Two Institutions in Karlsruhe, the KIT and the Majolika
Manufactory, Cooperate in Research Inves-tigating Novel Nanostructured
Materials for Batteries, Catalysts, and Filters
Ceramic vases and battery electrodes serve different
purposes, but have an important production step in common: Only at very high
temperatures are they given their excellent properties. For this reason, the
chemist Andrew P. Vogt of KIT uses the kilns of the Majolika Ceramics
Manufactory in Karlsruhe for his materials research project. He applies
tailored plastic molecules to develop prototypes of nanostructured carbon
materials for bat-tery electrodes or chemical catalysts.