The European Ceramic Society
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Germany
Institute of Energy and Climate Research: Materials Synthesis and Processing
We investigate and develop materials, parts, and components for highly efficient future energy conversion and storage systems.
Director : Prof. Dr. Olivier Guillon
Email : o.guillon@fz-juelich.de
Phone : +49 2461 61-5181
Address : Forschungszentrum Jülich, Wilhelm-Johnen-Str., 52425 Jülich
Website : http://www.fz-juelich.de/iek/iek-1/
Research topics :
- Materials for high temperature technologies
High-temperature materials, especially thermal and environmental barrier coatings for gas turbines deposited by thermal spraying and MAX-phase based materials (for power generation and aircraft engines)
Contact information:
Contact name : Prof. Dr. Robert Vaßen
Tel : +49 2461 61-6108
Email: r.vassen@fz-juelich.de
- Gas separation membranes
Gas separation membranes for oxygen and hydrogen production, including proof-of-concepts for gas supply and catalytic membrane reactors
Contact information:
Contact name : Prof. Dr. Wilhelm A. Meulenberg
Tel: +49 2461 61-6323
Email: w.a.meulenberg@fz-juelich.de
- Solid oxide cells
Solid Oxide Cells (high-temperature fuel and electrolysis cells), from materials development to cell manufacturing, performance increase and understanding of degradation.
CELLSSOLID OXIDE CELLSSOLID OXIDE CELLS.
Contact information:
Contact name : Hon.-Prof. Dr. Norbert H. Menzler
Tel: +49 2461 61-3059
Email: n.h.menzler@fz-juelich.de
- Electrochemical storage
Solid-state lithium and sodium batteries, from the development of electrolyte and active materials to the integration in full cells.
CELLSSOLID OXIDE CELLSSOLID OXIDE CELLS.
Contact information:
Contact name : Prof. Dr. Dina Fattakhova-Rohlfing
Tel: +49 2461 61-85051
Email: d.fattakhova@fz-juelich.de
Exceptional facilities :
- Powder synthesis and conditioning facilities from g to kg-scale
- Thirty different shaping, sintering and coating technologies in one building (going from PVD, ALD, to screen printing, dip and spin coating, tape casting, injection molding and many others)
- Jülich Coats: Specific wet coating technologies for electrochemical cells, including a unique 3-layer sequential tape casting machine
- Jülich Thermal Spray Center for functional, comprising axial injection atmospheric plasma spray, suspension plasma spray, advanced vacuum plasma spraying unit, kinetics cold spray, HVOF/HVAF technology, laser cladding unit, aerosol deposition
- Worldwide unique portfolio of field assisted sintering techniques (loading dilatometry, flash sintering, several complementary FAST/SPS devices)
- Membrane Center: new fabrication and testing facility for inorganic membranes, including clean room and permeation test benches
Financial support programmes :
- Basic program-oriented funding from the Helmholtz Association
- About 45-50 projects running simultaneously (DFG, BMBF, BMWi, etc.)
- Coordination of DFG priority program SPP1959 "Manipulation of matter controlled by electric and magnetic field: Towards novel synthesis and processing routes of inorganic materials" : Fields Matter
- Coordination of the BMBF competence cluster on oxide electrolytes for solid-state batteries : FestBatt
Last news
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)!
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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