We have joined in National Competence Centre MESTEC

28.1.2019
Institute of Physics of Materials has joined in National Competence Centre MESTEC. Main aim for establishing National Competence Centere (NCC) is to enhance complex model of efficient cooperation of research institutes and development capacities of companies for growth of technological competence in the area of smart components and technologies. Read article

Results of research of IPM were presented on 53rd meeting of the Academy Assembly of the CAS

14.1.2019
fesults of research of fatigue lifetime of railway axles with high service reliability and safety were presented on 53rd meeting of the Academy Assembly of the Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS). The cooperation between BONATRANS GROUP, a. s. and IPM CAS, led to development of new methodology for reliable lifetime prediction of railway axles. Read article

M. Heczko has been awarded the fellowship in the field of electron microscopy

9.10.2018
Mgr. Milan Heczko from the Institute of Physics of Materials (IPM) has been awarded the Thermo Fisher Scientific & Czechoslovak Microscopic Society fellowship for the support of scientific work of young researchers. Read article

IPM at Science Festival

10.9.2018
Thousands of visitors moved to our exposition at the Science Festival with JMK. We had the opportunity to let the children and their parents be amazed at the properties of the shape memory materials, the colors of the stresses displayed by the photoelastic phenomenon, and the effects of the eddy currents. Read article

Summer School of Electron Microscopy

5.8.2018
Summer School of Electron Microscopy was organized at our institute. In four days (31. 7. 2018 – August 3, 2018), those interested in this field focused mainly on work with transmission electron microscopes. The lecturer was prof. Antonín Dlouhý and the course was oriented to both beginners and advanced staff in the field. Read article

An honorary medal of Ernst Mach to Prof. Jean-Luc Martin

20.1.2018
On 18 January 2018, the president of the Czech Academy of Sciences awarded an honorary medal of Ernst Mach for merits in Physics to prof. Jean-Luc Martin. Prof. Martin has been cooperating with our institute for many years. On this occasion, the symposium Current trends in materials science held on 19 January 2018 in Prague, […] Read article

Mrs Jana Tajovská and Mr Stanislav Toncr were awarded for outstanding work

23.11.2017
Two excellent workers of our Institute, Mrs. Jana Tajovská and Mr. Stanislav Toncr, were awarded by a Letter of Gratitude of the CAS. The Letter was presented by the President of the CAS prof. E. Zažímalová in Prague on November 22. The IPM management congratulates both the honoured colleagues. Read article