The three-day LWT seminar took place at the RUB at the end of March. LWT doctoral students presented the current status of their research in engaging presentations and discussed their work afterward. A get-together in the Ideenwerkstatt provided a chance to relax with delicious drinks and food prepared by the team. On the third day, research assistants presented the potential applications of ThermoCalc and MatCalc and how they are specifically used in their research as part of a Calphad seminar.
As part of a two-year school project, special bicycles accompanied two chemistry classes at the Neues Gymnasium Bochum. In collaboration with Ruhr University Bochum, including the Chair of Materials Technology (LWT), the students built a bicycle themselves and examined its materials using modern analytical methods. The project combined school chemistry lessons with practical materials research and sparked lasting enthusiasm for science and technology.
Formnext 2025 in Frankfurt once again provided a central platform for the latest developments in additive manufacturing this year. For LWT, this topic area—together with powder metallurgy—is one of its core competencies.
We visited the trade fair together to exchange ideas with experts from industry and research, discuss current trends, and follow developments in the field of AM process technologies and powder metallurgical material systems.
On November 14, 2025, the first Reuse Forum took place at the RUB event center as part of SFB 1683 “Modular Reuse.” In addition to specialist presentations and a panel discussion, there was a poster exhibition with demonstrators. The LWT provided insights into current research and showcased the wide range of concrete steels from different decades.
SFB 1683 is using an interdisciplinary team to investigate how reinforced concrete components can be removed from existing structures, tested, processed, and reused as new structures.
A LOOK BEHIND THE SCENES
A virtual tour through the different laboratories and rooms of our chair as well as the associated halls and the equipment located there can be found here.
FUTURE-ORIENTED RESEARCH
The research focus of our chair lies in the new and further development of metallic materials with the inclusion of the relevant processes.
SUSTAINABLE AND INNOVATIVE
Our concept is characterized by innovative research under the responsibility for sustainable development and responsible use of energy and resources.
INNOVATIVE COOPERATION
The LWT is staffed by a diverse team of PostDocs, PhD students and student employees, supported by technical and administrative staff.
