Ceramics and Glasses Laboratory

Responsible: Regina Monteiro

Description: The existing facilities are specific for powder technology and for processing of ceramic materials and glasses. It contains milling and mixing equipment, hydraulic pressing machines and several electrical furnaces (kilns and tubular furnaces up to a temperature of 1600ºC) that are used in the sintering of the ceramic powders, preparation of glasses by melting and in different heat treatments. It also has a variety of characterization facilities such as a gas pycnometer for density measurement, particle size distribution analyzer by laser diffraction and thermal analysis equipment (DTA, TG, TMA and a dilatometer) that can be operated up to 1500ºC.