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.
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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