With a joint fellowship programme the American Ceramic Society, the Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) and the Kiel University (CAU) want to support the international exchange of doctoral researchers. The programme „International Research Experience for Students“ is funded by the American National Science Foundation (NSF) with 500,000 dollars. It enables young scientists from the USA to complete a six-month research…

A highlight, especially for the team of the projects B2 and B6 of the CRC 1261, was the magnetic measurement of nerve signals with a 304 SQUID vector magnetometer at the PTB in Berlin. For further development and also for optimization of our uncooled magnetoelectric (ME) sensors, a better understanding of spectral power distribution and signal strength of nerve signals…

Ron-Marco Friedrich recently reported on great progress the project project B7. Here, the aim is the detection of magnetically labeled cells for biomaterial scaffold characterization and first measurements of the magnetic field and localization of magnetic nanoparticles were successful. For the measurement, an ME sensor samples space over a surface with magnetic nanoparticles (Fig. 1). The magnetic field is measured…