Galář received the Award of the Minister of Education for Educational Excellence

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Pavel Galář was presented the Award of the Minister of Education, Youth and Sports for outstanding educational activities at a ceremony on 19 November 2024 at the Liechtenstein Palace. The award serves as a recognition of specific pedagogical achievements that significantly enrich education at universities. The respected physicist and teacher works at the Faculty of Chemical Engineering of the University of Chemical Technology in Prague and at the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences.

For his research on perovskites Aleš Vlk received Milan Odehnal Prize

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Aleš Vlk ranked third in the Competition of Scientific Papers of Young Physicists for the Milan Odehnal Prize 2024. The award ceremony took place at a meeting of the physics department of the Prague branch of the Union of Czech Mathematicians and Physicists on 16 October 2024 at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of Charles University in Prague. 

In Cukrovarnická, the Sun shines even at night

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Even neighbourhood festivals are influenced by fashion trends. On the third Saturday in September, a part of Cukrovarnická Street was traditionally transformed into a friendly and sunny neighbourhood space. This year's Zažít město jinak (Experience the City Differently) event ran along the lines of the circular economy – clothes and books were exchanged, photovoltaic devices were demonstrated and there was also positive chemistry.

Advanced Multiscale Materials for Key Enabling Technologies (AMULET project)

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Multiscale materials are assembled from different types of nanomaterials, which themselves have unusual properties. By combining them together and integrating them into higher order hierarchies, smart matter with unique functionalities and surprising applications in many different fields can be obtained.  Research with this focus is pursued by a consortium of eight partners from academia and research, led by the Jaroslav Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences.

Great success of the CzechNanoLab+ modernisation project

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The large research infrastructure CzechNanoLab, which LNSM is part of, succeeded greatly in the the call OP JAK – Research Infrastructures I., which was was organised by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic. The modernisation project CzechNanoLab+, which has received a staggering 78 points out of 80, making it the most successful project in this call, received the requested funding with a budget of 361 million without any cuts, for equipment modernisation and innovation. The reports of the evaluation committees were published on 29 December 2023.

Filip Matějka has succeeded with his lecture at the Materials Research Society meeting

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The award for the best student lecture at one of the world's most important materials conferences was awarded to Filip Matějka, a PhD student working at the Institute of Physics. At the Fall Meeting of the Materials Research Society in Boston as part of a symposium on plasma technologies, he presented a lecture entitled "Unlocking the Limits of Plasma-Activated Liquids and Plasma Synthesis of Silicon Nanoparticles".

Material genetics will be pursued by the AMULET project, which succeeded in the Excellent Research Call

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Multiscale materials are assembled from different types of nanomaterials, which themselves have unusual properties. By combining and integrating them into higher-order hierarchies, smart matter with unique functionalities and surprising applications in many different fields can be obtained. A consortium of eight partners from academia and research, led by the J. Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences, has received financial support from the Programme Johannes Amos Comenius of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports. Specifically, it was the Excellent Research Call aimed at supporting research with the potential for excellent results applicable in practice.