Looking Back at the Applied Mechanics 2025 Conference
24.5.2025 At the end of April, the Institute of Physics of Materials organized the Applied Mechanics 2025 conference, held in the picturesque town of Mikulov. The conference was chaired by Prof. Luboš Náhlík. This year marked the 26th edition of this traditional conference series, which was co-founded in 1999 by representatives from the Institute.
Opening of the Center for Electron Microscopy of the IPM in the pictures
14.5.2025 The Institute of Physics of Materials of the CAS opened a new Electron Microscopy Center on Monday, 12 May 2025. Take a look at how the opening looked in the presence of guests from academia, the public, and industry.
New Center for Electron Microscopy in Brno opens its doors to global science
13.5.2025 One third of the world’s production of electron microscopes comes from Brno, Czech Republic. It’s no coincidence – the city’s history in the field dates back to the 1950s, when the renowned physicist Armin Delong helped lay its foundations. The tradition continues to thrive, as evidenced by the new Center for Electron Microscopy, officially opened […]
Prof. Luboš Náhlík became Vice President of the Scientific Council of the CAS
24.4.2025 At the Assembly of the Academy of Sciences in March, Prof. Luboš Náhlík was elected by the delegates in the first round to the Scientific Council of the CAS (SC CAS) for the period 2025-2029.
IPM completed the construction of the Electron Microscopy Centre
19.3.2025 The construction of the Electron Microscopy Centre has been completed at the Institute of Physics of Materials of the CAS. In the new building, a total of 5 rooms for 2 transmission and 3 scanning electron microscopes, including the necessary facilities and laboratories for sample preparation have been built.
Entropy Matters! Czech Research Advances Materials Development
4.3.2025 A team of scientists from the Czech Academy of Sciences and Masaryk University, of which Prof. Mojmír Šob, emeritus scientist at the Institute of Physics of Materials, is also a member, has made a major contribution to research into the accumulation of impurities at the interface between crystals, a phenomenon having caused e.g. a series […]
