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The United Nations has declared 2025 the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, marking 100 years since the birth of quantum mechanics. Fittingly, this October saw Garching become a hub of international exchange on the frontiers of quantum materials, as over 70 researchers from around… [read more]

The universe consists of significantly more matter than current theories can explain. The use of ultracold neutrons allows fundamental physical questions such as these to be investigated. [read more]

A team of scientists based at the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum (MLZ) has taken an important step toward developing safer and more efficient batteries. Their research reveals how sodium ions diffuse and migrate through a promising class of solid materials known as NASICONs. The findings, published in… [read more]

MLZ physicist Dr Leonie Heinze has been awarded the Heinrich Büssing Prize by the Braunschweig University Association. The prize, worth €10,000, recognises her outstanding doctoral thesis on frustrated magnetic materials - a topic that is attracting great interest due to the unusual magnetic states… [read more]

Water purification and desalination based on reverse osmosis is widely applied nowadays. The core of the technology is a special membrane. The microscopic pore system of such membranes needs to stay functional over long periods of operation. To analyse the pore structure during operation, neutrons –… [read more]

On 6 October 2025, TUM honoured Prof. Dr. Peter Böni with a symposium for his 70th birthday. Former colleagues paid tribute to the physicist, who has shaped neutron research at TUM and FRM II for over two decades. He has also had a lasting influence on young scientists, as was evident from the many… [read more]

Around 1,000 people gathered at the interactive stands in the mechanical engineering department of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) on German Unity Day. In addition to the FRM II research neutron source and the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Center, ITM Radiopharma, the Society for Nuclear Services,… [read more]

Using X-ray diffraction tomography supported by machine learning, an international team of researchers screened a key degradation process in battery cathodes. [read more]

How can particularly light yet extremely resilient aluminium components for aerospace be manufactured using industrial 3D printing? This question is the focus of the new ErUM Transfer research project, AlaAF, which the German government funds. The Technical University of Munich (TUM), with its… [read more]

A study using neutrons provides insights into ancient craft techniques: MLZ researchers have analysed Celtic iron tools and gold artefacts from the Bronze Age to obtain information on their processing. Their results have now been published in a special issue of a renowned scientific journal. [read more]