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

Last news

Jul 4, 2024
ACerS is offering travelling grants of 1.500 $ to attend the two 2024 ECerS Summer Schools

The grants can be allowed to undergraduate, graduate, and Ph.D. students from non-European based universities. The 2024 ECerS Summer Schools will be held prior to Electroceramics XIX (Vilnius, Lithuania - School: 17-18 August 2024)  and Shaping 9 (Warsaw, Poland - School: 24-25 September 2024)!

Jun 27, 2024
2024 ECerS International Ceramist Student Exchange Program – 3rd call!

In the frame of the 2024 ECerS International Student exchange program, ECerS is opening a third call, this time to allow grants to European Students to attend the 2024 Fall meeting of Korean Ceramic Society (COEX) that will be organised by the Korean Ceramic Society in Seoul, Korea, from 16th to 18th October 2024.

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