The European Ceramic Society
Laboratory sheet
France
Institut de recherche sur les céramiques
Understanding and control elaboration processes, and surface traitments, to produce ceramics components, layers… with specific, improved, reliable properties
Director : Dr Philippe THOMAS
Email : philippe.thomas@unilim.fr
Phone : +33 (0)5 87 50 23 10
Address : Centre Européen de la Céramique 12 rue Atlantis 87068 LIMOGES CEDEX
Website : http : //www.unilim.fr/spcts/
Research topics :
- Group 1 : Ceramic processes : ceramic powders, shaping processes and numerical fabrication, consolidation mechanisms
Contact information :
Dr. Fabrice ROSSIGNOL
+ 33 (0)5 87 50 24 14
- Group 2 : Plasma processes and lasers : thin films and nanostructures, sources and plasma processes, engineering of ceramic / metal assembly and plasma spraying
Contact information :
Prof. Corinne CHAMPEAUX
+33 (0)5 87 50 23 31
- Group 3 : Multi-scale structural organization of materials : structure / properties of complexes oxides, materials with controlled micro-nano structures
Contact information :
Dr. Philippe THOMAS
+33 (0)5 87 50 24 07
- Group 4 : Ceramics under environmental conditions : high temperature materials, bioceramics, mechanical and thermo-mechanical properties
Contact information :
Prof. Sylvie FOUCAUD
+33 (0)5 87 50 23 49
Exceptional facilities :
- Equipments of deposition (CVD, PECVD, PVD, PLD, LECBD, powder/suspension plasma spraying)
- Additive manufacturing : inkjet printing, (micro) stereolithography, aerosol deposition method
- Sintering : Under controlled atmosphere up to 2200°C, Hot Pressing, Hot Isostatic Pressing, Spark Plasma Sintering
- Many facilities of characterization of materials and plasma
- X-Ray diffraction / scattering
- 2 HRTEM (200 kV, EDS and STEM)
Financial support programmes :
- Regional, National (ANR, FUI, DGA, ADEME, CNRS…), European fundings
- Companies
Latest news
2026 ECerS International Ceramist Student Exchange Program – 1st call!
In the frame of the 2026 ECerS International Student exchange program, ECerS is opening a call to allow grants to European Students to attend the 50th ICACC (International Conference and Expo on Advanced Ceramics and Composites) that will be held from 25th to 30th January 2026 in Daytona Beach - Florida - United States!
Next Deadline to apply to the JECS Trust for Mobility projects is 30th November 2025!
Please note that the decisions of the JECS Trust board will not be known before mid-February 2026. Activities submitted for the deadline of 30th November 2025 for support from the JECS Trust should then not begin before Mid-March 2026.
Information
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Av. Gouverneur Cornez , 4
7000 Mons
Belgium