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Gian Domenico Sorarů
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Current position go to indexgo upgo down
foto: Domenico SorarùFull Professor of Materials Science and Technology

Iglesias (CA), 06/10/55
Tel. +39 0461 882454
Fax: +39 0461 881945
e-mail: Giandomenico.Soraru@ing.unitn.it email
Personal webpage: www.ing.unitn.it/users/soraru/home.html link esterno
Academic career go to indexgo upgo down
Research Scientist (Faculty of Engineering, University of Trento, 1986-92)
Post-Doctoral Fellow (Dept. of Mater. Sci. & Eng., University of California at Los Angeles, USA, 1987-88)
Associate Professor (Faculty of Engineering, University of Trento, 1992-2000)
Full Professor, (Faculty of Engineering, University of Trento, 2000 to present)
Visiting Professor (Univ. Paris 6, France, 1993)
Visiting Professor (Univ. Paris 6, France, 1994)
Visiting Professor (Univ. Paris 6, France, 1999)
Visiting Scientist (Univ. of Colorado at Boulder, USA, 2002)
Deputy Head of the Department of Materials Engineering and Industrial Technologies (University of Trento, 2003 to present)
Teaching activity (last 3 years) go to indexgo upgo down
Technologies of Applied Chemistry (Faculty of Engineering, University of Trento)
Materials Science and Technology (Faculty of Engineering, University of Trento)
Chemistry (Faculty of Engineering, University of Trento)
Research topics go to indexgo upgo down
Synthesis processing and structural characterization of Polymer-Derived Ceramics (PDCs) of the SiCO, SiC and SiAlON systems
Mechanical and chemical (durability, oxidation) characterization of glasses and ceramics
Processing of ceramics fibers
Sol-gel processing and characterization of multicomponent oxide systems
Glass Ceramics
Top 10 Publications go to indexgo upgo down
L. PEDERIVA, G. D. SORARU, J. LATOURNEIRE, R. RAJ, Pyrolysis Kinetics for the Conversion of a Polymer into an Amorphous Ceramic, J. Am. Ceram. Soc., 85 (2002) 2181-87.

G.D. SORARU, S. MODENA, E. GUADAGNINO, P. COLOMBO, J. EGAN AND C. PANTANO, Chemical Durability of Silicon-Oxycarbide Glasses, J.Am.Ceram.Soc., 85 (2002) 1529-36.

G.D. SORARŮ, H.-J. KLEEEBE R. CECCATO, L. PEDERIVA, Development of Mullite-SiC Nanocomposites by Pyrolysis of Filled Polymethylsiloxane Gels, J. Europ. Ceram. Soc., 20 (2000) 2509-2517.

G. D. SORARŮ, Q. LIU AND L.V. INTERRANTE AND T. APPLE The role of Precursor Molecolar Structure on the Microstructure and High Temperature Stability of Silicon Oxycarbide Glasses Derived from Methylen-bridged Polycarbosilanes, , Chem. Mater., 10 (1998) 4047-4054.

G. D. SORARŮ, P. COLOMBO Polymer to Ceramic Tranformation: Processing of Ceramic Bodies and Thin Films, in "Handbook of Hard Materials, Part II" R. Riedl (Ed.), VCH, Weinheim, 2000, pp. 410-440.

G. D. SORARŮ, N. DALLABONA, C. GERVAIS, F. BABONNEAU Organically modified SiO2-B2O3 Gels Displaying a High Content of Borosiloxane (B-O-Si) Bonds, Chem. Mater., 11 (1999) 910-19.

G.D.SORARŮ, E. DALLAPICCOLA, G. D'ANDREA Mechanical Characterization of Sol-Gel-derived Silicon Oxycarbide Glasses, J. Am. Ceram. Soc.,79 (1996) 2074-80.

G. D. SORARU, M. MERCADINI, R. DAL MASCHIO, F. TAULELLE, F. BABONNEAU Si-Al-O-N Fibers from Polymer Precursor: Synthesis, Structural and Mechanical Characterization, J. Am. Ceram. Soc., 76 (1993) 2595-2600.

R. DAL MASCHIO, G.D. SORARŮ, G. SCARINCI, T. TONINATO, J.E. RITTER Influence of a Thermal Tempering Process on Radial Crack Formation by Indentation in Plate Glass, Phys. Chem. Glasses, 30 (1989) 59-61.

G.D. SORARŮ, F. BABONNEAU AND J.D. MACKENZIE Structural Concepts on New Amorphous Covalent Solids, J. Non-Cryst. Solids, 106 (1988), 256-261.

The complete list of publications is available on Polaris website link esterno
Other info go to indexgo upgo down
Honors: First prize "FEDERCHIMICA-PER UN FUTURO INTELLIGENTE" 1994.
(National prize given by the association of chemical companies)

Principal investigators of the following research grants:
Galileo (Bilateral Italy/France)
Vigoni (Bilateral Italy/Germany)
NATO (Collaborative Research Grant, Italia-Francia)
European TMR project.

Associated Editor: Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Guest Editor:
J. Am. Ceram. Soc. (Issue: Ultrahigh-Temperature Ceramics, 2001).
Sol-Gel Sci. Technol. (issue:Silicon Oxycarbide Glasses by Chemical Routes, 1999) .

Symposium organizer at the 104th Annual Meeting of the Amer. Ceram. Soc., S.Louis, MO, 2002.

Patents: Author of two patents