• Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Technologies (Solar thermal, PV, Wind power)
• Global and regional water supply (Plastics pipes and systems)
• Polymeric materials based on renewable resources and bio-based polymeric materials
• Material and performance oriented life cycles analysis

What is the aim of Polymer Engineering by WAK? (German only), opens an external URL in a new window

• Various combinations of mechanical, thermal, optical, electrical and acustical properties as well as transport/barrier properties
• Physical and technological characterization of material properties (specimen level) and performance properties (component level)

• Deformation and failure behavior of plastics and composites
• Impact, long-term, and fatigue behavior (pure mechanical loading or combinations with external effects)
• Conventional mechanics, fracture mechanics and micro-mechanics
• Superimposed thermal & environmental loading (ESC) and aging
• Material laws, failure criteria and life-time modeling

• Focus on polyolefins and polyolefin-compounds (PE, PP), composites and elastomers
• Investigations as to the inner material structure utilizing microscopic, spectroscopic and thermo-analytical methods (nano/meso/micro/macro scale)
• Physical and technological characterisation of material and performance properties for service-relevant conditions also accounting for material aging (laboratory specimen level and semi-finished component level)
• Aging behavior, mechanisms and kinetics, and life-time modeling

Lang R., Wallner G.:
SCOOP - Solar Collectors made of Polymers, 2011 - 2015
Website: SCOOP, opens an external URL in a new window

Wallner G.:
FILD-PV, 2024 - 2027

Wallner G.:
IEA ES Task 45 GWS, 2024 - 2027

Fischer J.:
Next-Gen PCR-PO, 2023 - 2024

Fischer J.:
CHASE IPMT FP2, 2023 - 2027
Website: Area 3 Circular Process Streams, opens an external URL in a new window

Wallner G.:
Adios Rivet, 2023 - 2026

Wallner G.:
New Materials for Biochips Year 3, 2023 - 2024

Wallner G.:
SolPol-6, 2023 - 2025

Wallner G.:
IEA SHC Task 69 Solar Hot Water for 2030, 2022 - 2025
Website: https://task69.iea-shc.org/, opens an external URL in a new window

Fischer J.:
rPS4FoodPackaging, 2022 - 2025

Fischer J.:
Next-Gen PCR-PO, 2022 - 2023

Lang R., Fischer J.:
circPLAST-mr, 2022 - 2026
Website: https://www.jku.at/linz-institute-of-technology/das-lit/mechanisches-recycling-von-kunststoffen-circplast-mr/ (German only)

Wallner G.:
Sol4City Phase II, 2022 - 2024
Website: https://nachhaltigwirtschaften.at/de/sdz/projekte/sol4city.php, opens an external URL in a new window

Wallner G.:
New Materials for Biochips Year 2, 2022 - 2023

Fischer J.:
FolienKreislauf2030, 2021 - 2024
Website: https://projekte.ffg.at/projekt/4141488, opens an external URL in a new window

Wallner G.:
New Materials for Biochips, 2021 - 2022

Wallner G.:
IEA ECES Annex 39, 2020 - 2023
Website: https://iea-eces.org/annex-39/, opens an external URL in a new window

Lang R., Wallner G.:
Sol4City, 2020 - 2021
Website: https://nachhaltigwirtschaften.at/de/sdz/projekte/sol4city.php, opens an external URL in a new window

Lang R., Wallner G.:
giga_TES, 2018 - 2020
Website: gigaTES, opens an external URL in a new window

Lang R., Fischer J.:
CHASE_JKU IPMT, 2019 - 2023
Website: Area 3 Circular Process Streams, opens an external URL in a new window

Wallner G.:
IEA SHC Task54: Preisreduktion thermischer Solaranlagen, 2015 - 2018
Website: SHC Task 54, opens an external URL in a new window

Fischer J., Lang R., Wallner G.:
Solar-thermal Systems based on Polymeric Materials: Novel Pumped and Non-Pumped Collector Systems (SolPol-4/5), 2014 - 2018
Website: SolPol-4/5, opens an external URL in a new window

Lang R., Wallner G.:
Photovoltaik-Recycling (PV-R), 2013 - 2015

Wallner G.:
MidTempColl, 2012 - 2015

Lang R., Wallner G.:
Content Loading, 2011

Aigner M., Barroso V., Brandstetter T., Brüggemann O., Buchberger W., Eder G., Fischer J., Hartl A., Hild S., Hiptmair F., Kneidinger C., Lang R., Major Z., Miethlinger J., Paulik C., Reiter M., Schausberger A., Schobermayr H., Schöffl P., Steinbichler G., Straka K., Wallner G.:
APMT - Advanced Polymeric Materials and Process Technologies, 2010 - 2014
Website: APMT, opens an external URL in a new window

