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By Birgit Baustädter Karin Stana Kleinschek has dedicated her professional life to the question of how materials can be produced from renewable resources and made degradable or recyclable.

By Christoph Pelzl A technology developed at Graz University of Technology uses LED instead of laser sources for the additive manufacturing of metal parts and optimizes 3D metal printing in terms of construction time, metal powder consumption, equipment costs and post-processing effort.

17:00 - 18:00 VeranstalterIn Institut für Physik Veranstaltungshomepage: Web: http://physik.uni-graz.at/ Veranstaltungsort Ort: [0005EG0020] Hörsaal HS 05.

By using modern CNC-controlled, highly sophisticated welding processes, new production methods can be utilized to build arbitrary structures on a substrate.

By Birgit Baustädter Franz Haas, head of the Institute of Production Engineering, has set his sights high, personally and professionally.

By Doris Griesser Although microporous crystals are tiny, their potential is enormous. To exploit this, TU Graz has initiated the interdisciplinary lead project Porous Materials@Work.

Research includes the fabrication of 3D nano-probes, radio-based positioning systems and the porosity of paper at three new Christian Doppler Laboratories to be opened at TU Graz on 25th April.

TU Graz, BMVIT, voestalpine, and other industry partners establish Austria's first endowed chair for aerospace research, occupied by Brazilian materials scientist Sergio Amancio.

By Birgit Baustädter Oliver Hofmann, solid-state physicist at TU Graz, is working on the simulation and prediction of material properties.

By Thomas Hochrainer The relative ease of plastically deforming metallic materials is a prerequisite for their widespread application in mechanical engineering.

Paolo Falcaro has secured a European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant for his research into microporous crystals, known as metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), at TU Graz.

Two interdisciplinary basic research projects in the fields of biomechanics and materials sciences will be funded to the amount of 3.5 million euros from TU Graz funds for three years from 2018.

By Roman Bureau Understanding and modelling the mechanisms involved in shaping metallic alloys has become a major concern of manufacturers.

Researchers from the universities of Montpellier, Bordeaux and TU Graz demonstrate that it is possible to combine the high-energy density of batteries with the high-power output of super capacitors in a single system - thanks to liquid energy storage materials.

From fibre swelling in paper by way of computer vision to efficient electric auxiliary drives: three new Christian Doppler Laboratories were launched at TU Graz in 2016.

Anna Maria Coclite is the first woman to be awarded an ERC Starting Grant at TU Graz. Her research project deals with developing a hybrid material to produce an artificial skin with multi-responsive sensors.

From high-end products for aerospace and engines to power plant construction and medical engineering - electron beam technology is an innovative method that straddles the border between basic research and application.

The direct and efficient conversion of chemically stored energy into electrical energy using fuel cells requires durable, corrosion-resistant and electrochemically highly active materials.

Fritz Prinz from Stanford University wants to convert and store energy more efficiently using new materials and methods.

Materials research as a foundation for innovative products. More than 1,200 experts in high-performance materials of the future are coming to Graz for the THERMEC convention starting on 29 May.

In the FFG project SolaBat, TU Graz is entering almost new research territory. Photovoltaic cells are to be combined into one device with electrochemical energy storage systems.