The European Ceramic Society

YCN Representative - Austria

Abdullah Jabr

YCN Representative for the Autrian Ceramic Society

Chair of Structural and Functional Ceramics (ISFK), Department of Materials Science, Montanuniversitaet Leoben

abdullah.jabr@unileoben.ac.at 

 

        

     

     

Abdullah Jabr is a PhD candidate at the Chair of Structural and Functional Ceramics, Montanuniversitaet Leoben. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degree in materials science and engineering from the same university. He has specialized on ceramic materials during his master’s studies, where he focused on mechanical characterization, specifically investigating contact damage in ceramics and strategies to improve their resistance.

His current research interests include mechanical characterization and low-temperature processing of ceramics with focus on the cold sintering process (CSP). The CSP is a novel sintering technique that densifies various ceramics at temperatures below 350°C, in contrast to conventional sintering, which requires temperatures exceeding 1000°C. The process involves the addition of a chemically active transient liquid phase, enabling densification at low temperatures under externally applied pressure (hundreds of MPa). Due to its unprecedent low temperature densification, CSP opens new opportunities for grain boundary and composite designs with enhanced functionalities, combining ceramics with polymers, metals and even 2D materials. Although CSP has been successfully deployed for densifying a wide range of functional ceramics and composites, the structural integrity of cold sintered materials remains unexplored.

Abdullah’s goal is to understand the structural reliability of cold sintered materials under different loading and environmental conditions and compare their performance to conventionally sintered counterparts. His research focuses on investigating processing induced defects and finding strategies to avoid their occurrence, thereby enhancing the structural integrity of cold sintered materials. He is focusing on understanding chemical interactions during CSP and methods for scalable production, which is an important step towards accelerating the industrial implementation of the cold sintering process.

    

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Jul 4, 2024
ACerS is offering travelling grants of 1.500 $ to attend the two 2024 ECerS Summer Schools

The grants can be allowed to undergraduate, graduate, and Ph.D. students from non-European based universities. The 2024 ECerS Summer Schools will be held prior to Electroceramics XIX (Vilnius, Lithuania - School: 17-18 August 2024)  and Shaping 9 (Warsaw, Poland - School: 24-25 September 2024)!

Jun 27, 2024
2024 ECerS International Ceramist Student Exchange Program – 3rd call!

In the frame of the 2024 ECerS International Student exchange program, ECerS is opening a third call, this time to allow grants to European Students to attend the 2024 Fall meeting of Korean Ceramic Society (COEX) that will be organised by the Korean Ceramic Society in Seoul, Korea, from 16th to 18th October 2024.

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