The European Ceramic Society
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Conditions Extrêmes et Matériaux : Haute Température et Irradiation
Director : Catherine Bessada
Email : Catherine.bessada@cnrs‐orleans.fr
Address : 1D, avenue de la Recherche Scientifique 45071 Orléans cedex 2
Research topics :
- Transparent (Glass) Ceramics & Refractory Ceramics
Contact information : Jacques Poirier
Jacques.poirier@univ-orleans.fr
- Oxide glasses : glass forming, crystallization - Mathieu Allix
- Refractory Materials : design and corrosion – Emmanuel de Bilbao
- Materials & Resonance : Conception, Characterization & Applications
Contact information: Michaël Deschamps
michael.deschamps@univ-orleans.fr
- Order and Desorder in Materials : an NMR Approach - Franck Fayon
- Structure and Dynamics : Materials for Energy and Molten Salts - Michaël Deschamps
- High Resolution Solid State and High Temperature NMR - Pierre Florian
- Nanoporous Materials for Energy and Environment - Conchi O. Ania
- Defects, Impurities, Radiotracers : Properties, Materials, Imaging
Contact information: Marie France Barthe
Marie-France.barthenrs-orleans.fr
- Nuclear Materials - Marie France Barthe
- Materials for Electronics - Esidor Ntsoenzok
- Isotopic and Radioactive tracers for Imaging - Isidro Da Silva
- Optics & thermics of Materials
Contact information: Patrick Simon
- Radiative and Transport Properties of Materials - Domingos De Sousa Meneses
- Disorder and Optical Properties - Patrick Simon
- Particle Beams Platform
Contact information: Thierry Sauvage
- Application of Ion Beams - Thierry Sauvage
- Accelerators Service - Thierry Sauvage
- NMR Platform
Contact information: Pierre Florian
pierre.florian@cnrs-orleans.fr
- High Temperature Platform
Contact information: Emmanuel Véron
Exceptional facilities :
- Typical High Temperature aerodynamic leviation experimental setup
- High Temperature environmental microscope
- Experimental setting for aerodynamic levitation combined with XRay synchrotron or neutron sources
- High temperature NMR setup associating CO2 laser heating and crucible or levitation device. Membre du TGIR RMN THC ‐ FR3050 (TGIR RMN)
- Infra Red & High Temperature emission Spectrometer
- Extreme conditions analysis devoted Raman Spectrometers
- Accélérateurs : Cyclotron, Van de Graaff, Positons (EMIR network)
Financial support programmes :
- European funding, National funding : ANR, Regional funding, Industrial funding
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