NEWS
FunGlas Centre trains also Erasmus+ students
FunGlas Centre trains also Erasmus+ students The FunGlass Centre supports the training mobility not only of its own PhD students, but also foreign students [...]
Prof. Boccaccini marks 10 years as Editor-in-Chief of Materials Letters
Prof. Boccaccini marks 10 years as Editor-in-Chief of Materials Letters Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, Scientific Board member of FunGlass Centre and Head of Institute [...]
Successful recertification of QMS according to standard EN ISO 9001:2015
University of Trencin and FunGlass Center as its part, successfully passed the recertification audit of QMS according to the standard EN ISO 9001:2015. It [...]
Bike to Work 2020
September 2020 belonged to bikers. FunGlass teams together with colleagues from the University of Trencin joined the national contest titled Bike to Work 2020. [...]
FunGlass scientific presentations at the University of Pardubice (Czech Republic)
On 24th September, 2020 the 22nd Conference On Special Inorganic Pigments and Powder Materials was held at Faculty of Chemical Technology of the University of [...]
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 [...]
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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.
