Innovative Materials
Research areas description
The goals of the Centre are to develop models that describe the thermochemical properties of various types of solutions; techniques for estimating phase diagrams and predicting multicomponent phase equilibria; and methods for calculating complex chemical equilibria. These activities find application in a wide variety of fields, such as : metallurgy, ceramics, geochemistry, petrochemistry, organic chemistry, electrochemistry, corrosion and energy. The Centre also maintains and operates the F*A*C*T (Facility for the Analysis of Chemical Thermodynamics) computing system, an integrated thermochemical database with a suite of programs. For complete information, visit our Web site.
Research staff
- Patrice Chartrand | Co-director
- Arthur Pelton | Co-director
- Christopher Bale | Member
- Jean-Philippe Harvey | Member
- Christian Robelin | Member
- Julian Self | Member
External sources of funding
NSERC, FQRNT, sales of software, contracts (POSCO, RioTinto, Alcoa, Alcan, Norsk-Hydro, GM, Shell, Teck Cominco, INCO, Dupont, and others).
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