Associates of the Center of Excellence „Center for Synthesis, Processing and Characterization of Materials for Application in Extreme Conditions(CEXTREME LAB)” cooperate successfully with a large number of foreign institutions through the realization of international and bilateral cooperation projects, as well as through the signed cooperation protocols and agreements.

 

International projects:

 

1. IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency, Austria: Contemporary and new IF structural-first wall materials: Conditions of high thermal and electromagnetic fluxes (Principal Investigator: Jelena Stašić)
2. IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency, Austria: Behaviour of ICE reactor Materials under High Temperatures and High Energy Fluxes Obtained by medium/High-Intensity Pulsed Lasers (Team members: Jelena Stašić)
3. Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan: Development of Highly Microstructure-Controlled Ceramic Neutron Absorbers for Improving Safety of Fast Reactors (Team members: Jelena Maletaškić)
4. Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH-Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute, Germany / Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute (JASRI) SPring-8 facilitу, Japan: Stability and behaviour of the Wadsley-type vanadium oxide V6O13 at extreme conditions (Team members: Dejan Zagorac)
5. Italian National Agency of New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA), Rome, Italy (NATO Science for Peace and Security Programme): Explosive Trace Detection for STANDEX (EXTRAS) (Team members: Vladimir Pavkov)
6. Bakul Institute for Superhard Materials of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (ISM), Ukraine (EUREKA Multilateral Cooperation): Healthy livestock nutrition supplements for higher quality in food industry (Health Nutri) (Principal Investigator: Ivana Cvijović-Alagić, Team members: Branko Matović)
7. The Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia: Materials research at IBR-2M user facility (Principal Investigator: Branko Matović, Team members: Jelena Luković, Jelena Maletaškić, Dejan Zagorac)
8. The Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia: Residual stresses’ evolution in implant alloys (Principal Investigator: Ivana Cvijović-Alagić, Team members: Branko Matović, Vesna Maksimović)
9. The Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia: The dynamics of H₂O in minerals and ice in confined mesoporous space (Principal Investigator: Branko Matović, Team members: Dejan Zagorac)
10. The Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia: Nanomaterials in application in bioscience materials (Team members: Branko Matović, Jelena Zagorac)
11. The Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia: Quantum correlations in high entropy oxides with spinel structure (HESos) (Principal Investigator: Jelena Maletaškić, Team members: Emilija Nidžović, Aleksa Luković)
12. COST Action MP1206: Electrospun nano-fibers for bio-inspired composite materials and innovative industrial applications (Team members: Ljilјana Matović)
13. COST Action CA15202: Self-healing as preventive repair of concrete structures (Team members: Ljilјana Matović)
14. COST Action MP1208: Developing the Physics and the Scientific community for Inertial Confinement Fusion at the time of NIF ignition (Team members: Jelena Stašić)
15. COST Action CA21128: PROton BOron Nuclear fusion: from energy production to medical applicatiOns (ProBoNo) (Member of the Management Committee representing Serbia and member of the STSM Committee for grants approval: Jelena Stašić)
16. COST Action CA20130: European MIC Network-New paths for science, sustainability and standards (Euro-MIC); (Team members: Vesna Maksimović)
17. COST Action CA20126: Network for research, innovation and product development on porous semiconductors and oxides (NETPORE) (Team members: Milica Pošarac-Marković)
18. The University of Stuttgart, Germany: HPC-Europa3 grant (funded by the European Commission under H2020 Programme with grant No.730897), (Principal Investigator: Dejan Zagorac, Team members: Milan Pejić)
19. Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, StEM, Stuttgart, Lattice Modification in Carbon and nitrogen Ion-Implanted nanometric ceria (CeO₂), This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizont 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No.823717-ESTEEM3 (Principal Investigator: Branko Matović, Team members: Dejan Zagorac)
20. University of Catania, Italy: Erasmus+ КА103 (Principal Investigator: Ivana Cvijović-Alagić)
21. Tongji University, Shanghai, China: Erasmus+ КА107 (Principal Investigator: Ljilјana Matović)
22. Bakul Institute for Superhard Materials, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine: Erasmus+ КА103 (Principal Investigator: Branko Matović, Team members: Vladimir Pavkov)
23. Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China: Erasmus+ КА107 (Principal Investigator: Ljilјana Matović)
24. Faculty of Engineering, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia: Erasmus+ КА103 (Principal Investigator: Dejan Zagorac, Team members: Jelena Zagorac)
25. Agenzia Nazionale per le Nuove Tecnologie, L’energia e lo Sviluppo Economico Sostenibile, Italy / Stiftelsen Nilu, Norway (EU Horizon 2020): Virtual Centre for Distributed Atmospheric Sensing for Reduction of Pollution Pressures (VIDIS) (Team members: Vladimir Pavkov)

Bilateral cooperation projects:

 

