Projects

National

Vývoj keramických nanovlákien na báze kovov získaných z recyklácie odpadov technológiou elektrostatického zvlákňovania
Development of ceramic nanofibers based on metals obtained from the waste recycling and prepared by needle less electrospinning.
Program: VEGA
Project leader: Ing. Múdra Erika, PhD.
Duration: 1.1.2023 – 31.12.2025
HaTo-Coat – Tvrdé a húževnaté vrstvy na báze boridov a nitridov pripravené progresívnymi PVD technikami
Hard and tough boride and nitride-based coatings prepared by advanced PVD techniques
Program: SRDA
Project leader: doc. RNDr. Lofaj František, DrSc.
Annotation: The project aims at the increase of fracture toughness of thin hard PVD boride- and nitride based coatings deposited using advance sputtering techniques including HiPPMS and HiTUS while keeping their high thermal and oxidation resistance by means of employment of the intrinsic and extrinsic factors. The main idea is based on a „new design“ of hard coatings including simultaneous contribution from the modification of chemical composition, morphology and structure of the coatings via exploitation of the potential of structure control provide by HiPPMS and HiTUS technologies with high level of sputtered material ionization and high density of working gas plasma, respectively. Both technologies result in the coatings with high densities and allow us to modify the nanostructures, size of the nanocrystallites, modify chemical composition etc. and subsequently, to obtain different physical properties of the coatings. The activities of the project are focused on the development of transition metals-based boride and nitride coatings with improved mechanical (hardness > 30 GPa) and tribological properties (coefficient of friction < 0.3) for extreme conditions (> 1000°C, aggressive oxidation environment, etc.). The main effort will be oriented toward the elimination of the main drawbacks of hard coatings, i.e. toward the increase of their inherently low fracture toughness and increase of their oxidation resistance without hampering their hardness via understanding of the mechanisms of nanostructure evolution, decomposition of the high entropy multicomponent solid solutions, formation of stable phases and their relationships to mechanical and tribological properties. The research activities include also the correlations of the experimental results with the ab initio predictions based on theoretical models related to atomic structure and electronic configuration of the studied systems.
Duration: 1.7.2022 – 30.6.2025
Štúdium vplyvu podmienok prípravy vzoriek mikrometrických rozmerov fokusovaným iónovým zväzkom na ich mechanické vlastnosti
Stufdy of the influence of sdamples preparation conditions of micrometric dimensions by focused ion beam on their mechanical properties
Program: VEGA
Project leader: Ing. Vojtko Marek, PhD.
Duration: 1.1.2022 – 31.12.2024
ADHEC – Nové vysokoentropické keramické materiály pre pokročilé aplikácie
New high-entropy ceramic materials for advanced applications
Program: SRDA
Project leader: prof. RNDr. Dusza Ján, DrSc.
Duration: 1.8.2020 – 30.6.2024
Nanomechanické skúšanie a deformovateľnosť vysokoentropických ultra vysokoteplotných keramických materiálov
Nanomechanical testing and deformability of high-entropy ultra-high temperature ceramics
Program: VEGA
Project leader: MSc. Csanádi Tamás , PhD.
Duration: 1.1.2021 – 31.12.2023
HEMBO – Štruktúra a vlastnosti reaktívne spekaných vysoko entropických kovových diboridov
Structure and poroiperties of reactively sintered high-entropy metal diborides
Program: SRDA
Project leader: Ing. Sedlák Richard, PhD.
Duration: 1.2.2022 – 31.12.2023