The European Ceramic Society
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UK
Advanced Ceramics Research - Birmingham
Director : Prof Jon Binner
Email : j.binner@bham.ac.uk
Phone : +44-(0)121 4145180
Address : School of Metallurgy & Materials University of Birmingham Edgbaston Birmingham, B15 2TT UK
Research topics :
- Processing and properties of advanced ceramics and ceramic matrix composites
Contact: Prof Jon Binner, j.binner@bham.ac.uk, +44 (0)121 414 5180
- Processing of structural and functional materials and products
Contact: Prof Stuart Blackburn (School of Chemical Engineering), s.blackburn@bham.ac.uk, +44 (0)121 414 3446
- Novel battery technologies and proof of concept device manufacturing.
Contact: Prof Emma Kendrick, e.kendrick@bham.ac.uk, +44 (0)121 414 6730
Exceptional facilities :
- Powder characterisation (composition, size, morphology)
- Suspension characterisation (rheology, zeta potential)
- Glovebox for non-oxide powder storage and work
- Wide range of ceramic green forming equipment, including 3D printing
- Range of furnaces, including controlled atmosphere
- Microwave- and RF-heated chemical vapour infiltration furnaces
- Hot isostatic press
- Optical and a very wide range of electron microscopes, including SEM, FEGSEM, TEM, FEGTEM, STEM, etc, EDS and WDS, EELS, etc.
- XRD, including a hot stage, and X-ray micro computer tomography
- Purpose-built oxyacetylene torch testing facility
- Grinding and polishing machines
Financial support programmes :
Funding from the European Commission, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC-UKRI), Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) programme, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL), US Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), US Army Research Office and a range of companies from start-ups to multinationals.
Any other relevant information :
Short description:
Research and education focused on the processing and properties of advanced ceramics and ceramics matrix composites for a very wide range of industries, including aerospace, communications, defence, energy generation, health and materials manufacture amongst many others.
Last news
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)!
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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