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

New book by Prof. Suk-Joong Kang:

Prof. Kang is one of the foremost worldwide specialists in sintering and this book, presented as a series of questions and answers concerning sintering may be useful both to students of ceramics and also to teachers looking for questions to discuss with their students.

Nov 5, 2024
YCN Newsletter 23 - Brazil Capes Thesis Award and Flash (Sinter) Crystallization of Glass by Isabela Reis Lavagnini

We are proud to announce that Isabela Reis Lavagnini has been awarded the 2024 Capes Thesis Award for her outstanding work in Materials, titled "Flash Sintering of Zirconia, Hydroxyapatite, and Hydroxyapatite-Zirconia Composite." 

Oct 17, 2024

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