Jiří Henych has won the 2020 Otto Wichterle Prize

June 23th 2020 at Villa Lanna, the director of the Czech Academy of Sciences professor Eva Zažímalová awarded  young scientists with the Otto Wichterle Prize. One of them – Ing. Jiří Henych, Ph.D. – is employed at the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, in the Department of Materials Chemistry. The Prize, named in honour of Prof. […]
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Michael Londesborough guest on the show Home Alone

Our colleague, Michael Londesborough, was a guest on the program Sama doma on Tuesday, May 19th, 2020. Michael Londesborough introduced borane chemistry and its history, talked about his relationship to the molecules he prepares, and demonstrated several experiments related to the development of rocket fuel. Link.  
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Seminar Wednesday February 12: Experimental insight into organometallic and inorganic materials: Comprehensive XRPD, ssNMR AND DFT study

  The seminar will take place at conference room of UACH on Wednesday, February 12 at 1:30 p.m.   Experimental insight into organometallic and inorganic materials: Comprehensive XRPD, ssNMR AND DFT study Libor Kobera  (Ústav makromolekulární chemie AV ČR, v.v.i.) Organometallic and inorganic systems are widely used in chemical industry for ion exchange, sorption, catalysis, […]
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Bohumil Štíbr passed away on January 7th, 2020.

  To the memory of Professor Bohumil Štíbr Bohumil Štíbr, everywhere known as Bob, was one of the founders of the unique Czech school of boron chemistry, established in the former Czechoslovakia at the beginning of the 1960‘s. He does not need too much introduction, being known to every borane chemist in the world and […]
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Seminar Tuesday November 26: SELECTIVE ION-BINDING PROPERTIES OF RHODAMINETRANSITION METAL BICHROMOPHORIC HYBRIDS AND NOVEL RHODAMINE DERIVATIVES

  The seminar will take place at conference room of UACH on Tuesday, November 26 at 1 p.m. Speaker: Keith Man-Chung Wong  (Department of Chemistry, South University of Science and Technology of China Shenzhen, China) SELECTIVE ION-BINDING PROPERTIES OF RHODAMINETRANSITION METAL BICHROMOPHORIC HYBRIDS AND NOVEL RHODAMINE DERIVATIVES In this seminar, some bichromophoric sensory assemblies, from the […]
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7th interdisciplinary ALMA conference

7th interdisciplinary ALMA conference took place at University Library in Bratislava, Slovakia, on October 16-18, 2019. ALMA conference was focused on research, technology, history and conservation/restoration of the fine art. Organizing institutions: Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava – Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology, University Library in Bratislava, Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, Institute of Inorganic […]
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