The European Ceramic Society
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Croatia
Laboratory for Engineering Ceramics - LEC
Research activities on characterization and manufacturing of functional and advanced ceramic materials, recycling of wastes
Director : Prof. Lidija Ćurković, PhD
Email : lidija.curkovic@fsb.unzg.hr
Phone : +385 1 61 68 113
Address : University of Zagreb, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture (FAMENA), Departmens of Materials, Ivana Lučića 1, 10002 Zagreb, Croatia
Website : www.fsb.unizg.hr
Research topics :
- Name: Fabrication and characterization of advanced ceramics for tribological and corrosion applications, conventional and nonconventional sintering of ceramics
Contact information:
Lidija Ćurković, Ph.D.
Tel : +385 1 61 68 183
Email: lidija.curkovic@fsb.unizg.hr
- Name: sol-gel, hydrothermal and microwave-assisted synthesis and application of TiO2 based nanomaterials in form of nano-powder and thin film: application in advanced oxidation processes
Contact information:
Contact name: Lidija Ćurković, Ph.D.
Tel : +385 1 61 68 183
Email: lidija.curkovic@fsb.unizg.hr
- Name: Ceramics foams: Fabrication and characterization of functional ceramics foams
Contact information:
Contact name: Lidija Ćurković, Ph.D.
Tel : +385 1 61 68 183
Email: lidija.curkovic@fsb.unizg.hr
- Name: Recycling of wastes: Study of by-products and ceramic waste as raw materials used for the preparation of ceramics
Contact information:
Contact name: Irena Žmak, Ph.D.
Tel : +385 1 61 68 320
Email: irena.zmak@fsb.hr
Exceptional facilities :
- Colloidal properties and rheology. Specific lab for shaping of ceramics using suspensions
- Mechanical characterization
- Furnaces for conventional and microwave sintering
- Microwave synthesis
- Friction and wear testing
Financial support programmes :
- European funding: YES (Joint PhD Laboratory for New Materials and Inventive Water Treatment Technologies. Harnessing resources effectively through innovation (NOWELTIES)“, project ID: 812880, funded under H-2020-MSCA-ITN 2018.) – Main researcher Lidija Ćurković
- Regional fundings: None (at this moment)
- National fundings: Monolithic and composite advanced ceramics for wear and corrosion protection – WECOR (Croatian Science Foundation, IP-2016-06-6000) – Project leader Lidija Ćurković
- Croatia-Slovenia coorporation in science and technology: “Properties of monolithic and composite advanced ceramics obtained by conventional and non-conventional sintering methods“ (supported by the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of the Republic of Croatia). - Project leader Lidija Ćurković
- The bilateral Croatian-Serbian scientific project: “Synthesis and photocatalytic properties of nanostructured materials based on TiO2” (supported by the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of the Republic of Croatia). - Project leader Lidija Ćurković
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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