Eduard Arzt

About

Prof. Eduard Arzt is an internationally recognized researcher in the field of materials science and engineering, with a focus on high temperature alloys, electromigration mechanisms, thin film strength, and gecko-inspired adhesives. He joined the faculty in 2023 as a Distinguished Visiting Professor and is dedicated to identifying and strengthening new, fruitful paths of collaboration between complementary branches of materials science and engineering. His current research emphasizes micropatterning of elastomeric surfaces as a sustainable paradigm for modulating mechanical interactions, including the design of architectured adhesives for biomedical applications and microstructures for gripping and retrieving satellite debris in space. Prior to his current position, Arzt served as Professor for New Materials and Scientific Director of the INM – Leibniz Institute for New Materials in Saarbrücken until 2022. He also co-directed the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research in Stuttgart from 1990 to 2007. He holds a PhD in physics from the University of Vienna and has held visiting positions at Cambridge University, Stanford University, and M.I.T. He is a recipient of numerous high science awards, including the 2023 William D. Nix Award of TMS, and is a member of the Leopoldina German Academy of Sciences, the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and the US National Academy of Engineering. Arzt is also the Editor-in-Chief of the review journal Progress in Materials Science and a…

Research topics

• Nanotechnology
• Composite material
• Materials science
• Biochemical engineering
• Biology
• Engineering
• Geology
• Construction engineering

Selected publications

• The shape of Nature’s stingers revealed

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2024-02-06 · 13 citations

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  Stinger-like structures in living organisms evolved convergently across taxa for both defensive and offensive purposes, with the main goal being penetration and damage. Our observations over a broad range of taxa and sizes, from microscopic radiolarians to narwhals, reveal a self-similar geometry of the stinger extremity: the diameter ( d ) increases along the distance from the tip ( x ) following a power law <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" overflow="scr…

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• Application of machine learning to object manipulation with bio-inspired microstructures

  Journal of Materials Research and Technology · 2023-10-06 · 3 citations

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  Bioinspired fibrillar adhesives have been proposed for novel gripping systems with enhanced scalability and resource efficiency. Here, we propose an in-situ optical monitoring system of the contact signatures, coupled with image processing and machine learning. Visual features were extracted from the contact signature images recorded at maximum compressive preload and after lifting a glass object. The algorithm was trained to cope with several degrees of misalignment and with unbalanced weight d…

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• Revealing the co-action of viscous and multistability hysteresis in an adhesive, nominally flat punch: A combined numerical and experimental study

  arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022-11-23 · 1 citations

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  Viscoelasticity is well known to cause significant hysteresis of crack closure and opening when an elastomer is brought in and out of contact with a flat, rigid, adhesive counterface. A separate origin of adhesive hysteresis is small-scale, elastic multistability. Here, we study a system in which both mechanisms act concurrently. Specifically, we compare the simulated and experimentally measured time evolution of the interfacial force and the real contact area between a soft elastomer and a rigi…

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• Application of Machine Learning to Object Manipulation with Bio-Inspired Microstructures 

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2023-01-01

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• Preface to the Festschrift

  Progress in Materials Science · 2021-09-08

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Frequent coauthors

• Gerhard Dehm

  Max-Planck-Institut für Nachhaltige Materialien

  225 shared

• T. John Balk

  University of Kentucky

  120 shared

• Robert M. McMeeking

  King's College Hospital

  114 shared

• Ralph Spolenak

  ETH Zurich

  113 shared

• Oliver Kraft

  97 shared

• O. Kraft

  Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences

  92 shared

• Stanislav N. Gorb

  Kiel University

  83 shared

• René Hensel

  Leibniz-Institute for New Materials

  76 shared

Education

• PhD thesis, Department of Physical Metallurgy and Materials Testing

  University of Leoben

  1980

• Dr. phil., Department of Phyiscs

  University of Vienna

  1980

• Undergraduate, Department of Music

  University of Miami

  1973

Awards & honors

• 2023 William D. Nix Award of TMS
• Member of the Leopoldina German Academy of Sciences
• Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
• Member of the US National Academy of Engineering

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