Prof. Petr Vašina and Assoc. Prof. Pavel Souček visited Łukasiewicz Research Network – Institute for Sustainable Technologies in Poland at the end of February 2023. Our colleagues attended a joint meeting with the private company PLATIT in Switzerland, GFE in Germany, Hungarians, and the Polish side at Radom. They discussed the possibility of collaboration on new projects.
Łukasiewicz Research Network – Institute for Sustainable Technologies (Sieć Badawcza Łukasiewicz - Instytut Technologii Eksploatacji) in Radom, Poland has built up innovation performance in the areas of machine construction and maintenance and technical and environmental safety for nearly 30 years. On Wednesday, 22nd, and Thursday, 23rd of February 2023, our colleagues from the research group Deposition of Thin Films and Nanostructures joined a meeting with Łukasiewicz and companies PLATIT in Switzerland, GFE in Germany and colleagues from Hungary.
All interested sides deal with their research and businesses in coating technologies and their applications. The main focus is magnetron sputtering technology. Private companies are often interested in researching new materials and innovative technologies. Our CEPLANT researchers can contribute to developing new materials, tuning the technology manufacturing process, and diagnostics of the process and plasma.
As a result of this meeting, two new projects are being prepared. Both are in cooperation with Polish and Hungarian researchers. One project would aim at coatings for cutting tools and the second for antibacterial coatings. Projects will be submitted in the international cofund call M-ERA.net.
The Heart of Europe workshop is a traditional gathering of scientists dealing with thin films. The center of Europe is presented by the Technical University of Vienna, Masaryk University in Brno, and Comenius University in Bratislava.
Prof. Christoph Gerhard and his colleagues visited their project partners at the Department of Plasma Physics and Technology and the CEPLANT Centre in the second week of April 2024. Together, they are working on the functionalization of fibers.
