NEWS
INDO- EUROPEAN joint event iCAM-2022
FunGlass and 2nd International Conference on Advancements in Materials Science & Technology FunGlass, TnUAD in association with Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology, India , [...]
Invitation to FunGlass science course with a special guest – Professor Manoj K. Choudhary
Special topics in glass melting technology by Prof. Manoj K. Choudhary It is an honor for us that the FunGlass Center, through the Visiting [...]
FunGlass researchers at GAMS 2022 in Paris
FunGlass at the Global Advanced Materials & Surfaces International Conference 2022 Our researchers Assoc. prof. Mária Chromčíková, Dr. Aleksandra Nowicka and Dr. Branislav Hruška (CEGLASS, ITMS [...]
Successful defense of habilitation thesis of Dr. José J. Velázquez García
New associate professor at FunGlass We are pleased to announce that, following the defense of the habilitation thesis entitled: Nanostructure Oxyfluoride Glass-ceramics: Relationship between [...]
Maryam Vakhshouri´s minimum thesis exam
Minimum dissertation exam of our PhD student Maryam Vakhshouri It is pleasure for us to announce that our PhD student Maryam Vakhshouri has successfully [...]
FunGlass School Čertov, spring 2022
FunGlass School Čertov, spring 2022 The spring edition of the FunGlass School took place in a picturesque place named Čertov from June 1st till June [...]
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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.
