The European Ceramic Society
Laboratory sheet
Spain
Grupo Especializado de Materiales
Processing, characterization and additive manufacturing of ceramic parts and ceramic-based composites for structural and biomedical applications.
Director : Fernando Guiberteau Cabanillas
Email : guiberto@unex.es
Phone : 34 924 289530
Address : Escuela de Ingenierías Industriales. Universidad de Extremadura. Avenida de Elvas s/n 06006 BADAJOZ (SPAIN)
Website : https://gema-uex.es/
Research topics :
- Name: Fabrication and characterization of advanced ceramics (carbides, nitrides, borides
and oxides) for structural/tribological and high temperature applications.
Contact information:
Contact name : Angel L. Ortiz
Tel : +34 924289600 Ext:86726
Email: alortiz@unex.es - Name: Additive manufacturing (robocasting) of ceramic parts for structural and
biomedical applications.
Contact information:
Contact name : Pedro Miranda González
Tel : +34 924289300 Ext:86735
Email: pmiranda@unex.es - Name: Impregnation of porous ceramic preforms for the development of novel structural
and biomedical composites.
Contact information:
Contact name : Antonia Pajares Vicente
Tel : +34 924289300 Ext:86771
Email: apajares@unex.es - Name: Fracture mechanics and tribology at different length scales (from macro to nano).
Design of coated systems/thin films for tribological applications.
Contact information:
Contact name : Oscar Borrero-Lopez
Tel : +34 924289600-86753
Email: oborlop@unex.es
Exceptional facilities :
- Robocasting system for additive manufacturing of ceramic parts.
- Mechanical characterization lab (universal and hardness testing, tribometers, rheometer and nanoindenter) with possibility of high temperature testing.
- Graphite furnaces for spark-plasma, hot-pressing and pressureless sintering.
- Colloidal processing laboratory.
- X-ray thermodiffractometry, FE-ESEM/FIB with high-temperature and Peltier chambers, TEM, XPS, TOF-SIMS, etc.
Financial support programmes :
European funding:
Natural inorganic polymers and smart functionalized micro-units applied in customized rapid prototyping of bioactive scaffolds (“BIO-SCAFFOLDS”. NMP3-SL-2013-604036).
Regional fundings:
Mechanical optimization and in vitro characterization of robocast glass-ceramic scaffolds for bone regeneration (Gobierno de Extremadura - IB13007).
National fundings :
1) Fabrication of ultra-hard structural ceramics based on B4C with improved toughness for engineering applications. (Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad - MAT2016- 76638-R).
2) Development by robocasting and mechanical optimization of hybrid ceramic/polymer coaxial scaffolds for biomedical applications (Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad - MAT2015-64670-R).
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