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News from Research and Technology Institutes Worldwide This column informs JTST readers of activities in research and technology institutes active in the field of thermal spray technology. Technical overviews help the reader to understand the primary focus of the institution and the needs driving their thermal spray research and development. Getting to know the research interests and professional experience of our thermal spray colleagues allows us to better recognize experts in specific fields of study. Knowledge of institutional expertise is important for developing complementary partnering relationships to increase the fundamental understanding of thermally sprayed materials and increase the quality and breadth of practical applications. This column includes articles giving an overview of current activities or a focus on a significant breakthrough. To submit an article for this column, please contact Kendall Hollis, JTST Associate Editor at: Los Alamos National Laboratory, P.O. Box 1663, MS G-770, Los Alamos, NM 87544; e-mail: [email protected].
Thermal Spray Research at Forschungszentrum Ju¨lich GmbH, Germany The Forschungszentrum Ju¨lich GmbH pursues interdisciplinary research on solving grand challenges facing society in the fields of health, energy, and the environment, and also information technologies. In combination with its two key competencies—physics and supercomputing— work at Ju¨lich focuses both on long-term, fundamental, and multidisciplinary contributions to science and technology and on specific technological applications. With a staff of about 4400, Ju¨lich, a member of the Helmholtz Association, is one of the largest research centers in Europe. As a part of the Forschungszentrum Ju¨lich GmbH, the Institute of Energy Research (IEF) investigates modern energy conversion technologies. The topics it covers range from photovoltaics
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and fuel cells, through nuclear fusion and nuclear safety research, right up to innovative coal and gas power plants. This gives rise to a large breadth of research topics, all bound together by scientific methods and systems analysis. The Institute of Energy Research (IEF) consists of several sections, whereas the thermal spray research is located at the IEF-1: Materials Synthesis and Processing, being directed by Prof. Dr. Detlev Sto¨ver. It deals with the development of materials, structural elements, and components for innovative systems of energy conversion, particularly in the areas of solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs), gas separation membranes, and thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) for advanced power plants. Within the latter, which Dr. Robert Vaßen is responsible for, thermal spray research has grown in the past two decades as an important area of expertise that is supported by comprehensive equipment. Overall scientific goals of the research done on thermal spray in Ju¨lich are: •
Improved process control and reliability
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Development of new processes
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Targeted process design for new materials and to provide determined coating ch
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