GRK 285:  Internal Interfaces in Crystalline Materials - From the Microstructure of Interfaces to the Properties of Materials

• Subject Area: Materials Science
• Term: from 1997 to 2005
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 271613

The research area of the research training group comprises the fabrication,processing, characterisation, and modelling - both atomistically and on the level of continuum mechanics - of technological interfaces in compound materials in order to investigate properties of materials controlled by interfaces. The focus of the graduate program is the correlation of macroscopic properties of heterogeneous materials with the microstructure of the internal interfaces. Combining physical, chemical, and numerical methods with thephenomenological approach of engineers, the problems at issue may besolved by taking advantage of the evolving synergetic effects. The college enables graduate students to do interdisciplinaryresearch through the cooperation of the departments of physics, chemistry, electrical engineering, power engineering, and aeronautical and aerospace engineering.

• DFG Programme: Research Training Groups
• Applicant Institution: Universität Stuttgart
• Participating Institution: Max-Planck-Institut für Intelligente Systeme; Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR); Standort Stuttgart
• Spokesperson: Professor Dr. Manfred Rühle
• Participating Researchers: Professor Dr. Fritz Aldinger; Professor Dr. Eduard Arzt; Professor Dr.-Ing. Richard Kochendörfer; Professor Dr.-Ing. Bernd-Helmut Kröplin (†); Professor Dr. Manfred H. Pilkuhn (†); Professor Dr. Siegfried Schmauder; Professor Dr. Ferdinand Scholz; Professor Dr. Udo Schumacher; Professor Dr. Hans-Rainer Trebin