The European Ceramic Society
Laboratory sheet
Italy
DIMANT - University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Design of Innovative MAterials for New Technologies
Director :
Email : materiali@unimore.it
Phone : +39 059 2056177
Address : Dept. of Engineering "Enzo Ferrari" Via Vivarelli 10 41125 Modena
Website : http://www.materiali.unimore.it/ http://www.ing.unimore.it
Research topics :
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Raw Materials: exploitation, industrial treatments and processing, purification, characterization, applications in ceramics and other sectors, formulation of mixes of raw materials.
Contact information:
Prof. Tiziano MANFREDINI
Tel: +39-059 2056232
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Reology of ceramic suspensions: rheological characterisation and optimisation of ceramic suspensions and geopolymers, rheology of inks for ink-jet printers, rheology of glaze suspensions, modeling by DOE and ANN, rheology of ceramic powders
Contact information:
Prof Marcello ROMAGNOLI
Tel : +39-059 2056234
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Glass, glass-ceramics, glaze and enamels, traditional ceramics: formulation, preparation, characterization of glass, glass ceramics, enamels, glazes for ceramic tile and building materials industries. Cool roofs.
Contact information:
Prof. Cristina SILIGARDI
Tel: +33-327531669
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Microwave processing of ceramics: design of microwave applicators, drying, sintering, melting of ceramic and glass materials. Dielectric properties measurement. Nanoparticles synthesis.
Contact information:
Prof. Paolo VERONESI
Tel. +39-059 2056200
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Environment and Materials: Valorization of industrial waste in the design of new formulation for ceramic and glass ceramic materials.
Contact information:
Prof. Luisa BARBIERI
Tel. +39-059 2056231
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Life Cycle Assessment: environmental, social and economic assessment, ecodesign, resources management, energy efficiency, indoor and outdoor emissions, waste management and exploitation.
Contact information:
Prof. Anna Maria FERRARI
Tel. +39-0522-522244
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Geopolymers: formulation of geopolymers and cold setting alkali activated materials starting from natural raw materials, waste and by –product for application in building sector.
Contact information:
Dr. Isabella LANCELLOTTI
Tel. +39-059 2056251
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Biomaterials (bioceramics and bioglasses) and ceramic composites: design and testing (mechanical properties and in vitro tests) of new biomaterials; design and characterization of advanced ceramic composites; numerical modeling, FEM (finite elements method).
Contact information:
Prof. Valeria CANNILLO
Tel: +39-059 2056247
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Ceramic coatings: wear resistant thick coatings (oxide based), thin films coatings (nitrides, carbides...), low friction carbon-based thin films for tribological applications
Contact information:
Prof. Luca LUSVARGHI
Tel: +39-059 2056206
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Computer simulations of glass and ceramic materials: design and characterization of functionalized materials, structure and transport properties of crystalline oxides and glasses, defect analysis, bulk, surface and interface characterization, Statistical analysis: Design of Experiment, PLS and PCA.
Contact information:
Dr. Monia MONTORSI
Tel: +39-0522 522639
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Archaeometric studies on glass: reproduction and characterization of ancient glasses. Contact information:
Prof. Cristina LEONELLI
Tel. +39-059 2056247
Exceptional facilities :
- Wet and dry laser light particle size analyzer;
- Rheometers Haake RS 100 with cone-plate and plate-plate tools
- Rheometers Haake RS 1 with coaxial cylinder measurement geometry
- Zeta potential Zetasizer Nano range by Malverns
- KD2 Pro Thermal Properties Analyzer by Decagon Devices, Inc.
- PUNDIT Ultrasonic Pulse Velocity (UPV) instrument.
- High temperature DTA/DSC
- Heating microscope and optical dilatometer
- XRF
- XRD at room and high temperature
- Scratch tester
- Microwave applicators (2450 and 5800 GHz) for ceramic processing
- Microwave reactor for ceramic nanopowder synthesis
- Vector network analyzer + dielectric probe kit for permittivity measurements up to 3 GHz
- SimaPro 8.0.4; EcoInvent database, LCA UNIMORE database
Financial support programmes :
- EU fundings: LIFE+ projects: 2010-2015, FP7-NMP
- Regional fundings: PRRIITT, Legge Regionale 7 Emilia
- National fundings : Industria 2015, PRIN projects, Bilateral projects Italy-Egypt, Italy- Korea; CNR-PAR II
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