30 Apr 2025

2025 Earth Day

At Earth Day 2025 in the Botanical Garden, physics was not absent. The Botanical Garden organizes this event every year. This year's topic was plant protection. Hundreds of people, both adults and children, came to the event.

30 Apr 2025

Tomáš Homola presents ROPLASS, a spin-off company

Assoc. Prof. Tomáš Homola from the Department of Plasma Physics and Technology and CEPLANT center will present the spin-off company ROPLASS, a special university course, Physics in Business, at Masaryk University. The lecture is open to the general public. Come and get yourself acquainted with our spin-of company manufacturing our innovative plasma solutions.

24 Apr 2025

Prof. Peter Rogl's talk on X-ray crystallography

The Department of Plasma Physics and Technology and the CEPLANT Centre hosted the INNOLEC Lecture on "Crystal Symmetry and X-ray Crystallography" on 9 and 10 April 2025. Esteemed Professor Peter Rogl, Group Leader of the Christian Doppler Laboratory (CPL) for Thermoelectrics at the Institute of Materials Chemistry & Research, University of Vienna, accepted the invitation of Assoc. Prof. Vilma Buršíková. A series of three consecutive lectures provided the participants with a comprehensive view of the topic of X-ray analysis of the crystal structure of solids.

23 Apr 2025

Global Winner of The Earth Prize 2025

A huge success of Anna Podmanická (19) and Tomáš Čermák (18) – These young students have become the Global Winner of The Earth Prize 2025! Innovative water treatment solution PURA uses light and plasma technology to purify water from antibiotics and resistant bacteria. Their system offers energy-efficient and cost-effective solutions with potential for global impact.

22 Apr 2025

A highschooler works on wastewater treatment in MUNI laboratories

Anna Podmanická, a high-schooler from Bratislava, worked on her project as part of her high-school professional activity with the support of expert advisors in the laboratories of the Faculty of Science. Under the guidance of Assoc. Prof. Tomáš Homola from the Department of Plasma Physics and Technology and the CEPLANT Centre, her efforts turned into a successful research project that is now receiving well-deserved recognition.

11 Apr 2025

Heart of Europe workshop 2025

Thin Films and theirs current research focus were discussed at this year's Heart of Europe workshop, held at SCI MUNI at the beginning of April. The annual meeting between thin films material research groups from TU Wien, PVDLab at DPPT and Comenius University brought new results, discussions and outlines for mutual cooperations.

10 Apr 2025

Project PlasmaMix-BioMat is starting

We are thrilled to share that our bilateral research project PlasmaMix-BioMat, in collaboration with esteemed colleagues from Slovenia – led by Sebastian Dahle and his team – has been officially supported by both the GAČR and ARIS funding agencies! Our team leader, Zlata Kelar Tučeková, along with Michal Pazderka, is currently in Slovenia for an in-person kick-off meeting to launch this promising cooperation.

25 Mar 2025

Prof. Grzegorz Greczynski's talk on magnetron sputtering

On the 18th of March 2025, we had the honor of hosting a seminar on “Benefits of metal-ion irradiation for nanostructure and phase control during thin film growth by magnetron sputtering” by the esteemed Prof. Grzegorz Greczynski from Linköpings universitet, Sweden. The seminar, which drew attendees from our university, the Czech Academy of Sciences, PLATIT AG, and Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia, led to a rich discussion on magnetron sputtering and XPS, areas where Prof. Greczynski is a world-leading expert.

20 Mar 2025

Sandra Ďurčányová on Erasmus stay at MUNI

Sandra Ďurčányová is a doctoral student from the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University. She is on a research stay at DPPT and CEPLANT center of SCI MUNI with the support of the National Scholarship Programme of the Slovak Republic. In Brno, she works with dr. Monika Stupavská. In her dissertation thesis, she researches plasma polymerization at atmospheric pressure. Using plasma, she deposits thin functional films made of hexamethyldisiloxane and investigates their properties.