News 2024

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)!

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.

Letter from Nicolas Somers, YCN Committee Member

YCN Workshop 2024 short report from Marija Kovač from the participant's point of view

yCAM 2024 short report from the yCAM Committee from the organizer's point of view

yCAM 2024 - Short report from Sarah Nistler from the participant's point of view

yCAM 2024 - Short report from Valeria Diamanti from the participant's point of view

yCAM in the land of thousands of lakes - Short report from Nonna Nurmi from the local organizer's point of view

Rapid debinding and sintering of additively manufactured components by Subhadip Bhandari

The ECerS Bioceramics Network is delighted to announce the winners of the 1st Bioceramics Student Speech Contest, which took place online from 17 to 18 April 2024!

In the frame of the 2024 ECerS International Student exchange program, ECerS is opening a second call to allow grants to European Students to attend the 1st Brazilian Meeting on Ceramic Additive Manufacturing (CeramicAM Brasil) that will be organised by the University of São Paulo in collaboration with the Brazilian Ceramic Society from 19th to 20th September 2024.

Please note that the decisions of the JECS Trust board will not be known before end of July 2024. Activities submitted for the deadline of 31st May 2024 for support from the JECS Trust should then not begin before mid-August 2024.

Interview of Dr. Stefan Pfeiffer Managing Director of the Deutsche Keramische Gesellschaft (DKG) and former YCN representative

Metal Matrix Composites and Ultra-High Temperature Ceramics obtained by Spark Plasma Sintering

3D Printing Technology for Process Intensification in Chemical Engineering

Bismuth ferrite purity and morphology control through a highly reproduceable process

The ECerS secretariat received 42 applications on the deadline of 26th February 2024 and after analyse of the Jury, 18 candidates were selected instead of the 15 initially announced!

Since first January 2024, the Editor in Chief of the Journal of the European Ceramic Society, JECS, is Prof. Jérôme Chevalier, from INSA Lyon, France.

My Clay Path: A Journey as a YCN Representative for India

Colloidal processing as a tool to obtain ceramic-metal nanocomposites

Synthesis, processing and characterization of high-entropy spinel oxides

Sadly, The European Ceramic Society has lost an esteemed member – Prof. Günter Petzow died on February 4, 2024, at the age of 97. He was an emeritus director of the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Metals Research (now MPI for Intelligent Systems) and a professor at the University of Stuttgart and the Technical University Berlin.