The European Ceramic Society
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Conditions Extrêmes et Matériaux : Haute Température et Irradiation
Director : Catherine Bessada
Email : Catherine.bessada@cnrs‐orleans.fr
Address : 1D, avenue de la Recherche Scientifique 45071 Orléans cedex 2
Research topics :
- Transparent (Glass) Ceramics & Refractory Ceramics
Contact information : Jacques Poirier
Jacques.poirier@univ-orleans.fr
- Oxide glasses : glass forming, crystallization - Mathieu Allix
- Refractory Materials : design and corrosion – Emmanuel de Bilbao
- Materials & Resonance : Conception, Characterization & Applications
Contact information: Michaël Deschamps
michael.deschamps@univ-orleans.fr
- Order and Desorder in Materials : an NMR Approach - Franck Fayon
- Structure and Dynamics : Materials for Energy and Molten Salts - Michaël Deschamps
- High Resolution Solid State and High Temperature NMR - Pierre Florian
- Nanoporous Materials for Energy and Environment - Conchi O. Ania
- Defects, Impurities, Radiotracers : Properties, Materials, Imaging
Contact information: Marie France Barthe
Marie-France.barthenrs-orleans.fr
- Nuclear Materials - Marie France Barthe
- Materials for Electronics - Esidor Ntsoenzok
- Isotopic and Radioactive tracers for Imaging - Isidro Da Silva
- Optics & thermics of Materials
Contact information: Patrick Simon
- Radiative and Transport Properties of Materials - Domingos De Sousa Meneses
- Disorder and Optical Properties - Patrick Simon
- Particle Beams Platform
Contact information: Thierry Sauvage
- Application of Ion Beams - Thierry Sauvage
- Accelerators Service - Thierry Sauvage
- NMR Platform
Contact information: Pierre Florian
pierre.florian@cnrs-orleans.fr
- High Temperature Platform
Contact information: Emmanuel Véron
Exceptional facilities :
- Typical High Temperature aerodynamic leviation experimental setup
- High Temperature environmental microscope
- Experimental setting for aerodynamic levitation combined with XRay synchrotron or neutron sources
- High temperature NMR setup associating CO2 laser heating and crucible or levitation device. Membre du TGIR RMN THC ‐ FR3050 (TGIR RMN)
- Infra Red & High Temperature emission Spectrometer
- Extreme conditions analysis devoted Raman Spectrometers
- Accélérateurs : Cyclotron, Van de Graaff, Positons (EMIR network)
Financial support programmes :
- European funding, National funding : ANR, Regional funding, Industrial funding
Latest news
2025 ECerS International Ceramist Student Exchange Program – 3rd call!
In the frame of the 2025 ECerS International Student exchange program, ECerS is opening a first call to allow grants to European Students to attend the 2025 International Symposium on Green Processing for Advanced Ceramics (IGPAC 2025), organised by the Ceramic Society of Japan, from 5th to 9th October 2025 in Ise-Shima/Mie, Japan.
Next Deadline to apply to the JECS Trust for Mobility projects is 31st August 2025!
Please note that the decisions of the JECS Trust board will not be known before end of October 2025. Activities submitted for the deadline of 31st August 2025 for support from the JECS Trust should then not begin before November 2025.
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