Process, structure, and the properties of plastics, e.g. alignment of nano-sized reinforcements in polymers by using electromagnetic fields and heating of polymer composites with electromagnetic fields; nanoparticle-reinforced plastics, e.g. dispersion and coupling in a hosting polymer as well as processability, crystallization, and morphology development; tribology of (reinforced) polymers, e.g. modeling and simulation of the temperature, deformation, and wear behavior