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
Next Deadline to apply to the JECS Trust for Mobility projects is 28th February 2026!
Please note that the decisions of the JECS Trust board will not be known before mid-April 2026. Activities submitted for the deadline of 28th February 2026 for support from the JECS Trust should then not begin before Mid-May 2026.
Obituary - Professor Athena Tsetsekou
The Greek Scientific Community mourns the loss of our dear colleague Professor Athena Tsetsekou (64), Professor at the National Technical University of Athens, at the School of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering, and President of the Hellenic Ceramic Society.
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