Research in Germany: Fields of Research

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Materials Technologies

FIZ CHEMIE and its predecessor organization Chemisches Zentralblatt,  founded in 1830, provide first-rate chemical data and abstracts for scientific and industrial communities, among others with their products ChemInform®, Infotherm®, and Chemische Zentralblatt.

The mission of the FZD is excellence in long-term research in advanced material technologies, cancer research, nuclear safety research and research with photons, neutrons and ions.

IWS offers application-oriented research and development in the area of laser and surface technology. The institute's technical focal points are laser beam joining, cutting, hardening and ablation processes, surface treatment and thin film coatings.

The Fraunhofer ISIT develops and manufactures components in microelectronics and microsystems technology, from the design phase – including system simulation – to prototyping and fabrication of samples, up to series production.

The Fraunhofer ISC develops materials and technologies to be applied in surface technology, surface-refined products, automotive techniques and energy supply, adaptive systems, glass and ceramics, microsystems and life science.

Some 70% of all technical innovations are directly connected with the properties of the materials they use. Please check the SWOT analysis to see the potential that Germany offers in the fields of materials technologies.

INM is focused on the research and development of materials – for today, tomorrow and the future. Chemists, physicists, biologists, materials and engineering scientists shape the work at INM.

The institute is concerned with modern materials science and combines explorative research in physics, chemistry and materials science with technological development of new materials and products.

The Leibniz Institute of Surface Modification works on basic and applied research on the interaction of radiation with matter and their technological applications.

PDI performs basic research as a lively symbiosis of materials science as well as solid state physics and looks for possible applications.

The development and application of advanced materials often stimulates technological-economic progress. The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) supports this vital role with its programme “Materials Innovations for Industry and Society (WING)”.

The Research Explorer is a joint project of the DFG (German Research Foundation) and the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service). The database contains over 17,000 institutes at German universities plus non-university research institutions, searchable by name, geographic location, subject and other criteria. 


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