The research group is part of the Department of Materials, Textiles and Chemical Engineering (MaTCh) and has a large amount of experimental and characterization facilities at its disposal for both research and service purposes. The research and provided services focus on three topics:

• the study of the interaction of materials with hydrogen
• the study of degradation of materials by interaction with their environment
• the study of high-temperature metallurgical processes from both a modelling and experimental approach

The following services can be provided

• Material and failure analysis: microscopic analysis, Scanning Electron Microscopy incl. chemical analysis, …
• Corrosion testing: salt spray tests
• Hydrogen/material interaction: thermal desorption spectroscopy, melt extraction…
• Modelling/Simulation thermodynamic material properties: Factsage, Chemapp,…​

Contact

Please contact Linsey Lapeire for questions regarding services:

E-mail linsey.lapeire@ugent.be

Tel.: +32 9 331 04 55 or +32 9 331 04 38