Technical Ceramics Group

Protective coatings and multifunctional ceramic composites containing carbon nanostructures

Projects During The Last 5 Years

  • Title: Microstructural Modifications on Si-Based Ceramics for High Temperature Applications

       Financial entity: Spanish Ministry CICYT MAT2006-7118 

       Principal Investigator: Prof. M. I. Osendi 

       Execution time: 2007-2009

  • Title: Thermally Sprayed Environmental Barrier Coatings (EBCs) on Light Weight Silicon-Based Ceramics for the Next Generation of High Performance Gas Turbine Engines

       Financial entity: Collaboration Programme CSIC-NRC (National Research Council of Canada)

       Principal Investigator ICV: Prof. M. I. Osendi

       Foreign Leader: Dr. R. Lima, Industrial Materials Institute (IMI), Quebec (Canada)

       Execution time: 2007-2010

  • Title: Wear Behaviour of Silicon Nitride Materials with Modified Microstructures

       Financial entity: Spanish Ministry, MEC, German-Spain Bilateral Program HA2007-0083

       Principal Investigator: Dr. M. Belmonte Foreign Leader: Dr. J. Schneider, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany)

       Execution time: 2008-2009

  • Title: Fabrication of Spatially Complex Ceramic Microstructures using Spark Plasma Sintering

       Financial entity: Spanish Ministry MICINN, MAT2009-09600

       Principal Investigator: Prof. P. Miranzo Execution time: 2010-2012

  • Title: Carbon Nanotubes Growth on Silicon Nitride Substrates with Different Topographic Surfaces

       Financial entity: CSIC, Collaboration Programme between foreign institutions, I-LINK0119

       Principal Investigator: Dr. M. Belmonte 

       Foreign Leader: Prof. M. Terrones, Research Center for Exotic Nano Carbons,  Shinshu University (Japan)

       Execution time: 2011-2012

  • Title: Multifunctional Ceramic-Graphene Composites for Tribological Applications (TRIBOCERAGRAF)

       Financial entity: Spanish Ministry MINECO, MAT2012-32944

       Principal Investigator: Dr. M. Belmonte 

       Execution time: 2013-2015

  • Title: Nanostructured Environmental Barrier Coatings for C/C and SiC-C/C Composites (NANOPROT)

       Financial entity: Spanish Ministry MINECO, INNPACTO IPT-2012-0800-420000

       Collaborating Entity and leader: AERNNOVA ENGINEERING SOLUTIONS IBERICA SA

       Principal Investigator ICV: Prof. P. Miranzo

       Execution time: 2012-2015


NEWS

Drs Belmonte, Miranzo and Osendi gave corresponding talks in the Admat wokshop organized by the  Institute of Therm mechanics, ASCR, in Prague.


Cristina Ramirez will defend her PhD research work Materiales multifuncionales de Si3N4 con nanoestructuras reforzantes basadas en grafeno” on June 16th, at 12:00 in the ICV General Hall.


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Extraordinary toughening enhancement and flexural strength in Si"3N"4 composites using graphene sheets.


29-30 October: Dr. Hanus Seiner and Dr. Petr Sedlak, from the Institute of Thermomechanics (Prague, Czech Republic), visited us as part of the collaboration between our respective groups. Dr. Seiner and Dr. Sedlak are specialized in the determination of elastic constants and internal friction coefficients of advanced materials using the Resonant Ultrasound Spectroscopy (RUS).




July 2013: Dr. M. Belmonte will stay for 3 months in Prof. Terrones’ group at Research Center for Exotic Nano Carbons, Shinshu University (Japan) to develop hybrid graphene-ceramic materials for tribological and multifunctional applications


April 2013: New publication, Synthesis of conducting graphene/Si3N4 composites by spark plasma sintering. Carbon, 57 425–432 (2013)DOI.


October 2012: New patent, Procedure for obtainig ceramic granulated feedstock for thermal spraying apllications.