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
Latest news
2026 ECerS International Ceramist Student Exchange Program – 1st call!
In the frame of the 2026 ECerS International Student exchange program, ECerS is opening a call to allow grants to European Students to attend the 50th ICACC (International Conference and Expo on Advanced Ceramics and Composites) that will be held from 25th to 30th January 2026 in Daytona Beach - Florida - United States!
Next Deadline to apply to the JECS Trust for Mobility projects is 30th November 2025!
Please note that the decisions of the JECS Trust board will not be known before mid-February 2026. Activities submitted for the deadline of 30th November 2025 for support from the JECS Trust should then not begin before Mid-March 2026.
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