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).

Last news

Jul 4, 2024
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)!

Jun 27, 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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