Materials Research Laboratory of University of Nova Gorica organized international conference ECoMaTech 2013: »European Conference on Materials and Technologies for Sustainable Growth« that was held in Bled, Slovennia between 18. and 21. of September 2013. Among the invited lectures there were two plenary lectures of prof. dr. Hans Lundberg and prof. dr. Martin Chaplin. The talks has focused on a broad topics of nanoscience, refrigeration technologies, environmental material research, alternative energy sources, waste management and pollution. 120 participant from 24 countries attended the conference.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 268654592Under supervision of prof. Matjaz Valant the candidate Mirela Dragomir has successfully defended PhD thesis entitled "Synthesis and electronic properties of compounds from a Bi2O3-Nd2O3-VOx system". In her thesis she has studied phase relationships of some compounds from this system, their synthesis, thermodynamic stability, optoelectronic and photocatalytic properties. From the work for her thesis she has published two papers (Acta Mater. and Ceram. Int.)
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COBISS.SI-ID: 2955259Research for the development of more efficient photocatalysts has experienced an almost exponential growth since its popularisation in early 1970's. Despite the advantages of the widely used TiO2, the yield of the conversion of sun power into chemical energy that can be achieved with this material is limited, prompting the research and development of a number of structural, morphological and chemical modifications of TiO2, as well as a number of novel photocatalysts with very different compositions. This book provides a systematic account of the current understanding of the relationships between the physicochemical properties of the catalysts and their photoactivity, outlining the common principles lying behind the diversity of materials, but also delimiting the imprecise border between the contrasted results and the most speculative ones.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 3041531U. Lavrenčič and coworkers under endorsement of European Photocatalytic Association have organized 3rd European Symposium on Photocatalysis that took place between September 25. and 27. in Portorož. The conference had 7 sections from the field of photocatalytic materials and their application (water and air purification, sterilization, functional coatings, industrial development, energetics and standardization. the conference has attracted 180 participants from more than 30 countries. More aboout the conference can be found at http://photocatalysis-federation.eu/jep2013/homepage.html.
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The workshop that took place from September 24.-24. in Portorož has been organized for graduate ad postgraduate students that are working in the field of photocatalytic materials. The lecturers on the workshop were prominent European researchers from that field. The event was financed and organized within 7FP RegPot project SUNGREEN that is coordinated by the PI of this research program, prof. Valant.
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