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Discover the future of functionalized surfaces with our bio-inspired laser textures. Suitable for the automotive industry, aerospace, medical technology and much more.

We would like to thank Fusion Bionic for the excellent cooperation and support in integrating their CORE solution based on Direct Laser Interference Patterning into our GL.evo machine. It's great that new innovative solutions are coming onto the photonics market in such a short time.

We are excited to extend the capabilities of our Applied Photonics Center towards the micron and sub-micron scale by adding Fusion Bionic's CORE solution based on their DLIP technology. This enables us to set new standards in the research field of laser micromachining.

Fusion Bionic has great and exciting technology that will help us solve future product challenges related to material surfaces. They are also a great team and a lot of fun to work with.

Nature has already optimized functional surface textures over millions of years of evolution, and Fusion Bionic's cutting-edge laser technologies now enable us to replicate these textures at scale. We are proud to support Fusion Bionic!

Inspired by nature

After 10 years of joint and intensive cooperation between the Fraunhofer Institute for Material and Beam Technology IWS and the Technical University of Dresden, we offer a unique solution to improve the surface performance of products, applications and components using our new standard: DLIP - Direct Laser Interference Patterning.

Our engineered solution is inspired by natural surfaces such as the lotus leaf, sharkskin, collembola and morpho butterfly, which allows for advanced surface features such as self-cleaning, anti-icing, antibacterial, decoration, drag reduction and more. We transfer these diverse effects to technical surfaces through laser-based surface functionalization.

Industrial applications

Aerospace

The use of laser-based functional surfaces can lead to numerous advantages and cost savings in the aerospace industry. These include improved anti-icing behavior, reduced energy consumption for de-icing and reduced noise pollution.

Instead of coating or foiling surfaces as before, functional microstructures can be textured directly into the surface using a laser.

In this way, time-consuming maintenance work and expensive new purchases can be avoided.

Automotive industry

There are numerous savings and improvement potentials in the automotive industry.

Reduced friction between surfaces, reduced wear, longer lubricant life, or reduced contact resistance between electrical connectors are just some of the benefits of our DLIP method.

This means that established, cost-intensive or complex process steps can be partially replaced.

Medical technology

There is huge potential in medical technology.

Healing times, quality of life and well-being can be decisively improved through improved biocompatibility of implants, tailor-made wettability, non-stick effects and antibacterial functionalities.

In addition, the surface improvement of medical components reduces costs in the long term.

More applications

Our functionalized surfaces are also widely used in other areas such as energy generation, production processes and in the consumer sector.

The topics of glass finishing, cost reduction in mechanical manufacturing processes, resistance to environmental influences and increased performance of energy systems play a major role here.

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CORE series

Highly flexible interference modules

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CORErapid Series

Scanner-based interference modules

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COREultra Series

Highly flexible interference modules

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Let's develop your full potential together!

Founder

As a spin-off of the Fraunhofer IWS, we founded Fusion Bionic GmbH in April 2021 with a team from science and industry.

With more than 20 years of experience in using advanced laser technologies, we are redesigning the performance of numerous products.

We draw on unique expertise consisting of surface know-how, sophisticated system technology and the passion to get the most out of every surface.

Fusion Bionic stands for the combination of nature-inspired effects in technical product surfaces. Following the example of bionics, we create a symbiosis of technology and biology.