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Glass and Ceramic Composites for High
Technology Applications (GlaCERCo)
Marie Curie Initial Training Network (ITN)www.glacerco.eu
5 Academic Partners, 5 Companies,
17 Early Stage Researchers, 6 Experienced Researchers
GlaCERCo-ITN objectives• to develop advanced knowledge of glass
based materials and to establish innovative,cost-competitive and environmentally
acceptable materials and processing
technologies.
• To offer multidisciplinary training in the field of
high-tech glasses and composites, in close
contact with companies and universities.
• To strengthen and structure initial training of
early stage and experienced researchers
(ESRs/ERs) in materials science at a European
level.
• To attract students to scientific careers.
• To provide trained researchers with the
necessary skills to work in industry.
• To improve career prospects.
GlaCERCo training-through-research
New high-tech glass-based materials (glasses,
glass-ceramics, glass and glass-ceramic
composites and fibres) are themselves an
emerging supra-disciplinary field: expertise of
these new materials brings competitiveness in
strategic fields, such as
medicine (bioactive glasses as bone
replacement and drug delivery systems),telecommunications (glass devices for broad-
band applications),
photonics (glass based photonic sensors),
clean energy (Solid Oxide Fuel Cells glass
sealants, thermoelectric materials),
waste management (vitrification and reuse of
wastes),
oil & gas and petrochemical industries (glassreinforced polymer pipes).
GlaCERCo partners [scientists in charge]
Politecnico di Torino (IT)
Project coordinator: Prof. Monica Ferraris [email protected]
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (DE)
Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini [email protected]
CNRS - University of Rennes 1 (FR)
Dr. Catherine Boussard [email protected]
University degli Studi di Padova (IT)
Dr. Enrico Bernardo [email protected]
Institute of Physics of Materials (CZ)
Prof. Ivo Dlouhy [email protected]
Element Materials Technology Hitchin Ltd (GB)
Dr. Rod Martin [email protected]
Colorobbia Italia SpA (IT)
Dr. Giovanni Baldi [email protected]
Nanoforce Technology Ltd (GB)
Prof. Mike Reece [email protected]
nLight Corporation (FI)
Dr. Laetitia Petit [email protected]
Nuova Ompi s.r.l. (IT)
Dr. Fabiano Nicoletti [email protected]
The research leading to these results has received funding from the European
Union’s Seventh Framework Programme managed by REA-Research
Executive Agency http://ec.europa.eu/research/rea and it participates in a
Marie Curie Action (GlaCERCo GA 264526).
Vitrification and reuse of waste
Vitrification and reuse of several types of waste(e.g. municipal waste incinerator bottom ash,
biomass ash, air pollution control residues, etc.
and combination of them) and investigation of
the reuse of the so obtained glasses and glass-
ceramics as raw material for the manufacturing
of building materials.
GlaCERCo ESRs developed new porous glass-ceramic insulation materials from waste with
properties comparable to commercial products,
with novel processes (Patent application, 2013).
The obtainment of foams or lightweight tiles was
accompanied by the stabilization of pollutants.
Design, synthesis and
characterisation of advanced composites
Composite materials are fast becoming amaterial of choice for several industrial
applications (such as gas & oil petrochemical
industry, armour applications, etc.) because of
their excellent resistance to aggressive
chemicals, their low specific weight and stiffness
and potential lower cost. GlaCERCo ESRs/ERs are
developing and characterising new advanced
composites with improved mechanical andcorrosion resistance properties. Smart coatings
and numerical modelling of through thickness
degradation of glass fibre reinforced composite
in ultra-hostile environment are under
development.
The reinforcements studied include glass fibres,carbon nanotubes, boron nitride nanotubes and
graphene.
BN Nano-Tubes bridging in
borosilicate glass with 5% BNNT
Al2O3- 5vol% graphenesample showing graphene
pull out.
Special glasses for photonic
devices and thermoelectric applications.
The material preparation routes include
conventional glass preparation by a melt-
quenching technique, but also advanced glass
processing: glass drawing by rod-in-tube or
capillary methods, direct laser writing of
waveguides on glass, elaboration of amorphousthin films by magnetron RF sputtering of glassy
targets.
Borosilicate glasses for 1.5 µm lasers with
improved emission properties and reduced
power losses have been developed by
GlaCERCo ESRs.
Easy-to-draw new telluride glass fibres presenting
low attenuation factors at 10 µm for optical
sensing were fabricated.
Stable telluride glass for thermoelectric
applications exhibiting a low resistivity and a high
stability were obtained.
New glasses suitable for
medical applications
Development of glass-based biomaterials for
drug release (mesoporous bioactive glasses,
microcellular ceramics, composite coatings) and
bone substitution (i.e. glass and glass-ceramic
macroporous scaffolds, fibre reinforced
composite scaffolds) and arthoprosthesis (i.e.bioactive glasses and composites). The
innovative glass, glass-ceramic and compositecoatings and scaffolds developed by the
GlaCERCo researchers show improved
mechanical properties and bioactivity with very
good prospects for their further exploitation.
Joining and coating of different
materials
Self-healing, multi-layered coatings and
innovative joining materials are designed for
specific applications (e.g. nuclear applications,bioactive scaffolds and implants, solid oxide fuel
cells, petrochemical industry). The coating and
joining materials are prepared and applied by
slurry methods, colloidal processing including
electrophoretic deposition of nanoparticles,
sputtering or Spark Plasma Sintering. Customised
mechanical tests for joined structures are under
development.
Shear strength
evaluation: torsion test.
Crofer22APU/
sealant/Crofer22APU
Politecnico di Torino
& University of Padova
NANOFORCE COLOROBBIA
ELEMENT
ELEMENT
CNRS – Univ. of Rennes 1
IPM
NANOFORCE
POLITO
Politecnico di Torino
Politecnico di Torino
SiC
SiC
Politecnico di Torino
Politecnico di Torino
NANOFORCE
Politecnico di Torino
CNRS
ELEMENT
Politecnico di Torino
University of Padova
WP1
WP2
WP4
WP5
WP3
Glass and glass-ceramic foams from recycled glass
& Fe-rich glass or Fe-rich metallurgical slag
WP leader: University of Padova (E. Bernardo)
WP leader: Institute of Physics and Materials (I. Dlouhy)
WP leader: Univ. of Erlangen-Nuremberg (A.R. Boccaccini)
WP leader: CNRS - Univ. of Rennes 1 (C. Boussard)
WP leader: Politecnico di Torino (M. Salvo, M. Ferraris)