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Asghar Esknadarinia from Iran conducts research at FunGlass under the National Scholarship Programme (NSP)
Asghar Esknadarinia´s training at FunGlass Asghar Esknadarinia is a new member of the FunGlass team from the beginning of July. Currently, he is a [...]
F. Kurtuldu, N. Mutlu and F. Dogrul participated in EUROMAT 2021
FunGlass participation at EUROMAT 2021 We are pleased to inform you that our collegues Fatih Kurtuldu, Nursen Mutlu and Fulden Dogrul participated in EUROMAT [...]
Dr. Arish Dasan as a visiting scientist at the University of Padova (Italy)
Dr. Arish Dasan has started his 3-months stay at the University of Padova Dr. Arish Dasan has started his 3-months stay as the [...]
Anna Svancarkova has successfully passed her doctoral thesis defence at the Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology (STU Bratislava)
We would like to congratulate our collegue Dr. Anna Svancarkova who has successfully passed her doctoral thesis defence on topic: Corrosion of glass and [...]
Bruno Wolfrum´s minimal thesis exam
Successful dissertation project presentation We are glad to announce that our PhD student Bruno Wolfrum passed his minimal dissertation exam with his dissertation project: [...]
Karolina Milewska from the Gdańsk University of Technology (Poland) on 2-months training stay (Erasmus+) in FunGlass
Karolina Milewska from the Gdańsk University of Technology in FunGlass In August, we could welcome to FunGlass the PhD student Karolina Milewska from Institute [...]
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CENTRE FOR FUNCTIONAL AND SURFACE-FUNCTIONALIZED GLASSES is the project supported by the 8th European Framework programme for Research and Innovation HORIZON 2020. It is based at Alexander Dubček University of Trenčín (Slovakia, coordinated by prof. Dušan Galusek). Project partners include Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany, with prof. A. Boccaccini), Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Germany, with prof. L. Wondraczek), Spanish National Research Council (Spain, with prof. A. Durán) and University of Padova (Italy, with E. Bernardo).
The scope of the project is the upgrade of existing Centre of excellence for ceramics, glass, and cement, to an internationally recognized Centre for functional and surface-functionalized glasses. The new Centre will be specialized to cutting edge research in the area of glasses with special functional properties (luminescence, electric), and to functionalization of conventional glasses with the aim of modification of their properties, and adding new functionalities. These would comprise reflection, and anti-reflection coatings for solar energy production and optoelectronic applications, increase of glass strength, enhancing the corrosion and leaching resistance of commercially produced glasses, self cleaning/antibacterial coatings of glasses for medical applications, including modification/enhancement of bioactivity. The research topics would include also utilization of waste materials for production of glasses and glass-ceramic materials with high added value. The project will be aimed at establishment of the Centre as a joint venture of all participating institutions, creation and formalizing the coordination and management structures, upgrading the research infrastructure, expansion of personal capacity of the existing center to the level facilitating achievement of the critical mass for R&D activities, with special attention paid to hiring high quality researchers and engineers from abroad, in order to create creative international environment, and formation of close ties with regional and European glass industries for efficient knowledge transfer.
