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  • 3D printing with fiber-reinforced plastics designed for load paths

  • Filter stuffing unit with integrated glue application for cellulose fibers

  • Basalt fiber-reinforced plastics for automotive applications

  • What’s in plastic waste? New options for analyzing plastic waste

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  • Pulsating wound dressings to help extensive wounds heal more quickly

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  • High-resolution 3D imaging with nano-CT for biofunctional and medical materials characterization

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  • Some new approaches towards better rubber composites for tire treads

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• Light, strong, and tough: Researchers discover unique polymer fibres

• »Green« hydrogen as a catalyst for sustainable chemical industry

• Self-organizing peptide is proven to strengthen dental enamel: Award for University of Marburg and Fraunhofer IMWS

• Efficient sandwich lightweight structures with high surface quality

• Fraunhofer IMWS supports the development of treatment methods for dentin hypersensitivity

• Accurately predicting the reliability and working live of photovoltaic and battery inverters

• Improved 3D printing thanks to partially crystalline polymers

• New methods for failure analysis of electronic components and systems

• Reliable microelectronics through failure analysis with artificial intelligence

• How Do We Want to Run Our Economy and Production?

• Individual LED lamp for visually handicapped people

• Quality testing and material development: Fraunhofer IMWS supports the fight against the coronavirus pandemic

• Temperature measurement with phosphors

• Fraunhofer IMWS in ranking of Germany's most innovative companies for the third time

• Detecting security vulnerabilities on the nanoscale

• Rapid material analysis of surfaces and coatings using laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS)

• Unique research platform: Fraunhofer Hydrogen Lab Görlitz becomes a pioneer for the hydrogen economy

• Efficient tires and improved wound healing: Fraunhofer IMWS honored with Hugo Junkers Prize

• PV CAMPER platform generates photovoltaics data from diverse environments and climates worldwide

• Today's waste becomes tomorrow's resource: "Waste4Future" paves new ways for plastics recycling

• Networking platform for trustworthy electronics

• Klemens Ilse honored with Schott AG Materials Award

• Hydrogen Lab Leuna starts operation

• TotalEnergies, Sunfire and Fraunhofer give the go-ahead for green methanol in Leuna

• Customized wound dressings made from tropoelastin

• Future international logistics for the import of green hydrogen

• Measurement and classification platform "MK4" offers process and data analytics for high-performance photovoltaic production

• Guidelines for hydrogen safety

• Wind turbines with integrated electrolyzer

• Improved power electronic components for energy generation in offshore wind parks

• Current-based repair process for new solar cell technologies

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• Adele Ara (Lightsource BP) and Ralph Gottschalg (Fraunhofer CSP) elected to lead SolarPower Europe’s O&M and Asset Management Task Force

• Researchers at the Fraunhofer CSP honored by the GAIIA award

• Budde prize research on light converters

• Martin Gräbner heads Business Unit »Circular Carbon Technologies« in Freiberg

• Improving the efficiency of luminescent borate glasses and glass ceramics

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