A team of physicists of the Czech Academy of Scienceshas unveiled a novel battery electrolyte that could to reshape the future of energy storage—enhancing stability, simplifying production, and extending battery lifespan.
Mykhailo Khytko, a solar energy scientist and father of two-year-old Mark, shows that achieving balance between demanding scientific work and parenthood is possible. This year, he was one of the recipients of the prestigious Martina Roeselová Memorial Fellowship, which helps young scientists continue cutting-edge research while parenting.
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.
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.
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.
The latest episode of the popular series Nezkreslená věda focuses on a key topic of our time – the photovoltaic harnessing of the Sun's energy.
We are pleased to announce the 21st IUVSTA Summer School on Physics at Nanoscale 2024, continuing the tradition of successful summer schools on nanostructures, surfaces and thin films.
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.
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.
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".
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.
Professor Chien-Cheng Kuo and a group of 14 talented students from the National Sun Yat-Sen University in Taiwan recently embarked on an unforgettable journey to the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Their mission was to delve into the world of cutting-edge research and gain invaluable real-world insights.
