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Seminar of Dr. Anton Chyrkin, Chalmers

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On Friday, 14th February 2025, we had a pleasure to host Dr. Anton Chyrkin from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, who delivered a seminar within the Advanced Materials Centre meetings. Dr. Chyrkin is a leading scientist in the field of high-temperature corrosion of alloys. He delivered a talk: “Breakaway Oxidation of Ferritic Stainless Steels in … Read more

Visit of Muhammad Saleem Akhtar from WUT

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We had a pleasure of hosting Muhammad Saleem Akhtar, PhD student from Warsaw University of Technology (supervisor: Prof. Tomasz Wejrzanowski). Saleem spent two weeks (3.02-14.02) in Gdańsk. He has been learning and carrying out measurements of oxygen evolution reaction (OER) on electrodes prepared at WUT.

PhD defence – Miao Yu

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On 12th February I attended PhD defense at DTU Energy of Miao Yu. The thesis topic was “Intermediate-Temperature Solid Oxide Electrolysis Cells“. I had a pleasure to be a co-supervisor of Miao Yu, with the main supervisor Professor Ming Chen from DTU Energy. Miao performed very well, her experiments are really impressive and wish her … Read more

Presentation of guest PhD student from KTU

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On Thursday, 21st November we have enjoyed a presentation by a guest PhD student Mohamed Ahmed Baba from Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania, entitled: “Laser-induced micro/nanostructure of functional materials”. Mohamed is a specialist in laser processing of materials, particularly in femto-second laser applications. These lasers offer very interesting possibilities to modify materials with limited redeposition/melting … Read more

Farewell to Erasmus visiting student Md Sohanur Rahman

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On Thursday, 14th November we had a final meeting with Md Sohanur Rahman, who visited us for 3 months within the Erasmus+ exchange programme from TU Chemnitz. Mr. Rahman worked on galvanic deposition of electrodes for alkaline electrolysis. Based on the Raney 2.0 composition, we tried to deposit the coatings on different substrates varying the … Read more