The 16th edition of the ECMetAC Days will be organized by the nanotech@surfaces Laboratory at Empa, Switzerland, from November 24 to 27, 2025. The conference is a continuation of the series ECMetAC Days, organized annually by a member institution of the European Integrated Center for the Development of Metallic Alloys & Compounds (ECMetAC).

The ECMetAC Days 2025 will provide an excellent opportunity to present and get acquainted with the latest results in the field of newly discovered metallic alloys and compounds. The topics include formation, stability, synthesis, structural and chemical characterization, physical, chemical and mechanical properties, surfaces and thin films, catalysis, theory, applications and new frontiers in metallic materials. The materials of interest are (but are not limited to) conventional crystalline intermetallics, complex metallic alloys, quasicrystals and other aperiodic solids and soft matter, metallic glasses, high-entropy alloys, intermetallics for catalysis, correlated-electron systems, thermoelectrics, magnetocalorics and related materials. The topics are highly interdisciplinary and include mathematics, physics, chemistry, metallurgy and materials science.

The interest of the participants in scientific equipment will cover a wide range from UHV surface analytical tools like Scanning Probe Microscopy, Photoemission Spectroscopy and related UHV preparation methods, to high resolution magnetic and electrical properties characterization. Optical microscopy and spectroscopy techniques will be equally represented as chemical synthesis and computational modelling.

Local organizing committee
Dr. Roland Widmer
Christine Tran

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