A. BASIC INFORMATION
| 1. Country | Czech Republic |
| 2. Name of the organisation | Tomas Bata University in Zlín |
| ID of the organisation | CZ70883521 |
| 3. Name of the faculty, institute, centre, etc. | Faculty of Technology |
| Its acronym | FT (TBU in Zlín) |
| 4. Name of the department, division, workplace, etc. | Polymer Centre |
| Its acronym |
| 5. City (town) | Zlín |
| 6. Street name and number | Nám. T.G. Masaryka 275 |
| 7. ZIP code | 762 72 |
| 8. Web page | http://cpm.ft.utb.cz/eng, http://cpm.ft.utb.cz/cze |
| Contact 1 | Contact 2 | |
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| 9. Contact person (name and position) | doc. Dr. Ing. Vladimír Pavlínek | prof. Ing. Petr Sáha, CSc. |
| 10. E-mail | pavlinek@ft.utb.cz | saha@utb.cz |
| 11. Phone | +420 57 603 1205 | +420 57 603 8040 |
| 12. Fax | +420 57 603 1444 | +420 57 603 2737 |
| 13. Mobile phone |
| 14. Research focus areas | applied rheology, materials, modelling, processing, technology |
| 15. Brief annotation |
The Polymer Center is research unit of Faculty of Technology. It is focused on basic, applied and industrial research. Its primary research directions are chemical reactions and physical processes which enable tailoring of selected properties of polymeric systems in the course of their preparation and manufacturing. The more concrete areas of research are: rheology of polymer melts and suspensions, electrorheology, unstable polymer flow, thermodynamics of polymeric systems, physical ageing, highly-filled polymeric systems, percolation phenomena, filler intercalation, origin and development of polymer structures, biodegradable polymers, phase interactions and interface phenomena, processing behaviour of polymers, demonstrations of smart behaviour. The research results will be utilized particularly in the plastics and rubber, shoemaking, textile and automotive industries, building, health care, and agriculture. In the pedagogic field attention is concentrated onto PhD’s studies. |
| 16. Last updated on | 2011-02-25 |
| R&D focus IS also oriented in automotive, aircraft or transportation | |
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B. PERSONAL AND ECONOMIC INFORMATION
| 1. Number of employees (ex average for the last 3 years) | Internal | 20 | External | 3 |
| R&D staff | 18 | Other staff | 2 | |
| Total (internal+external and R&D+other) | 23 | |||
| 2. Number of graduate (last year, usually 5th year) students (ex. average for the last 3 years) | Internal | External | ||
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| 3. Number of PhD. students (ex. average for the last 3 years) | Internal | 24 | External | 6 |
| Total (internal+external) | 30 | |||
| 4. R&D Budget/turnover (Organization or faculty or department, in thousands of EUR) | From public sources | 350 | From private sources | 35 |
| Total (public+private) | 385 | |||
C. DETAILED INFORMATION
1. R&D services (R&D services provided by organization or organizational part)
2. Laboratories (available laboratories with their equipment, offered serviced, etc.)
3. Certifications
4. Publications (number of impacted articles and publications in the last 3 years)
| Number of impacted articles and publications | 84 |
5. Patents, utility models and industrial designs (number of submitted or accepted in the last 3 years)
| Number of submitted | 26 | Number of accepted | 11 |
6. References (cooperations in the last 3 years, naming cooperation partners, common projects with short descriptions.)
7. Membership in organisations (networks, clusters, technology platforms, etc.)
