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Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials and Sensing Devices
Institute of Physics participates in one of the seven Scientific Center of Excellence
At the fifth meeting of the National council for science, higher education and technological development held on November 10, 2014, minister of science, education and sports, dr. Vedran Mornar, declared seven scientific centers of excellence. Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials and Sensing Devices unites four key research units: photonics and quantum optics, new functional materials, physics and technology of ion beams, and graphene and related two-dimensional structures. First three units are led by scientists from Ruđer Bošković Institute: dr. Mario Stipčević, dr. Mile Ivanda and dr. Milko Jakšić.
The research unit focused at Graphene and related 2D Structures (G2D) is led by dr. Marko Kralj from the Institute of Physics. Graphene and its potential application are in the last 10 years in the focus of research interest of a large number of scientists. Moreover, discoveries of whole new classes of 2D crystals in the past few years intensifies this research direction even more. The potential of graphene and related 2D structures is recognized globally, e.g. EU will invest one billion Euro in the period 2013-2023 to fund development of future technologies based on graphene. Graphene and 2D materials are more often mentioned in the context of green technologies, e.g. as a platform for future ultra-efficient solar cells or cost-effective batteries. The G2D core team of 12 researchers from the Institute of Physics (M. Kralj,D. Aumiler, T. Ban, A. Šiber, T. Vuletić, I. Živković), Ruđer Bošković Institute (M. Buljan, I. Bogdanović-Radović, A. Gajović, I. Halasz, P. Lazić) and Faculty of Natural Sciences (H. Buljan), recognized great potential of joint focused research. The G2D’s mission is to set frame for the top-level research and competitiveness at international level aiming at the development of new 2D materials. The goal of the G2D research unit is to gather team of scientists capable to attract funding from the most competitive EU and other international funds, as well as to promote scientific research motivated, inter alia, by applications of direct interest for Croatian hi-tech and small and medium enterprises.
Mosaic illustration of some of our results and methods that will be utilized in the G2D research unit of the CEMS center.