CETC's technology development activities are performed on cost-shared basis through either in-house R&D work at our laboratories or by providing funding support to technology partners. Activities focus on reducing the costs of existing technologies by performing applied research or by undertaking more fundamental research where new technologies and concepts offer significant future market potential. Deployment and commercialization activities serve to increase market penetration of proven, cost-effective technologies, through support for standards development, technical workshops, training and full-scale implementation.
BAM is a technical and scientific senior federal institution under the authority of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology. The task of the Federal Institute (Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung, BAM) is to promote the development of German economy. Its responsibilities in the interacting fields of Materials - Chemistry - Environment - Safety are in particular:
statutory functions for technical safety in the public domain, especially relating to dangerous goods and substances
collaboration in developing legal regulations on safety standards and threshold values
consulting on safety aspects of materials technology and chemistry for the Federal Government and industry
development and supply of reference materials and reference methods, especially for chemical analysis and materials testing
assistance in developing standards and technical rules for the evaluation of substances, materials, structures and processes with reference to damage prevention, life time prediction, protection of the economical values.
Materials and Structural Analysis
The Materials and Structural Analysis Research Group is active in pursuing research into (i) structure-property relationships in materials (ii) optimisation of manufacturing processes and (iii) structural analysis.
Areas of Expertise:
Carbon Fibre Technology
High temperature creep of metals and its modelling.
Polymer rheology and its relationship to processing.
Polymer-matrix composites.
The US Department of Energy, Energy Efficiency and Renewal Energy, Vehicle Technologies Program, Materials Technologies is the official contracting party of this Implementing Agreement. The Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) works to strengthen the United States' energy security, environmental quality, and economic vitality in public-private partnerships. It supports this goal through:
Enhancing energy efficiency and productivity;
Bringing clean, reliable and affordable energy technologies to the marketplace; and
Making a difference in the everyday lives of Americans by enhancing their energy choices and their quality of life
EERE is organized around 10 energy programs:
EERE sponsors and participates in many IEA Implementing Agreements. AMT is part of the Vehicle Technologies Program, under which the Materials Technologies program is the prime contracting party of AMT. Each contracting party designates a member of the executive committee, which meets on annual basis. Rogelio Sullivan of the DOE currently chairs this committee. Mr. Sullivan is a Program Manager and Team Leader for the USDOE’s Advanced Materials Technologies, which is in the Vehicle Technologies Program, which is developing more energy efficient and environmentally friendly highway transportation technologies that will enable America to use less petroleum.
Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics (LICP) of Chinese Academy of Sciences was founded in 1958. The institute has been a high-tech innovation research center for new materials and chemistry. Since its founding, the institute has made many significant contributions to the national economic development in petrochemicals and aerospace technologies.
LICP includes two State Key Laboratories, one is National Engineering Research Center, the other one is Province Key Laboratory, and three R&D Centers. The main research areas in LICP include chemistry, new materials and biology. The new materials research aims to control or improve the properties of materials and the failure mechanism in service through the control of microstructures and molecular engineering. The biological research focuses on enzyme technology development. LICP has 466 staff, among them there are 303 researchers and technicians, including 1 CAE Member, 49 research professors, 89 associate research professors and senior engineers. Among the young scientists, there are 6 recipients of the Outstanding Young Scientist Found of the National Natural Sciences Foundation of China, and 11 recipients of the “One-Hundred Talents”. Since 2001, more than 1000 papers have been published from LICP in SCI journals. In addition, around 80 patents are applied from LICP in each year. Since 2001, LICP has won 12 important research prizes or awards of different categories, including 1 National Natural Science Award, 1 National Invention Award, 2 National Science & Technology Progress Awards due to significant achievements an various research projects.
