The European Ceramic Society

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Germany

Fraunhofer-Center for High Temperature Materials and Design

Development of High Temperature Materials and Processes

Director : Prof. Dr. Friedrich Raether

Email : friedrich.raether@isc.fraunhofer.de

Phone : +49 921 78510-002

Address : Gottlieb-Keim-Straße 62 95448 Bayreuth

Website : www.htl.fraunhofer.de

Research topics :

Exceptional facilities :

  • Thermooptical measuring devices for high temperature material and process characterization
  • Process chain for ceramic and composite manufacturing
  • Textile techniques for weaving, breading, knitting etc.
  • Pilot plant for manufacture of ceramic reinforcing fibers
  • µ-computed tomography for non-destructive materials testing
  • In-house and commercial 3D-printers

Financial support programmes :

  • European funding: FUDIPO
  • Regional fundings: various
  • National fundings : mainly BMBF, BMWi

Latest news

2025 ECerS International Ceramist Student Exchange Program – 3rd call!

In the frame of the 2025 ECerS International Student exchange program, ECerS is opening a first call to allow grants to European Students to attend the 2025 International Symposium on Green Processing for Advanced Ceramics (IGPAC 2025), organised by the Ceramic Society of Japan, from 5th to 9th October 2025 in Ise-Shima/Mie, Japan.

Jul 22, 2025
Next Deadline to apply to the JECS Trust for Mobility projects is 31st August 2025!

Please note that the decisions of the JECS Trust board will not be known before end of October 2025. Activities submitted for the deadline of 31st August 2025 for support from the JECS Trust should then not begin before November 2025.

Jul 22, 2025

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