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  • Fraunhofer IWS: New Insights Gained for the Use of Digital Lab Notebooks / 2024

    “DiWan” Shows the Way to a Digital Materials Expert

    News – Fraunhofer IWS Dresden / February 06, 2024

    Digitalization is changing the job profile of materials testers. One critical criterion is to provide teams with sufficient training on new digital lab books. This shall secure expertise for companies and institutes in the long term. The Fraunhofer Institute for Material and Beam Technology IWS in Dresden and its partners have gained these and other insights from the now-completed project “DiWan: Digital change in materials testing.” The Dresden institutes incorporate those into their further activities in the digital transformation context of materials science and engineering.

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  • Fraunhofer IWS and Partners Aim to Develop a Measurement System for Fast and Reliable Methane Detection / 2023

    Precise Mobile Tracking for Emission Reduction

    News – Fraunhofer IWS Dresden / May 24, 2023

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    The European Union has set itself the goal of better recording and further reducing methane emissions in the agricultural, waste, and energy sectors. In this context, the Fraunhofer Application Center for Optical Metrology and Surface Technologies AZOM, “Micro-Hybrid Electronic” and “fiberware” launched a research project for waveguide-based trace gas analysis of methane under the coordination of “DBI – Gas- und Umwelttechnik”. The aim is to develop a mobile compact handheld device that can determine methane emissions with a precision not previously possible. The project is being funded over three years as part of the BMBF's “KMU-innovativ: Ressourceneffizienz und Klimaschutz” (SME Innovative: Resource Efficiency and Climate Protection) funding measure (HLSG-CH4 for short).

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  • SNEAK PEEK: First insights in the not-yet-published Annual Report 2022/2023 / 2023

    New Storage Solutions for the Energy Transition

    News – Fraunhofer IWS Dresden / April 05, 2023

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    Germany has rediscovered the battery as a key technology – especially since realizing that many major German automotive manufacturers will take phase out internal combustion engines and focus to a large extent on battery-electric powered concepts. A race to catch up has been underway ever since in order to make up for the recently obvious capacity and technology lead of Asian and U.S. corporations.

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  • SNEAK PEEK: First insights in the not-yet-published Annual Report 2022/2023 / 2023

    Cutting-edge Research for a Strong Hydrogen Economy

    News – Fraunhofer IWS Dresden / March 27, 2023

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    If a shift away from fossil fuels and toward environmentally friendly alternatives is to succeed, Europe needs to boost hydrogen technologies. Ecologically produced “green“ hydrogen qualifies as an emission-free and quickly refuelable energy carrier, but is also needed as a basic material in the chemical industry and many other branches of industry.

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  • Fraunhofer IWS Simulates Coating Processes for Material- and Time-saving as well as more Load-oriented Wear Protection Coatings / 2023

    More Efficient Coating Processes thanks to Simulation

    News – Fraunhofer IWS Dresden / February 22, 2023

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    Components subject to heavy loads in aviation, such as compressors, are usually provided with wear-resistant coatings. This is intended to enable them to withstand the adverse requirements of their use over the long term. Typically, the Arc-PVD process is used for such protective coatings, in which a starting material, usually a nitride hard material, is vaporized in a high vacuum by means of an electric arc and applied to the component to be coated.

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  • One Year Start-up: Focus on Fusion Bionic / 2022

    Successful Change of Perspective

    News – Fraunhofer IWS Dresden / December 13, 2022

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    In 2021, scientists Dr. Tim Kunze, Dr. Sabri Alamri and Benjamin Krupop spun off from Fraunhofer IWS as ”Fusion Bionic”. Together with economist Laura Kunze the young start-up has mastered the first challenges and hurdles. In this interview, Dr. Tim Kunze, CEO of Fusion Bionic, as well as Prof. Christoph Leyens, Executive Director, and Dr. Christoph Zwahr, Group Leader at Fraunhofer IWS, look back on the early days and venture an outlook on the future cooperation.

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  • Analysis of CO2 emissions of processes in laser materials processing / 2022

    Life Cycle Assessment to reveal CO2 footprint of developed processes

    News – Fraunhofer IWS Dresden / November 10, 2022

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    It is an ambitious project: The European Union is aiming to be climate-neutral by 2050. Achieving this goal is essential to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees and CO2 emissions in Europe must be therefore drastically reduced. ”Green manufacturing” will play an increasingly important role for companies and thus also for Fraunhofer IWS customers. At the institute, a new project focuses on the possibilities of CO2 balancing of in-house developed processes.

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  • ROBINIA Project Aims to Contribute to Carbon Dioxide Savings in the Construction Sector / 2022

    Hardwood for a Sustainable Construction

    News – Fraunhofer IWS Dresden / November 03, 2022

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    Trees from Lusatia could support the circular economy and offer solutions for several challenges of the energy transition. Robinia is considered an extremely strong and weather-resistant wood that could replace conventional materials in the construction industry. The ROBINIA project strives for its approval as glued laminated timber. The German Federal Agency for Leap Innovations (SPRIN-D) is funding the project conducted by Lausitz Energie Bergbau (LEAG), STRAB Ingenieurholzbau and Fraunhofer. Dr. Dirk Berthold from Fraunhofer WKI and Dr. Jens Standfuß from Fraunhofer IWS provide some insights in this interview.

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  • Insights in the Fraunhofer IWS Annual Report 2021/2022 / 2022

    Simulations for 2D laser hardening

    News – Fraunhofer IWS Dresden / August 11, 2022

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    Environmentally friendly laser processing is becoming increasingly popular in industry as a means of hardening turbine blades, tools, engine components and other steel components in an energy-saving and stress-resistant manner: Compared to furnace hardening, laser hardening reduces energy consumption by up to more than 90 percent, depending on the component.

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  • Insights in the Fraunhofer IWS Annual Report 2021/2022 / 2022

    Better batteries thanks to DLIP on new roll-to-roll system

    News – Fraunhofer IWS Dresden / July 28, 2022

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    “Direct laser interference patterning“ (DLIP) can be used to add new functionalities to the surfaces of conductor films in batteries: The interference patterns can increase the reaction area and improve the adhesion of the metal foils. Thereby, more possibilities open up for battery manufacturers to increase the lifetime and capacity of their energy storage devices and, at the same time, the range of electric cars.

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