The Institute for Applied Materials (IAM) is a leading institution in research and education in materials science and technology.
With its interdepartmental character the IAM is one of the largest facilities of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). It pursues the KIT missions of research, teaching and innovation and contributes to the areas of energy, nano- and microtechnology, and mobility systems.
IAM pursues an interdisciplinary approach to materials research that covers the diversity and multiscale character of materials science. In cooperation with national and international partners, we study materials from their atomic structure to their function in the product. Our activities bridge the gap from materials development over process technology to systems integration.
In teaching IAM is responsible for the consecutive bachelor/master course Materials Science and Engineering. It also provides the materials science education in other university programs in engineering and natural sciences.
IAM has broad methodological competences in the fields of materials synthesis, processing, characterization, and simulation. It, thus, offers an attractive scientific environment and excellent opportunities for scientific and personal development to its members.
More than 500 employees are working at the 8 IAM units
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For all those interested we offer insights into materials science research
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The interdisciplinary BSc and MSc programs "Materials Science and Engineering" combine fundamentals with applications
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An international team of researchers coordinated at the IAM-ZM has developed mechanical metamaterials that have a high elastic energy storage capacity thanks to twisted rods. The results have now been published in the journal "Nature".
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Prof. Christian Greiner has been appointed to the dual leadership of the MicroTribology Center µTC with Prof. Matthias Scherge. He succeeds Prof. Peter Gumbsch, who has rendered outstanding services during his 15-year term of office, in particular by providing intensive scientific policy support for the merger of the Fraunhofer IWM and KIT parts of the µTC and, among other things, driving forward the construction of the µTC buildings in Karlsruhe.
In the newly launched EU project NANO-S-MART, researchers at the IAM-MMI are investigating the material cycle of steel production in order to minimize losses in our society's consumption of raw materials in the future with intelligent material design and closed material cycles.
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