Department of Macromolecular Physics was established as the Department of Polymers in 1974. At present, our department is conducting research in the fields of physics of nanomaterials, physics of polymers and macromolecular solids and theoretical physics.
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Doc. Lenka Hanyková particopated in the developement and characteriyation of a drug delivery system in the form of very small cerium oxide particles encapsulated in silica-based nanoparticles. This system can "smartly" react to the environment and release its cargo (cerium oxide particles) in a precisely determined environment due to the influence of radical forms of oxygen
Details can be found in an article published in Advanced Functional Materials.
One of the main goals of stochastic thermodynamics is developing optimal strategies for controlling microscopic devices, such as heat engines. In a recent study, we present an elegant derivation of finite-time maximum-efficiency and maximum-power protocols.
Dr. Daniil Nikitin was awarded a grant from the Czech Science Foundation that will focus on the development and investigation of nanofluids with resistive (memristive) switching for neuromorphic engineering.
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In the frame of an international project, we have participated in the development and study of new SERS active recyclable nanostructured platforms based on TiO2 and Ag. The results of this research were published in the journal Surfaces and Interfaces.
On 25/10/2022, the graduation ceremony of new associate professors took place in the historical Karolinum. One of them was our colleague doc. Jan Hanuš, to whom we congratulate and wish him much success in his new role.
Chemical exchange analysis in NMR is a useful tool to describe molecular processes. In our paper, we published the analytical shape of the multistate chemical exchange spectrum and showed its application to a real system of protonated oxoporphyrinogen.
O. Kylián gave a lecture called "Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Treatment of Materials" at the prestigious international conference 242nd ECS meeting.
Our master student Veronika Červenková won 2nd place in the Falling Wall Labs competition, which took place this September in Wrocław, Poland!!
Congratulations!!
In the just-published article, we demonstrated on the model example of a mouse brain the possibility of using Nb nanoparticles as a perspective matrix for sensitive molecular imaging of biological tissues by surface-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectroscopy.
The shape of nanoparticles plays an important role in many applications. In our study, we managed to show how it is possible to control the shape of vanadium nanoparticles prepared using a magnetron gas aggregation source simply by changing the deposition conditions.
Our group participated in large numbers at the PSE 2022 conference, where, in addition to the plenary lecture of prof. A. Choukourov entitled "Plasmas and polymers: from 0- to 3-D nanomaterials", another 5 of our lectures and 3 student posters were presented.
Our article dealing with the issue of the influence of various stimuli on the behavior of hydrogels with a single- and double-network structure composed of poly(N,N′-diethylacrylamide) and polyacrylamide has just been published.
The flow profile of the carrier gas is one of the most critical parameters that strongly influences the loss of nanoparticles on the walls of the gas aggregation sources. This issue is studied in the just-published article using numerical simulations.
Our colleagues A. Ryabov and V. Holubec from our theoretical department has recently published a series of articles in prestigious professional journals.
Doc. Ondřej Kylián participated in the Internation Online Conference of Nano Materials (ICN 2022), where he delivered an invited plenary talk on the synthesis of transition metal nanoparticles.
Congratulations to our students, David Voráč and Juraj Májek, who successfully defended their diploma theses.
We wish you both much success!
