Special Filter to Help Scientists Catch Virus in Classrooms
Scientists at the Centre for Materials and Nanotechnologies (CEMNAT), the Faculty of Chemical Technology at the University of Pardubice, have introduced a new air filtration system that effectively prevents SARS-COV-2 transmission indoors. The device, which significantly reduces the concentration…
Professor Tomáš Wágner: U.S. Patents Don’t Just Fall into Your Lap
Professor Tomáš Wágner has been involved in material research all his life and is expert on the elements of the chalcogen group. He is a chemist but his research is also into electrical engineering and optics with a possible overlap in medicine, environmental protection and safety. “Each element …
The Scientist Michal Holčapek Won This Year’s Ministerial Award for Research
The award for outstanding results in research, experimental development and innovation in the field of science was awarded by the Minister of Education, Youth and Sports to Michal Holčapek from the Faculty of Chemical Technology. The research led by Professor Michal Holčapek from the Facul…
A Way to Produce Black Titanium Dioxide
White titanium dioxide is frequently used in the form of nanoparticles. There is a real chance now that black titanium dioxide in the form of nanotubes will see its first industrial application; it will appear on a clock face of a famous watch manufacturer. When approached by this manufact…
US Patent for Nanolayer Improving the Speed of Saving Data
Scientists from the University of Pardubice obtained an American patent protection for a special alloy nanolayer with unique properties. It enables to save data thousand times faster and in ten times higher density than materials which have been used for storage media up until now. Researchers fr…
Smart packaging to protect food and reduce waste
Have you ever found a package of sausages expired by a day or two in your fridge and wondered whether you could still eat them? In the future, this will probably be answered by intelligent packaging co-developed by Czech scientists. For example, smart labels with sensors will be able to detects w…
Which Substances in Food Should we Fear?
“All things are poison and nothing is without poison. Solely the dose determines that a thing is not a poison,” says Miloslav Pouzar, a toxicologist, with reference to the famous quote of Paracelsus. He hastens to add, however, that the fear of toxins and poisons around us is often exaggerated. W…
Filip Bureš’s Team and their Carbon Atoms
It was already at a primary school back in Slovakia that Filip Bureš fell for chemistry. He can recall in great detail all visits to the chemistry lab and the experiments done there. After his father let him have a small lab of his own in his company in Lanškroun, Czech Republic, he has stayed wi…
The university analyses samples for the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, applies for a grant for other devices
The University of Pardubice helps with the analysis of samples for the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. Researchers and doctoral students of the Faculty of Chemical Technology examine dozens of samples a day in unique specially secured laboratories. The faculty has applied for funding to purchase addition…
INTERVIEW: Europe will control the virus in two or three months, according to Zuzana Bílková, an immunologist
To date, there are hundreds of coronavirus cases in the Czech Republic. The whole country is under a lockdown and no one can tell how the situation will further develop. The whole world is combating the virus. And people keep asking when we will control the virus. “I believe that Europe will con…
