Scientific Areas of Responsibility

Main Contact
4.31-05	Glass, Ceramics and Derived Composites
4.32-02	Biomaterials
4.32-03	Thermodynamics and Kinetics as well as Properties of Phases and Microstructure of Materials
4.32-04	Computer-Aided Design of Materials and Simulation of Materials Behaviour from Atomic to Microscopic Scale

Deputy Contact
4.31-01	Metallurgical, Thermal and Thermomechanical Treatment of Materials
4.31-04	Mechanical Properties of Metallic Materials and their Microstructural Origins
4.31-06	Polymeric and Biogenic Materials and Derived Composites
4.32-01	Synthesis and Properties of Functional Materials

Coordinated Programmes (scientific matters)

Exzellenzcluster
2082	3D Matter Made to Order (3DMM2O)

Graduiertenkolleg
2423	Fracture across Scales: Integrating Mechanics, Materials Science, Mathematics, Chemistry, and Physics
2723	Materials-Microbes-Microenvironments (M-M-M): Antimicrobial biomaterials with tailored structures and properties
2868	D³ - Data-driven design of resilient metamaterials

SFB/Transregio
225	From the fundamentals of biofabrication towards functional tissue models
298	Safety Integrated and Infection Reactive Implants

Sonderforschungsbereich
1027	Physical modeling of non-equilibrium processes in biological systems
1394	Structural and Chemical Atomic Complexity: From Defect Phase Diagrams to Material Properties
1548	FLAIR - Fermi Level Engineering Applied to Oxide Electroceramics

Coordinated Programmes (procedural matters)

Forschungsgruppe
2804	The Materials Science of Teeth in Function: Principles of Durable, Dynamic Dental Interphases
5250	Mechanism-based characterization and modeling of permanent and bioresorbable implants with tailored functionality based on innovative in vivo, in vitro and in silico methods
5380	Functional surfaces through adiabatic high-speed processes: Microstructure, mechanisms and model development - FUNDAM³ENT
5657	Bioinspired anti-fatigue: enhancing materials science structural properties by abstracting naturally-grown fatigue resistance
5701	Identification of the formation mechanisms of white etching cracks and fine granular dark areas during fatigue loading – parallels and differences (White and Dark)