Jakub Holzer receives prestigious Brno Ph.D. Talent award

26.4.2019
Ing. Jakub Holzer, a CEITEC Ph.D. student in the program Advanced Materials and Nanosciences, receives the prestigious Brno Ph.D. Talent award. He is one of only 25 recipients of this award, which brings him 300,000 CZK for the next three years to support his research. Read article

Support of excellent research of Ivana Miháliková

1.3.2019
The diploma thesis of Bc. Ivana Miháliková will be in 2019 supported by the Rectr´s programme – Excellent diploma thesis grant of the Grant agency of the Masaryk University. Read article

Reopening of reconstructed Creep Lab

22.2.2019
On February 20, 2019, we have restarted operations in our Creep Lab no. 2 after a complete reconstruction of the floor cover and the load bearing frame supporting the individual creep machines. Read article

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