Projects & Collaborations
Projects
National projects
Slovak Research and Development Agency (APVV):
Project APVV-21-0039 [ongoing]: M² group is the coordinator (Monfort)
Photochemically versatile materials for water treatmentProject APVV-21-0053 [ongoing]: M² group is a collaborator (Monfort)
Semiconductor gas sensors with intrinsic memory based on resistive switching
Scientific Grant Agency of the Slovak Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport (VEGA):
Project VEGA No. 1/0319/23 [ongoing]: M² group is the coordinator (Motola)
Photoinduced production of hydrogen from biomass using anodic nanostructuresProject VEGA No. 1/0062/22 [ongoing]: M² group is a collaborator (Monfort)
New generation of chemiresistive gas sensors with capacitor-like electrode arrangement and built-in memoryProject VEGA No. 1/0276/15 [completed]: M² group is the coordinator (Plesch)
Semiconductor oxides for applications in photocatalysis and sensors
International projects
Horizon 2020 MSCA COFUND SASPRO2 programme (grant agreement No. 945478):
Project No. 3305/03/02 [ongoing]: Olivier Monfort is the scientist-in-charge
Investigation of Newly Synthesized MXene-based Solar Driven Photocatalysts in Environmental Remediation and Hydrogen Production (PhotoMXene)
CHINESE-SLOVAK bilateral project financed by the Slovak Research and Development Agency (APVV):
Project No. SK-CN-23-0002 [ongoing]: M² group is the coordinator on the Slovak side (Monfort)
Innovative iron-based photoactive materials for sustainable wastewater treatments (INOPHER)
FRENCH-SLOVAK bilateral projects financed by (i) the Slovak Research and Development Agency (APVV), (ii) the French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation (MESRI) via Campus France and the French Institute of Slovakia, and (iii) the Slovak Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport (MSVVaS):
Project No. SK-FR-22-0002 [ongoing]: M² group is the coordinator (Monfort)
Solar-active nanostructured materials for innovative remediation of water contaminated by pharmaceuticals (SOLAREM)
Consolidation of collaboration between ICCF and FNS CU [completed]: M² group is the coordinator (Monfort)
Use of solar energy for the degradation of emerging pollutants in wastewatersACCES 2021 [completed]: M² group is the coordinator on the Slovak side (Monfort)
Analysis, characterization and remediation of contaminated waters and soilsPARCECO 2021 [completed]: M² group is the coordinator on the Slovak side (Monfort)
Inorganic compounds for environmental applications: synthesis, characterization and analysis
We are looking for partners: EU Green Deal (H2020), Visegrad fund (V4), and any other international projects!
PhD projects
Grant of the Comenius University Bratislava for Young Scientists (GUK):
Project No. UK/24/2023 [completed]: M. B. Hanif is the PI
Investigating the effect of Me-(Mo, Cu) doping on the proton-conducting BaCe0.9-xY0.1O3-δ electrolyte at intermediate temperature SOFCsProject No. UK/226/2023 [completed]: A. Madhusudhan is the PI
Photochemically Versatile CuFe2O4/rGO materials for environmental remediationProject No. UK/3/2022 [completed]: M. B. Hanif is the PI
Improve the performance and densification of LSGM electrolyte at a lower sintering temperature (~1000 °C) by adding rGO through the sol-gel combustion methodProject No. UK/180/2022 [completed]: S. Gowrisankaran is the PI
Facile synthesis of CuFe2O4 for photo-induced wastewater treatmentProject No. UK/202/2020 [completed]: G. K. Thirunavukkarasu is the PI
Enhancement of photocatalytic activity in cerium doped titanium dioxide nanotubes annealed at different reducing atmospheres
Collaborations
CEITEC
Central European Institute of Technology in Brno, Czech Republic
CNRS
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
Czech Academy of Sciences
Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Husinec-Řež, Czech Republic
Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics
Comenius University Bratislava, Slovakia
Institut de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand
Team Photochemistry, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Institute of Space Technology
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Pakistan
International Laser Center
Department of Laser Technology, Bratislava, Slovakia
Manipal Academy of Higher Education
Department of Atomic and Molecular Physics, Manipal, India
Polish Academy of Sciences
Jerzy Haber Institute of Catalysis & Surface Chemistry, Poland
Shenzhen University
College of Electronics and Information Engineering, China
Slovak Academy of Sciences
Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Bratislava, Slovakia
Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava
STU Centre for Nanodiagnostics, Slovakia
Faculty of Chemical and Food Engineering, Slovakia
Technical University of Ostrava
Institut of Environmental Technology, Czech Republic
Université Clermont Auvergne
Faculty of Chemistry, Clermont-Ferrand, France
University of Limerick
Department of Physics, Republic of Ireland
University of Pardubice
CEMNAT - Center of Materials and Nanotechnologies, Czech Republic
Department of Biological and Biochemical Sciences, Czech Republic
University of Patras
Department of Chemical Engineering, Greece
Wroclaw Medical University
Faculty of Medicine, Department of Microbiology, Poland
Xi'an Jiatong University
State Key Laboratory of Mechanical Behaviors of Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, China