Materials Driving Energy Transition

At IMD-1, we advance material design for energy applications by leveraging microstructure-property-processing correlations and mechanism-based descriptions of materials behavior. We apply high-resolution microscopy, automation, data-driven approaches, and close collaboration across experimentation and simulation to achieve our goals.

Research bites - Your shortcut to our IMD-1 portfolio

Modelling Internal Oxidation in Ferritic Stainless Steels

Microstructure engineering of Ni-lean stainless steel for enhanced hydrogen embrittlement resistance

Fabrication of 3D oriented pore structure by using freeze casting method and characterization of tunable mechanical properties

High-throughput manufacturing and processing enable the rapid creation of materials with various microstructures

Research Data Management and Electronic Lab Notebooks

Forget trial and error – On the benefits of Machine Learning for Phase Field nucleation simulation

To understand microstructure-dependent mechanical behavior, we conduct miniaturized mechanical experiments

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HiperFer steel for concentrating solar power applications

Calphad-database Development: Coupling of Experiment and Thermodynamic Modelling

A compact overview on solid-state/ hybrid-solid-state battery research

Frontiers of material characterization: How to measure ceramic tape properties reliably

Linking the material processing to the microstructural and mechanical properties

In situ tensile TEM experiments on nanometallic multilayer dogbone specimens

Machine Learning: Microstructure and mechanical properties of pearlite

Oxidation Behavior of Ferritic Stainless Steels for SOECs

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Invitation - FesTES Colloquium in Munich on October 20

The project team is pleased to invite researchers, industrial R&D specialists and other experts working in thermal energy storage, phase change materials and related technologies to the FesTES Colloquium at the Technical University of Munich.

Please register by October 15 by contacting Dr. Michael Müller via mic.mueller@fz-juelich.de

Find more information here.

Materials at work - come and join our invited seminar "Materials Discussion on Thursdays"

Mario Rudolphi
Mechanical Stability of Thermal Barrier Coatings and Novel Coating Concepts | DECHEMA Research Institute

24 September 2026 10:30 am
IMD-1 | Building 05.1 | Room 1 and online

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