Professor Ian Reaney
BSc MSc PhD FIMM FRMS
School of Chemical, Materials and Biological Engineering
Professor in Ceramics
Dyson Chair in Ceramics
Director of Transforming Foundation Industries Network Plus


+44 114 222 5471
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School of Chemical, Materials and Biological Engineering
Sir Robert Hadfield Building
Mappin Street
葫芦影业
S1 3JD
- Profile
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I am the Dyson Chair and Professor in Ceramics. I joined the School in 1994. Prior to joining the School I was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Essex and at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in Switzerland. I obtained his PhD from the University of Manchester in 1989. I am a named investigator on 65 grants (>拢50m) and has graduated over 40 Ph.D. and 40 M.Sc. students. I am a Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society, IOM3, American and European Ceramic Societies and a member of the Word Academy of Science.
I am the highest cited UK based ceramist (11th worldwide) on Googlescholar with >400 publications, 27,000 citations and an h-index of 88. I have given >80 invited, keynote and plenary talks at international conferences.
I was the recipient of the Edward C Henry Award in 2001, the best Knowledge Transfer Partnership building on EPSRC funded research in 2009, the Verulam Medal for Ceramics (IOM3) in 2017 and the Robert Newnham award in 2021 for structure property relations in electroceramics.
- Research interests
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I have made numerous significant contributions in ceramic and glass science and engineering in electron microscopy, diffraction, microwave ceramics, piezoelectric ceramics, low energy sintering, and materials sustainability.
Key research interests:
- Low energy densification
- Electroceramics
- Glass ceramics
- Materials sustainability
- Carbon mitigation in the Foundation Industries
Research highlights include:
- Patented a multilayer GeoHelix庐 antenna for multiband for satellite downlink
- Discovery of a lead zirconate structured antiferroelectric based on Nd-doped BiFeO3
- Patented a high-temperature lead-free piezoelectric for multilayer actuators
- Developed a new class of high energy density ceramics and multilayers
- Established cold sintering technology for microwave ceramics and antennas
- Discovered a new tunable dielectric based on Pb-niobate pyrochlore with superior properties to existing compositions
- Publications
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Journal articles
1-x Tix )O3 on a single substrate using a modified molecular beam epitaxy technique. Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings, 1034, 188-193.
Synthesis of the ferroelectric solid solution, Pb(Zr- Microstructure and electrical properties of Mn-Ni-In spinels. Physica Status Solidi (A) Applied Research, 181(2), 369-386.
2 O3 -TiO2 (Ln = lanthanide cation). International Materials Reviews, 43(5), 205-219.
Microwave dielectric solid-solution phase in system BaO-Ln2 O5 system. British Ceramic Transactions, 96(2), 41-49.
Microstructures of pyrochlore-perovskite mixtures in PbO-MgO-Nb1-x Bax )(Zr1-x Tix )O3 solid solution. British Ceramic Transactions, 96(6), 217-224.
TEM of antiferroelectric-ferroelectric phase boundary in (Pb2 substrates. IEEE International Symposium on Applications of Ferroelectrics, 2, 611-614.
Sol-gel deposition of PZT thin films on ceramic ZrO
Chapters
Conference proceedings papers
2 O3 Glass Ionomer Cement for Bone Tissue Repair. 8th World Biomaterials Congress 2008, Vol. 1 (pp 202)
Biological evaluation of a novel Fe
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Presentations
Preprints
- Professional activities and memberships
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Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society, IOM3, American and European Ceramic Societies and a member of the Word Academy of Science.
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