- Development and production of single- and multi-phase Mg-based materials for degradable implant applications requiring high strength and/or high ductility.
- Characterization of Mg alloys by chemical analyses, standard metallographic techniques, mechanical testing, electron microscopy, thermal analyses, in situ synchrotron radiation-based diffraction and tomography and with lab sources.
- Generating scientific knowledge on the structure-property relationship in metallic materials intended for degradable implant application in human medicine.
- Process optimization of Mg-based implant materials to obtain the property profile that meets the service requirements under physiological conditions with regard to mechanical properties and degradation.
- Assisting the experimental activities with computational approaches by thermodynamic, finite element and phase field modelling in order to develop a multiscale digital twin of the implant manufactured by casting and wrought processing.