The European Ceramic Society

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Hungary

Thin Film Physics Laboratory - Institute for Technical Physics and Materials Science - Centre for Energy Research

Ceramic/graphene, ceramic/ carbon nanotube and bioceramic development

Director : Dr. Katalin Balázsi

Email : balazsi.katalin@energia.mta.hu

Phone : +36 1 392 2249

Address : Konkoly-Thege M. str 29-33, 1121 Budapest, Hungary

Website : www.thinfilms.hu, www.energia.mta.hu, www.mfa.kfki.hu

Director : Prof. Csaba Balázsi

Email : balazsi.katalin@energia.mta.hu

Research topics :

Basic and applied research. Analysis, analytical services, experimental.
Assistance and consulting. ISO Standardisation.
Topics: graphene and carbon nanotube reinforced silicon nitride composites, SiC and ZrO2 based
ceramics, powder, coating and sintered form of hydroxyapatite and bioceramics

Exceptional facilities :

  • Spark plasma sintering (SPS-3T-3-MIN), hot isostatic pressing (ABRA)
  • Attrition milling (Union Process laboratory and industrial)
  • Structural characterization (TEM, HREM, AFM, SEM, XRD, AES, XPS)
  • Mechanical (Instron) and tribological characterization (CSM)

Financial support programmes :

  • European funding: EU FP7, H2020
  • Regional fundings: M.ERANET, FLAG.ERA
  • National fundings : NKFIH, bilateral projects

Latest news

2025 ECerS International Ceramist Student Exchange Program – 3rd call!

In the frame of the 2025 ECerS International Student exchange program, ECerS is opening a first call to allow grants to European Students to attend the 2025 International Symposium on Green Processing for Advanced Ceramics (IGPAC 2025), organised by the Ceramic Society of Japan, from 5th to 9th October 2025 in Ise-Shima/Mie, Japan.

Jul 22, 2025
Next Deadline to apply to the JECS Trust for Mobility projects is 31st August 2025!

Please note that the decisions of the JECS Trust board will not be known before end of October 2025. Activities submitted for the deadline of 31st August 2025 for support from the JECS Trust should then not begin before November 2025.

Jul 22, 2025

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