Nanocomposite materials

Nanocomposite materials offer certain advantages over classical inorganic materials such as easy processing and nearly unlimited design of components. Additionally, typical included nanoeffects (e. g. quantum confinement) enhance the system performance substantially or provide completely new functionalities. A big challenge is to bring nanoparticles, nanorods or nanowires in contact to the micro and macro world. To overcome these difficulties, we favor different approaches such as the use of special conditioned composits (interfaces, orientation of inclusions) or self-assembling technologies.