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23.06.2025 Transport Technologies

AIT hosts 20th OpenFOAM Workshop 2025 in Vienna

The OpenFOAM Workshop, the world's most important annual meeting of the OpenFOAM community, will take place in Vienna from June 30 to July 4, 2025. The 20^th edition will be hosted by the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, which is bringing together leading minds from science, industry, and software development for this anniversary event. The focus will be on the latest developments in the open-source software OpenFOAM®, innovative simulation techniques, and the future of computational fluid dynamics (CFD).

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25.04.2025 Transport Technologies

FULL-MAP – Accelerating battery innovation for a sustainable future

Batteries are key to the energy transition - but their development often takes years. The European research project FULL-MAP is relying on artificial intelligence, big data and autonomous synthesis to fundamentally accelerate this process - the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology is playing a key role.

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11.04.2025 Transport Technologies

ENLIGHTEN: Setting new standards for electric drives with 1,200V

Innovative high-voltage technology for more powerful and efficient electric vehicles: The European research project ENLIGHTEN, led by the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, is developing a new generation of electric drives with an operating voltage of 1,200 volts. The aim is to realise more powerful, more efficient and more sustainable drive systems that also remain backwards-compatible with existing charging infrastructures of 500 and 1,000 volts.

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04.04.2025 Transport Technologies

MoSiLIB: Innovative anode materials for more powerful and sustainable batteries

Modelling and development of silicon-tin sulphide composite anodes for third-generation lithium-ion batteries

The world is facing a key challenge: the increasing demand for energy, particularly through electromobility, requires more powerful and sustainable energy storage systems and a growing share of renewable energies.

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28.03.2025 Transport Technologies

Titania: Technological leap forward in titanium sheet forming

As part of the ProMetHeus sub-project"Titania", the LKR Light Metals Competence Centre Ranshofen of the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology recently achieved a technological breakthrough in the forming of titanium sheets (Ti-6Al-4V). Significant energy and time savings have been achieved thanks to a new deep-drawing process at temperatures below 500 °C. A corresponding patent is about to be granted.

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