6. 12 .2022 CEMNAT organized 5th Student workshop. The aim was to present CEMNAT facilities that may be suitable for the realization of students' own research works. As part of the workshop, they were introduced to the current offer of thematically focused educational courses on various techniques for the preparation and characterization of materials. In the form of short presentations, the operators presented some of the recently acquired equipment at CEMNAT together with examples of their use in solving scientific and research projects and the requirements of external users for the preparation and characterization of materials. At the end of the workshop, a tour of the CEMNAT laboratories took place for those interested.
11. 11. 2022 Dr. Slang gave lecture „Electron microscopy and EDS elemental analysis as cornerstones of materials research“ at the 17. Seminar for high school chemistry teachers at FCHT UPCE.
14. 9. 2022 CEMNAT organized a seminar on „Chalcogenide glasses and waveguides for infrared photonics“ (14.9.2022). Speaker: Dr. Jean-Luc Adam, Univ Rennes, CNRS, ISCR (Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes), Rennes, France
13. 9. 2022 CEMNAT hosted the 4th meeting of its International Scientific Advisory Board.
BOARD evaluated human development strategy, technology development strategy, feasibility strategy and cooperation strategy with public and private sector and provided recommendation for broadening of instrumental portfolio and pool of services offered to its users.
29. 6. 2022 CEMNAT organized the seminar „Novel amorphous materials for cutting-edge applications“. At this seminar organized as part of the NSF IRES project OISE-2106457, American students who completed internships at European workplaces involved in the project (besides CEMNAT Center for Microelectronics and Nanotechnology, University of Rzeszow, Poland and Glasses and Ceramics Laboratory, Department of Chemistry , University of Rennes I, France) ) presented their results.
19. 6. 2022 CEMNAT scientists in cooperation with the Institute of Chemical Processes of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and the Textile Testing Institute in Brno have developed a personal filter against SARS-CoV-19 that could be used in developing countries. The entire assembly, which can be packed into a backpack, does not use nanomaterials, but a commonly available polyester knit similar to a fleece blanket. The original solution of Czech scientists has now been published by the prestigious American journal PLOS One ( https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0268542 ) and has not escaped the attention of the media, see e.g. https://tn.nova.cz/zpravodajstvi/clanek/465094-flisova-deka-zastavi-covid-vedci-z-pardubic-vyrobili-ucinny-filtr
10. 5. 2022 Peyton Daniel Simpson and Destiny Ann Mathews, students from Austin Peay State University (TN) USA, joined CEMNAT for a 7-week internship as part of NSF IRES project OISE-2106457. They will deal with the preparation and properties of solution-based non-toxic chalcogenide glasses.
31. 3. 2022 Dr. Lina Marcela Sepúlveda received „Parkhutik Prize“ for best poster entitled „Recent Advancements in Morphologies of TiO2 Nanotube Layers“ in the postdoc
category at conference Porous Semiconductors Science and Technology (PSST) Conference, Lido di Camaiore, Italy.