On Friday 25 October 2024, the Netherlands Ceramic Society (NKV) and our Belgian sister organization Belgian Ceramic Society (BCerS) assisted by the Young Ceramists Network (YCN) organize a one-day symposium on 'Advanced ceramic manufacturing in the Benelux' at Eindhoven University of Technology. You are invited to participate in this symposium.

The aim is to bring together people from universities, research institutes and industry involved in advanced ceramic manufacturing from the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg (and Germany). Young researchers (PhD students, post-docs, tenure trackers and starters at companies) are especially invited, offering you the possibility to get in contact with each other and with established people form industry and universities, across borders.

Program
10:00 - Registration, coffee, tea
10:40-10:50 - Diletta Giuntini (Department of Mechanical Engineering, TU/e), Welcome plus "Advanced ceramics research at TU/e"
10:50-11:10 - Ozge Akbulut (Sabanci University, Turkiye), “Self-standing SiAlON doughs facilitate low-volume production through green machining”
11:10-11:25 - Tim Herrmann (WZR ceramic solutions GmbH, Germany), “Overview of different additive manufacturing processes at WZR”
11:25-11:40 - Pablo Gonzalez (R&D Manager CoorsTek EMEA), “Advanced manufacturing of near-net shape ceramic products”
11:40-11:55 - Firat Altınbaş (Inorganic Membranes, University of Twente), “Grafting ceramic supports for creating hydrophobic surfaces”
11:55-12:10 - Harpreet Sondhi (Inorganic Membranes, University of Twente), “Molecular layer deposition modified pore size and hydrophobicity of ceramic membranes for nanofiltration”

12:10-13:30 - Lunch / posters / table top presentations
Table top presentations:
- Anton Paar, Breda (NL)
- Benelux Scientific, Ede (NL)
- Schaeffler Aerosint, Herstal (B)
- SKF Research and Technology Development, Houten (NL)

Poster presentations:
- Jiongjie Liu, Anne C.A.M. Timmermans, Diletta Giuntini (Department of Mechanical Engineering, TU/e), “Additive manufacturing of polymer-derived ceramics with multiscale architectures”
- Cong Yan (TU/e), “Mechanical characterization of ceramic-organic supercrystalline nanocomposites by nanoindentation”
- Darya Farrokhnemoun, Jozef Vleugels, Bart Van Meerbeek, Annabel Braem, KU Leuven, “Optimizing UV-assisted direct ink writing for ceria-stabilized zirconia ceramics in dental restorations”
- Mathieu Chabanel, Sooraj Shiby, Balasubramanian Nagarajan, Sylvie Castagne (Department of Mechanical Engineering, KU Leuven), “Studying the effect of temporal energy deposition of fs laser pulse for crack-free machining of ceramics”
- Anne Timmermans (Department of Mechanical Engineering, TU/e), “Experimental and numerical analysis of the sintering behavior of multi-layer membranes”
- Muthusundar Kumar (Laboratory of Polymeric and Composite Materials, University of Mons), “Low-temperature breakthrough: Progressing the consolidation of hydroxyapatite and polymer composites through cold sintering”
- Harpreet Sondhi (Inorganic Membranes, University of Twente), “Tailoring pore size and surface hydrophobicity in ceramic membranes: The case of MLD-grown titanicone layers”
- Firat Altınbaş, Arian Nijmeijer, Jurriaan Huskens, Mieke Luiten-Olieman, Marie-Alix Pizzoccaro-Zilamy (Inorganic Membranes, University of Twente), “Design of macroporous hydrophobic ceramic membranes for water desalination applications”

13:30 - Continuation of the afternoon program
13:30-13:45 - Farid Salari (Concr3de), Introduction to YCN plus “Optimizing of binder jetting 3D printing process parameters in materials produced without tooling”
13:45-14:05 - Nicolas Somers (ULiège), “GREEnMat (ULiège): Your academic partner for applied research on materials for energy, environment & health applications”
14:05-14:20 - Zhenhong Xue (Surface and Interface Engineered Materials, KU Leuven), “Template-free and size-controlled synthesis of rod-like zirconia via co-solvent systems”
14:20-14:35 - Enrique Juste, (Belgian Ceramic Research Centre BCRC, Mons), “Additive manufacturing of ceramics by Binder Jetting and PAM: towards a hybrid approach”

14:35-15:00 - Coffee/tea break / posters / table top presentations

15:00-15:15 - Omid Hajishirmohammadi (4 OMID BV), “Ceramic CATs: Opening new market opportunities in sustainable construction”
15:15-15:35 - Berfu Göksel (Department of Materials Engineering, KU Leuven), “Additive manufacturing of multimaterial ATZ and 3Y-TZP parts for implant applications”
15:35-15:50 - Roy Maas (Z3DLabs), “From mm to micron: 3D-printing innovations with advanced ceramics”
15:50-16:05 - Nienke de Roode (Access2bone), “Solution for long bone non-unions: Looking for structural support for our active ingredient”

16:05-… - Lab tour plus subsequent drinks/snacks/networking

Location
The symposium will take place at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e, www.tue.nl) in the center of Eindhoven. The presentations (oral, poster and table top) and lunch will take place in building Gemini South (Room 4.24 and main hall), and the lab tour and drinks in building Catalyst.

Registration fee
Members of the European Ceramic Society (ECerS): 50 euros (Members of a national ceramic society affiliated to ECerS, like NKV and BCerS, are automatically ECerS member). Non-ECerS members: 65 euros.

How to register
You can register - preferably instantly, but on Monday October 21 at the latest - by sending an e-mail to info@ceramics.nl titled 'Advanced Ceramic Manufacturing in the Benelux - 25th of October' and stating your name and possibly the organisation/company that you represent. At the same time as your registration, you will pay the amount due on bank account number NL10 INGB 0001 8560 32 with BIC code INGBNL2A of 'Nederlandse Keramische Vereniging', mentioning your name, company and 'NKV-BCerS October 2024'.

Kind regards,
On behalf of the organising committee,
Eddy Brinkman & Louis Winnubst (both NKV), Diletta Giuntini & Tommaso Magrini (both NKV and TU/e), Farid Salari (NKV & YCN) and Nicolas Somers (BCerS)