Hi-Tech Ceramics and Composites for Severe Environments

Harshness characterizes extreme working conditions where thermo-chemical, thermo-physical and thermo-mechanical attacks may concurrently take place. New composites concept design allows to overcome the ceramic brittleness merging damage tolerance and capacity of withstanding ultra-high temperature regimes in chemically aggressive environments and self-repair during service. Our R&D activities span from the fundamental understanding of the process-microstructure-property correlations, to the materials functionalization through suitable procedures, up to the realization of technological demonstrators to be validated in relevant environment.