Interdisciplinary research topics

State excellence initiative based on cutting-edge technology clusters: Functional structural design of new high-performance materials through atomic design and defect engineerings (ADDE)

Virtual High Temperature Conversion (Virtuhcon)

CRC 799: TRIP-Matrix-Composite

Collaborative Research Center 920: Multi-Functional Filters for Metal Melt Filtration

Research focus of the institutes

Institute of Materials Science

• Structure-property correlations of nanomaterials
• Materials thermodynamics (computational thermodynamics); materials chemistry                                                              

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Institute of Materials Engineering

• Fracture-mechanical evaluation of metallic materials and their welded joints under static, dynamic, cyclic loads
• High temperature loading
• Material fatigue under complex stresses
• Boundary layer technology, especially thermal processes and electron beam treatment
• High-speed material behaviour
• Corrosion research

Institute of Electronic and Sensors Materials

• Materials research for semiconductor memories (materials for charge trapping memories and switchable inorganic and organic materials)
• Materials research for chemical sensors (solid electrolyte sensors, field effect sensors) 

Foundry-Institute

• Development of casting concepts
• Innovative moulding materials and moulding processes
• Process-integrated environmental protection
• Technology of casting materials

Institute of Metal Forming

• Development of technologies for the low-process-step production of semi-finished products, flat and long products as well as components made from them
• Development of innovative materials and processes for their production
• Characterisation of forming behaviour and expansion of a materials database
• Further development of models for the description of the material flow, the microstructure and property development in the course and after forming
• Development of systems for numerical simulation of the manufacture of semi-finished and finished products
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Institute of Iron and Steel Technology

• Iron and steel production from primary and secondary raw materials, recycling of steels, slags and metallurgical dusts.
• Primary and secondary metallurgical processes in iron and steel production
• Clean Steel (degree of purity, non-metallic egg closures, by-elements)
• Green Steel (hydrogen metallurgy in iron and steelmaking, H2 reduction of iron carriers)
• Metal-slag equilibria (dephosphorisation, desulphurisation, etc.)
• Thermophysical properties of metallic and oxide melts at elevated temperatures (viscosity, surface tension, density, thermal conductivity, crystallisation and flow behaviour)
• Atomisation of metal melts and composites to produce metal powders
• Development of Fe-TiC composites for additive manufacturing
• Adjustment of powder size and powder morphology via thermophysical properties of liquid metals
• Development of new high alloy TRIP/TWIP steels
• Research into Quenching & Partitioning (Q&P) technology for high alloy steels
• Development of high Si Cu-alloyed electrical sheets (6.5 % Si)

• Processes and plants for the extraction and refining of non-ferrous metals from complexly composed primary and secondary raw materials and process solutions.
• Pyrometallurgical high-performance processes for metal extraction and recycling
• Thermodynamic modelling and flow modelling in metallurgical aggregates
• Production and characterisation of electronic materials
• Model experiments for semiconductor crystal growth