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Associate professor

Dr. Alfréd Kállay-Menyhárd

PhD

H-1112 Budapest Műegyetem rakpart 3.

+3614633477

+36300196612

menyhard.alfred@vbk.bme.hu

Groups

Laboratory of Plastics and Rubber Technology

Faculty

Faculty of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology

Department

Department of Physical Chemistry and Materials Science

Research keywords: · modeling · Polymer physics · crystalline structure · crystallization kinetic · structure property correlations
Horizon Europe keywords: · Advanced materials · Circular economy · Manufacturing technologies · European Green Deal

Publications Awards Conferences Patents Other activities

Publications

1. Menyhárd, A., Varga, J., Molnár, G., Comparison of Different Beta-Nucleators for Isotactic Polypropylene, Characterization by DSC and Temperature-Modulated DSC (TMDSC) Measurements, J. Therm. Anal. Cal. 83. 625-630 (2006) https://doi.org/10.1007/s10973-005-7498-6

2. Varga, J., Menyhárd, A., Effect of Solubility and Nucleating Duality of N,N'-Dicyclohexyl-2,6-naphthalenedicarboxamide on the Supermolecular Structure of Isotactic Polypropylene, Macromolecules 40. 2422-2431 (2007) https: //doi.org/10.1021/ma062815j

3. Horváth, Z., Menyhárd, A., Doshev, P., Gahleitner, M., Vörös, G., Varga, J., Pukánszky, B., Effect of the Molecular Structure of the Polymer and Nucleation on the Optical Properties of Polypropylene Homo- and Copolymers, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 6. 7456-7463 (2014) https://doi.org/10.1021/am5008535

4. Menyhárd, A., Molnár, J., Horváth, Z., Horváth, F., Cavallo, D., Polyák, P., Self-organization of micro reinforcements and the rules of crystal formation in polypropylene nucleated by non- selective nucleating agents with dual nucleating ability, Polym. Cryst. 3. e10136 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1002/pcr2.1013 6

5. Molnár, J., Sepsi, Ö., Gaál, B., Zuba, Z., Dobrzyńska-Mizera, M., Menyhárd, A., Probabilistic numerical simulation for predicting spherulitic morphology from calorimetric crystallization conversion curves: An isothermal case , Mater. Des. 212. 110245 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2021.110245

Awards

2010 Faculty of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology at Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Paulik brothers – award
2011 HAS János Bolyai award for young researchers
2013 Outstanding Young TA&C Researcher in Central and Eastern Europe
2013 HAS József Varga university award
2017 ÚNKP-17-4-III New National Excellence Scholarship
2018 MTA János Bolyai Young Researcher Scholarship
2018 ÚNPP-18-4 New National Excellence Scholarship
2019 ÚNKP-19-4 New National Excellence Scholarship
2020 ÚNKP-20-4 New National Excellence Scholarship

Conferences

1. Molnár J., Gaál B., Zuba Z., Sepsi Ö., Menyhárd A., Simulation of crystalline morphology from calorimetric crystallization curves, CEEC-TAC5 & MEDICTA14, August 27-30, 2019, Rome, Italy (Invited lecture )

2. Molnár J., Móczó J., Jelinek A., Maloveczky A., Horváth F., Gaál B., Zuba Z., Sepsi Ö., Menyhárd A., Prediction of structure and properties from calorimetric curves, ERASMUS Summer School , September 2-6, Rome, Italy (Invited lecture)

3. Molnár J., Móczó J., Jelinek A., Maloveczky A., Horváth F., Gaál B., Zuba Z., Sepsi Ö., Menyhárd A., Predictive Structure-property Correlations in Semicrystalline Polymers, LPPSTA, Douliou , Taiwan, 2019 (Invited lecture)

4. Molnár J., Lelik A., Bubenko L., Szolnok D., Sepsi Ö., Menyhárd A., Simulation of crystalline morphology and optical properties from a simple calorimetric crystallization curve, ESTAC2022, Palermo, Italy 2022 (Keynote lecture)

5. Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry Conference (2017, 2019, 2023) (Organizer)

Patents

Doshev, P., Kheirandish, S., Pukánszky, B., Menyhárd, A., Gahleitner, M., High-impact EP random copolymers with specific nucleation, European application No, Eur. App. No. 10151444.6., (2011 )
The papent target nucellation concept of isotactic polypropylene and describe the way of processing iPP product with balanced and good mechanical and optical properties. This pattern is the property of Borealis GmbH. 

Other activities

Secretary of the Working Committee for Plastics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences 
Member of public body of Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Id: 17978)
Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry, Deputy editor-in-chief
International Confederation for Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry (ICTAC), Membership Secretary
Central and Eastern European Committee for Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry (CEEC-TAC), member