The European Ceramic Society
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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
Latest news
Next Deadline to apply to the JECS Trust is 31st May 2025
Please note that the decisions of the JECS Trust board will not be known before end of July 2025. Activities submitted for the deadline of 31st May 2025 for support from the JECS Trust should then not begin before August 2025.
12th March - International Day of Ceramics!
Dear Ceramic Community,
We are pleased to announce that March 12, 2025, marks the first-ever International Day of Ceramics!
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