In the invited lecture G. Mali presented the method for determining spatiald distribution of organic linkers in mixed-linker MOFs. Memebers of the program group had in 2015 and 2016 20 other invited lectures. In 2015: - G. Mali, held three invited lectures about the application of solid-state nuclear NMR in the investigations of porous materials at International conferences (MMCE 2015, Krynica, Poland; Ampere NMR School 2015, Zakopane, Poland; 24th CMCCE, Zagreb, Croatia) and a lecture at SISSA Trieste. - N. Novak Tušar held three invited lectures on application of photocatalysts for air cleaning at international conferences (PAOT-3, Gdansk, Poland; AOTs-21, San Diego, California, USA; EMN Photocatalysis, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA). - N. Zabukovec Logar held two invited lecture on the use of porous materials in heat storage applications at international conferences (NANOAPP2015, Maribor, Slovenia; 4th LCS Workshop "Zeolites: Prospects & Challenges", Les Tourelles, France). In 2016: - G. Mali held two more invited lectures about the application of solid-state nuclear NMR in the investigations of porous materials at international conferences (Ampere NMR School 2016, Zakopane, Poland; 18th Central and Eastern European NMR Symposium, Sofia, Bulgaria). - N. Novak Tušar held three invited lectures: on the application of photocatalysts for air cleaning (SPASEC-21, Atlanta, USA), on the application of photocatalysts for water cleaning (AOTs-22, Atlanta, USA) and on the design and development of photocatalysts for biomass conversion (2nd Summer Training School "Catalysis Research for Biomass Utilization in Modern Biorefineries" of COST FP1306, Leipzig, Germany). - N. Zabukovec Logar held invited lectures on the development of porous materials for heat storage applications (12. Nanotehnološki dnevi, Ljubljana; Slovenian Chemical Days, Portorož, Slovenia) and on the integration of basic and applied research (IX. conference of Slovenian scientists and business people from the world and Slovenia, Ljubljana, Slovenia). - M. Mazaj had an invited lecture on the shaping of metal-organic framework materials (EMN meeting, Prague, Czech Republic).
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 5903130The patent describes an environmentally friendly method of preparation of zeolite catalyst ZSM-5 without an inorganic binder, which was developed in the program group with industrial partners. The first stage is the preparation of granular amorphous aluminosilicate from cheap industrial reactants, such as sodium silicate and sodium aluminate, without an organic structural directing agent, from which the crystalline ZSM-5 is later formed. The procedure enabled more than doubled increase of the synthesis roduct yield compared to conventional methods of preparation. The patent is pending for EU patent.
F.33 Slovenian patent
COBISS.SI-ID: 5294106N. Zabukovec Logar and G. Mali presented the properties and the use of nanoporous materials that are being developed within the program group at TV SLO1 show "Bite the knowledge". Furthermore, N. Zabukovec Logar had an interview on siol.net, where she presented also the research of the program group: http://siol.net/novice/slovenija/zakaj-veliki-dosezki-slovenskih-znanstvenikov-vse-preveckrat-koncajo-v-predalu-418996
F.18 Transfer of new know-how to direct users (seminars, fora, conferences)
COBISS.SI-ID: 28477735Members of the program group participated actively in 2015 and 2016 in undergraduate and graduate research work of students and have been mentoring several diploma, master and PhD works. In addition, we have been and are holding many different student courses at the University of Nova Gorica. Courses Crystallography, Solid-state Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Chemistry and Chemistry and Chemical Engineering enabled students to meet with an important group of materials and relevant characterization techniques that can be advantageously used in research solids in various areas of nanomaterials to biologically interesting materials.
D.10 Educational activities
Members of the program group participate in: - IEA association, specifically in the IEA SHC ECES joint Task / Annex 42/24 and 42/29 "Compact thermal energy storage material development for system integration", where A. Ristić leads the group for development of materials. - Federation of European Zeolite Associations (FEZA), where N. Zabukovec Logar is a Treasurer - International Zeolite Association (IZA), where N. Zabukovec Logar is a member of the Synthesis Committee - ENMIX Institute, based in Brussels, where N. Novak Tušar is a member of the Board Committee. - Scientific Conference Committees - N. Zabukovec Logar: EUROMOF2015, Potsdam, Germany; EUROMOF2017, Delft, Netherlands; FEZA2017, Sofia, Bulgaria, etc.
D.03 Membership in foreign/international boards/committees