Barbara Simončič was a president of the scientific committee of the 41st International Symposium on Novelties in Textiles, which was carried out from 27 to 29 May, 2010 in Ljubljana simultaneous with the 5th International Symposium on Novelties in Graphics and the 45th International Congress IFKT. 268 participents from 30 countries attended the symposiums. Scientific programme of the symposiums included 9 plenary lectures, 79 lectures and 111 posters. Since Barbara Simončič and Andrej Demšar acted as coeditors for the Symposiums Proceedings, this activity coincides with the result C.01.
B.02 Presiding over the programming board of a conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 251170304Cotton is the most researched fibre regarding enzymatic treatments. Biotechnological treatments of cotton were also successfully introduced into industrial practice. The lecture on international conference presented the successful investigations of the enzymatic treatments of cellulosic fibres and their transfer into production. The results of common research in the bilateral project with Hungarian researchers were also presented, as well as the research on environmentally friendly bleaching process with enzymes at low temperature.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 2368624Barbara Simončič was a Guest Professor at The Swedish School of Textiles, University of Boras, Sweden, giving 20 hours of lecture on the topic of the sol-gel finishing for the postgraduate students on Master degree in Textile technology from 15th to 19th February 2010. The lecture included the introduction of sol-gel technology for textile finishing, chemical structures of novel precursors, their application to textile fibres to obtain superhydrophobicity, oleophobicity and antimicrobial activity as well as analytical methods for determination of fibre functional properties.
B.05 Guest lecturer at an institute/university
COBISS.SI-ID: 2355824Petra Forte Tavčer and Vili Bukošek are members of the Editorial Board of the Journal Tekstilec, the magazine of Slovene textile professionals. It includes scientific and professional articles from the field of textiles. Scientific articles are written in Slovene and English language (category 1C). Abstracts of the articles are documented in seven international bibliographic bases. Barbara Simončič and Franci Sluga are members of the Publishing Council of the Journal Tekstilec.
C.06 Editorial board membership
COBISS.SI-ID: 763396Brigita Tomšič worked at the University of Twente (Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Engineering of Fibrous Smart Materials group) during the period 1.8.–1.12.2010, where she participated as a postdoctoral researcher at the Advanbiotex project (leader: Dragan Jocić) founded by the Marie Curie Excellence Grant (MEXT-CT-2006-042641) under the 6th Framework Program. Her tasks were: introduction of new method for durable application of microgel to synthetic fibres, characterisation of responsiveness of newly obtained material to the ambient conditions, development of new test methods.
F.02 Acquisition of new scientific knowledge
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