The Committee of the American Ceramic Society elected Dr. Csaba Balázsi as this year’s Fellow

The Committee of the American Ceramic Society (ACerS) elected  Dr. Csaba Balázsi, Scientific Advisor of the Institute of Technical Physics and Materials Science, Centre for  Energy Research, Eötvös Loránd Reserach Network as this year’s Fellow. Dr. Balazsi was elected by ACerS on June 1, 2021. The American Ceramic Society (ACerS) has Read more…

Ferenc Mezei received the Lise Meitner Award

The Centre for Energy Research (EK-CER) is proud to announce and congratulate to Professor Ferenc Mezei, who has received the 2021 Gothenburg Lise Meitner Award, a prestigious prize of the Chalmers University of Technology (Gothenburg, Sweden, https://www.chalmers.se/en/centres/gpc/activities/lisemeitner/Pages/default.aspx). Ferenc Mezei has strong relations and long history with EK-CER and the Budapest Read more…

Ceramics and graphene open up new possibilities for bone-like materials in the developments of EK MFA researchers

Researchers at the Institute of Technical Physics and Materials Science, Centre for Energy Research of the Eötvös Lóránd Research Network (EK MFA) the firstly produced the gradient-structured Si3N4 ceramics with few layers graphene by attritor milling and hot isostatic pressing. Development was a part of the “Graphene Flagship” FLAG-ERA Joint Read more…

A new H2020 neutron research project of the ELKH Centre for Energy Research was launched in January for the industrial introduction of an international materials testing standard

The researchers of the ELKH Centre for Energy Research (ELKH CER) have won an EU H2020 project proposal outstanding in terms of promoting innovation in Hungary. The CER staff of the Neutron Spectroscopy Department received the nearly 350 k€ project grant three-year for the development and introduction of a new Read more…

A cooperation agreement has been signed between the Centre for Energy Research and the Moroccan Centre National de l’Energie, des Sciences et des Techniques Nucléaires

On 19 January 2021, the Centre for Energy Research and the Moroccan Centre National de l’Energie, des Sciences et des Techniques Nucléaires (CNESTEN) signed a cooperation agreement. The event took place on-line due to the pandemic. The parties agreed to utilize the research reactor in Budapest, to cooperate on several Read more…

An international panel of experts has approved the next design phase of the first fusion power plant with a Hungarian nuclear expert member

An independent panel of experts reviewed the R&D and design work of EUROfusion, the European fusion research organization, at DEMO, the future demonstration fusion power plant, from 19 to 25 November 2020. The Hungarian member of the 5-member international body is Prof. Dr. Attila Aszódi, professor of the Institute of Read more…