Research Areas
Research Areas
Research in the Department is pursued in the form of both targeted basic research, which is mostly funded from grants, and contract-based collaboration with industrial companies on solving their specific problems. A broad range of addressed problems concerns primarily chemical aspects of materials sciences and engineering. Research into new materials and theoretical fundamentals of production process concerns in particular:
- Development of new types of glass and ceramics, including bioceramics and bioglass for bone implants, construction ceramics, glasses for waste immobilization, lead-free crystal glass, and fast ion conducting glasses
- Refractory fibrous composites with a cement binder
- High-strength gypsum-free cements and their use for refractory purposes
- Transport phenomena and their effect in the manufacture of traditional and modern ceramics
- Colloid-chemical phenomena in ceramic technologies
- Physical and mathematical modeling of glass melting furnaces and processes
- Reactivity and evaporation of silicate melts with regard to environmental and energy-related aspects of glass manufacture
- Chemical interaction of materials with the environment, mathematical description of interaction between glass and aqueous solutions
- Chemical resistance of glasses for medieval, pharmaceutical and food processing purposes
- Development of new applications of electron microscopy and micro-analytical methods for the assessment of inorganic materials and for the analysis of solid surfaces