31. 12. 2016 - CEMNAT staff successfully finished applicaiton-oriented project with company PARDAM Ltd.. (provider Technology Agency of the Czech Republic, call ALFA, nr.TA04011557). The goal of the project was to develop an industrial production of SiO2 fibers:
Information and related media reports:
http://zpravodaj.upce.cz/veda/2017/doktor-macak-novy-patent/
https://tacr.cz/dokums_raw/Tiskove_zpravy/170419_Ve%CC%8Cdci%20z%20Pardubicka%20pracuji%CC%81
%20na%20materia%CC%81lu%20budoucnosti.pdf
https://www.novinky.cz/veda-skoly/435458-pardubicti-vedci-pracuji-na-materialubud
10. 11. 2016 - CEMNAT organized ALD workshop. Its goal was to introduce unique capabilites of this technique for atomic layer deposition (ALD) to wide public. Workshop program to be downloaded here.
20. 10. 2016 - CEMNAT organized 1st student workshop. Its goal was to introduce all research directions and acitivies of CEMNAT to students of materials-oriented postgraduate programms. Introduced were also instrumental techniques for realization of students theses. Workshop program to be downloaded here.
11. 8. 2016 - Dr. Jan Macák was a guest of the radio-broadcast of Czech Radio within the program „Magazín Leonardo“.
The record of the broadcast can be listened here (starting from the 13th minute, in Czech):
http://prehravac.rozhlas.cz/audio/3684259
16. 5.-15. 6. 2016 - Prof. Andriy Kovalskiy, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN, USA, stayed as a visiting professor at CEMNAT. Prof. Kovalskiy focuses on: atomic and electronic structure of non-oxide glasses and amorphous thin films (EXAFS, XANES, XPS, Raman, positron annihilation); structural dynamics in glasses; interaction of light and ionizing radiation with amorphous solids; surface science in application to solid state disordered media; gray-scale photolithography and electron-beam nanostructuring on glasses; amorphous optical IR materials for micro- and nanophotonics.
May 2016 - CEMNAT was visited by the delegation of the Universiti Sains Malaysia from Penang, Malaysia (5. 5. 1016) and one day after another delegation from the Kao Yuan University in Kaohsiungu, Tchaiwan. Both were accompanied by the top management of the University of Pardubice