Fraunhofer Insti­tute for Struc­tur­al Dur­ab­il­ity and Sys­tem Reli­ab­il­ity LBF

Fraunhofer LBF is a research insti­tute with­in the Fraunhofer Soci­ety in Ger­many and we offer our expert­ise in poly­mer chem­istry, poly­mer pro­cessing and poly­mer tech­no­logy as well as struc­tur­al dur­ab­il­ity, sys­tem reli­ab­il­ity. We cov­er the entire plastics value cycle from syn­thes­is, for­mu­la­tion and addit­iv­a­tion over chem­ic­al, phys­ic­al and mech­an­ic­al char­ac­ter­isa­tion, pro­cessing, com­pon­ents design and test­ing up until re- or upcyc­ling.

Our pro­jects revolve around ther­mo­plasts, dur­omers, elast­omers and com­pos­ite with spe­cial atten­tion to sus­tain­able and cir­cu­lar solutions.

• light-weight con­struc­tion
• flame retard­ancy
• thermo-man­age­ment
• troubleshoot­ing for issues of con­struc­tion and processing
  
• bio-based and bio-degrad­able polymers
• ana­lys­is of poly­mer recyclates
• addi­vi­ation sys­tems for poly­mer recyclates
• plastics com­pon­ents in conc­tact with hydrogen
• com­pon­ent char­ac­ter­isa­tion under stat­ic and dynam­ic loads as well as under media
• weath­er­ing and ageing
  
• design of surfaces