Prof. Paolo Colombo
- Large scale additive manufacturing (3DP) of ceramic and glass components from waste materials (with company partnership) – research activity to be carried out at UNIPD
- Light-assisted additive manufacturing of glass (with foreign company partnership) – research activity to be carried out at UNIPD
- Additive manufacturing (DIW) of catalytic ceramic substrates for gas adsorption (with company partnership) – research activity to be carried out at UNIPD
- Additive manufacturing (DIW) of ceramic matrix composites (with foreign company partnership) – research activity to be carried out at UNIPD
- Ceramic-based components for brakes (with company partnership) – research activity to be carried out at UNIPD
- Production of fibre-reinforced geopolymer-based composites – research activity to be carried out at partnered company (Piove di Sacco)
- Gas adsorption on ceramic components produced by additive manufacturing – research activity to be carried out at partnered company (Pordenone)
- Study of devitrification phenomenons on commercial glasses – research activity to be carried out at the Stazione Sperimentale del Vetro (Murano)
- Control on glass cullet for the production of glass containers – research activity to be carried out at Verallia Group (Vicenza)
- Additive manufacturing and characterization of ceramic components for supercapacitors (with Kansas State University partnership) – research activity to be carried out at UNIPD and KSU (summer)
Prof. Enrico Bernardo
- Multifunctional cellular glasses and glass-ceramics from the reuse of industrial waste
- Innovative glass-ceramic materials from inorganic polymerization of mixtures including waste glasses
- Glass-ceramic foams, from preceramic polymers containing nano-metric or sinter-crystallization fillers
- Bioactive glass-ceramic materials from preceramic polymers containing micro- and nano-metric inorganic fillers
- Inorganic phosphors for LED applications from preceramic polymers containing nano-metric inorganic fillers (i.e. Mn: Ca2Al2SiO7, Eu: and Ce: Y-Si-O-N)
– all research activities to be carried out at UNIPD
Prof. Lisa Biasetto
- Pellets development for multi-materials 3D printing (in collaboration with Polymer Engineering Group-DII)
- Co-extrusion of structures for thermal energy storage systems (in collaboration with Delft Technical University, The Netherlands)
- 3D printing of multi-materials 3D auxetic structures: use of multi-extrusion technology (in collaboration with Helmuth Schmidt Universitate-Germany, Erasmus program)
- Multi-extrusion of engineering plastics, in collaboration with a company
- 3D printing of metal-ceramic components for ultra-high vacuum applications (in collaboration with Laboratoire de L’accelerateur Lineare-LAL, France)
Prof. Giorgia Franchin
- Additive manufacturing (DIW) of BaTiO3-based components with distinctive electrical properties (with Karlsruhe Institute of Technology partnership) – research activity to be carried out at UNIPD or at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Karlsruhe, Germany)
- Additive manufacturing (DIW) of lunar regulite-based structures for moon colonization (with ASI partnership) – research activity to be carried out at UNIPD
- Additive manufacturing (DIW) of highly porous structures for CO2 and NH3 adsorption (specific projects in partnership with STEMS CNR, UniTO and Luleå University of Technology) – research activity to be carried out at UNIPD
- Additive manufacturing (DIW) of highly porous structures based on salts for thermal energy storage (with CIG Energy Gune partnership) – research activity to be carried out at UNIPD
- Additive manufacturing and field assisted sintering (FAST) of ceramic and glass components (with University of Trento partnership) – research activity to be carried out at UNIPD
- Additive manufacturing (DLP) and characterization of carbide targets for radioactive beams generation (with INFN-LNL partnership) – research activity to be carried out at UNIPD and INFN-LNL (Legnaro)
- Simulation of carbide targets for radioactive beams generation (with INFN-LNL partnership) – research activity to be carried out at INFN-LNL (Legnaro)
- Additive manufacturing (FFF) of ceramic insulators for radioactive beams generation (with INFN-LNL partnership) – research activity to be carried out at UNIPD and INFN-LNL (Legnaro)
- Additive manufacturing (DLP) of high-performance, flexible 3D siloxane-based scintillators through the sol-gel route (with INFN-LNL partnership) – research activity to be carried out at UNIPD and INFN-LNL (Legnaro)
- Additive manufacturing via Layerwise Slurry Deposition (LSD) (with BAM partnership) – research activity to be carried out at BAM (Berlin, Germany)
- Additive manufacturing (DIW) of multimaterial (metal-ceramic) electrodes for plasma antennae for satellite communications (with T4i partnership) – research activity to be carried out at UNIPD and T4i (Monselice)
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