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Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems IKTS

Director : Prof. Dr. Alexander Michaelis

Email : alexander.michaelis@ikts.fraunhofer.de

Phone : +49 351 2553-7700

Address : Winterbergstrasse 28 01277 Dresden, Germany

Website : www.ikts.fraunhofer.de

Research topics :

  • Structural Ceramics

    Fraunhofer IKTS masters powder technological production processes for all classes of ceramic materials at highest level. Prototypes and pre-series, the development of industrial production processes and the implementation of quality processes can be realized for partners and customers.

    Contact name : Dr.-Ing. Michael Zins (Deputy Institute Director)

    Phone +49 351 2553-7522

    Email: michael.zins@ikts.fraunhofer.de

  • Energy systems

    Fraunhofer IKTS supports industry and research partners in developing components and systems for energy conversion and storage. Comprehensive experiences with ceramic materials and technologies are basis for ceramic core components, dedicated system concepts and integration.

    Contact name: Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Michael Stelter (Deputy Institute Director)

    Phone +49 36601 9301-3031

    Email: michael.stelter@ikts.fraunhofer.de

  • Sintering and Characterization

    Fraunhofer IKTS offers numerous characterization methods as well as extensive furnace technology for targeted development and optimization of materials, components and processes.

    Contact name: Dr. rer. nat. habil. Mathias Herrmann

    Phone +49 351 2553-7527

    Email: mathias.herrmann@ikts.fraunhofer.de

  • Environmental and Process Engineering

    Fraunhofer IKTS is one of the world’s top research institutions in the field of materials separation and reaction technology by means of ceramic materials. Ceramic membranes, filters, adsorbents and catalysts play a central role.

    Contact name: Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Ingolf Voigt (Deputy Institute Director)

    Phone +49 36601 9301-2618

    Email: ingolf.voigt@ikts.fraunhofer.de

  • Electronics, Microsystems Engineering and Non-Destructive Testing

    Fraunhofer IKTS offers materials and production technologies, design rules as well as test technologies in order to continually extend the field of application for miniaturized systems, to shorten development cycles and to create innovative systems for non-destructive testing.

    Contact information:

    Contact name: Dr.-Ing. Christian Wunderlich (Deputy Institute Director)

    Phone +49 351 88815-501

    Email: christian.wunderlich@ikts.fraunhofer.de

Exceptional facilities :

  • Center for Energy Storage and Systems (ZESS)
  • Application Center Membrane Technology
  • Application Center Bioenergy
  • Cognitive Material Diagnostics Site
  • Bio-Nanotechnology Application Lab (BNAL)
  • Correlative Microscopy and Material Data Site
  • Center for Smart Agriculture and Water Management
  • Center for Additive Manufacturing
  • Pilot plants for up-scaling
  • Accredited laboratories for materials and process analysis (thermal analysis and thermal physics, powder and suspension characterization, quality assurance, non-destructive testing)

Financial support programmes :

  • European funding:

    AFLoNext – 2nd generation active wing

    CAPTure – Competitive solar power towers

    CerAMfacturing – Ceramic components by additive manufacturing

    E.T. Pack – Electrodynamic tether technology for passive consumable-less deorbit kit

    FlexiFuel – SOFC fuel flexible micro-scale biomass CHP system

    HiEff-BioPower – Highly efficient and fuel flexible CHP technology

    INTEGRAL – INitiative to bring the 2nd generation of ThermoElectric Generators into industrial ReALity

  • National funding:

    SiaWa – Development of cost-effective alpha-SiAlON materials and prototype components with increased hardness and wear resistance

    RestaurAM – Development of additive restoration processes for historically valuable porcelain objects

    KERAMESCH – Development and testing of ceramic-metal floats for efficient elimination of pollutants from waste water

    eMikro – Ceramic micro PEM fuel cell systems for self-sufficient supply of miniaturized systems smaller than two watts

    SynLink – Synthetic e-fuels as key enabler for sector linking

    ARTEMYS – Scalable, cost-effective manufacturing technologies for composite cathodes and electrolyte separators in solid state batteries

    3D Water – Development of sensor and functionally highly integrated AOP functional components for water treatment based on multi-material 3D printing processes

    MeMphoX – Development of ceramic membrane filtration modules with simultaneous LED-based photocatalytic oxidation function for disinfection and trace substance elimination for point-of-use and point-of-emission applications in water management

    MACOR – Feasibility study for the reduction of CO2 emissions in steel production using renewable energies

    TRIMIKAD – Materials and printing technology for three-dimensional functional ceramic microsystems in additive technologies

    OptiKer – Inline optical method for non-destructive testing of ceramic high-performance components

    Cell-fill – Process-structure-property relationships for filling and wetting processes of large format lithium ion batteries

Any other relevant information :

The Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems IKTS conducts applied research on high-performance ceramics and the institute‘s three sites in Dresden and Hermsdorf, Germany, collectively represent Europe‘s largest R&D institute dedicated to

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