Barbara 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 technology for chemical modification of textile fibres for students on Master degree in Textile technology from 21th to 25th February 2011. The lecture included the introduction of the theoretical approach of sol-gel process, chemical structures of novel precursors and their application to textile fibres to obtain different functional properties as well as analytical methods for determination of quality parameters of the coating.
B.05 Guest lecturer at an institute/university
COBISS.SI-ID: 2557552Plenary lecture includes presentation of cultural and historical value of museum objects. The main aim of the museums is their preservation, along with their investigation and presentation. Appropriate storage conditions are the best recipe for a long-term preservation of historical objects. Textiles are organic materials and thus very sensitive to different environmental impacts, i.e. changes in temperature and humidity and biological agents, like fungi, which grow more easily on previously degraded objects. Results of the research of the several textile objects from different Slovenian museums that showed uncommon features because of the fungal spots were presented. Using different methods, i.e. optical and scanning electron microscopy, infrared and Raman spectroscopy, the presence of fungi as well as the structural changes due to ageing and biodeterioration were analysed.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 512559147Barbara Simončič and Andrej Demšar were mentors of 2 Ph.D. theses finished in 2011 1. GORJANC, Marija. Plazemsko spremenjene površine bombaža za nanos nanosrebra : doktorska disertacija. Ljubljana: [M. Gorjanc], 2011. IVX, 201 f., ilustr., tabele. [COBISS.SI-ID 255673344] (mentor Barbara Simončič). The results of research were presented in 9 scientific papers, 7 of them in SCI journals (6 in category 1A1 and 1 in category 1A4) and presented as 4 contributions at conferences. Papers are cited 32 times. 2. KAVKLER, Katja. Glive na muzejskih tekstilijah in njihov vpliv na naravna vlakna : doktorska disertacija. Ljubljana: [K. Kavkler], 2011. XXXIX, 219 f., ilustr., preglednice. [COBISS.SI-ID 256386304] (mentor Andrej Demšar). The results of research were presented in 3 scientific papers in SCI journals (2 in category 1A1 and 1 in category 1A2), as an invited lecture and 4 contributions at conferences. Papers are cited 5 times.
D.09 Tutoring for postgraduate students