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23.11.2018 Events organised by the professorship
After ten years, the Chair of Materials and Surface Technology at Chemnitz University of Technology can boast considerable successes in research, teaching and transfer. The WOT image film also celebrated its premiere.

16.11.2018 Events organised by the professorship
On 17 November, the Chair of Materials and Surface Engineering once again hosted a technology round table on the topic of "Thermal Coating Technology". The IHK Chemnitz and the start-up network SAXEED, together with the coating experts, organised the event on the Erfenschlag campus.

06.11.2018 Personnel of the professorship
On 22 October 2018, Ibrahim El-Araby Megahed Ali defended his dissertation entitled "Oxidation behaviour of thermal barrier coating system with Al interlayer".
09.10.2018 Events organised by the professorship
The Institute of Materials Science and Engineering IWW awarded the Diamond Diploma for the first time on 25 September 2018. This honoured 14 graduates of Chemnitz University of Technology who graduated 60 years ago in the field of materials.

02.10.2018 Research at the professorship
The 5th International Thermal Spraying and Hardfacing Conference (ITSHC) in Wrocław saw the first meeting between German and Polish scientists and representatives from industry and technology. The occasion was the European research project approved on 1 October 2018, in which TU Wrocław and TU Chemnitz are working together in the CORNET programme.

28.09.2018 Teaching at the professorship
The Chair of Materials and Surface Engineering has been offering the English-language lecture series "Surface and Interface Engineering" since 2016 in addition to the "Surface Engineering/Coating Technology" course, which has grown over many years. The number of participants increases significantly from year to year.

15.08.2018 Projects of the professorship
In its analysis of the subject area, the DFG ranks Chemnitz University of Technology in 4th place in the field of "Materials Engineering" in the acquisition of funding in Germany.

31.07.2018 Personnel of the professorship
On 18 July 2018, Thomas Lindner defended his dissertation entitled "Process combination for surface layer hardening of thermally sprayed layer systems made of austenitic steel".

09.07.2018 Personnel of the professorship
On 3 July 2018, Fabian Streb defended his dissertation entitled "Novel materials for heat dissipation in semiconductor technologies".

22.06.2018 Equipment of the professorship
On 21 June 2018, the WOT professorship will put a new laser cladding system into operation. The focus is on the processing of functional iron-based metallic glasses.