This study investigates the microstructural and micromechanical behavior of NiTiNb made through filament-based materials extrusion via chemically correlated nanoindentation. B19' remnants from the or...

🦾 Interested in NiTiNb alloys?

Our latest work explores the use of metallic additives in filament-based extrusion and employs chemically correlated nanoindentation to reveal the microstructural & micromechanical behavior of NiTiNb.

👉 doi.org/10.1002/adem...

Oliver Wipf is already at #FEMSEuromat2025 in Granada! Don’t miss his talk on Kirkendall Effect guided Void Formation in PVD Manufactured Cu-Au Thin Films for low Thermal Conductivity Coatings.

🗓️ Wed 17 at 6pm. ¡Nos vemos allí! 😉

@FEMS_EU
@SOCIEMAT

Getting ready for the semester start… but first, a group hike to Tamina Gorge! 💪🌿

If you’re at @GordonConf in Boston, check out Nerea Abando’s work on combining eutectic phase diagrams & interface design for sinter-based NiTi-316L multi-material additive manufacturing. Today & tomorrow at 16h in the Poster Session! 🦾

Big congrats to the winning team!! Students from LNM + PhDs from Food Structure Engineering took home the Golden Ralph in our latest LNM PubQuiz! Will they keep it next time? 😏🏆

... and the group picture 📷 of #PLASMONICA2025 is out! We are such a good-looking Community ☺️

LNM was present today at the Swiss Mycology Symposium at @wslresearch.bsky.social in Birmensdorf! 🍄 Judith Gómez Cuyàs presented her poster on how optics can be used to explore fungal networks!

Enjoying the last coffee break of a great workshop! ☕️

#PLASMONICA2025 @plasmonica.bsky.social

@marpozzi.bsky.social will be presenting his poster on “Self-assembled hybrid dielectric/plasmonic network metamaterials based on vanadium oxide and copper” today at #PLASMONICA2025! Swing by and check it out! 😎

@plasmonica.bsky.social

A snapshot of @paunessa.bsky.social’s talk yesterday in the beautiful Sant Giminiano convent at @plasmonica.bsky.social 🔬 Don’t miss the chance to approach him if you’re still around!

#PLASMONICA2025

Enjoying a cappuccino in the market while waiting for Day 2 of @plasmonica.bsky.social to kick off ☕ @paunessa.bsky.social (on the left 😎) will be speaking at 11:30h on “Hybrid resonant metasurfaces combining dielectric nanocup metasurfaces and plasmonic networks.” Don’t miss it!

#PLASMONICA2025

LNM on tour: high-speed edition! 🏎️ Just 3h to go until #PLASMONICA2025 kicks off! But first, a quick pit stop at the Ferrari Museum in Modena to see Enzo Ferrari’s work 🇮🇹 See you soon at @plasmonica.bsky.social!

One more year, the Heavy Metals represented the LNM group at the SMW Soccer Cup! 🤩⚽👏

@ethz.ch

This work helps optimize these materials for high-performance applications like microelectronics and localized joining.

We investigated how composition and bilayer thickness affect the reaction dynamics and mechanical properties of Ni/Al reactive multilayers, combining experiments with molecular dynamics simulations.

Composition effects on Ni/Al reactive multilayers: A comprehensive study of mechanical properties, reaction dynamics, and phase evolution Ni/Al reactive multilayers are promising materials for applications requiring controlled local energy release and superior mechanical performance. This study sy

🚨📰 Our latest research on Ni/Al reactive multilayers has been published in @aip-publishing.bsky.social and selected as an Editor's Pick! 💥

👉 doi.org/10.1063/5.02...

Yesterday we attended the #MaterialsDay at ETH on Materials for Energy! A great chance to engage with experts like Emiliano Cortés from @lmumuenchen.bsky.social, who is developing advanced nanomaterials and plasmonic strategies for sustainable energy conversion and storage ☀️🔋

🚨📰 New publication out!

We show that nanoporous Ag networks fabricated using EHD-RP exhibit higher hardness values than PVD-sputtered ones due to differences in relative density, ligament size, twin density and structural order.

👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.ma...

@ethzurich.bsky.social

3:20 PM | Room 354 - Marcello Pozzi: Self-Assembly of Plasmonic Networks Via Far from Equilibrium Chemical Dealloying.

3:40 PM | Room 354 - Oliver Wipf: Controlled Kirkendall Voiding in Al-Au and Cu-Au Thin Films by Adjusting Sputtering Parameters.