YCN Representative - Austria

Abdullah Jabr

YCN Representative for the Autrian Ceramic Society

Chair of Structural and Functional Ceramics (ISFK), Department of Materials Science, Montanuniversitaet Leoben

abdullah.jabr@unileoben.ac.at 

Abdullah Jabr is a PhD candidate at the Chair of Structural and Functional Ceramics, Montanuniversitaet Leoben. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degree in materials science and engineering from the same university. He has specialized on ceramic materials during his master’s studies, where he focused on mechanical characterization, specifically investigating contact damage in ceramics and strategies to improve their resistance.

His current research interests include mechanical characterization and low-temperature processing of ceramics with focus on the cold sintering process (CSP). The CSP is a novel sintering technique that densifies various ceramics at temperatures below 350°C, in contrast to conventional sintering, which requires temperatures exceeding 1000°C. The process involves the addition of a chemically active transient liquid phase, enabling densification at low temperatures under externally applied pressure (hundreds of MPa). Due to its unprecedent low temperature densification, CSP opens new opportunities for grain boundary and composite designs with enhanced functionalities, combining ceramics with polymers, metals and even 2D materials. Although CSP has been successfully deployed for densifying a wide range of functional ceramics and composites, the structural integrity of cold sintered materials remains unexplored.

Abdullah’s goal is to understand the structural reliability of cold sintered materials under different loading and environmental conditions and compare their performance to conventionally sintered counterparts. His research focuses on investigating processing induced defects and finding strategies to avoid their occurrence, thereby enhancing the structural integrity of cold sintered materials. He is focusing on understanding chemical interactions during CSP and methods for scalable production, which is an important step towards accelerating the industrial implementation of the cold sintering process.

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