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NOMATEN Seminar

Peter Hähner PhD from JRC and Nuclear Safety and Security Directorate (Netherlands) will be our guest at next NOMATEN Seminar on Tuesday JANUARY 25 at 1PM CET.

JUNIOR NOMATEN Seminar

Anna Kosińska, scientist at NOMATEN's Materials Characterization Research Group, will give a presentation at our JUNIOR SEMINAR on January 18th: Mechanical and electrical properties of polymer materials exposed to ionizing radiation.

Seminar

Sri Tapaswi Nori PhD (Functional Properties Research Group at NOMATEN) will give an online lecture Elucidating Three-Dimensional Microstructural Evolution in Neutron Irradiated HT-UPS Steel on Tuesday JAN 11 2022.

NOMATEN at Twitter

In order to reach new people with our communication, we set up NOMATEN's Twitter account. Follow @NOMATEN_NCBJ and don't forget our LinkedIN profile!

Iwona Jozwik at SEM lab===*===NOMATEN Winter School in Paris

The Center of Excellence has now become an actual center, with 5 research groups in action. The second year of our existence has been one of quick growth in spite of the global pandemic crisis, which has affected research very much. The lack of international mobility and exchanges has so to speak been substituted with hard work in the offices and laboratories. For NOMATEN, this is a well-working recipe as the steps to build up a real research environment do depend on the individual and joint effort of our staff.

We should also acknowledge the institutional support of the National Center for Nuclear Research, hosting us as an operationally independent department. Likewise, the Teaming partners CEA (France) and VTT (Finland) have been – however virtual – supportive and encouraging external “team members”. The CoE is firmly backed by the funding of the Foundation for Polish Science and is under the umbrella of an International Scientific Committee headed by prof. Sergio Bertolucci.

Commercially pure titanium (CP-Ti) is one of the most widely used metallic material for biomedical applications owing to its unique combination of relatively low stiffness, biocompatibility and high corrosion resistance in the body fluids.

Seminar Dierk Raabe

At the end of the year we are happy to announce prof. Dierk Raabe from Max-Planck Institut für Eisenforschung as a special guest at our seminar! The topic of his presentation is "The Materials Science of Sustainable Metallurgy".

NOMATEN is looking for talented scientists in the areas of corrosion, advanced multifunctional materials science and novel radiopharmaceuticals.

JUNIOR SEMINAR

Tungsten is a promising candidate material for the wall of a future fusion reactor due to its low erosion yield and low hydrogen solubility. However, fusion neutron irradiation will induce radiation defects in the material which can strongly increase hydrogen retention. Therefore, it is important to study the mechanism of defect creation and its influence on hydrogen retention in tungsten.

Group photo at the venue===*===Winter School attendees at CEA-Saclay Nuclear Centre (LECI Hot Cels Lab)===*===Opening session day 1===*===Poster session day 3

About 50 scientists from Poland, Finland and France attended NOMATEN Winter School hosted by CEA in Paris on November 16-19. While sessions have been hosted at the venue in the centre of Paris, School's attendees visited CEA-Saclay Nuclear Centre infrastructure at the last day of the event. The topic of this year's school was "Modelling of the materials behaviour under irradiation".



This project has received funding from the European Union Horizon 2020 research and innovation
programme under grant agreement No 857470 and from European Regional Development Fund
via Foundation for Polish Science International Research Agenda PLUS programme grant
No MAB PLUS/2018/8.
Poland
The project is co-financed from the state budget within the framework of the undertaking of the Minister of Science and Higher Education "Support for the activities of Centers of Excellence established under Horizon 2020".

Grant: 5 143 237,70 EUR
Total value: 29 971 365,00 EUR
Date of signing the funding agreement: December 2023

The purpose of the undertaking is to support entities of the higher education and science system that have received funding from the European Union budget in the competition H2020-WIDESPREAD-2018-2020/WIDESPREAD-01-2018-2019: Teaming Phase 2. in the preparation, implementation and updating of activities, maintenance of material resources necessary for carrying out activities, acquisition and modernization of scientific and research apparatus, maintenance and development of personnel potential necessary for the implementation of activities, and dissemination of the results of scientific activities.