FLAME at the Hessentag 2019 in Bad Hersfeld
2019/06/06 by cst / jb
This year's Hessentag will take place from 7 to 16 June in Bad Hersfeld. The TU Darmstadt will be represented with LOEWE initiatives at the “Hessen schafft Wissen” booth in order to present itself to a broad public. With the LOEWE Excellence Programme, the state of Hesse is promoting forward-looking research projects. You can visit FLAME on June 12th and 13th from 10 am to 7 pm during the Hessentag 2019.
New methods in material development
Modern technologies are inconceivable without new materials, which possess improved or completely new properties. In order to contribute to a sustainable future, these materials should also make it possible to reduce the consumption of energy and raw materials. Furthermore, they should be built of environmentally friendly components and be manufactured using environmentally friendly processes. The LOEWE project FLAME uses previously unused relationships between the electronic structure of a material and its properties in order to produce antiferroelectric materials that do not contain toxic lead, which is required to obtain suitable properties.
Such antiferroelectric materials can be used in capacitors in order to build more compact and efficient inverters that are needed, for example, to convert direct current into alternating current in electric vehicles and solar systems. In addition, they can also be used as insulators in high-voltage transmissions or for new cooling systems.
Further information on this year's Hessentag and an overview of all the LOEWE projects can be found at proLOEWE.de.
