Let us conclude this week with some good news! The paper "Synthesis and Characterization of Composition-gradient Based CdxZn1-xSeyS1-y Heterostructured Quantum Dots" was accepted for publication in Reaction Kinetics, Mechanisms and Catalysis on Friday. This is a very nicely executed, detailed report on the single-pot synthesis of quantum dot heterostructures and on their photo luminescent properties. The work was performed and the manuscript was written by Zoltán Győri who is a full-time member of our Lendület group. Congratulations!
0 Comments
The annually organized International Conference on Chemistry has returned to Cluj-Napoca , after a 2 year tour in Băile Felix and Baia Mare, Romania. This year was also special because we celebrated the XX. anniversary of the conference that was first time organized in 1995. Interesting topics were presented in the plenary lectures, we learned about shape-memory polymers, biopolymers, designer drugs and the extreme danger that they present. The PhD presentation award was won by Czikó Melinda, who works in a strong collaboration with our department. On the behalf of MTA-SZTE "Lendület" Porous Nanocomposites Research Group Erzsébet Sára Bogya gave an interesting talk about sessile droplet evaporation study from macroporous carbon nanotube films. /Blog entry written by Dr. Erzsébet-Sára Bogya/
Good news today! :) Our paper "Influence of Gold Additive on the Stability and Phase Transformation of Titanate Nanostructures" was accepted for publication in RSC Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. The first author is Péter Pusztai and the paper itself was expertly managed by Prof. János Kiss. The revision process in this case proved to be exceptionally fruitful because the referee opinions contained valuable criticism and truly interesting questions. In out attempt to answer these questions we were able to suggest a new mechanism that explains the surprising difference between the thermal behavior of H-form and Au-exchanged trititanate nanotubes and nanowires. While gold appears to catalyze the transformation of Au decorated nanotubes into anatase, it actually prevents the same process from happening in Au decorated nanowires. The explanation is nice, the XPS results are particularly nice, so please go ahead and read the paper when available! :)
All members of the MTA-SZTE "Lendület" Porous Nanocomposites Research Group have contributed actively to the success of the 6th Szeged International Workshop on Advances in Nanoscience (SIWAN 2014). I believe the meeting went quite well. The scientific level was high (as indicated by the kind feedback of some colleagues), there were only minor technical issues and most importantly, SIWAN managed to fulfill its original purposes:
It was a very nice gesture from Prof. Maurizio Prato (Trieste, Italy) to commemorate the first SIWAN in one slide. He was here with us back then and he came again now to see the small workshop evolve into a conference. I'm proud of ourselves, although I'm sad that the old logo has been replaced by the new professional graphics. The old one was one of my earliest attempts at POV-Ray :-) SIWAN would not have been possible without the help of many people who did not get so much spotlight as Zoltán Kónya and myself. First and foremost, Erna Sári from AKCongress and her team ensured that all administrative and financial issues are taken care of. We enjoyed the support of the director of Akadémiai Kiadó, Balázs Réffy and were assisted by our team of young colleagues who made sure that both sessions run smoothly, are documented well and that everyone gets assistance as soon as s/he asks for it. Thank you all! Just for the record, let us keep a copy of the program of SIWAN 6 accessible here :)
Last week was busy here at Szeged. Besides the VOCSENSOR project meeting and SIWAN 2014, our paper "Thermal decomposition and reconstruction of CaFe-layered double hydroxide studied by X-ray diffractometry and 57Fe Mössbauer spectroscopy" was accepted for publication in Journal of Molecular Structure. This paper summarizes a large body of experimental work from the Ph.D. thesis of Valéria Bugris. The paper was expertly managed by Dr. István Pálinkó. Congratulations to all co-authors! :)
The 2014 annual meeting of the VOCSENSOR project was hosted by the University of Szeged on 12-13 October, 2014. All four parties were represented. Major achievements of the meeting were:
The meeting was directly followed by the 6th Szeged International Workshop on Advances in Nanoscience (SIWAN 2014), an international conference with over 150 participants from 26 countries. The coordinator of the VOCSENSOR project, Prof. Wei-Fang Su has introduced the VOCSENSOR project to this large audience.
September is concluded with splendid news! Our paper "Green synthesis of biomimetic CePO4:Tb nanostructures by the simplest morphology control" has been accepted for publication in RSC Advances today. This paper summarizes a huge amount of careful experimental work by Péter Pusztai. He discovered a beautifully simple chemical method to control the morphology of CePO4 nanostructures. It is worth mentioning that the paper was accepted to RSC Advances as it was submitted, that is, absolutely no revisions were needed. Congratulations Péter!
Good news today. Our paper "Influence of synthesis conditions on formation of core-shell titanate-ferrite particles and processing of composite ceramics" has been accepted for publication in Ceramics International. I am especially happy about this paper because this is the first one that I co-author with my friend Prof. Vladimir V. Srdic from the University of Novi Sad. Moreover, the paper itself is also nice scientifically and worth reading for anyone interested in electroceramics.
I am very pleased to report that our young friend from the Baku State University, Mr. Elvin Malikov has won a highly competitive mobility grant of the Science Development Foundation under the President of Azerbaijan. This will enable Elvin to spend some time with us at Szeged again and continue with his experiments in nanotechnology. It is worth noting that this success is the direct consequence of our former collaboration with the Baku State University and the University of Oulu, Finland, in the framework of the FP7 INCO project "NAPEP". It is also worth noting that Elvin's application was the only successful one from the whole Baku State University and also, the only one from Azerbaijan in the field of chemical sciences. Congratulations Elvin, we look forward to working with you again!
This is just a quick entry to mark the end of August and the beginning of the Fall semester next Monday. Although August was really busy for me from a purely personal point of view, science has largely been on holiday. Nevertheless, we still managed to get one more paper ("Mechanochemically assisted synthesis of pristine Ca(II)Sn(IV)-layered double hydroxides and their amino acid intercalated nano composites") accepted in the Journal of Materials Science this month, thanks to the keen determination of the lead author, Dr. István Pálinkó.
My plans for this semester besides teaching include: - SIWAN 6, - annual meeting of the VOCSENSOR project, - completion of the SusFoFlex project, - carrying on with the research plan of the Lendület group, and - finishing and submitting really _lots_ of manuscripts. I'll keep you all informed here. Until then, I wish all readers a happy, stress-free and successful Fall semester! |
AuthorÁkos Kukovecz is associate professor of chemistry and Head of the MTA-SZTE Lendület Porous Nanocomposites Research Group. He works at Szeged, Hungary. Archives
July 2017
Categories
All
|