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Research in the Field of Expertise Advanced Materials Science aims to improve existing materials and to design them to be lighter, more flexible, cheaper or more robust. The researchers work primarily with materials for the areas of energy technology, electronics, lightweight construction and medical technology in basic and application-oriented research.
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Playing with Material Properties

Anna Galler has just moved to TU Graz with an Elise Richter Fellowship. Here, the researcher analyses 2D materials.   Read more 28. May 2024

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TU Graz Researchers Optimize 3D Printing of Optically Active Nanostructures

The shape, size and optical properties of 3-dimensional nanostructures can now be simulated in advance before they are produced directly with high precision on a wide variety of surfaces.   Read more 17. January 2024

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Using Giant Magnets to Create Sustainable Batteries

Katharina Hogrefe is conducting research on new materials for batteries at TU Graz and wants to make the widely used energy storage systems a little more environmentally friendly.

27. December 2023
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2023: A Year of Research Successes at TU Graz

At Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) in 2023, important discoveries were made, new insights gained and exciting information gleaned. An end-of-year review.

20. December 2023
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Uni Graz and TU Graz launch joint Christian Doppler Laboratory for novel sensors

In the "Christian Doppler Laboratory for Structured Matter Based Sensing", a team led by Alexander Bergmann and Peter Banzer is researching the fundamentals of structured materials and light fields as well as their applications. The facility is funded by the Federal Ministry of Labour and Economy.

20. October 2023
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A Longer Life for Organic Solar Cells

Photovoltaic cells made of organic materials are light and flexible, which is why they are considered very promising. An international research network led by TU Graz is now aiming to increase the stability of the materials.

27. September 2023
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Circular Economy: Valuable Raw Materials from Waste

Concrete is a mixture of different ingredients – with carbon-intensive cement normally used as a binder for the stone. But researchers at TU Graz are looking into potential alternatives.

9. August 2023
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New Ceramics for Electronics and Energy Conversion

Jurij Koruza and his team are working on electroceramics that are used in electronic devices. The team is part of a new and highly endowed collaborative research centre led by TU Darmstadt.

30. May 2023
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New Spectrometers for TU Graz Chemistry

TU Graz and the Japanese analytical instrument manufacturer JEOL opened the newly designed JEOL Application Lab with completely new nuclear magnetic resonance and mass spectrometers in January 2023.

18. January 2023
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“I just loved knowing what things are made of.”

This sentence comes from TU Graz researcher Ricardo Buzolin. The 30-year-old is actually a mechanical engineer, but switched to materials science because “every machine is made of materials”.

21. September 2022