Zoz Group, Germany
Prof. Dr. Henning Zoz, President & CEO

Biography: Prof. Dr. Henning Zoz is the CEO & President of Zoz Group.

Inventions/Expertise:
CMB-materials, cycle operation, NdFeB-magnetic filter system, Zentallium^®, Hydrolium^®, H2Tank2Go^®, High Performance Cement/Concrete and other. Numerous patents and trademarks, more than 50 papers, teaching at numerous universities and institutes all over the world. Due to his expertise in energy storage materials and energy storage, including integration and drives, Zoz became a prominent address, when it comes to cost-effective utilization of renewable energy sources for mobile and stationary applications (H2 Mobility, base-load capable CO2-free power plant).

Academia:
Chair Professor [2009-2014] and Assistant Professor [2015] at Ritsumeikan University;
Invited professor at CIITEC-IPN [s2004];
Doctoral Degree in Advanced Technology at summa cum laude [2008];

Memberships:
KPMI, FPM, DKG, DEV, PMAI, MPIF and other.
Zoz is one of the founders and main organizers of the OZ-German-Japanese Symposium on Nanostructures and a member of a number of program/advisory committees all over the world.

Other Functions:
Deputy Chairman of M-E-NES [2010/12-2016];
Third German board member (Siemens, Airbus, Zoz) of EUROGIA2020 (EUREKA) [2014-2016];
Implementation & Assessment Committee, Overseas Education Program at RITS [2008-2015];
Board member of “Nano in Germany” and NMWP (Nano-Micro-Materials-Photonic) [s2013];
Member of the Innovation Arena of the German Federal Office for Street-affairs (BAST) [s2013];
Member of the Mobility Experts Group [2011];

Awards:
Hydrogen & Energy Science Award 2019 (Incheon, South-Korea), [2019], EMPA, Switzerland;
Appointed Board Member (Kuratorium) of Desiderius-Erasmus-Foundation, [2018], Germany;
Appointed Full Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts [2018], Salzburg, Austria;
Nomination for the German Environmental Award [2013] “Power to Gas to Fuel”
PMAI-Fellow-Award [2013], India;
Innovation-Award-Sauerland [2012], Germany;
Ibero-American Silver-Award [2012], Mexico;
Manager of The Year [2011], South Westphalia, Germany;
Materialica-Award [2010], Germany;

About Zoz Group

Zoz Group manufactures and supplies Mechanical Process Engineering Equipment and manufactures and supplies with insofar own equipment Nanostructured Materials from powders, layers and bulk parts to magnetic filters, batteries, hydrogen-drives with H2-solid-state-absorber tanks incl. vehicles.
Affiliated companies serve E- and E-H2-mobility, entertain a ZEV-Auto-Fleet, maintain buildings and operate a public technology center and student’s dormitories, solar energy- fuelcell- and electrolyzing plants, a tour operator as well as sailing and aircraft operations.

Presentation Title: make more with less – Additive Manufacturing Process and Advanced Materials, HKP and Nanotun3D

Abstract

Additive (Layer) Manufacturing Process (AM, ALM) became an established and popular process in recent years. Precisely, this technology is as old as any general electric or gas welding technique. However, in today’s major understanding, a 3D-printing or 3D-printing-like process is the goal which insofar includes also net-shape forming with practically finished surface quality under fully automated and computerized control of materials flow. In fact this concludes and represents one of the political key drivers for so called Industry 4.0.
For the above, the potential number of candidates in functional materials is limited to those, that among other, provide powder or powder-in-slurry properties for a precise transfer into the “particle by particle” small forming focus of e. g. an ink-jet-head or to a corresponding thin layer powder bed. Thus particularly powder materials are required that provide a controlled fine and spherical shape and in dry utilization with a low adhesion/agglomeration tendency.
If it comes to HKP, this “High Kinetic Processing” technique represents the major route for reducing materials grainsize and nanostructural materials design in large volume at economic manufacturing and cost capability where the “nanostructure-making-equipment”, the Simoloyer^® is well-known including technology and key advantages.
This paper is seeking answers, if, how and to what extent, HKP-materials can be utilized in the AL/ALM-process since HKP most frequently results not in spherical but equiaxial and/or flattened particle shapes e. g. such as ductile metal flakes (DMF).
One example given is from the ongoing Nanotune3D-project (EU-H2020 grant agreement No. 685952) where a novel dispersion strengthened Ti-6Al-4V-0,5dps powder/bulk (PM2019) targets ALM for consolidation. Dispersoids (dps) are Y2O3, SiC and core-shell SiC@TiO2. Enroute, the nanostructured powder composites are “pre-consolidated” by HIP and HP and subsequently atomized by EIGA to be commercialized in SLM and EBM processing.

Other progress & vision from ODS/NFA as well as light-weight Al-CNT-composite (Zentallium^®) will be addressed. Also a still quite exotic and future application of high performance concrete (FuturZement|FuturBeton) at precisely adjusted setting time in a kind of macro-environment for printing houses on site in the construction field will be suggested. First ODS-product (PM2000) is available at Zoz since Mai 2019 !