High-Performance Center »Integration of Biological and Physical-Chemical Material Functions«

Lab-on-a-chip modules for medicine, sensor technology integrated into lightweight materials or smart cards for the security industry.

The goal of the high-performance center is to develop products that can be manufactured in as few process steps as possible while possessing as many technically relevant functions as possible. To this end, materials with special functions are combined with structural materials that give a product shape and stability. The know-how of many research institutions from various scientific organizations in Brandenburg and Berlin is bundled in the high-performance center for this purpose.

The High-Performance Center "Function Integration" is one of 21 Fraunhofer High-Performance Centers in Germany that organise the close cooperation of university and non-university research with industry. At the Potsdam-Golm site, the High-Performance Centre is coordinated by the Fraunhofer Institutes for Applied Polymer Research IAP and for Cell Therapy and Immunology, Bioanalytics and Bioprocesses Division IZI-BB. Projects at the High-Performance Centre are among others publicly funded.