The European Ceramic Society
Laboratory sheet
Spain
Phase equilibrium diagrams
Director : Prof M Pilar Pena
Email : ppena@icv.csic.es
Phone : +34 91 735 58 40
Address : Instituto de Ceramica y Vidrio, c/ Kelsen 5, 28049, Madrid
Website : http://personal.icv.csic.es/grupoDEF/web_grupoDEF/group.html
Research topics :
- Theoretical and experimental studies of phase equilibrium diagrams of ceramic interest.
Contact name: Dr. Angel Caballero & Dr. Antonio H. de Aza
acaballero@icv.csic.es, aaza@icv.csic.es
Tel: +34-917355840 - High temperature reactions and physicochemical behavior of ceramics. Corrosion.
Contact name: Dr. Antonio H. de Aza & Dr. Angel Caballero
aaza@icv.csic.es, acaballero@icv.csic.es
Tel: +34-917355840 - Synthesis of powders and membranes development.
Contact name: Dr. M Angel Rodriguez
mar@icv.csic.es
- Tel: +34-917355840 - Microstructural analysis and 3D processing.
Contact name: Dr. M Antonia Sainz
masainz@icv.csic.es
- Tel: +34-917355840 - Thermomechanical behaviour of ceramics.
Contact name: Dr. Carmen Baudín
cbaudin@icv.csic.es
Tel: +34-917355840
Exceptional facilities :
- Full equipment for ceramic processing and characterization: http://www.icv.csic.es/en/node/110
- CALPHAD and FactSage programs.
- Room and high temperature mechanical characterization of ceramics, bulk (strength, toughness, elastic properties) and local (micro and nanoindentation), tribology.
- Combustion Synthesis facilities (High pressure SHSreactor).
Financial support programmes :
European funding:
Cost MP1301: “New Generation Biomimetic and Customized Implants for Bone
Engineering” NEWGEN
ERASMUS “European Ceramic Materials” EUCERMAT
Iberoamerican funding:
Bilateral programmes Brazil – Spain: “New Ceramics and Composites for Biomedical
Aplications”. Brasilian Goberment, “Ciência sem Fronteiras” program 401220/2014-1.
“Refractory concretes”, HOREF CYTED network
National funding:
“Multifunctional biomaterials for bone regeneration”
MAT2013-48426-C2-1-R
Regional funding: not presently
Industrial funding:
3 large on-going projects on material development.
Consultancy.
Any other relevant information :
Short description of the activities: application of the phase equilibrium diagrams to the synthesis, development and study of the behavior of ceramics. Phase equilibrium diagrams are applied to designing microstructures focusing properties, in particular specific physicochemical –hightemperature reactions and corrosion- and thermo-mechanical behaviours.
Materials:
Advanced structural oxide ceramics: single phase, ceramic matrix composites and layered.
Refractory bricks and monolithic refractories. Corrosion.
Biomaterials for bone substitution: alumina, alumina-zirconia, zirconia.
Biomaterials for bone regeneration: calcium phosphates, wollastonite, diopside, alkali-free bioactive glasses.
Bulk ceramics, porous ceramics and coatings.
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.
Information
Contact us for any information: info@ecers.org - We will respond to your inquiry as soon as possible.
ECerS office
Av. Gouverneur Cornez , 4
7000 Mons
Belgium