BCerS: Annual meeting of the Belgian Ceramic Society

Programme

09:45 Coffee 
10:15 Welcome

Talk

10:30 Joos Bjorn (UHasselt / IUMAT)
"Solution-Processed Functional Ceramic Oxides for Solar Fuel Production: Heterojunction Photocathodes and Exsolved Photothermal Catalysts"

2026 Student Speech Contest:

11:00 Mira Sinée (KU Leuven)
"Colloidal Stability, Rheology, and Printability of SiSiC Slurries for Slurry-based Laser Powder Bed Fusion"

11:15 Athanasios Alexandridis (KU Leuven)
"Photocuring-Assisted Extrusion Printing of Calcium Phosphate Tooth Root Scaffolds: From Ink Formulation to Process Optimization"

11:30 Waut Declercq (KU Leuven)
"Polymer binder-free additive manufacturing of reaction-bonded silicon carbide through laser powder bed fusion"

12:00 Lunch and Poster session

Presentations

13:00 Sandra Abdelouhab (Belgian Ceramic Research Centre, Mons)
"Influence of colloidal binder chemistry on the gas permeability of cement-free refractory castables"

13:20 Reja Trippaers (UHasselt / IUMAT)
"Exploring Prussian blue as a safe-and-sustainable-by-design cathode material for sodium-ion batteries"

13:40 Jérôme Bodart (ULiège)
"From Die-Pressed Prototypes to DLP-Printed Architectures: A Stepwise Route to All-Ceramic Solid-State Batteries"

14:00 Coffee Break and Poster session

14:30 Juan Guerrero Paez (UHasselt / IUMAT)
"Next generation cathode materials: optimization of the solution based synthesis of Mn-based disordered rock salts (DRX) for enhanced batteries"

14:50 Alexandre Mégret (UMons)
"In Situ Monitoring and Modelling of Densification and Young's Modulus Evolutions during Viscous Sintering of Slip-Cast Borosilicate Glass Parts"

15:10 Kristy Talukdar (UHasselt / IUMAT)
"Aqueous Solution–Gel Synthesis of CuNb2O6 and Cu3Nb2O8 and Exploring Their Potential as Precatalysts for Photothermal CO2 Hydrogenation"

15:30 Awards proclamation and IUMAT laboratory visit

16:30 Closure