NEWS
FunGlass promo video – supported by the Visegrad fund project (IVF 22010227 “From brain drain to brain gain”)
FunGlass promo video: We would like to inform you about a new FunGlass promo video, which was released with the help of the Visegrad [...]
Three-week stay of students from the Masaryk University, Brno (Czech Republic)
Three-week stay of students from Masaryk University in Brno at FunGlass During the end of June and early July, two students from Masaryk university [...]
FunGlass project as good practice example for Spanish researchers
Spreading Excellence and Widening Particaption On 25 June 2021, prof. Alicia Durán presented project FunGlass at Spanish webinar “"Spreading Excellence and Widening Particaption" within [...]
The 14the International Conference on Solid State Chemistry (SSC) 2021 successfully completed
The 14the international Conference on Solid State Chemistry (SSC) 2021 is over We, at FunGlass Centre, were really honored by the trust to organize this [...]
YOUNG SCIENTIST POSTER AWARD at SSC2021
The best SSC 2021 poster authors The last day of the virtual Solid State Chemistry conference which was held on-line from 14 – 17 [...]
The workshop “From brain drain to brain gain” at SSC2021
The workshop "From brain drain to brain gain" at SSC2021 The purpose of the workshop was to identify and explore the best practices in [...]
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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.
