High-tech materials

Experiment: Hightech-Materialien. Credit: DLR (BY-CC 3.0)
Experiment: Hightech-Materialien. Credit: DLR (BY-CC 3.0)
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Whether artificial joints in medicine, microchips for computers and machines, or solar cells on rooftops - modern materials determine our lives. But these often consist of such simple basic substances as iron, sand or graphite. But how do these substances become high-performance materials? And how do you make these materials even better, for example to make the buildings of tomorrow even more stable?