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Lucideon Group Limited
Lucideon is a development and commercialisation organisation, specialising in materials science, offering consultancy and testing to solve your materials-related challenges.
Director : Tony Kinsella
Email : query@lucideon.com
Phone : +44 (0)1785 331874
Address : Lucideon Limited, Queens Road, Penkhull, Stoke-on-Trent, ST4 7LQ
Website : https://www.lucideon.com
Research topics :
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High Entropy Ceramics
Thermal Barrier Coating Development
Transparent Ceramics
Ceramic Scintillator Development
Lunar Regolith Processing
Regulatory Approval of Bioceramics
Contact name : Dr Richard White
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Ultra-High Temperature Ceramic Development
Ceramic Matrix Composite Development
Nanocomposite Ceramic Armour
Contact name : Dr Robert Crookes
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Contact Flash Sintering:
Flash Sintering for MOX manufacture and plutonium disposition
Flash Sintering of non-oxides
Reactive Synthesis
Flash Bonding:
Ceramic / Ceramic and Metal/Ceramic
Contactless Flash Sintering:
Densification of films, coatings and surface sealing
Contact name : Dr David Pearmain / Dr Gareth Jones
Email: david.pearmain@uk.lucideon.com / gareth.jones@uk.lucideon.com
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Ceramic Additive Manufacturing
Geopolymer
Aluminium Phosphate
Ceramic Composites
Contact name : Dr Elliot Douse
Email: elliot.douse@uk.lucideon.com
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For other advanced ceramic material and processing interests, please contact:
Contact name : Tim Abbott
Email: tim.abbott@uk.lucideon.com
Exceptional facilities :
- Lucideon manages and hosts The AMRICC Centre, a pilot-scale development facility that focuses on the advanced ceramics manufacturing process. It serves as a Centre of Excellence for the development of advanced ceramic technologies. The capabilities range from:
- Modelling & Design - Accelerating material discovery through machine learning
- Raw Materials Processing – Milling; mixing; spray drying
- Forming – Ceramic AM; tape casting; gel casting; hot pressing
- Drying & Sintering – In air and inert atmosphere; up to 3000 C; polymer impregnation pyrolysis capabilities, Flash Sintering
- Characterisation – Thermo & mechanical testing capabilities
- Working from TRL 1-6, combining the extensive know-how from Lucideon and The AMRICC Centre facilities, this provides an opportunity for accelerating the commercialisation of innovative and disruptive advanced ceramic materials and process technologies.
Financial support programmes :
Regional fundings: The MICG Consortium was awarded an £18.3m Strength in Places Fund (SIPF) grant in October 2021 from UKRI (UK Research & Innovation), a non-departmental public body sponsored by the UK Government’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT). The funding was to finance a 5-year commercialisation programme for advanced ceramics as well as establish The AMRICC Centre. Lucideon manages the SIPF programme on behalf of the MICG Consortium and also hosts and manages The AMRICC Centre at its site in Stone in the UK.
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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