Josef Schlacher, PhD-student at the Chair of Structural and Functional Ceramics, won the first place in a poster competition with 31 participants at the „17th European Inter-Regional Conference on Ceramics (CIEC17)” on 27th Nov. 2021. The work „Micro-scale fracture toughness of textured alumina grains and grain boundaries”, done in collaboration with the Institute of Materials Research of the Slovak Academy of Science in Košice, investigated the micromechanical behaviour of textured alumina for a better understanding of the macroscopic fracture of layered ceramic architectures. Funding for this research is provided by the ERC Consolidator Grants (Tailoring Microstructure and Architecture to Build Ceramic Components with Unprecedented Damage Tolerance) within the project „CeraText“.
We congratulate Josef Schlacher on this success!
