Good news from Oulu, Finland: our paper "Titania Nanofibers in Gypsum Composites: An Antibacterial and Cytotoxicology Study" was accepted for publication today in the Journal of Materials Chemistry B. This paper and written by Dr. Melinda Mohl, our contribution was related to the titania nano fibers. Melinda has done a great job in coordinating this multi-author effort! The relevance of this paper for the Lendület project is related to the synthesis of the 1D titania-gypsum composite material.
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We have had our photos taken earlier this week on 4th December, 2013. The first one shows all members (staff and students) of the Kónya-Kukovecz research group: The second photo zooms onto the members of the Lendület group. Actually, it is somewhat difficult to classify people as being "in" or "not in" the Lendület group because we all work so closely together. Anyway, we at least tried and the resulting photo is available both here and in the "Home" section of this website. Simon Szalai and Katalin Bencsik are missing from both photos. All photos were made by Zoltán Győri, thank you!
This year we made it to the XIX. International Conference on Chemistry in Baia Mare-Romania, a conference organized by the Chemistry Department of Hungarian Technical Scientific Society of Transylvania. http://chem.emt.ro/gb/ The main objective of the symposium is to allow specialists to cultivate the Hungarian terminology of chemistry, and to allow teachers, researchers, students and engineers to meet, present and discuss the latest issues in their field. Since 2002, the conference allows talented students to present their topics of interest in the Student Posters section, while from the year 2005, the Plenary Session for Doctoral Students allows young scholars to report on their research. Young and senior researchers can present their results at the plenary sessions divided in different sections. This year Erzsébet-Sára Bogya presented her work in the Applied Chemistry section. It was a great opportunity to meet old collegues, to establish new collaborations and to attend to many interesting presentations. Looking forward to the next years' conference which will be held at Cluj-Napoca (Kolozsvár). (blog entry authored by Erzsébet-Sára Bogya) We visited the SM-2013 conference in Novi Sad, Serbia. This biannual meeting is expertly and enthusiastically organized by my friend, Prof. Vladimir V. Srdic and his team. This year I enjoyed the conference a lot since I've had the chance to meet many old friends from the COST 539 "ELENA" Action and from EPFL Lausanne. The main focus of this conference is to give young students a stage where they can present their very first English talks to an international audience. This year two members of our team: Balázs Buchholcz and Viktor Havasi have presented their work. Congratulations to both guys, they have done a good job! Their presentations were clear, fluent and they were able to understand and answer the questions as well. I hope that they will think back to this event as the starting point of their highly successful international research career. For the record, let me also say that I have also given an invited talk about sol-gel derived porous nano composites. The last two photos were made by Balázs Buchholcz, thank you!
Student talks at KEN 2013Three students related to our group have given excellent presentations this week at the "Kémiai Előadói Napok" (Chemistry Lecture Days) organized by the University of Szeged. Congratulations to Dorina Dobó, Balázs Buchholcz and Viktor Havasi! Other publicityThe public visibility of our group was increased in October by two means: (i) I have given an introductory talk about 1D nanostructures in the Free University series of the University of Szeged, and (ii) the graphene nanoribbon ACS Nano paper was highlighted in the news of Rice University, the University of Szeged, and most recently, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
So far so good, now let us all get back to work and do some more nice science! Last week we attended the kick-off meeting of our new M-ERA.NET project "VOCSENSOR" in Taiwan. The meeting was expertly organized by the coordinator Prof. Wei-Fang Su and her team. We were honored to meet Prof. Jia-Yush Yen, Dean of the College of Engineering of NTU and Prof. Chao-Sung Lin, Head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. We are thankful for the assistance provided by the students and staff of the Department as well as by the kind help of Dr. Ming-Chung Wu, our friend from the Chang Gung University.
The VOCSENSOR project runs between 2013-2016. The consortium consists of the Spanish company Ingenieros Asesores, S.A, the Finnish company Nanordic Oy, the National Taiwan University and the University of Szeged. Funding is provided by the representative national agencies. In Hungary, funding is done through the OTKA NN 110676 project headed by Ákos Kukovecz. The goal of VOCSENSOR is to develop a cheap and compact sensor for the detection of volatile organic compounds (e.g. aromatics and aldehydes) in a work environment. The scientific objectives fit our Lendület targets well, so I have high hopes for a fruitful collaboration. I am in Taiwan this week at the kick-off meeting of our M-ERA.NET project VOCSENSOR. A more detailed report will follow next week. Right now I'm just here to brag about tonight a bit :)
Our host, Professor Wei-Fang Su managed to get us invited to the Official State Reception held in celebration of the 102th National Day of the Republic of China. We were really honored and privileged to attend this reception, which was given by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. David Y. L. Lin and Mrs. Lin. The other guests were high-ranking politicians, cultural and business leaders - all in all, a very interesting mixed crowd. I was especially pleased to meet Mr. Levente Székely, the official representative of Hungary in Taiwan, and discuss a bit about the possibilities of increasing the scientific collaboration between the Republic of China and Hungary. October starts with some splendid news for our group: we have a new postdoc! Ms. Erzsébet-Sára Bogya has won the prestigious postdoctoral award of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences to join us for the next two years. She will be responsible for the liquid/solid interface phenomenon investigations. I have high hopes that her presence will boost our productivity in this field. Work has already started, I'll keep you updated about the results. Until then: cheers and welcome, Betty! :)
The August holidays have flown away fast, now we are back in action again. This first post is to welcome all readers of this blog to the second academic year of our Lendület research group. We are headed into a busy, active Fall so be sure to stay tuned to all the news we'll be sharing here! (Click this link to learn more about my plans!)
I wish a happy and successful Autumn semester to all students, colleagues and readers of this blog! The first year of the Lendület project that finances our group ended on 30 June, 2013. It is now time to review what has been achieved. The single most important result is that the group has become fully operational. More details follow below.
Summarizing, the first year was a busy one for the MTA-SZTE “Lendület” Porous Nanocomposites Research Group. I believe that we are on the right track and that we will be able to continue delivering high quality research results. Have a nice summer everyone! |
AuthorÁkos Kukovecz is associate professor of chemistry and Head of the MTA-SZTE Lendület Porous Nanocomposites Research Group. He works at Szeged, Hungary. Archives
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