In recent years, it has become apparent that technical components not only have to fulfil more demanding mechanical-structural properties, but that different functions and functional groups also have to be integrated into a hybrid system. For this purpose, it is necessary to combine a wide variety of materials and to dissolve the usual separation between structural and functional materials. This poses a great challenge when the different materials only form their functional structures on different size scales in different processing methods. Typically, neither the materials nor the technologies are compatible with each other. Against this background, hybrid systems must be conventionally and sequentially manufactured from the different materials component by component. This is followed by the assembly of the system.
The aim of the presented work is to combine initially incompatible manufacturing processes to generate hybrid material systems that are characterised by the use of specific polymer materials on different length scales. This results in hybrid products for the first time that have a maximum degree of individualisation as well as a multitude of structural and functional features at the same time.