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SPP 1299:  Adaptive Surfaces for High Temperature Applications - The Skin Concept

Subject Area Materials Science and Engineering
Term from 2007 to 2016
Project identifier Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 28443546
 
Metallic and ceramic materials are typically considered as "dead matter". Particularly at elevated and high temperatures (approx. 650-1100 °C), tailored surfaces have the potential to react to effects from the environment in a very specific way and thus may provide special functionalities to a technical component. For example, the following functionalities are the result of an active "answer" of a materials system to its environment at high temperatures:
(1) Formation of a well-defined surface topography produced by local swelling and/or shrinking, which can, among others, influence the gas flow around the surface.
(2) Protection against heat and chemical attack.
(3) Self cleaning or rejection of deposits by microstructural and/or chemical effects.
(4) "Breathing" and "transpiration" by membrane functions (such as lubricant release or pick-up, release of depot phases, selective penetration of chemical elements or compounds).
(5) Capture of physical and chemical parameters (such as pressure, temperature, flow rate, barrier effects, chemical and physical indicator functions).
(6) Regeneration (self healing after surface damage).
All these properties can be achieved by an adequate chemical and/or physical surface pre-treatment followed by high temperature exposure (high temperature activation step). Potential methods are micro- and nanostructure modification of chemistry and geometry of surface and sub-surface areas, e. g., by micro alloying, ion implantation, PVD, CVD, thermal spraying and other deposition methods (masked, 3-D controlled, time-controlled or pulsed, local and global variation of chemical and physical process parameters), which act as precursors for the high temperature activation step. Major objectives of the Priority Programme are:
(1) Elaboration of basic scientific understanding for manufacturing of adapting ("living") surfaces with different functionalities for high temperature applications using surface modification techniques followed by high temperature activation.
(2) Strategy and methodology development for long-term property preservation during high temperature application.
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