Aluminum-Foam-Sandwiches - A Lighter Future For Car Bodies (Electric Vehicles: Everything is Changing. Europe 2018)

POHLTEC´s lightweight material AFS® (Aluminum Foam Sandwich) is a single-material sandwich consisting of a foamed aluminum core between two solid aluminum cover layers. The biggest potential of AFS® is seen in the battery case of electric vehicles, wherefore it offers a unique combination of material properties.

08/2016 till now pohltec metalfoam GmbH

Research Engineer and Project manager

06/2014 - 08/2016 Berlin Institute of Technology, TU Berlin, Germany

Postdoctoral Research Associate

01/2016 - 03/2016 Conseil national de recherches Canada, Boucherville,

Quebec, Canada

Visiting Researcher

10/2013 - 06/2014 Helmholtz-Centre Berlin for Materials and Energy,

Germany

Postdoctoral Research Associate

10/2010 - 10/2013 Helmholtz-Centre Berlin for Materials and Energy,

Germany

PhD. in Materials Science

10/2006 - 10/2010 Diploma (Dipl. Ing. (FH)) in Materials and Surface

Engineering (best graduate)

University of Applied Science Hof, Germany

The pohltec metalfoam GmbH based in Cologne is producer of the lightweight material AFS®. AFS® is the only single-material aluminium sandwich system worldwide and offers completely new possibilities for applications and processing. The three-layer original material consists of a foamed aluminium core sandwich between two aluminium cover layers. The cover layers are metallic, i.e. fused to the core layer without the need for adhesives.