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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.

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".

Filip Tuomisto from University of Helsinki will give a presentation on studying high entropy alloys with positron annihilation spectroscopy, opportunities and challenges.

On November 9 2021 Ms Gabriela Kramer-Marek PhD from the Institute of Cancer Research (UK) will give a lecture on targeted molecular imaging: the path to smarter patient stratification and personalized treatment

NOMATEN received two crucial research devices in 2021 – the X-Ray Diffractometer and Scanning Electron Microscope that help Materials Characterization and Functional Properties of Materials groups perform their research. 

Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) is a powerful and versatile tool for characterizing materials at the micro- and nanoscale. Its strength lies in its sub-nanometer resolution and the possibility of detecting multiple, complementary signals simultaneously from the same region. Elisabeth Thronsen, Department of Physics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). 

 The next NOMATEN Seminar "On the nature of plastic fluctuations in crystalline materials" will take place on Tuesday Oct 26th at 1PM CET

NOMATEN Junior Seminar on OCT 19th at 1.00PM CET (13:00) by Magdalena Gawęda PhD (Gdańsk University of Technology): "Silicon oxycarbide – structural and functional characterization of novel biocoatings. Application of vibrational spectroscopy and imaging in organic and inorganic samples analysis"

On October 12th Kristiina Iljin PhD from VTT will give a presentation at NOMATEN seminar. This time we will host a lecture in the field of radiopharmaceuticals: Recombinant antibody technologies at VTT

World famous scientist Nick Jones PhD MEng will be our guest at next NOMATEN Seminar on Tuesday September. He wil give a presentation on Microstructural evolution in Refractory Metal Superalloys.