Amazing news from the #IgNobel prizes! 🤩

The physics prize went to the team outlining the "Phase behavior of Cacio e Pepe sauce": improbable.com/ig/winners/

Paper here: pubs.aip.org/aip/pof/arti...)

When crystals lose periodicity, dislocations gain complexity; Our study reveals an interesting hierarchy of defects in quasicrystals. With Marco Salvalaglio @marcosave.bsky.social and @Marcello De Donno

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Prof. Marco Salvalaglio (@marcosave.bsky.social) & sein Team erforschen polykristalline Werkstoffe, ihre Strukturen & Eigenschaften mithilfe aufwendiger Computersimulationen. 💎 Die Erkenntnisse können genutzt werden, um z. B. leistungsfähigere Elektronik zu entwickeln.
ℹ️ www.mdr.de/wissen/natur...

Why #grain #growth is not curvature flow, published today in PNAS!

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

@tudresden.bsky.social @pnas.org

Erfolge in der Wissenschaft müssen auch gefeiert werden – und das haben wir bei der Verleihung der Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Preise 2025 getan. 10 DFG-geförderte Forscher*innen haben sich in ihrem jeweiligen Fach verdient gemacht und wurden nun von DFG-Generalsekretärin Heide Ahrens in Berlin gewürdigt.

We applied the recently developed mesoscale field theory of quasicrystals to the study dislocations in aperiodic lattices. We found relevant differences with crystalline counterparts and delivered a versatile tool to study such dislocations! ⬇️ @luizaangheluta.bsky.social @tudresden.bsky.social

Prof. @marcosave.bsky.social receives prestigious Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize from @dfg.de. 🏅 He uses applied mathematics to investigate the behavior of materials. The prize is awarded for outstanding achievements by researchers in an early stage of their careers.
ℹ️ tu-dresden.de/tu-dresden/n...

Deeply honoured for this award by the @dfg.de! Grateful to all the amazing colleagues, collaborators, and mentors who have contributed along the way. Huge thanks to my team and the unwavering support at @tudresden.bsky.social! #HML2025

We recently developed a new framework to perform diffusive-timescale simulations of crystals with microscopic resolution at defects and interfaces and coarse resolution elsewhere -- Paper out (open access) in #CMAME: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Thanks everyone for the immense interest and great feedback on our preprint! We are super happy (and a bit shocked) that a simple project developed among friends had such a resonance ending up in the New York Times and BBC!

@ivanditerlizzi.bsky.social @vicioms.bsky.social @dmbusiello.bsky.social

🚨 The 4th edition of the Summer School on Phase-Field Models for the Evolution of Complex Structures will take place this year from September 15th to 26th in the picturesque village of Peyresq, southern France 🌄

For more details and to apply, visit: pmc.polytechnique.fr/~mp/PFschool...

A 'tribute to Keith Haring' (from 2021, Altana Gallery Dresden) out of hyperuniform structures (studied here doi.org/10.1103/Phys...). Copies are being shown around (GAMM 2023, Uni. Firenze, TU-Dresden) - now also under this blue sky!

We published (open access) in Physical Review Research
@apsphysics.bsky.social a Mesoscale field theory unifying the description of growth, elasticity, and defects in hashtag quasicrystals.

Paper (code and data referenced in the text): doi.org/10.1103/Phys...