The European Ceramic Society

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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

Website : : http://emps.exeter.ac.uk/engineering/staff/sz268 ; http://emps.exeter.ac.uk/engineering/staff/yz329

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!

Sep 24, 2025
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.

Sep 8, 2025

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