Coworker of this programme, Robert Dominko, has been succesul in application of EU Horizont2020 project HELIS.
D.01 Chairing over/coordinating (international and national) projects
COBISS.SI-ID: 5772058Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a nanosize transition metal alloy (such as for example an alloy and/or one or more intermetallics comprising copper, cobalt, nickel, palladium, platinum, ruthenium, the like, and combinations thereof) that is electrocatalytically active. Some other aspects of embodiments and/or embodiments of the present invention are directed to a composite material comprising a nanosize transition metal alloy and a carbonaceous matrix.
F.06 Development of a new product
COBISS.SI-ID: 4902938This discovery relates to preparation of multilayer color coatings with low solar absorption and high heat emission. It enables regulation of the highest temperature upon direct exposure of the coating surface to solar irradiation. The high heat emission is realised by the use of metallic flakes of metallized glassy flakes. The IR transparent or colored pigment is applied in different binding systems with high thermal emission which can be further increased by application of transparent coating with a high emission.
F.06 Development of a new product
COBISS.SI-ID: 4929050Dr. Kokalj was invited to Faraday Discussions meeting entitled “Corrosion Chemistry”. At the meeting he discussed new insights, gained from detailed density-functional-theory (DFT) based modeling, of the bonding of benzotriazole corrosion inhibitor on reduced and oxidized copper surfaces. He emphasized that benzotriazole is able to bond with oxide-free and oxidized copper surfaces and on both of them it bonds significantly stronger to coordinatively unsaturated Cu sites, which suggests that benzotriazole is able to passivate reactive under-coordinated surface sites that are plausible microscopic sites for corrosion attack. Benzotriazole can adsorb in a variety of different forms, yet it forms a strong molecule–surface bond only in deprotonated form. The adsorption of benzotriazole considerably reduces the metal work function, which is a consequence of a large permanent molecular dipole and a properly oriented adsorption structure. He argued that such a pronounced effect on the work function might be relevant for corrosion inhibition, because it should diminish the anodic corrosion reaction, which is consistent with existing experimental evidence that benzotriazole, although a mixed type inhibitor, predominantly affects the anodic reaction.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 28748327In 2015 the coworkers of programme served as mentors or comentors at 12 completed Ph.D. theses.
D.09 Tutoring for postgraduate students
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