1. Jošef Stefan Institut, Ljubljana, Slovenia: Synthesis of luminescent nanopowders of type R₂MoO₆:REE and their structural characterization by means of electron microscopy, (Contract No.: 06-00118/2017-09/51) (Team members: Branko Matović, Marija Prekajski Đorđević, Jelena Luković)
2. Ústava norganickej chémie Slovenská akadémia vied, Bratislava, Slovakia: Ultra-high temperature carbides for extreme environment applications, (Contract No.: 337-00-107/2019-09/09), (Principal Investigator: Branko Matović, Team members: Vesna Maksimović, Dejan Zagorac, Jelena Luković)
3. University of Bayreuth, Germany: Development of novel SiCN fibre-reinforced cordierite matrix composite with improved thermal shock resistance, (Contract No.: 451-03-01971/2018-09/09) (Team members: Branko Matović, Ivana Cvijović-Alagić, Vladimir Pavkov)
4. Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Zagreb, Croatia: Nanostructured Au-TiO₂ films on porous Al₂O₃ ceramics: synthesis and application in advanced oxidation processes, (Contract No.: 337-00-205/2019-09/29) (Principal Investigator: Branko Matović, Team members: Marija Prekajski Đorđević, Jelena Luković)
5. Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia: Jonski supstituisani hidroksiapatiti za primenu u inženjerstvu koštanog tkiva, (Contract No.: 337-00-205/2019-09/09) (Team members: Maria Čebela)
6. Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia: Modification, Characterization and Properties of Natural Sorbents, (Contract No.: 451-03-545/2015-09/06) (Principal Investigator: Ljilјana Matović)
7. Technische Universität Wien, Austria: Ferrites from bulk to nanoscale: Magnetic properties and energy-related application, (Contract No.: 337-00577/2021-09/6) (Principal Investigator: Maria Čebela)
8. Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany: ZnO/ZnS heterostructures from theory to the experiment (Contract No.: 451-03-01855/2019-09/1) (Principal Investigator: Jelena Zagorac, Team members: Jelena Luković)
9. Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China: Advanced technologies based on pulsed lasers for modification/processing and synthesis of selected metal materials (Contract No.: 451-02-818/2021-09/17) (Principal Investigator: Jelena Stašić, Team members: Dušan Božić)
10. Montanuniversität Leoben, Austria: Innovative solutions for production of light-weight aluminum alloy-basalt composites (Contract No.: 337-00-577/2021-09/39) (Principal Investigator: Ivana Cvijović-Alagić, Team members: Branko Matović, Vesna Maksimović, Jelena Maletaškić, Vladimir Pavkov)
11. State Scientific and Production Association “Scientific-Practical Materials Research Centre of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus”, Minsk, Belarus: Innovative highly-resistant intermetallic composites (Contract No.: 337-00-00230/2022-09/04) (Principal Investigator: Ivana Cvijović-Alagić, Team members: Branko Matović, Vesna Maksimović, Dejan Zagorac, Jelena Maletaškić, Vladimir Pavkov)
12. Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT Madras), Chennai, India: Computation-driven design of entropy stabilized fluorite structured ceramics and nanocrystalline coatings (Contract No.: 451-02-697/2022-09/10) (Principal Investigator: Branko Matović, Team members: Marija Prekajski Đorđević, Jelena Erčić, Ivana Cvijović-Alagić)
13. Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany: Compositional complex metal carbides and carbonitrides (Contract No.: 401-00-63/2022-09/6) (Principal Investigator: Branko Matović, Team members: Ivana Cvijović-Alagić, Dejan Zagorac, Jelena Erčić, Tamara Škundrić)
14. Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany: Unlocking the Potential of Spinel-Type High-Entropy Oxides for Energy-Related Applications (Contract No.: 337-00-253/2023-05/10) (Principal Investigator: Marija Prekajski Đorđević, Team members: Branko Matović, Jelena Maletaškić, Emilija Nidžović, Aleksa Luković)
15. Univerzita Komenskeho v Bratislave – Prirodnovedecka fakulta, Slovakia: Polymer composited development within their application in radiochemical wastewater treatment (Contract No.: 337-00-3/2024-05/09) (Team members: Ljilјana Matović)

Signed cooperation protocols and agreements:

 

1. State Scientific-Production Association “Scientific and Practical Materials Research, Center of NAS of Belarus (SPMRC), Belarus, Minsk.
2. Laboratory for Advanced Nuclear Energy, Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan.
3. Kurnakov Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
4. School of Materials and Physics, University of Mining and Technology (CUMT), China
5. Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
6. Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany
7. Okayama University of Science, Japan
8. Texas A&M University, USA
9. Institute of Materials Research, Slovak Academy of Science, Slovakia
10. Technicum Scientific Publishing GbR, Stuttgart, Germany (cooperation in the field of open-access publishing and Print-on-demand publishing)

Successful long-term international cooperation:

 

• Tokyo Institute of Technology, Research Laboratory for Nuclear Reactors, 2-12-1 O-okayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan
• Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
• Nanoparticle Process Technology, Department of Engineering Sciences, University of Duisburg–Essen, Duisburg, Germany
• Institute for Materials Science, University Stuttgart, Germany
• Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
• Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany
• Max-Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart, Germany
• Institut für Mineralogie, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Hannover, Germany
• Institute of Physical Chemistry, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania
• National Institute for Research and Development in Microtechnologies (IMT), Bucharest, Romania
• Joint Institute of Nuclear Research, JINR, Dubna, Russia
• School of Mechanical Engineering, Tianjin University of Commerce, China
• Jožef Stefan Institute, Department of Nanostructured Materials, Ljubljana, Slovenia
• School of Materials Science & Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
• Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, CAS, Shanghai, China
• Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-Madras), Chennai, India
• National Center for Electron Microscopy, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
• Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
• National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
• Belarusian National Technical University, Minsk, Belarus
• State Scientific and Production Association Scientific-Practical Materials Research Centre of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus
• Mechanical Engineering Faculty in Slavonski Brod, University of Osjek, Croatia
• Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia
• Erich Schmid Institute of Materials Science, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Leoben, Austria
• Technical University of Leoben, Leoben, Austria
• Bakul Institute for Superhard Materials, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine
• Tongji University, Shanghai, China
• Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, China
• Indian Institute of Technology – Kanpur (IIT-Kanpur), Kanpur, India
• Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH (MPIE), Düsseldorf, Germany
• University of Catania, Catania, Italy
• Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Zagreb, Croatia
• Faculty of Engineering, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia
• Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
• University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany