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
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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