The European Ceramic Society
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UK
Advanced Ceramics Research - Birmingham
Director : Prof Jon Binner
Email : j.binner@bham.ac.uk
Phone : +44(0)121 4145180
Address : School of Metallurgy & Materials University of Birmingham Edgbaston Birmingham, B15 2TT UK
Research topics :
- Research topics
Processing and properties of advanced ceramics and ceramic matrix composites
Prof. Jon Binner
+44 (0)121 414 5180
- Novel battery technologies and proof of concept device manufacturing.
Prof. Emma Kendrick
+44 (0)121 414 6730
- Ceramic electrolytes for solid- and semi-solid-state batteries.
Dr. Dominic Spencer-Jolly
+44 (0)121 414 5196
- Processing of suspensions and coating manufacture
Dr. Carl Reynolds
Exceptional facilities :
- Powder characterisation (composition, size, morphology)
- Suspension characterisation (rheology, zeta potential)
- Glovebox for non-oxide powder storage and work
- Wide range of ceramic green forming equipment, including 3D printing
- Range of furnaces, including controlled atmosphere
- Microwave- and RF-heated chemical vapour infiltration furnaces
- Hot isostatic press
- Optical and a very wide range of electron microscopes, including SEM, FEGSEM, TEM, FEGTEM, STEM, etc, EDS and WDS, EELS, etc.
- XRD, including a hot stage, and X-ray microcomputer tomography
- Purpose-built oxyacetylene & oxypropane torch testing facilities
- Synthesis reactors, furnaces, ball and jet mills for processing powders
- Reel to Reel coater, slot die, comma bar, mixing up to 1 litre
- Dry room and cell making equipment for coin and single layer pouch
- ~500 channels for electrochemical testing, EIS, CV.
- Mineral processing equipment, magnetic, electrostatic, eddy current and safety chamber (EUCAR 7 rated) facility. Cell cold storage unit.
- Grinding and polishing machines
- Glovebox with a hot-press and box furnace for preparation of sulfide ceramics and glass-ceramics
- Range of mixing and dispersion apparatus (up to Kg scale), including a Thinky mixer
Financial support programmes :
Funding from the European Commission, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC-UKRI), Faraday Institution, Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) programme, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL), US Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), US Army Research Office and a range of companies from start-ups to multinationals, including organisations such as BAE Systems and Rolls-Royce.
Any other relevant information :
Short description:
Research and education focused on the processing and properties of advanced ceramics and ceramics matrix composites for a very wide range of industries, including aerospace, communications, defence, energy generation, health and materials manufacture amongst many others.
Lead: Prof Jon Binner
+44-(0)121 4145180
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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