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Place of Birth: Hof, Bavaria, Germany
About Jürgen Rödel
- Jürgen Rödel (born September 17, 1958 in Hof) is a German materials scientist and professor of non-metallic inorganic materials at the Technische Universität Darmstadt. He is particularly well known for his fundamental and pioneering work on the mechanical and functional properties of ceramics.
- This includes his research work on the sintering behaviour of ceramics and the development of lead-free piezoceramics.
- Until then, lead-free piezo materials were considered impossible.
- Through meticulous research, he found the first lead-free systems with "Giant" elongation.
- In 2008, he received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, the highest award for German researchers, for his contributions to the development of ferroelectric functional ceramics, new lead-free piezoelectric ceramics and novel gradient materials.
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