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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 monica.ferraris@polito.it

University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (DE)

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini aldo.boccaccini@ww.uni-erlangen.de

CNRS - University of Rennes 1 (FR)

Dr. Catherine Boussard catherine.boussard@univ-rennes1.fr

University degli Studi di Padova (IT)

Dr. Enrico Bernardo enrico.bernardo@unipd.it

Institute of Physics of Materials (CZ)

Prof. Ivo Dlouhy idlouhy@ipm.cz

Element Materials Technology Hitchin Ltd (GB)

Dr. Rod Martin Rod.Martin@Element.com

Colorobbia Italia SpA (IT)

Dr. Giovanni Baldi baldig@colorobbia.it

Nanoforce Technology Ltd (GB)

Prof. Mike Reece m.j.reece@qmul.ac.uk

nLight Corporation (FI)

Dr. Laetitia Petit Laeticia.Petit@liekki.com

Nuova Ompi s.r.l. (IT)

Dr. Fabiano Nicoletti fabiano.nicoletti@stevanatogroup.com

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)

milena.salvo@polito.it