FWF-funding for sustainable fabrication of ceramics

The Chair of Structural and Functional Ceramics (ISFK) has received funding from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) for the sustainable production of functional ceramics using the innovative Cold Sintering Process (CSP). The project is led by Raul Bermejo, with Abdullah Jabr serving as the lead postdoctoral researcher. CSP is a novel low-temperature sintering technique that enables the production of dense ceramics at temperatures below 350 °C – in contrast to conventional sintering methods, which typically require temperatures above 1000 °C.
As part of the FWF-funded project “Sustainable fabrication of functional ceramics through the cold sintering process”, the fundamental understanding of microstructure evolution, grain boundary properties, and interfacial phenomena in cold sintered materials will be advanced. Particular focus is placed on the combination of ceramics with metals and polymers – material combinations that were previously deemed unfeasible due to the high temperatures involved in conventional sintering. The goal is to establish the scientific foundations needed to harness CSP for future high-performance applications.