Research and work focus
Simon Ettmüller has been conducting research at the LRF since 2024 and is responsible for supervising various research projects in the field of heat transfer. The scientific focus of his work is on the development of innovative polymer-based heat exchangers. As part of the GRETE project, he is intensively involved in the investigation and design of highly filled graphite-polymer composite heat exchangers in which polypropylene (PP) and polyphenylene sulphide (PPS) are used as matrix materials. Research also includes the use of rapid prototyping by means of fused deposition modeling (FDM) for the additive production of material-tight polymer devices. Another key aspect is the process engineering challenge of joining these special materials: the FutureKomP project is systematically analysing and optimizing the joinability of highly filled polymer composites, which typically have a very low surface free energy, using hotmelting processes