The European Ceramic Society
Laboratory sheet
UK
Advanced Materials Laboratory
Studies on processing, microstructures and properties of structural and functional ceramic materials
Director : Shaowei Zhang & Yanqiu Zhu
Email : s.zhang@exeter.ac.uk ; y.zhu@exeter.ac.uk
Phone : +44 01392 725276 or +44 01392 723620
Address : College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Science, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QF, UK
Research topics :
- R & D of oxide and oxide-carbon refractory composites
Contact name : Shaowei Zhang
Tel : +44 1392 725276
Email: s.zhang@exeter.ac.uk
- Novel synthesis of 2D ceramics and quantum dots
Contact name : Shaowei Zhang
Tel : +44 1392 725276
Email: s.zhang@exeter.ac.uk
- Low temperature preparation of ceramic powders and coatings
Contact name : Shaowei Zhang
Tel : +44 1392 725276
Email: s.zhang@exeter.ac.uk
- Low temperature catalytic preparation of ceramics
Contact name : Shaowei Zhang
Tel : +44 1392 725276
Email: s.zhang@exeter.ac.uk
- Preparation and characterisation of porous ceramics
Contact name : Shaowei Zhang
Tel : +44 1392 725276
Email: s.zhang@exeter.ac.uk
- Nanofibre reinforced ceramic-matrix nanocomposites
Contact name : Yanqiu Zhu & Shaowei Zhang
Tel : +44 1392 723620
Email: y.zhu@exeter.ac.uk; s.zhang@exeter.ac.uk
- Fabrication and characterisation of ceramic nanofibers
Contact name : Yanqiu Zhu a& Shaowei Zhang
Tel : +44 1392 723620
Email: y.zhu@exeter.ac.uk; s.zhang@exeter.ac.uk
- Creation and application of 3D lightweight ceramic foams
Contact name : Yanqiu Zhu
Tel : +44 1392 723620
Email: y.zhu@exeter.ac.uk
- Design, synthesis and characterisation of novel nanostructured porous/functional materials for catalysis, and energy storage and conversion
Contact name : Yongde Xia
Tel : +44 01392 723683
Email: y.xia@exeter.ac.uk
Exceptional facilities :
- Hot-press and high temperature furnaces
- CVD furnaces
- Microstructural characterisation facility: XRD, FT-IR, UV/Vis, HRSEM/TEM, EDX, Raman, Micro-CT, and AFM
- Zeta potential analyser and BET
- Thermal analysis facility: TGA/DSC coupled with mass spectroscopy, dilatometer and thermal conductivity instrument
- Mechanical testing machines
Financial support programmes :
- National fundings : EPSRC, Royal Society, NERC
- European fundings : Horizon 2020
- Regional fundings : KTP, The Leverhulme Trust, and industrial fundings
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