18th Materials Technology Colloquium of the TU Chemnitz
on 10 and 11 March 2016 in Chemnitz

For the eighteenth time, the Institute of Materials Science and Engineering (IWW) at Chemnitz University of Technology organised the Materials Technology Colloquium (WTK). The two-day event, with over 200 participants from Germany and abroad, was held in the Central Lecture Hall Building of the TU Chemnitz. More than 60 expert lectures and 30 poster contributions reported on the latest research results, innovative applications and process engineering developments. Plenary lectures by renowned scientists gave the participants interesting insights into, among other things, future-oriented lightweight construction in the automotive industry and current research activities in the fields of soldering, surface technology and steel research. The 5-minute impulse presentations by industrial exhibitors also attracted great interest among the conference participants.

The annual conference also always takes up current focal points from materials development, coating and surface technology, as well as composites and material composites. Accordingly, the latest research results from the Collaborative Research Centre 692 "High-strength aluminium-based lightweight materials for safety components" and the Federal Cluster of Excellence MERGE were presented in special sessions.

During the evening event, which took place for the first time in the cosy „Bar Ausgleich“ of the university canteen, the „Best Paper Award“ and „Best Poster Award“ were presented. For his paper „Influence of nitrogen on microstructure and corrosion behaviour of martensitic stainless steels“ Paul Rosemann from Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg was awarded 1st prize. The „1st Place Best Poster Award“ went to Christina Wüstefeld from TU Bergakademie Freiberg for the poster contribution „Characterisation of interfaces between cold gas sprayed Al coatings and ceramic substrates“.

Marco Thomä, a research assistant at the Chair of Composite Materials, contributed to an all-round successful evening event with his artistic and daring performance as a two-time bike trial world champion.

http://iopscience.iop.org/1757-899X/118/1

In order to make the contents of the 18th Materials Engineering Colloquium accessible to as wide an interested and expert audience as possible, the English-language contributions will be published for the first time in the online proceedings series IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering. The open access publications can be downloaded at

can be downloaded from the website. All contributions to the 18th WTK in German and English are summarised in a conference volume and can be downloaded atwww.tu-chemnitz.de/mb/iww/wtkbe ordered.

The 19th Materials Technology Colloquium will take place in March 2017 at the same venue.The exact date will be announced soon.

Chemnitz, 22 March 2016
Institute for Materials Science and Materials Engineering, TU Chemnitz
Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Thomas Lampke
Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Guntram Wagner
Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Martin Wagner