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
15 PhD positions open in REFFRACTEUR – EUROPEAN CERAMIC SOCIETY is a partner!
REFFRACTEUR, a new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions - Doctoral Network (DN-ID), has been selected for funding by the European Commission.
Apr 7, 2026
12th March 2026 : International Day of Ceramics !
Today we celebrate the International Day of Ceramics
Mar 10, 2026
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