KNMFi User Meeting 2025

The 2025 KNMFi User Meeting will take place 3rd-5th November at Buhlsche Mühle in Ettlingen, Germany (Monday at KIT Campus North)

Registration

Online registration is mandatory: Registration Link

Deadline: 12th October 2025

All participants received a final confirmation of participation. If you are unable to attend, please inform the KNMFi User Office immediately.

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Location

Buhlsche Mühle
Pforzheimer Str. 68, 76275 Ettlingen, Germany
Phone: +49 (0) 7243 101-8444
E-Mail: info∂buhlsche-muehle.de
www.buhlsche-muehle.de

DIRECTIONS (Download PDF)

By Car

Some parking spaces are available directly at the Buhlsche Mühle. Hotel guests can park at the Hotel Watthalden. More parking spaces are available in the parking garage at Albgaubad.

Public Transport

We recommend traveling by public transport.

Frequent departures S1 or S11
from Karlsruhe Main Station (Hauptbahnhof Vorplatz)
to Ettlingen Albgaubad:

S1 > Ettlingen Albgaubad / Bad Herrenalb
S11 > Ittersbach

Travel time 20 minutes to "Albgaubad".

Walking distance from Albgaubad to Buhlsche Mühle 500 m / 6 minutes.

Accomodation

A limited contingent of rooms has been reserved from 25-27 November 2024:

  • Double rooms for single use in the Buhlsche Mühle at €109.00 per room/night including VAT (without breakfast).
    Keyword: Event KIT November 25th to 27th, 2024 KNMFI User Meeting.
  • Single rooms in the Hotel Watthalden (close to Buhlsche Mühle) at €111.90 per room/night/breakfast including VAT.
    Group name: BM241124/03.

Please arrange your booking direct with Buhlsche Mühle (e-mail preferred), and use the above information / keyword / group name.

Deadline: 30th September 2024

Contact:
Buhlsche Mühle
Phone: 07243 101-8412
Fax: 07243 101-8484
E-Mail: info∂buhlsche-muehle.de
www.buhlsche-muehle.de

Preliminary Agenda

Note for speakers: All time slots include at least 5 minutes of discussion time, please plan your presentation accordingly.

Day 1, Monday 03 November

Optional morning meetings with KNMFi experts by individual arrangement.

Behind the Scenes Tech Tour (at KIT, Campus North)
including lab visits, presentations and discussions with KNMFi experts

15:00 Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) and Electron Beam Lithography (EBL)
15:30 Correlative MRI/NMR and X-ray measurement (CORREL)

16:00 Break

16:30 Micro-computed Tomography (µCT, optional)
17:00 Automated Synthesis (ChemASAP)

17:45 End

18:00 One-way Transfer to Ettlingen / optional Pub Visit

19:00 Optional pub visit at Vogel Hausbräu Ettlingen - everyone pays for themselves.
Directions (15 min walk): starting from Buhlsche Mühle at Pforzheimer Straße, head west for a few minutes. Then, make a left turn onto Albstraße and continue walking. After a short distance, turn left and continue on Schillerstraße until you reach “Vogelbräu Ettlingen”, which will be your destination at Rheinstraße 4, 76275 Ettlingen.

Day 2, Tuesday 04 November

09:30 Welcome tea / coffee

10:00 Welcome

Insights into KNMFi Technologies
10:10 Probing Hydrogen in Materials: from Metals to Ceramics

Xufei Fang (KIT/IAM-MMI) / Maria Vrellou (KIT/IAM-MMI) / D. Schliephake (KIT/IAM) / A. Welle (KIT/IFG)
Technologies: APT, ToF-SIMS
10:40 Seeing the atomic structure in quantum materials
Di Wang (KIT/INT)
Technologies: TEM, FIB

11:10 Break

Insights into KNMFi Technologies (continued)
11:30 Implementation of 3D Printing in an Electronic Lab Notebook Environment
Nicole Jung (KIT/IBCS), Celine Deutschbein (KIT/IMT), Stefan Hengsbach (KIT/IMT)
12:00 Kadi4Mat as a tool for automated processing of KNMFi proposals
Lars Griem (KIT/INT) / Richard Thelen (KIT/IMT)
Technologies: Kadi4Mat, AFM

12:30 Lunch

KNMFi Proposal Spotlights
13:30 Precise Filling of Hollow Nanospheres with Magnetic Nanoparticles
Esther Rösch (Duale Hochschule KA), Richard Thelen (KIT/IMT), Judith Hohmann (KIT/IMT)
14:00 Novel solid electrolyte materials for high-performance metal batteries
In-situ TEM of solid state batteries - understanding ion transport and filament formation
Ziming Ding (KIT/INT) & Ch. Kübel (KIT/INT)
14:30 Binding of proteins on ultrananocrystalline diamond (UNCD) films with different surface terminations
Cyril Popov (Uni Kassel)

15:00 Break

Open Session / User Highlights
15:30 CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS (Slot 1)
16:00 CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS (Slot 2)
16:30 CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS (Slot 3)

17:00 End of day 2 / Get together dinner

Day 3: Wednesday 05 November

08:30 Welcome tea / coffee

KNMFi Proposal Spotlights (continued)
09:00 Microstructure and atomic structure of perovskites, grain growth and ferroelectric properties
(speaker request pending)
09:30 Understanding structure and properties of metallic glasses
Sangjun Kang (KIT/INT)
10:00 CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS (Slot 4)
10:30 CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS (Slot 5)

11:00 Break

KNMFi Proposal Spotlights (continued)
11:30 Hydrogen storage
Astrid Pundt (KIT/IAM)
12:00 Microplastics in agricultural soil
Max Groß (Bonn University)
12:30 The lubricant system of beetle joints
Cornelia Pichler (KIT/IMT)

13:00 Close of meeting

Before or after the meeting, lab visits are possible after individual consultation with the KNMFi technology experts.

User Highlights / Application for Presentation

Five presentation slots have been reserved for contributions from our users. If there are still free slots on the agenda and you would like to apply a presentation, please send details by email to knmf-useroffice∂kit.edu. Please make the subject of the email KNMFi User Meeting 2025: User Highlight.

Deadline: 14th September 2025