Projects / Programmes
Inorganic Chemistry and Technology
January 1, 2004
- December 31, 2008
| Code |
Science |
Field |
Subfield |
| 1.04.00 |
Natural sciences and mathematics |
Chemistry |
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| Code |
Science |
Field |
| P360 |
Natural sciences and mathematics |
Inorganic chemistry |
inorganic materials with special properties, synthesis of fluorine compounds, coordination compounds, flue gas desulphurisation (FGD), wastes, risk assessment, chemometry
Researchers (20)
Organisations (1)
| no. |
Code |
Research organisation |
City |
Registration number |
No. of publicationsNo. of publications |
| 1. |
0106 |
Jožef Stefan Institute |
Ljubljana |
5051606000 |
90,753 |
Abstract
The significance of the research programme Inorganic Chemistry and Technology for Slovenia is in the independent development of state-of-the-art technologies for local organizations and companies, increasing therefore their competitiveness and technical self-confidence.
The group is actively involved in a wide variety of education programmes, ranging from secondary school courses to post-graduate studies. Through these activities, the group contributes to the popularization of science and raises the technical culture of the young generations. At the same time, high quality education and training of scientific and technical specialists are performed.
Applicative and development researches are significant for long-term cooperation with industry. This is well demonstrated in the cooperation with ESOTECH. Risk assessment studies for domestic institutions and industrial partners have direct influence on prevention of accidents with dangerous substances. The use of wastes as raw materials has the highest priority in the waste handling in EU and in Slovenia. Development of the low cost flue gas desulphurisation will contribute to the solution of some ecological problems in Slovenia and in other parts of southeast Europe. International reputation of the group and its international cooperation's are important for better recognition and reputation of Slovenia.
Significance for science
The programme group represents one of the leading groups in the world in the field of the syntheses of new inorganic compounds. The group belongs among rare world centres which are qualified for the most demanding syntheses of fluorine compounds therefore the group has extensive cooperation with laboratories in the Europe, Japan, Canada and U.S.A. (University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A., Universität Bremen, Bremen, Germany, Aichi Institute of Technology, Toyota, Japan, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, Institut de Chimie de la matiere condensée de Bordeaux, Pessac, France, Gerhard-Mercator Universität Duisburg, Germany, BASF, Ludwigshafen, Germany, Humboldt Universität Berlin, Germany, University of Maryland, Baltimore, U.S.A., Colorado State University, Fort Collins, U.S.A., Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia, University of Warsaw, Poland, University of Lethbridge, Canada etc.) The head of the programme group was conferred the award of the American Chemical Society (ACS Award 2006) for the exceptional achievements in the field of fluorine chemistry with a special emphasis on high energy oxidizers and new coordination compounds. This award was only ten times conferred outside the U.S.A. and Canada. It should be mention that this is the only award of ACS which was ever conferred in Slovenia. The colleagues and friends organized one-day symposium in honour of the awardee in Atlanta during 231. National ACS Meeting. The contributions of all lecturers in Atlanta and those who were not in Atlanta are compiled in a special issue of Journal of Fluorine Chemistry, 127 (2006) 1267–1453 which was devoted to the awardee. About the quality of the group in this demanding experimental field clearly advocate the acknowledgement of Prof. Dr. N. Bartlett from the University of California Berkeley, U.S.A., in the paper which was published in the above mentioned special issue where he says “I do not exaggerate when I record that he (B. Ž.) set the standards for high quality experimental work in fluorine chemistry at Berkeley“. The organization of the European Symposium on Fluorine Chemistry was the third time trusted to the group. The symposium will be held in Ljubljana in 2010. The chairmanship of the 5th International Conference on Inorganic Materials was trusted to B.Ž. showing that the international community appreciate also the achievements of the group in the field of inorganic materials. Besides of this the members of the group had numerous invited lectures on international symposia and on the prestigious institutions around the world. They were referees for scientific journals, they were referees for the evaluation of new scientific programmes, they acted as editors of some special issues of journals like Journal of Fluorine Chemistry and Solid State Sciences, they were authors of chapters in books as well as they were editors of a book. Applied and development research is successful in solving specific technology and development issues in line with the main strategic priorities of the EU such as sustainable development and environmental protection. In that respect, research surpasses national and European levels and it is a part of global efforts. Specifically, considering process safety aspects, one of the main global challenges is to develop a limited set of safety performance indicators in order to support view into state (trust, quality) of safety measures (e.g., technical aspect), human resources (reliability aspects) and organizational factors (e.g., safety culture) in order to use them as a tool within risk management process on micro level. The relevance of the research aiming to assure safety, and thus support social acceptability and competitive position of the existing and emerging new production technologies or products, is thus more than clear.
Significance for the country
The technological research for the sustainable development in the field of environmental protection and safety of the process will be carried out within this programme in close cooperation with partners from the industry. This combination will allow us to stay in contact with the global development and process optimization with the main goal to reduce the costs and to improve the competitive position of our industrial partners. The research and the analyses of the processes will be done with an aim to manage the related uncertainties originating from the alternative technological solutions. The examples of the basic methods for the optimization of the processes and equippment in the chemical and related industries are: i.) Making complex theoretical models and ii.) Analyse the working and the realibility of the systems. Especialy for the last point it is true that for solving the engeneering problems (decision-making) the sphere outside of the academic circles is practically not used. The research connected with the process safety make possible. i.) transfer of the knowledge directly to the industrial partners and ii.) the support of governmental agencies at the performing of the legislation. Important indirect meaning of the programme for Slovenia is also in the education of the skilled workers and researchers. The programme group is active in a broad pallete of the educational programmes which spend from the courses for the pupils of the elemental schools and secondary schools to the postgraduate studies. With these activities the group contributes to the popularization of the science and to higher technical culture of young population. At the same time it contributes to the education of high quality scientific and technological workers.. We should not forget that the excellent research and the results of this research are the best way for the promotion of Slovenia. The young people have the possibility for the cooperation on joint projects and in this way the possibility for access to the foreign knowledge. The programme group is one of the best in Slovenia in the field of technological research for the sustainable development, what is important for the Slovenian industry. On the other side the progarmme group presents one of the leading groups in the world in the field of inorganic fluorine chemistry what is an excellent promotion of Slovenia in the world.
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