The European Ceramic Society
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Conditions Extrêmes et Matériaux : Haute Température et Irradiation
Director : Catherine Bessada
Email : Catherine.bessada@cnrs‐orleans.fr
Address : 1D, avenue de la Recherche Scientifique 45071 Orléans cedex 2
Research topics :
- Transparent (Glass) Ceramics & Refractory Ceramics
Contact information : Jacques Poirier
Jacques.poirier@univ-orleans.fr
- Oxide glasses : glass forming, crystallization - Mathieu Allix
- Refractory Materials : design and corrosion – Emmanuel de Bilbao
- Materials & Resonance : Conception, Characterization & Applications
Contact information: Michaël Deschamps
michael.deschamps@univ-orleans.fr
- Order and Desorder in Materials : an NMR Approach - Franck Fayon
- Structure and Dynamics : Materials for Energy and Molten Salts - Michaël Deschamps
- High Resolution Solid State and High Temperature NMR - Pierre Florian
- Nanoporous Materials for Energy and Environment - Conchi O. Ania
- Defects, Impurities, Radiotracers : Properties, Materials, Imaging
Contact information: Marie France Barthe
Marie-France.barthenrs-orleans.fr
- Nuclear Materials - Marie France Barthe
- Materials for Electronics - Esidor Ntsoenzok
- Isotopic and Radioactive tracers for Imaging - Isidro Da Silva
- Optics & thermics of Materials
Contact information: Patrick Simon
- Radiative and Transport Properties of Materials - Domingos De Sousa Meneses
- Disorder and Optical Properties - Patrick Simon
- Particle Beams Platform
Contact information: Thierry Sauvage
- Application of Ion Beams - Thierry Sauvage
- Accelerators Service - Thierry Sauvage
- NMR Platform
Contact information: Pierre Florian
pierre.florian@cnrs-orleans.fr
- High Temperature Platform
Contact information: Emmanuel Véron
Exceptional facilities :
- Typical High Temperature aerodynamic leviation experimental setup
- High Temperature environmental microscope
- Experimental setting for aerodynamic levitation combined with XRay synchrotron or neutron sources
- High temperature NMR setup associating CO2 laser heating and crucible or levitation device. Membre du TGIR RMN THC ‐ FR3050 (TGIR RMN)
- Infra Red & High Temperature emission Spectrometer
- Extreme conditions analysis devoted Raman Spectrometers
- Accélérateurs : Cyclotron, Van de Graaff, Positons (EMIR network)
Financial support programmes :
- European funding, National funding : ANR, Regional funding, Industrial funding
Latest news
Obituary - Professor Athena Tsetsekou
The Greek Scientific Community mourns the loss of our dear colleague Professor Athena Tsetsekou (64), Professor at the National Technical University of Athens, at the School of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering, and President of the Hellenic Ceramic Society.
2026 ECerS International Ceramist Student Exchange Program – 1st call!
In the frame of the 2026 ECerS International Student exchange program, ECerS is opening a call to allow grants to European Students to attend the 50th ICACC (International Conference and Expo on Advanced Ceramics and Composites) that will be held from 25th to 30th January 2026 in Daytona Beach - Florida - United States!
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