Hader-Kregl L., Hassel A., Hild S., Kadner B., Lang R., Schobermayr H., Schöfberger K., Voith M., Wallner G.:
SteelCoatingDesign - IPMT, 2010 - 2012

Lang R.:
K1-WOOD: Natural Fiber PP-Composites, 2010

Fischer J.:
Future Energy Lab Projekt SynERecy, 2020 - 2021
LIT Future Energy Lab

Wallner G.:
IM HP plast, 2016 - 2017

Lang R., Major Z., Miethlinger J., Steinbichler G.:
Kunststofftechnik Borealis II, 2013

Lang R.:
Innovative Energietechnologien, 2012 - 2014

Wallner G.:
Photovoltaik-Recycling (PV-R), 2012 - 2013

Lang R., Major Z., Miethlinger J., Steinbichler G.:
Kunststofftechnik Borealis II, 2012

Lang R., Wallner G.:
IEA SHC Task39: Polymerwerkstoffe, 2011 - 2014

Lang R., Major Z., Miethlinger J., Steinbichler G.:
Kunststofftechnik Borealis II, 2011

Lang R., Wallner G.:
IEA PVPS, 2010 - 2012

Lang R., Major Z., Miethlinger J., Steinbichler G.:
Kunststofftechnik Borealis II, 2010

Wallner G.:
INTEGRATE 2, 2021 - 2023
Website: Energy Technology Development and Demonstration Program, opens an external URL in a new window , opens an external URL in a new window

Lang R., Wallner G., Fischer J.:
UniNEtZ - Universitäten und nachhaltige Entwicklungsziele, 2019 - 2021
Websites: UniNEtZ; , opens an external URL in a new windowThe Sustainable Development Goals 2030, opens an external URL in a new window

Fischer J.:
LIT Factory - Recycling, 2019 - 2022
Website: LIT Factory - Recycling, opens an external URL in a new window

Buchberger W., Fischer A., Fischer J., Grabmayer K., Lang R., Schobermayr H., Wallner G.:
Solar-elektrische Systeme aus Polymerwerkstoffen: Neuartige polymere Einkapselungsmaterialien für Photovoltaik-Module (SolPol-3), 2011 - 2014
Website: SolPol-3, opens an external URL in a new window

Beer S., Bretterbauer K., Brüggemann O., Buchberger W., Fischer A., Fischer J., Grabmayer K., Kicker H., Lang R., Paulik C., Povacz M., Schobermayr H., Steinbichler G., Stricker M., Wallner G.:
Solarthermische Systeme aus Polymerwerkstoffen – Teil 2 (SolPol-2), 2010 - 2013
Website: SolPol-2, opens an external URL in a new window

Lang R., Wallner G.:
Projekt Energy Transition, 2010

Buchberger W., Fischer A., Fischer J., Grabmayer K., Kicker H., Lang R., Schobermayr H., Wallner G.:
Solarthermische Systeme aus Polymerwerkstoffen - Teil 1 (SolPol-1), 2009 - 2013
Website: SolPol-1, opens an external URL in a new window

Wallner G.:
Compounding and testing of PA+GB, 2024 - 2026

Wallner G.:
Mechanische Charakterisierung - Serie 10, 2023 - 2025

Wallner G.:
Materialcharakterisierung - Serie 4, 2023 - 2024

Wallner G.:
Alterung von 6 Lichtleitermaterialien, 2023 - 2025

Fischer J.:
Untersuchung von Fluorpolymeren für Anlagen zum chemischen Recycling von Kunststoffen, 2023

Wallner G.:
Mechanische Charakterisierung - Serie 9, 2023 - 2024

Wallner G.:
Mechanische Charakterisierung - Serie 8, 2022 - 2024

Wallner G.:
Alterung von Lichtleitermaterialien, 2022 - 2023

Wallner G.:
Alterung und optische Vermessung von Lichtleitermaterialien, 2022 - 2023

Wallner G.:
Mechanische Charakterisierung - Serie 7, 2022 - 2023

Wallner G.:
Prüfung von Strukturklebern, 2021 - 2023

Wallner G.:
Zugprüfung von Hybridlaminaten, 2021 - 2023

Lang R., Fischer J.:
Polyolefin Recycling, 2018 - 2022

Wallner G.:
CDL-AgePol, 2020 - 2027
Website: https://www.cdg.ac.at/en/research-units/labor/alterung-von-polymerlaminaten-bei-mechanischer-beanspruchung-und-umgebungseinwirkung, opens an external URL in a new window; https://agepol.jku.at/, opens an external URL in a new window