Research

Superalloys are essential for manufacturing turbine blades in jet engines, for example. Now, for the first time, researchers at FAU have succeeded in simulating the exact atomic structure of a nickel-based superalloy rather than an idealised version.

The body's powers of regeneration sometimes fail. Around 350,000 people a year suffer from broken bones that cannot heal by themselves. Current research aims to use mesoporous – i.e. highly porous – silicate nanomaterials to support bone and wound healing.

FAU students were recently granted access to a unique laboratory, the only one of its kind in Europe, for two weeks by the European Space Agency (ESA) where they collected valuable data.

A total of 48 doctoral candidates at FAU will conduct research on the development of the brain and diseases of the nervous system in a new Research Training Group.

In a recent issue of the renowned journal Nature Photonics, physicists at FAU and Friedrich Schiller University Jena find the answers to astronomical questions in the laboratory, shifting the focus to a previously underappreciated material property – surface curvature.