Knowledge-based multifunctional materials are advanced materials which, apart from their obvious mechanical or chemical properties, are designed to serve specific purposes in a controlled way. Specifically, the materials investigated within KMM-VIN are designed for enhanced performance in highly demanding loading and environmental conditions like thermo-mechanical and impact loading, high strain rates and temperature regimes, aggressive chemical environment, and combinations thereof. Such regimes are typical of applications in aerospace and automotive transport, turbo-machinery industry, tribology, chemical industry, electronic devices, biological implants, microsensors, household appliances etc. These materials (abbreviated as KMM) include intermetallics, metal-ceramic composites, functionally graded materials and thin layers.
