At Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Applied Materials Research (IFAM) more than 300 employees are working in the field of research- and development in different industry relevant topics. The institute carries out research and feasibility studies in bonding- and surface- technologies, micro- and nano- structuring, and powder- and sintering- technology. The technology platform “INKtelligent printing^®” includes competencies of the development and printing of nano-scaled functional suspensions and the application of functional structures in parts and on surfaces. The activities reach from fundamental research up to the technical implementation and market launch of new products. Industrial fields of application are in automotive sector, mechanical engineering and construction, energy technique, micro fabrication, medical technology, packing- and electronic- industry.

The technolology platform INKtelligent printing^® at Fraunhofer IFAM describes the development of nanoscaled functional suspensions. Disperse nanoscale powder materials are dispersed into liquids or directly integrated into fluid matrices. These nanoscale suspensions are developed into funtional inks for printing functional structures and intelligent components. Fraunhofer IFAM offers several ink-jet printing methods as well as an aerosol printing method called Maskless Mesoscale Material Deposition (M³D^TM ). Using M³D^TM it is possible to apply functional metallic or biological structures onto different surfaces or components with resolutions as fine as 10 µm.

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