Renewable energy sources gradually replace fossil energy carriers in electricity production and mobility segments. This is the only meaningful strategy to meet the CO2 targets [more...]
With the help of innovative concepts, new sources of raw materials based on carbon dioxide are exploited for a sustainable chemical industry. On the one hand, electrochemical, photochemical, [more...]
The development of new coating technologies is an interdisciplinary research area in all working groups of the institute. The focus lies on the development of sol-gel layers and [more...]
Suitable concepts for corrosion protection are an economic factor and make a significant contribution to resource efficiency. In this way corrosion damages can be avoided being of immense [more...]
Processing of bioproducts contributes significantly to the economic efficiency of the overall process. White biotechnology has different requirements with regard to costs and product purity [more...]
Electrobiotechnology is based on the combination of biotechnological and electrochemical process steps and uses the advantages of both techniques. While the major advantages of biotechnology [more...]
The focus topic electrolysis and electrosynthesis may significantly contribute to the substitution of fossil resources and energy sources. The advantages of electric current as reaction [more...]
Concerning electrolytic corrosion our scientists and technicians cover a wide range of topics: It reaches from mechanistic corrosion investigations and corrosion modelling via new concepts [more...]
The potential of enzymes for the resource-saving production of fine chemicals, pharmaceuticals, aromas and many other chemicals is not nearly exhausted yet. The DFI covers all essential [more...]
The demand for environmentally- and resources-friendly processes as well as higher yields in thermal plants and machinery leads to increasing demands on materials. This is relevant with [more...]
The use of lightweight materials is one of the key technologies in the automotive and aircraft industry. Hybrid constructions made of various materials (high-strength and ultrahigh-strength [more...]
Micro-organisms have been used by mankind for a long time as producers of specific substances, particularly in food. Along with the knowledge of the enormous metabolic diversity in [more...]
Light can be used as energy source to enable or accelerate chemical reactions. These photocatalytic reactions are particularly elegant and clean as the photons are essentially contact- and [more...]
In the majority of industrial processes and public supply, the resource water plays a major role and cannot be substituted in most cases. The function of water thereby ranges from the use as [more...]
Metal feedstock is widely used in industry but suffers from limited accessibility. However residues and waste of industrial society also contain precious metals. Scientists from different [more...]
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