The Fraunhofer Materials and Components Group 

The Fraunhofer Materials and Components Group pools the expertise of 12 Fraunhofer Institutes that are specially concerned with materials science and also receives input from the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics, which is a permanent guest member of the Group.

Fraunhofer materials research extends across the entire value chain, from new material development and improvement of existing materials through quasi-industrial-scale manufacturing technology to the characterization of properties and assessment of service behaviour. The same research scope applies to the components made from these materials and the way they function in systems.

The Group focuses its expertise on the economically important fields of energy, health, mobility, information/communication technology and construction/living. Our aim is to achieve system innovations through targeted material and component developments. In all these fields, we rely equally on laboratory/pilot-plant studies and numerical simulation/modelling. The Fraunhofer Materials and Components Group covers the entire range of materials and their composites, including metallic, inorganic/non-metallic, polymeric and renewable materials.