Webinar: Functional Integration – Smart Polymers for Electronics, Sensors and Programmable Components

🔬 How can electronic and sensor functions be integrated directly into polymer materials—without adding system complexity?

This webinar shows how polymers can act as active system components, integrating electrical, optical, mechanical and thermal functions directly at the material level.

🔍 What’s it about?

The webinar focuses on functional integration in polymers—from material design to application-ready components. Instead of adding functionality through assemblies, functions are embedded directly into the polymer material or during processing.

Topics covered include:

  • Integration of electronic and optoelectronic functions into polymer systems
  • Polymer-based solutions for energy storage and conversion
  • Electroactive polymers as sensors, actuators and energy transducers
  • Shape memory polymers and 4D printing for adaptive components

The webinar connects material development, processing technologies and application-driven system design, with a strong emphasis on real-world usability.

🧪 Featured Topics and Speakers

  • Manuel Gensler: Cadmium-free quantum dots, printable QD inks, polymer-integrated optoelectronics
  • Dr. Benjamin Heyne: Polymer solid electrolytes and PFAS-free membranes
  • Dr. Michael Wegener: Electroactive polymers for sensors, actuators and solid-state heating/cooling
  • Dr. Thorsten Pretsch: Shape memory polymers and 4D-printed adaptive structures

🎯 Why should you attend?

You will gain insights into how functional polymers can:

  • Reduce system complexity through material-level integration
  • Enable new design freedoms for electronics and sensor systems
  • Improve reliability and scalability of functional components
  • Open up new application fields in energy, mobility and medical technology
  • Translate advanced materials research into usable system solutions

👥 Who should attend?

  • Researchers and scientists working on functional materials
  • Start-ups developing polymer-based technologies
  • Industrial R&D teams and system integrators
  • Engineers exploring new material-driven design approaches

    📅 Date & Time: 27th January 2026 | 13:30–15:00 CET
    📍 Location: Online via MS Teams

    🔗 Register now and make sure your innovation doesn`t just stay in the lab – but reaches the market with full impact

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