Current developments in high tech are being shaped by the increasing demands being placed on the performance, reliability, economy, and flexibility of technical products. Mastering tribological processes plays a key role here, as does the functionally integrative development of innovative, tribologically optimized plastics and polymer-based composites, as well as the accompanying construction methods and technologies.

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Klaus Kunze , TU Dresden, Institute of Lightweight Engineering and Polymer Technology, Dresden, Germany.