Research Centre of Advanced

Materials and Technologies for

Recent and Future Applications

“PROMATECH”

High-tech

materials and

technologies

High research with

potential of

commercial interest

Technological

transfer

Slovak Academy

of Sciences

Technical

University of

Košice

Pavol

Jozef Šafárik

University in

Košice

Košice Žiar nad

Hronom

... more than 40 new laboratories for materials research in:

Pavilion of Materials Sciences, Košice

Technological Pavilion, Žiar nad Hronom

Pavol Jozef

Šafárik

University in

Košice

Research activities: 1. Research and development of modern steels, powder metallurgy products

and hard coatings:

a) Research and development of PVD coatings with increased hardness and with

reduced friction coefficient for power transmission into bearing and gearing

mechanisms

b) R&D of technology for production of electrocontact materials by the powder

metallurgy

c) Research of relation between tribological pair: instrument & material for

solving pressing technology problems

d) Research and development of grain oriented electrical steels with lower

active losses

e) Research and lightening possibilities demonstration of structural

components through the use of aluminium composities and foams

Research activities:

2. Research and development of materials for biomedical and enviromental

technologies

a) Magnetic nanoparticles functionalized with drugs, polymers and surfactants

and their applications for serious illness treating, such as cancer, cardiovascular

and amyloid diseases

b) Preparation and characterization of biocomposite cement systems for

biomedical applications

c) Research of modifiability of carbon and silicate raw materials contaminated

by blind and harmful mineral mixtures in order to preparation of monomineral

concentrates for commercial applications

Research activities:

3. Materials for ICT technologies and cryotechnologies

a) Research and development of new technologies for preparation of bulk

monocrystalline superconductors for heavy-current applications used as

superconducting permanent magnets

b) Research of nanostructured semiconductors for ICT technology memory

components

Research activities:

4. Research and development of new magnetic materials

a) New materials for sensor systems with increased sensibility and improved

noise characteristics

b) Microwires with increased sensibility to external variables like as temperature,

mechanical stresses and magnetic fields, for application in microsenzors

c) Pressed magnetic soft composite materials for mid-frequency applications

5 mm

Research activities – projects realized by consortium partners

7.FP EU MAMINA: Macro, Micro and Nano Aspects of Machining

7.FP EU SILTRANS: Micro and Nanocrystalline Silicide - Refractory Metals FGM for

Materials Innovation in Transport Applications

7.FP EU MATRANS: Micro and Nanocrystalline Functionally Graded Materials for

Transport Applications

7.RP EU: European Microkelvin Collaboration

6.FP EU NENAMAT: Network for Nanostructured Materials

6.FP KMM-NOE: Knowledge-based Multicomponent Materials for Durable and Safe

Performance

6.FP EU NESPA: NanoEngineered Superconductors for Power Application

6. RP EU Extremat: New materials for extreme environments

6. RP EU HIGHTEMAL: Bulk nanostructured Al profiles for applications at elevated

temperatures

5.FP EU SICMAC: Structural Integrity of Ceramic Multilayers and Coatings

Founded by European Commission Framework Programmes:

Research infrastructure -

Advanced technologies

NanospiderTM NS

LAB 200

TruLaser Station 3003

PVD Cryofox 500

Melt Spinner SC Spark Plasma Sintering

HiTUS – new

technology of

thin film

sputtering Mechanochemistry

Research infrastructure –

Structural and chemical analysis

Scanning electron microscope EVO MA15

EDX/WDX, (Carl Zeiss)

Glow Discharge Optical Emission

Spectroscopy (GDOES)

Raman microscope

XploRA Horiba Yvon

Jobin

Optical Profiler

Plu neox Sensofar

Nanoparticle tracking analysis system

NanoSight LM10

Research infrastructure –

Structural and chemical analysis – TEM and HREM

Transmission Electron Microscope JEOL JEM-2100F UHR

Research infrastructure –

Structural and chemical analysis - FIB

CrossBeam system AURIGA Compact:

SEM (scanning electron microscope )

FIB (focused ion beam)

Research infrastructure –

Mechanical properties

Scratch tester Bruker UMT 2M

Tribometer Bruker UMT 3MT

Corrosion testing system

Nanoindenter Agilent G200

Micro-nano indenter TTX NHT

Research infrastructure –

Functional properties

Perkin Elmer DSC 8500

Differential Scanning

Calorimeter

STA 449 F1 Jupiter® – Simultaneous TGA-DSC

Scanning Hall probe microscope-SHPM

Physical properties measurement

system (PPMS)

Magnetic properties measurement

system (MPMS)

Contact:

Prof. Dr. Ján DUSZA, DrSc

Member of the Presidium of Slovak Academy of Sciences

Institute of Materials Research of SAS

Watsonova 47

040 01 Košice Slovakia

Phone: +421 55 7922 462

Mobil: +421 911 462 264

Fax: +421 55 7922 408

jdusza@imr.saske.sk, dusza@up.upsav.sk, duszaj@yahoo.com

www.imr.saske.sk, www.psav.sav.sk