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Research Team on Functional Ceramics
The interest of the working group is focused on the synthesis, processing and characterization of diverse electroceramics with special emphasis in advanced processing technologies leading to ceramic materials and/or devices with enhanced properties.
Director : Dr. Amador C. Caballero
Email : amador@icv.csic.es
Phone : +34 91 735 58 40
Address : Instituto de Ceramica y Vidrio, c/ Kelsen 5, Campus de Cantoblanco, 28049, Madrid
Website : www.funceramics.es
Research topics :
- Name: Soft-processing: Synthesis and processing of functional ceramics under sustainable
conditions
Contact information:
Contact name : Dr. Marco Peiteado
Tel : +34 91 735 58 40
Email: mpeiteado@icv.csic.es - Name: Multiferroics: Synthesis and characterization of functional ceramics exhibiting
multiferroic bahaviour.
Contact information:
Contact name : Dr. Teresa Jardiel
Tel : +34 91 735 58 40
Email: jardiel@icv.csic.es - Name: TiO2 based materials: Fabrication of TiO2 based materials with photocatalytic
properties.
Contact information:
Contact name : Dr. David G. Calatayud
Tel : +34 91 735 58 40
Email: dgcalatayud@icv.csic.es
Exceptional facilities :
- Mettler Toledo LabMax: A lab reactor that can be used to perform chemical reactions automatically. Allowing a quick development and optimization of new methods for preparative chemistry.
- Spin-Coater: To deposit uniform thin films to flat substrates.
- Screen-Printing: To transfer ink onto a substrate following a predefined pattern.
- Ethos One MW Furnance Milestone: The ETHOS UP is equipped with two 950 Watt magnetrons for a total of 1900 Watt making it the most powerful microwave digestion system available for sample preparation.
- MBraun Easylab Glovebox: High vacuum feedthroughs and an automatic regenerable oxygen and moisture single reactor column inert gas purification system that purifies the glovebox atmosphere to levels of less than 1 ppm oxygen and moisture, allow to work under clean and inert conditions.
Financial support programmes :
- European funding:
- Regional fundings:
- National fundings: Directed assembly of functional ceramics at the nanoscale: Phosphor materials and multiferroic systems (DAFCOM) (MAT2016-80182-R); Synthesis strategies for the obtaining of semiconductor oxide with nanoscale morphological control (SIMONA) (MAT2014-59210-JIN); Molecular recognition as the key to sustainable processing of electronic nanocomponents (MORENA) (MAT2014-61405-EXP); Sustainable processing of complex oxide-based nanoarchitectures (SCOBA) (MAT2013-40722-R)
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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!
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We are pleased to announce that March 12, 2025, marks the first-ever International Day of Ceramics!
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