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The ANW Chair: Overview

Since 2004, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Alexander Michaelis has been at the helm of the Chair of Inorganic Non-metallic Materials. The thematic focus is on the development and characterization of ceramic materials for high-performance applications. Work is done in close cooperation with the Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems IKTS.

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Brief Profile and Research Focuses

The ANW Chair is one of the chairs of the Institute of Materials Science of TU Dresden. The chair’s research focuses on materials and process development for ceramic materials. As a leader in this field, the chair partners with a number of national and international research institutions and the industry.

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Equipment and Services

At the disposal of the chair’s employees is a number of unique devices and machines for formulation, processing and characterization. As one of the most important of these, the instrumented compaction machine for the detailed characterization of the events taking place during uniaxial dry pressing is used jointly by the chair and by IKTS. But that is not all...

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Employees of the Chair

The ANW Chair currently employs 4 members of staff, mainly scientific staff and PhD students. They can be contacted via Fraunhofer IKTS (Winterbergstraße 28, 01277 Dresden).

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The Chair of Inorganic Non-metallic Materials

The Chair of Inorganic Non-Metallic Materials is one of the chairs at the Institute of Materials Science. It has been held since 2004 by Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Alexander Michaelis. Eight employees are currently associated with the chair.

The focus of research is on the production and characterization of piezoceramic fibers and composites, as well as combinatorial microelectrochemistry.
The chair provides three lectures within the framework of the bachelor and master programs for materials science. These programs comprise the basics of ceramic materials, their processing and properties, as well as selected examples of application.

The Chair of Inorganic Non-metallic Materials collaborates closely with the Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems IKTS. IKTS makes its infrastructure available to the employees of the chair; several cross-institutional working groups also exist. More about the world of ceramics: www.ikts.fraunhofer.de