Suvacı Research Group Participated in the 3rd NANOSIS Workshop

7 May 2024

Led by the Sabancı University Nanotechnology Research and Application Center-SUNUM, supported by TÜBİTAK 1004, the NANOSIS platform met again at SUNUM at the third workshop held on May 7, 2024.

NANOSIS Platform aims to develop fast, economical and unique nanotechnological components, products and systems for medical follow-up and diagnosis. The NANOSİS Platform consists of 8 Universities, 1 of which is a Consultant/Service Provider, 12 Private Sector Institutions, 7 of which are Consultants/Service Providers, 22 institutions/organizations, 2 of which are Public Research Centers, and about 150 researchers.

As the project coordinator, Prof. Dr. Ender Suvaci shared the latest developments related to the project ‘Environment and Human Friendly Biocompatible Active and Integrated Systems that can be Used for Follow-up and Treatment’ with the participants.

Researchers Dr. Rasime Demirel, Dr. Seval Kınden, Dr students Gamze Yüksel, Sakhavat Dadashov, Beytullah Göl and Lira Uzbek presented the project poster and exhibited the prototype products obtained in the project. The prototype products attracted great interest from the participants.

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European Ceramic Society Summer School.

29-30 June 2023

PhD students from SRG Gamze Yüksel, Sakhavat Dadashov, Nisa Ergin and Master’s Student Buse Muslu Kop attended the European Ceramic Society (ECerS) summer school held in Lyon/France. Our students were entitled to be one of the 30 students who received a grant within the scope of summer school.

The program of this school was split into 2 parts: lectures in the morning and demonstrations on equipment in the afternoon. You can find the programme here.  

Seven lectures of one hour for each, gave a general overview on electron microscopies and associated techniques (SEM, TEM, in situ testing in SEM, EBSD), X-Ray tomography, images analysis and sample preparation by Focused Ion Beam :

  1. S. Christiansens, Fraunhofer-Institut für Keramische Technologien und Systeme IKTS “Low voltage SEM”
  2. T. Salminem, Microscopy Center, Tampere University of Technology “FIB/Sample preparation”
  3. R. Podor, CEA Marcoule “Image processing”
  4. L. Mancini, Zavod za gradbeništvo Slovenije “X-ray tomography”
  5. D. Rafaja, Institute of Materials Science, TU Bergakademie Freiberg “Transmission Electron Microscopy”
  6. K. Marquardt, Imperial college London “EBSD”
  7. S. Wang, Imperial college London “SEM in situ testing”

Demonstrations on state-of-the-art equipment available on the campus were organized. These demos of 1,5 hour were the opportunity to learn how to hold an experiment (how to set up the parameters to optimize the characterization) and to follow in real-time (and in some case in situ) the characterization of a ceramic materials. Eight demos run in parallel and were animated by a specialist of each technique. Low voltage SEM, EBSD, heating experiments in SEM, TEM observations and in situ tomography are examples of topics of these demos. Each attendee had the opportunity to follow four different demos during the two days. He/she had the opportunity to choose the most interesting demos depending on his/her research field.

There were 50 participants from 20 countries (Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italia, Italy, Norway, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, The Netherlands, Turkey, USA).

This School was sponsored by the JECS Trust.

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“My Environment, My World!” Environmental Cleaning Activity.

10 June 2022

An environmental cleaning event was held at Eskişehir Technical University Iki Eylül Campus within the scope of Climate Change Adaptation Year and 5 June World Environment Day. A total of 600 kg of waste was collected by the participants in the environmental cleaning activity. Approximately 150 kg of these wastes were collected as mixed packaging (glass, metal, plastic and paper) waste, and these wastes were sent to the licensed recycling facility and environmental benefits were provided within the scope of preventing 15 kg of greenhouse gas, saving 520 kwh of energy, saving 40 kg of raw materials and saving approximately 120 litres of oil.

Sakhavat Dadashov, our doctoral student from our research team, also participated in the event and won the first prize by collecting the most waste among the competitors and showed our respect for nature.