Manufacturing and syntheses
Additive manufacturing of metallic materials
In the powder bed-based production of metallic materials, also known as 3D printing, metal powders are fused together layer by layer using a laser or electron beam. In contrast to conventional manufacturing methods, components can be produced in customised, complex and highly functional geometries. In addition, special material properties are achieved.
- Development and production of innovative materials with special process properties (e.g. intermetallic materials with catalytic properties)
- Precise production of geometrically complex components, spare parts, tools, prototypes
Ass. Prof. Dr Lukas Kaserer
Institute of Mechatronics
Technikerstrasse 13, 6020 Innsbruck
+43 (512) 507 62771
E-mail Website
- Laser Powder Bed Fusion and Electron Beam Melting
- Possibility of heating: up to - 1200 °C
- Inert gas or vacuum conditions
- Production of refractory metals, titanium and aluminium alloys and steels
High temperature synthesis
Production of polycrystalline materials and single crystals at high temperatures and in variable atmospheres.
- Production of functional materials, e.g. catalysts, ceramics
- Investigation of crystal structures
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Volker Kahlenberg
Institute of Mineralogy and Petrography
Innrain 52f, 6020 Innsbruck
+43 (512) 507 54603
E-mail Website
- Many years of experience with a wide range of industrial samples from the fields of ceramics, binders, building materials, glass, residual materials such as slags and ores
- Analytical services for industrial partners from Austria and other European countries.
Mechanochemistry
Mechanical energy (ball mills, planetary mills) is used to activate chemical reactions. Controlled grinding processes generate high local pressures and temperatures that enable chemical transformations without solvents.
- Synthesis of new materials and phases without solvents
- Activation of inert starting materials for subsequent reactions
- Production of nanostructured materials
- Recycling and processing of waste materials
- Development of environmentally friendly synthesis processes
- Mechanical alloy formation in metallurgy
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Volker Kahlenberg
Institute of Mineralogy and Petrography
Innrain 52, 6020 Innsbruck
+43 (512) 507 54603
E-mail Website
- Many years of experience with a wide range of industrial samples from the fields of ceramics, binders, building materials, glass, residual materials such as slags and ores.
- Analytical services for industrial partners from Austria and other European countries.
Other FunMat services
Methods of analysis
Chromatography
X-ray methods
Spectroscopic methods
Other methods (microscopy, rheology, thermal analysis, electroanalysis and others)
Sample preparation
Mills
Climatic chamber