The Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung becomes the Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials to reflect its solarpunk futures
The Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials will explore methods for producing, utilising, and recycling materials in a climate-friendly way.
The Düsseldorf-based institute has been investigating how to optimise steel and other metallic for applications in energy, mobility, infrastructure, production, and medicine over the past few decades. In recent years, researchers have increasingly directed their focus on how steel and other metallic materials can be produced with minimal greenhouse gas emissions, as well as on maximising the efficiency of limited raw materials for electronic devices, electric motors, and generators.
To reflect this shift in research focus, the Institute has undergone a name change: it will now be known as the Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials.
The renaming of the Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung to Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials signals a shift towards intensi