In last 5 years the project leader has five invited lectures at International conferences and workshops. The topics of the talks were related to analytical electron microscopy and the use of this method during the research and development of modern photocatalytic nanomaterials. The listed lecture was presented at 4thIC4N (International Conference from Nanoparticles and Nanomaterials to Nanodevices and Nanosystems), which was held in Greece on June 2013 as an invited lecture. The lecture was devoted to selfassembly and formation of hierarchical structures based on TiO2 and design of photocatalytic microreactors using such structures studied with different electron microscopies and microanalytical techniques. (http://www.uta.edu/ic4n/inspeaker.php)
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 26850087Durign the duration of the project three young researchers (PhD. students) were activelly involved in the research work. Among them the firs one that finished PhD study was Barbara Horvat. She studied the nuclration and growht of TiO2 nanoparticles during the hydrothermal synthesis. She studied morphology, size and growth of hydrothermally prepared anatase crystals. From HRTEM images shape of crystals was reconstructed. Small, irregular blocky anatase nuclei become rodlike at higher temperature, stretching along one of the 101 directions. Crystals further develop into wedgeshaped ones with almost absent base pinacoids. In the final stage, crystals evolve into equilibrium shape: plain tetragonal bipyramids. Durign her work she published two papers, the third one is in the phase of sending for publication. In May 2014, before the formal end of the project second PhD student, Matic Krivec, will defend his PhD thesis. The third student, Anže Abram, will continue to work in the field till the end of his study in the first half of the 2016.
D.09 Tutoring for postgraduate students
COBISS.SI-ID: 269004544JEP 2013 European Symposium on Photocatalysis is one of the most important events in the year 2013 connected to the area of photocatalysis. The conference was organised by University of Nova Gorica. http://photocatalysisfederation.eu/jep2013/homepage.html
B.01 Organiser of a scientific meeting