The European Ceramic Society

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UK

Loughborough University – Advanced Ceramics Research Group

Director : Prof. Bala Vaidhyanathan

Email : b.vaidhyanathan@lboro.ac.uk

Phone : +44-(0)1509 223152

Address : Department of Materials Loughborough University Loughborough, LE11 3TU, UK

Website : https://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/materials/staff/bala-vaidhyanathan/

Research topics :

  • Advanced Ceramics, Field Assisted Processing and Additive Manufacturing

Contact: Prof Bala Vaidhyanathan; b.vaidhyanathan@lboro.ac.uk ; +44-(0)1509 223152

  • Carbon/Ceramic Composites, Nuclear Materials, Armour Ceramics & Testing

Contact:    Dr Houzheng Wu; h.wu2@lboro.ac.uk ; +44-(0)1509 223342

  • Materials Chemistry and Nanomaterials

Contact:    Dr. Xujin Bao; x.bao@lboro.ac.uk ; +44-(0)1509 223150

  • Functional Ceramics and Energy Materials & Devices

Contact:    Dr Sina Saremi Yarahmadi; s.saremi@lboro.ac.uk ; +44-(0)1509 223189

  • Energy Materials, Non-equilibrium Processing, Ferroelectrics

Contact:    Dr Hongtao Zhang; h.zhang3@lboro.ac.uk ; +44-(0)1509 223541

  • Modelling of Glass and Ceramics; Biomedical Materials

Contact:    Dr Jamieson Christie; j.k.christie@lboro.ac.uk ; +44-(0)1509 223153

Exceptional facilities :

  • State-of-the-art ceramic characterisation tools at all length scales: FEGSEM, TEM, SEM with both heating and bias, FEGTEM, STEM, EDX and WDX, IR, Raman, HT-XRD etc.
  • Microwave, Hybrid, Flash and Cold Sintering furnaces for oxides and non-oxides
  • 3D printing of Ceramics with SLA/DLP/Jetting/Robocasting
  • BET Surface area, Malvern Particle analyser, Rheometers, Impact & Gas gun Testing
  • Glovebox for Battery fabrication, Impedance Spectroscopy, Battery stack testing
  • High frequency Dielectric Measurements up to 50 GHz
  • Iso-Pressing, Freeze Drier, Spray Drier, Tape/Slip/Slurry casting & Spin coating

Financial support programmes :

Funding from the EPSRC, Innovate UK, Advanced Propulsion Centre, MoD/DSTL, MBDA, Royal Society and various Industries from UK, USA, Ireland, Europe, and India.

Any other relevant information :

Creating the necessary scientific understanding and to provide innovative, interdisciplinary engineering solutions using better, simpler, and environmentally friendlier processing routes for advanced materials and devices with special emphasis on functional ceramics and digital manufacturing.

Latest news

New book by Prof. Suk-Joong Kang:

Prof. Kang is one of the foremost worldwide specialists in sintering and this book, presented as a series of questions and answers concerning sintering may be useful both to students of ceramics and also to teachers looking for questions to discuss with their students.

Nov 5, 2024
YCN Newsletter 23 - Brazil Capes Thesis Award and Flash (Sinter) Crystallization of Glass by Isabela Reis Lavagnini

We are proud to announce that Isabela Reis Lavagnini has been awarded the 2024 Capes Thesis Award for her outstanding work in Materials, titled "Flash Sintering of Zirconia, Hydroxyapatite, and Hydroxyapatite-Zirconia Composite." 

Oct 17, 2024

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