Technology Offers
- Electrical engineering
- Process and production engineering
- Microtechnology / precision mechanics
- Chemical industry
- Raw material and textile industry
Mechanochemically induced recycling of lithium-ion batteries
With a new recycling process developed by KIT, lithium can be efficiently reclaimed from the cathode material of old batteries without irreversible contamination and environmental damage.
- Coating technology
- Chemical industry
- Polymer industry
- Raw material and textile industry
- Process and production engineering
Intermetals as a catalytically active layer
Intermetallic sputtering targets from KIT improve the reproducible coating of microstructured surfaces using DC magnetron sputtering. The thin catalytic layers make the hydrogenation of acetylene, for example, even more efficient.
- Plant engineering
- Biotechnology
- Pharmaceutical industry
- Chemical industry
- Microtechnology / precision mechanics
- Raw material and textile industry
- Process and production engineering
High-pressure saturator for process engineering
A new reactor design of KIT enables the saturation of gases under very high pressure with the vapor of corrosive and high-purity liquids.
- Building industry
- Process and production engineering
- Raw material and textile industry
- Plant engineering
Circular economy for cement
KIT process enables complete recycling of old concrete: Belit cement is produced from demolition concrete and released carbon dioxide can be bound in upgraded recycling aggregates in the process chain.
- Coating technology
- Polymer industry
- Process and production engineering
- Microtechnology / precision mechanics
- Plant engineering
- Raw material and textile industry
Seamless micro embossing of material webs
Roll-to-roll process enables precise and continuous microstructuring of polymers.
- Electrical engineering
- Coating technology
- Printing industry
- Polymer industry
- Process and production engineering
- Raw material and textile industry
- Microtechnology / precision mechanics
Printing flexible electronics
Highly conductive ink with reduced metallic particle content enables the additive production of highly stretchable electronics for soft electronic applications.
- Disposal, waste and sewage disposal
- Filter technology
- Plant engineering
- Raw material and textile industry
- Environmental technology
Recycling in demolition processes
Optimised separating method makes abrasives applied in water jet cutting reusable and minimises secondary waste in the demolition of nuclear plants.
- Building industry
- Metal industry
- Coating technology
- Process and production engineering
- Raw material and textile industry
Hybrid bonding
Novel robust and inexpensive technology for bonding structural components.
- Chemical industry
- Energy and water supply
- Process and production engineering
- Microtechnology / precision mechanics
- Raw material and textile industry
Direct synthesis of hydrogen peroxide
Microstructured reactor for the safe and environmentally friendly production of hydrogen peroxide from hydrogen and oxygen.
- Chemical industry
- Medicine and healthcare
- Process and production engineering
- Microtechnology / precision mechanics
- Food industry
- Pharmaceutical industry
- Raw material and textile industry
Flexible hydrogenation
Compact modular reactor allows short product launch times of chemicals and pharmaceuticals.