Ceramics Course
Introduction to Ceramic Science and Engineering
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Content of the course
The course provides a thorough understanding of ceramic and glassy materials. The student will be able to assess how to use ceramic materials in different application contexts. The criteria for the engineering design and affidabilistic approach on ceramic materials will be also disclosed.
The course should enable the students to:
* Identify the role of ceramic materials in technological devices and in everyday life.
* Identify the functional and structural properties of ceramic materials and learn how to recognize their properties starting from sensory perceptions ending up to analytical testing.
* Quantify the engineering performance of ceramics: strength, stiffness, toughness, transparency, opacity, refractoriness, thermal and electrical conductivity and certify their suitability for specific uses.
* Acquire a working method for the identification of the material and combination of materials capable of offering the best engineering solution
The teachers
Antonio Licciulli studies, teaches and carries out research in the field of materials science and engineering. In 1990, he graduated in physics in University of Bari. In 1991, he started dealing with glasses and ceramics at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Padua. In 1992-93, he continued his apprenticeship in Saarbrucken (Germany) at the Leibniz Institute for New Materials INM, where he carried out research on the nascent discipline of nanotechnologies and nanomaterials.
In 1995, he was in Cambridge (England) where he studied ceramic matrix composites and chemical vapor deposition synthesis processes. An innovative concept of SiC / C / SIC hybrid ceramic composite was registered as an international patent in 1996. Since 2001 he has been a researcher, and then a professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Salento. In 2004, he co-authored an article in Nature Materials on the interpretation of the spectral emissivity of ceramics. In 2003, he began experimenting with forms of online teaching and created the website www.ceramici.unile.it. The teaching materials made publicly and freely available through the website, has been adopted as a reference in various degree courses including the University of Bologna and the Centro de Tecnologia, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brazil. Dr. Licciulli founded 3 spin off companies: Salentec in 2005, Silvertech in 2008 and Biofaber in 2015. The first international patent (2008) owned by the University of Salento, is an invention of prof. Licciulli, on an innovative system for the production of ceramic composites for energy and aerospace applications. In 2015, he obtained the award for excellence in research conferred by his own university on the occasion of the Innovation festival. He has authored more than 140 articles in peer reviewed International Journals and has 3 US patents and national patents in his credit.
His publications list can be viewed at https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=wVRjiU4AAAAJ&hl=en
Sanosh Kunjalukkal Padmanabhan, is a Researcher at the Department of Engineering for Innovation, University of Salento. He is from India and received his M.S. degree in Chemistry from University of Calicut, India in 2002. After MS, he worked two years as a Lecturer in chemistry and two years as a Scientist in a multinational pharma company, Jubilant Biosys Ltd, Bangalore, India. He obtained PhD in Materials Engineering from the Department of Engineering, Paichai Univeristy, South Korea in 2011. His thesis was focused on the Synthesis, Characterization and Sintering Kinetics of Nano Bioceramic Particles, supervised by Prof Taik Nam Kim and Dr Seong Jai Cho. During PhD, he worked at Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS), Daejon, South Korea. After PhD, he joined the Department of Engineering for Innovation, University of Salento as a post-doctoral researcher under the guidance of Prof. Antonio Licciulli and since december 2020 he is working as a researcher at the same department. He specialized in ceramic and polymer materials for aerospace and biomedical applications and is proficient in processing materials by advanced techniques and have hands-on experience in various characterization tools. He has authored around 60 articles in peer reviewed International Journals and his publications list can be viewed at https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=g3mXpOsAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate
The students
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