The European Ceramic Society
Laboratory sheet
Italy
Dipartimento Politecnico di Ingegneria ed Architettura
Director :
Address : Via del Cotonificio 108 33100 Udine Italy
Research topics :
- Production and characterization of traditional ceramics: blends of the starting powders are made using also waste derived products.
- Advanced ceramics and composites for bones substitution: fabrication and characterization of ceramics and/or ceramic matrix composites starting from powders synthesis.
- Production and characterization of cement based materials containing waste derived products: preparation, curing and characterization after short, medium and long time aging of the monoliths containing cement, natural aggregate, additives and different amounts of waste derived products
- Production and characterization of geopolymers obtained by alkaline or acidic treatments: mixtures of metakaolin, sodium silicate and 8M sodium hydroxide solutions also containing waste derived products have been prepared and characterized in our laboratories; their performances were compared to waste free productions. Geopolymers were also prepared by mixing metakaolin and phosphoric acid solutions. The properties of the resulting materials were tested and the influence of the P/Si ratio on the performaces of the consolidated product were investigated.
Contact information:
Prof. Stefano Maschio
Tel: +39 432 558877
Exceptional facilities :
- Equippements for powders treatments and characterization (Laser particle size analyzers, Dynamic ligth scattering, X-ray diffraction, SEM);
- Equippements for sintering experiments up to 1700°C;
- Equippements for thermal analysis and dilatometric characterization;
- Equippements for FTIR and Raman investigations;
- Equippements for mixing and molding.
Financial support programmes :
- Regional fundings: FVG (Italy)
Latest news
2025 ECerS International Ceramist Student Exchange Program – 3rd call!
In the frame of the 2025 ECerS International Student exchange program, ECerS is opening a first call to allow grants to European Students to attend the 2025 International Symposium on Green Processing for Advanced Ceramics (IGPAC 2025), organised by the Ceramic Society of Japan, from 5th to 9th October 2025 in Ise-Shima/Mie, Japan.
Next Deadline to apply to the JECS Trust for Mobility projects is 31st August 2025!
Please note that the decisions of the JECS Trust board will not be known before end of October 2025. Activities submitted for the deadline of 31st August 2025 for support from the JECS Trust should then not begin before November 2025.
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