NEWS
2022 – International Year of Glass
International Year of Glass We would like to congratulate our partner - Prof. Alicia Duran (CSIC Madrid) and her team because the IYOG 2022 [...]
Dr. G. Clavijo from Colombia – a new member of FunGlass team
New member of Biomaterials department Dr. Germán Clavijo received a Ph.D. in Ceramic Materials and Surface Treatments from the University of Limoges, France, and a Ph.D. in Materials [...]
Dr. A. Raja from India – a new researcher at FunGlass
New researcher at FunGlass That´s a pleasure to announce that Department of coating processes was enriched by a new member - Dr. Ashok Raja. [...]
Framework Agreement on the Co-tutelage of doctoral thesis with University of Padova (Italy) signed.
Co-tutelage of doctoral thesis We are happy to announce you that FunGlass Centre (A.Dubcek University of Trencin) and University of Padova signed a Framework [...]
FunGlass participated in unique industrial research of ATC Crystals
Industrial research of ATC Crystals In February 2021, there was achieved another significant success in the research of nanomaterials in Slovakia. In 2019, the [...]
FunGlass shares its experiences in webinar on “Widening”, organized by Slovak Centre of Scientific and Technical Information, Bratislava
Widening (Horizon Europe) In January 2021, Horizon Europe, the new ambitious European Framework Programme on Research and Innovation for the period of 2021 to [...]
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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.
