A team led by Jarir Aktaa (IAM-MMI) with cooperation partners from Forschungszentrum Jülich won the 1st SOFT Innovation Award for the development of plasma-sprayed, functionally graded tungsten/EUROFER layers for the first wall of future fusion power plants. The innovation opens up applications in further components of fusion technology, in high-voltage components and in the field of concentrating solar energy.
The "European Network for the Mechanics of Matter at the Nano-Scale" (MecaNano) has been approved as a European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) for a period of four years. The IAM-MMI will also be part of MecaNano with Christoph Kirchlechner as the German representative.
MecaNano offers its members numerous opportunities for interaction and collaboration, supports the geographic mobility of its participants and promotes the professional development of its young researchers.
The action is open to researchers from all countries.
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Basic chemicals, which are raw materials for a wide range of products such as medicines or detergents, can currently only be produced with an enormously high input of energy and fossil fuels. The aim of the future cluster ETOS, which is co-led by IAM-ET, is to develop more sustainable processes based on electrolysis. The BMBF is funding ETOS as one of seven projects in the Clusters4Future competition.
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation awarded Ji-Cheng Zhao, Minta-Martin Professor of Engineering and Chair of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Maryland (USA), a Humboldt Research Award endowed with 60,000 Euros. With this award, Zhao will further his collaboration especially with Professors Dierk Raabe (MPIE) and Peter Gumbsch at IAM-ZM and Fraunhofer IWM.
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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Peter Elsner, Professor of Polymer Technology at the IAM-WK and Institute Director of the Fraunhofer ICT, passed away at the age of 65. Peter Elsner was a highly esteemed colleague and respected researcher whose memory will be cherished by the staff of the IAM.
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded Professor Christoph Kirchlechner (IAM-MMI) with the prestigious Consolidator Grant. His project TRITIME aims to fundamentally understand the mechanisms of hydrogen embrittlement and help tailor new materials used in the distribution and storage of hydrogen.
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Dr. Haruyuki Inui, professor of materials science and engineering from Kyoto University (Japan), has been granted the Humboldt Research Award. Prof. Inui, an expert on intermetallic phases which play a significant role in the development of new types of structural materials plans to spend his stay associated with the Award i.a. as a guest at IAM-WK.
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Prof. Dr. Ulrike Krewer (IAM-ET) and Prof. Dr. Helmut Ehrenberg (IAM-ESS) were appointed to the advisory board "Batterieforschung Deutschland" (Battery Research Germany) of the Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung (Federal Ministry of Education and Research) (BMBF). The task of the advisory board is, among other things, the development and evaluation of proposals as well as the formulation of recommendations on funding programs and topic clusters.
Link to Batterieforum Deutschland