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The institute’s research is supported by a comprehensive range of facilities and infrastructure, providing advanced capabilities for synthesis, processing, and characterization of materials. These resources encompass specialized equipment and analytical platforms that enable high-quality experimental and technological work across disciplines. Together, they form the foundation for innovative research and the development of advanced material systems.

Induction melting system with a round vessel, control panel featuring a display and multiple buttons, and various pipes and gauges in a technical room.

ALD Vacuum Technologies GmbH VIM4

Induction melting

Open cold crucible furnace showing the interior and open lid in an industrial setting.

Cold crucible melting

in-house development of IFW-Research Technology Department

Laboratory device with control elements, knobs, and displays for a vacuum casting system in a workshop setting

Co. E. Buehler

Suction casting

An arc furnace in a melting plant for arc-melting processes.

ALD Vacuum Technologies GmbH

Arc melting

Centrifugal casting plant, pressure gauge and metal housing in a melting plant for arc processes.

Linn High Therm

Centrifugal casting

Close-up of a rotating disc with a spiral-shaped copper coil during the melt-spinning process.

E. Buehler

Melt spinning

SLM®280 2.0 powder-bed-based laser beam melting system with an open working area on the left and a control unit with a screen and keyboard on the right.

PBF-LB/M device: SLM®280 2.0 Dual

Laser-based Additive Manufacturing

Open SLM®250HL device showing internal chambers, control panel, and monitor on the right side.

PBF-LB/M device: SLM®250HL

Laser-based Additive Manufacturing

A benchtop unit for the powder-bed laser sintering process, fitted with a microscope attachment and a viewing window, positioned on a table next to a computer screen in a well-lit room.

PBF-LB/M device: Realizer SLM®50

Laser-based Additive Manufacturing

Industrial robot arm with a laser attachment for deposit welding of metals in a manufacturing environment.

DED-LB/M device: ProFocus 1 kW

Laser-based Additive Manufacturing

A Retsch planetary ball mill with its cover open, showing three cylindrical stainless steel grinding jars arranged on a circular platform. Each jar is wrapped in a slotted metal cage with rectangular cutouts. The components are silver-gray against a dark chamber interior.

Retsch PM400 planetary ball mills

Powder Metallurgy and Powder Characterization

Two linked images of a hot press. On the left, a photograph of the press with its die assembly circled in red. On the right, a labeled diagram of the vacuum chamber's internal components, stacked top to bottom: thermocouple, rams, die supports, punches, and a central induction coil surrounding the die. Dashed red lines connect the diagram labels to the corresponding parts in the photograph.

Electro-hydraulic Weber PWV 30 EDS uniaxial pressing machine

Powder Metallurgy and Powder Characterization

Powder analyzer Camsizer X2 by Retsch with X-DRY module in a laboratory setting.

Powder analyzer: Camsizer X2

Laser-based Additive Manufacturing

Powder analyzer Camsizer X2 by Retsch with X-DRY module in a laboratory setting.

Powder flow analyzer: GranuDrum

Laser-based Additive Manufacturing

Metal powder atomization system ATO Lab Plus consisting of a white rectangular main unit with a black front door and a blue cubic auxiliary unit with cables in a laboratory room.

Metal powder atomization system: ATO Lab Plus

Laser-based Additive Manufacturing

Laboratory setup with an electron microscope, two monitors on a desk, and another monitor on a rolling cart in a room with scientific posters on the wall.

Zeiss GEMINI Leo 1530, incl. EDX- and EBSD-system

Scanning electron microscope (SEM)

incl. EDX- and EBSD-system

Microscope with connected monitor displaying a magnified black-and-white image of round structures.

Keyence VHX-7000

Optical digital microscope

A laboratory equipped with a computerized X-ray tomograph, several computers displaying 3D scans on monitors.

General Electric Phoenix Nanotom M

X-ray absorbtion CT

Instron 8502 testing machine with a cylindrical test specimen clamped inside in a laboratory room.

Instron 8502 servo-hydraulic testing machine

Instron 8562 testing machine in a laboratory room.

Instron 8562 electro-mechanical testing maschine

(room temperature)

An open-top high-temperature furnace mounted in an Instron test frame.

Instron 8562 electro-mechanical testing machine

(high temperatures)

Instron 5969 testing machine with clamped specimen.

Instron 5969 electro-mechanical testing machine

Zwick Z050 testing machine for material testing.

Zwick Z050 electro-mechanical testing machine

Materials Testing

Zwick Z050 testing machine for material testing.

Zwick Z005

Electro-mechanical testing machine for material testing.

A Bose 3510 universal testing machine in a laboratory.

Bose ElectroForce 3510

Universal testing machine for material testing.

A Zwick HIT 450P impact bending tester with a round front window in a laboratory, with a computer workstation next to it.

Zwick HIT 450P pendulum impact testing machine

Pendulum impact testing machine for material testing.

Black laboratory device with transparent lid, yellow emergency stop button, and green button on the front, standing on gray floor.

Nanovea Tribometer T50 (Pin & Disc)

Wear test for material testing.

Laboratory device with measuring probe on round black housing in front of a monitor displaying graphs.

Quantum Design PPMS

Magnetic Characterisation Techniques

electrical characterisation under inert conditions

method at “Sustainable Nanomaterials”

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Zeta potential/dynamic light scattering

method at “Sustainable Nanomaterials”

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Mobile Electromagnetic Levitator

Resistive Joule Heating Device

Resistive (Joule) fast-heating setup

Mechanical Testing Device

Mechanical testing setup for in situ XRD

High-temperature viscosimeter Device

High-temperature viscosimeter

Sessile Drop Scheme

Setup for wetting tests by sessile drop method

PANalytical X´Pert Pro, XRD 2183, XRD 3290 diffractometers

Laboratory X-ray diffraction

STOE StadiP Dual Source diffractometers

Laboratory X-ray diffraction

Panalytical X‘PertPro MRD diffractometer

Laboratory X-ray diffraction

TEM Tecnai F30 in our lab.

TEM Tecnai F30

transmission electron microscope

TEM CM20 FEG in our lab.

TEM CM 20 FEG

FIB in our lab

FIB Helios 5 CX

SEM in our lab

SEM Zeiss Ultra Plus

(FEG, EDX, WDX, EBSD)

XPS device in our lab

XPS PHI 5600-CI

(Physical Electronics)

AES device in our lab

Auger Microprobe JEOL JAMP 9500F

XPS-SIMS device in our lab

Combined SIMS/XPS PHI6300/Phoibos 100MCD

View into the lab

Cluster tool Creavac Creamet 350 CI 6 ("CARMEN")

FIB device in our lab

Focussed Ion Beam Helios 5 CX

Photo of NanoMill 1040 in our lab

Focussed Ar-ion thinning with NanoMill 1040

Tenupol device in our lab

Electrolytic thinning with TenuPol-5

plasma cleaning device in our lab

Plasma cleaner TPS 216

Micro pipette puller device in our lab

Micropipette Puller PC-10