The European Ceramic Society
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Germany
Fraunhofer Center for High Temperature Materials and Design
Research institute with a focus on ceramic research
Director : Prof. Dr. Friedrich Raether
Email : friedrich.raether@isc.fraunhofer.de
Phone : +49 921 78510-935
Address : Gottlieb-Keim-Straße 62, 95448 Bayreuth
Website : https://www.htl.fraunhofer.de
Research topics :
Thermal Process Technology
- High temperature characterization of materials and components
- Optimization of high temperature processes
- Development of high temperature materials from ceramics or ceramic composites
- Digital furnace twins
Ceramic Matrix Composites (CMCs)
- Development of ceramic fibres and fibre preforms
- Development of components made of CMC from component and material design to pilot-scale production
Exceptional facilities :
- Computer tomograph (225 kV and 450 kV radiation source) with robot for automatic sample change
- 5-axis machining center
- Furnaces up to 2400 °C for the heat treatment of oxide and non-oxide ceramics as well as metals in defined atmospheres
- ThermoOptical Measuring devices (TOM) for copying industrial heat treatment processes
- Additive manufacturing printer (Stereolithography, LCM, Binder Jetting, Free Flow Structuring, Electrophoretic Deposition)
- Double rapier weaving machine
- Fibre pilot plant for the upscaling of newly developed ceramic fibres
Financial support programmes :
- Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology
- Federal Ministry of Education and Research
- Bavarian State Ministry of Economic Affairs, Regional Development and Energy
- Bavarian Research Alliance (BayVFP)
- AiF - German Federation of Industrial Research Associations
- Central Innovation Programme for SMEs (ZIM)
- European Commission: Horizon 2020 - Research and Innovation Framework Programme
Latest news
Next Deadline to apply to the JECS Trust for Mobility projects is 28th February 2026!
Please note that the decisions of the JECS Trust board will not be known before mid-April 2026. Activities submitted for the deadline of 28th February 2026 for support from the JECS Trust should then not begin before Mid-May 2026.
Obituary - Professor Athena Tsetsekou
The Greek Scientific Community mourns the loss of our dear colleague Professor Athena Tsetsekou (64), Professor at the National Technical University of Athens, at the School of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering, and President of the Hellenic Ceramic Society.
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