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Diego Schaefer defended his master thesis entitled “Computational study of gold surfaces to assess the influence of elastic strains and coverage on the adsorption energies of relevant adsorbates for the hydrogen economy” on January 25th at the Technical University of Madrid

The master thesis was carried out during the research initiation fellowship of Diego in the Bio/Chemo/Mechanics of Materials group and was supervised by Dr. Valentin Vassilev and Ms. Carmen Martínez. The thesis was graded with 10/10 by the committee.

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IMDEA Materials Institute has welcomed Prof. Yoji Shibutani from Osaka University to give a guest seminar on how defect interactions between dislocation and grain boundaries (GB) affect the inside of the grain on September 1st, 2023,

Prof. Shibutani is an expert in solid mechanics, in particular the defect theory of materials and plasticity from a multiscale view and nondestructive observation techniques. His presentation sought to address the challenge of modeling plastic deformation at various length scales,

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