Scientific Areas of Responsibility

Main Contact
4.31-05	Glass, Ceramics and Derived Composites
4.31-06	Polymeric and Biogenic Materials and Derived Composites
4.32-02	Biomaterials

Deputy Contact
4.31-01	Metallurgical, Thermal and Thermomechanical Treatment of Materials
4.31-04	Mechanical Properties of Metallic Materials and their Microstructural Origins
4.32-01	Synthesis and Properties of Functional Materials
4.32-03	Thermodynamics and Kinetics as well as Properties of Phases and Microstructure of Materials
4.32-04	Computer-Aided Design of Materials and Simulation of Materials Behaviour from Atomic to Microscopic Scale

Coordinated Programmes (scientific matters)

Exzellenzcluster
2082	3D Matter Made to Order (3DMM2O)

Graduiertenkolleg
2423	Fracture across Scales: Integrating Mechanics, Materials Science, Mathematics, Chemistry, and Physics
2723	Materials-Microbes-Microenvironments (M-M-M): Antimicrobial biomaterials with tailored structures and properties
2868	D³ - Data-driven design of resilient metamaterials

SFB/Transregio
225	From the Fundamentals of Biofabrication towards Functional Tissue Models
298	Safety Integrated and Infection Reactive Implants

Sonderforschungsbereich
1394	Structural and Chemical Atomic Complexity: From Defect Phase Diagrams to Material Properties
1548	FLAIR - Fermi Level Engineering Applied to Oxide Electroceramics

Coordinated Programmes (procedural matters)

Forschungsgruppe
2804	The Materials Science of Teeth in Function: Principles of Durable, Dynamic Dental Interphases
5250	Mechanism-based characterization and modeling of permanent and bioresorbable implants with tailored functionality based on innovative in vivo, in vitro and in silico methods
5380	Functional surfaces through adiabatic high-speed processes: Microstructure, mechanisms and model development - FUNDAM³ENT
5657	Bioinspired anti-fatigue: enhancing materials science structural properties by abstracting naturally-grown fatigue resistance
5701	Identification of the formation mechanisms of white etching cracks and fine granular dark areas during fatigue loading – parallels and differences (White and Dark)