SFB 986:  Tailor-Made Multi-Scale Materials Systems - M3

• Subject Area: Materials Science and Engineering ; Chemistry ; Mechanical and Industrial Engineering ; Physics ; Thermal Engineering/Process Engineering
• Term: from 2012 to 2024
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• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 192346071

The long-term objective of the Collaborative Research Center 986 (SFB 986) is to develop, based on functionalized building blocks, multiscale materials systems which cannot be realized with conventional techniques. Nanoscale elementary functional units, such as organically functionalized nanoparticles, metal nanostruts, core-shell particles or layer pairs, form the first scale level. They are arranged on a first hierarchy level, which represents the second scale level. The resulting aggregates then are systematically arranged on higher hierarchy or scale levels. These novel material systems will lead to qualitatively better mechanical, electrical or photonic properties or even allow for completely new property profiles.SFB 986 has implemented a cooperation of research teams from materials science, chemistry, physics, process engineering and mechanical engineering, with the aim of adjusting the structure characteristics precisely to the desired property profile of the respective materials system:• Elementary functional units are arranged into superstructures, and this approach will be extended over several consecutive discrete scale levels.• Connecting phases, which also may enable additional functions, are introduced between the building blocks on different scale levels.Project area A aims at multiscale hierarchical materials systems by combining bottom-up and top-down processes, prioritizing on outstanding mechanical properties. Project area B deals with nanostructured multi-phase materials systems produced in a top-down process, connecting strength and function across several discrete scale levels. Project area C focuses on adaptable and tunable multiscale photonic materials systems. Here, both bottom-up and top-down processes are used to develop multiscale materials systems with tailored optical absorption, emission, reflection and charge-carrier emission properties.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres

Current projects

• A01 - Surface-modified nanocrystals: Building blocks for hierarchically structured high performance materials (Project Heads Vossmeyer, Tobias ;  Weller, Horst )
• A02 - Copolymers and linkers as building blocks for hierarchical materials (Project Heads Abetz, Volker ;  Handge, Ulrich Alexander )
• A03 - Fabrication of higher hierarchical levels of material systems with fluidized bed granulation and discrete-element modeling of the materials (Project Heads Antonyuk, Sergiy ;  Dosta, Maksym ;  Heinrich, Stefan )
• A04 - Ab initio-based modeling and of electronic and mechanical properties of hybrid interfaces (Project Heads Müller, Stefan ;  Vonbun-Feldbauer, Gregor )
• A05 - Multi scale modeling of the mechanical behavior of composite material system with hierarchical microstructure (Project Heads Bargmann, Swantje ;  Cyron, Christian Johannes ;  Mosler, Jörn ;  Scheider, Ingo )
• A06 - Synthesis and characterization of hierarchical, multifunctional ceramic-polymer materials systems (Project Heads Giuntini, Ph.D., Diletta ;  Schneider, Gerold A. )
• A07 - Adsorption of organic acids on oxide surfaces and nanostructures (Project Heads Noei, Heshmat ;  Stierle, Andreas )
• A08 - Molecular dynamic simulation of the self-organization of organically functionalized ceramic nanoparticles (Project Head Meißner, Robert Horst )
• B02 - Hybrid materials based on nanoporous metal–hierarchy, mechanics and function (Project Head Weißmüller, Jörg )
• B04 - Micromechanical behavior of hierarchical materials (Project Heads Huber, Norbert ;  Lilleodden, Erica ;  Markmann, Jürgen )
• B07 - Polymers in interface-dominated geometries: Structure, dynamics and function in multiscale porous hybrid systems (Project Heads Huber, Patrick ;  Keller, Thomas Florian )
• B08 - Structure development and micromechanical-electrochemical coupling of hierarchical nanoporous solids (Project Heads Lilleodden, Erica ;  Markmann, Jürgen )
• B09 - Microstructure-based classification and electronmicroscopy analysis of nanoporous metals by machine learning (Project Heads Cyron, Christian Johannes ;  Ritter, Martin )
• B10 - Functionalization of hierarchical materials via active organic films (Project Heads Mameka, Nadiia ;  Meißner, Robert Horst ;  Vonbun-Feldbauer, Gregor )
• C01 - Multiscale photonic materials with adjustable absorption and thermal emission (Project Heads Eich, Manfred ;  Petrov, Alexander )
• C02 - Multiscale photonic materials with adjustable radial Anisotropy (Project Heads Eich, Manfred ;  Petrov, Alexander )
• C04 - Additive manufacturing by selfassembly of colloidal suspensions for tailor-made photonic properties (Project Heads Pagnan Furlan, Ph.D., Kaline ;  Schneider, Gerold A. )
• C08 - Controllable radial anisotropic as well as tunable nanostructures for photonic applications (Project Heads Blick, Robert H. ;  Zierold, Robert )
• C09 - Hole emission from tunable metallic meta-materials (Project Heads Eich, Manfred ;  Graf, Matthias ;  Mameka, Nadiia )
• C10 - Photonic Metamaterials with Adjustable and Switchable Anisotropy by Functionalization of Porous Solids with Liquid Crystals (Project Head Huber, Patrick )
• MGK - Integrated research training group (Project Head Kautz, Christian )
• Z01 - Central tasks of the Collaborative Research Centre (Project Head Schneider, Gerold A. )
• Z02 - Multi-scale analysis of structures and processes via synchrotron radiation and neutrons (Project Heads Greving, Ph.D., Imke ;  Müller, Martin ;  Schreyer, Andreas )
• Z03 - Electron microscopy of multi-scale material systems (Project Heads Krekeler, Tobias ;  Ritter, Martin )

Completed projects

• B01 - Design of oriented or 3-dimensionally interconnected carbon-based nanocomposites (Project Head Schulte, Karl )
• B03 - Describing the macroscopic behavior of interfaces based on atomistic models (Project Heads Mosler, Jörn ;  Müller, Stefan )
• B06 - Multiphysics modeling and simulation of metal-polymer-composites on the nano scale (Project Head Bargmann, Swantje )
• C03 - Lithographically controlled assembly and ALD coating of 2D and 3D porous structures for thermophotovoltaics and thermal barrier coatings. (Project Head Nielsch, Kornelius )
• C05 - High Temperature Thermal and Environmental Barrier Coatings by Tailored Porosity (Project Head Janssen, Rolf )
• C06 - Ceramic microparticles: Building blocks for high temperature photonic materials (Project Heads Vossmeyer, Tobias ;  Weller, Horst )
• C07 - Deposition and stability of high-temperature-stable thin-film hyperbolic metamaterials (Project Head Störmer, Michael )

• Applicant Institution: Technische Universität Hamburg
• Participating University: Universität Hamburg
• Participating Institution: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY); Helmholtz-Zentrum hereon GmbH; Institut für Werkstoffforschung
• Spokesperson: Professor Dr. Gerold A. Schneider