Interfacial Materials - Computational and Experimental Multi-Scale Studies

Objective

INCEMS is a mulitdisciplinary team of leading EU experts in modelling and experiment together with indispensable US partners. It proposes to predict the complex properties of industrially relevant multifunctional ceramics with nanometre-scaled intergranu lar films (IGF) by investigating and tailoring the materials phenomena governing the complex behavior resulting from electric fields, mechanical stress, and interactions with different chemical environments. By using computational modelling at different length scales, from ab initio to continuum, we will analyse the stability, structure and composition of IGFs including the effect of chemical doping to identify conditions under which transient IGFs are formed during processing and provide strategies so that they can be modified or eliminated by an appropriate heat treatment to provide optimal electrical and mechanical resistance for devices performance and durability. A new type of phase diagrams, an interfacial phase diagramme, that includes the equil ibrium properties of defects, such as the thickness of interfacial films, will be established as a general tool for designers of materials and processes. By using the predictive models developed by the INCEMS consortium it will be possible to efficiently optimize existing ceramic-based devices and to develop completely new ones with higher functional density and new device application.

Fields of science

• agricultural sciences › agriculture, forestry, and fisheries › agriculture › grains and oilseeds
• natural sciences › physical sciences › optics › microscopy › electron microscopy
• natural sciences › computer and information sciences › computational science
• engineering and technology › materials engineering › ceramics
• natural sciences › physical sciences › optics › spectroscopy

Programme(s)

• FP6-NMP - Nanotechnologies and nanosciences, knowledge-based multifunctional materials and new production processes and devices: thematic priority 3 under the 'Focusing and integrating community research' of the 'Integrating and strengthening the European Research Area' specific programme 2002-2006.

Topic(s)

• NMP-2003-3.4.2.1-2 - Modelling and design of multi-functional materials
• NMP-2003-3.4.1.1-3 - Expanding knowledge in size-dependent phenomena

Call for proposal

FP6-2003-NMP-TI-3-MAIN
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Funding Scheme

STREP - Specific Targeted Research Project

Coordinator

UNIVERSITAET KARLSRUHE (TH)

Address

Kaiserstrasse 12
Karlsruhe
Germany

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Participants (6)

THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

United Kingdom

Address

University Offices, Wellington Square
Oxford

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IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & MEDICINE

United Kingdom

Address

South Kensington Campus
London

THE QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY OF BELFAST

United Kingdom

Address

University Road
Belfast

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UNIVERSITY OF LJUBILJANA

Slovenia

Address

Kongresni Trg 12
Ljubljana

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COMMISSARIAT À L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE

France

Address

Bâtiment Le Ponant D - 25 Rue Leblanc
Paris

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MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN E.V.

Germany

Address

Hofgartenstrasse 8
Muenchen

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