The actors in the research labs, start-ups, innovative centres and enterprises have granted a look at new ideas and developments, and now present these in the latest issue of the Transfer Bulletin.

Since its founding in 1993, the Materials Research Network Dresden (MFD) has proven itself an engine and innovation driver. Ever since, the MFD has been bundling the professional competences of university and non-university research at the Elbe.

The actors involved in the project Amaretto have joined forces to form and create alliances in order to make the hub a global leader. In the future, lightweight construction in Dresden will benefit even more from the excellence of materials research. Only recently, the experts have gathered in an innovation centre to develop highly modern carbon fibres.

... And also medical technology is to benefit more from new, high-performance materials. New, biocompatible materials for the improvement of medical products also come from the laboratory of the Dresden textile engineers. They "conjure" textile high-performance materials and are always on the lookout for new partners and cooperations regarding the implementation into products. They find these partners and cooperations among the scientific colleagues in the field of technical design and, time and again, among the researchers of the TU Dresden Institute of Lightweight Engineering and Polymer Technology.

At the Dresden Center for Computational Materials Science, the experts of the future are on the track of materials research. Materials 4.0 is not a magic word here, it is already practiced: From the bit to the atom to the system...

Have fun reading our new edition on materials.

Eva Wricke

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