The European Ceramic Society

Laboratory sheet

Spain

Grupo Especializado de Materiales

Processing, characterization and additive manufacturing of ceramic parts and ceramic-based composites for structural and biomedical applications.

Director : Fernando Guiberteau Cabanillas

Email : guiberto@unex.es

Phone : 34 924 289530

Address : Escuela de Ingenierías Industriales. Universidad de Extremadura. Avenida de Elvas s/n 06006 BADAJOZ (SPAIN)

Website : https://gema-uex.es/

Research topics :

  • Name: Fabrication and characterization of advanced ceramics (carbides, nitrides, borides
    and oxides) for structural/tribological and high temperature applications.
    Contact information:
    Contact name : Angel L. Ortiz
    Tel : +34 924289600 Ext:86726
    Email: alortiz@unex.es
  • Name: Additive manufacturing (robocasting) of ceramic parts for structural and
    biomedical applications.
    Contact information:
    Contact name : Pedro Miranda González
    Tel : +34 924289300 Ext:86735
    Email: pmiranda@unex.es
  • Name: Impregnation of porous ceramic preforms for the development of novel structural
    and biomedical composites.
    Contact information:
    Contact name : Antonia Pajares Vicente
    Tel : +34 924289300 Ext:86771
    Email: apajares@unex.es
  • Name: Fracture mechanics and tribology at different length scales (from macro to nano).
    Design of coated systems/thin films for tribological applications.
    Contact information:
    Contact name : Oscar Borrero-Lopez
    Tel : +34 924289600-86753
    Email: oborlop@unex.es

Exceptional facilities :

  • Robocasting system for additive manufacturing of ceramic parts.
  • Mechanical characterization lab (universal and hardness testing, tribometers, rheometer and nanoindenter) with possibility of high temperature testing.
  • Graphite furnaces for spark-plasma, hot-pressing and pressureless sintering.
  • Colloidal processing laboratory.
  • X-ray thermodiffractometry, FE-ESEM/FIB with high-temperature and Peltier chambers, TEM, XPS, TOF-SIMS, etc.

Financial support programmes :

European funding:
Natural inorganic polymers and smart functionalized micro-units applied in customized rapid prototyping of bioactive scaffolds (“BIO-SCAFFOLDS”. NMP3-SL-2013-604036).

Regional fundings:
Mechanical optimization and in vitro characterization of robocast glass-ceramic scaffolds for bone regeneration (Gobierno de Extremadura - IB13007).

National fundings :
1) Fabrication of ultra-hard structural ceramics based on B4C with improved toughness for engineering applications. (Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad - MAT2016- 76638-R).
2) Development by robocasting and mechanical optimization of hybrid ceramic/polymer coaxial scaffolds for biomedical applications (Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad - MAT2015-64670-R).

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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