NEWS
New laboratory technicians at FunGlass
New laboratory technicians at FunGlass That´s pleasure to inform that at the beginning of September two new colleagues joined FunGlass center: Lenka Buňová received [...]
PhD study program – Schedule of the Academic year 2020/2021
Due to the current COVID-19 situation, University of Trencin complied with the recommendation of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak [...]
Online lecture series by Prof. Bikramjit Basu from University of Lille (France)
These days FG students and young reasearchers have great opportunity to attend online lecture series that are delivered by Prof. Basu as part of a [...]
Meeting with EIT Manufacturing Hub Slovakia
On 7th September, Dr. M. Michalek, Dr. J. Kraxner and Mgr. P. Otrubcak discussed with Mgr. E. Hlavata (Project manager of EIT Manufacturing Hub Slovakia) options [...]
Visit of Dr. Vlastimil Hotar from the Faculty of Engineering, Technical University of Liberec (Czech Republic).
It was pleasure for us to welcome Ing. Vlastimil Hotar, PhD. in FunGlass Centre. Dr. V. Hotar acts as a Head of Department of Glass [...]
Project “Sklokeram” – Cooperation with CEITEC, Brno and Masaryk University, Brno (Czech Republic)
On 4th September, FunGlass hosted our partners from the Czech Republic - CEITEC, Brno and Masaryk University, Brno for a kick-off meeting of the project [...]
UPCOMING EVENTS
ABOUT
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.
