Tasks and Responsibilities

Scientific Areas of Responsibility

405-01   Metallurgical, Thermal and Thermomechanical Treatment of Materials
405-02   Materials in Sintering Processes and Generative Manufacturing Processes
406-01   Synthesis and Properties of Functional Materials

Scientific Areas of Responsibility (Deputy Contact)

405-03   Coating and Surface Technology
405-05   Glass, Ceramics and Derived Composites
405-06   Polymeric and Biogenic Materials and Derived Composites
406-04   Computer-Aided Design of Materials and Simulation of Materials Behaviour from Atomic to Microscopic Scale

Coordinated Programmes (procedural matters)

Priority Programmes

1594	Topological Engineering of Ultra-Strong Glasses
1839	Tailored Disorder - A science- and engineering-based approach to materials design for advanced photonic applications
1959	Manipulation of matter controlled by electric and magnetic fields: Towards novel synthesis and processing routes of inorganic materials
2006	Compositionally Complex Alloys - High Entropy Alloys (CCA - HEA)
2122	Materials for Additive Manufacturing

Research Units

3010	Multifunctional, coarse grain Refractory Composite Materials for Key-Components in High temperature applications
5044	Periodic low-dimensional defect structures in polar oxides

Coordinated Programmes (scientific matters)

CRC/Transregios

103	From atoms to turbine blades – a scientific basis for a new generation of single crystal superalloys
270	Hysteresis design of magnetic materials for efficient energy conversion: HoMMage

Clusters of Excellence (ExStra)

2193	Living, Adaptive and Energy-autonomous Materials Systems (livMatS)

Collaborative Research Centres

917	Resistively Switching Chalcogenides for Future Electronics - Structure, Kinetics, and Device Scalability "Nanoswitches"
1261	Magnetoelectric Sensors: From Composite Materials to Biomagnetic Diagnostics

International Research Training Groups

2495	Energy Conversion Systems: From Materials to Devices

Research Training Groups

2154	Materials for Brain (M4B): Thin film functional materials for minimally invasive therapy of brain dieseases
2561	Materials Compounds from Composite Materials