The Fascination of Materials: Innovation for a Sustainable Future / 2024
Sustainable Material Design as Response to Resource Bottlenecks
Finding solutions to potential resource bottlenecks requires sustainable material design. New material compositions enable more environmentally friendly ship propulsion systems, more economical aircraft engines or even lighter electric vehicles. At Fraunhofer IWS, the Competence Field Materials Characterization and Testing led by Prof. Martina Zimmermann is developing the “recipes“ for tomorrow‘s materials. The unique feature: Here, new alloys can be generated and analyzed directly using additive manufacturing methods. The 3D printers at the institute allow the newly developed recipes to be tested long before they are used in industry.
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