We are happy to share, that our master student Tomáš Mathauser won the third price at the Student Researcher Conference (SVK) hosted by our University.

In his work, he presented results about his succesfully synthetised membranes containing magnetic MOF particles for air separation.

Additionally, our former student Adéla Ulrichová won a second place price presenting her bachelor thesis finished in our lab. In the thesis, she worked on covalently bonding MOFs with polymer side chains and studied its effect on various properties with main focus on CO2 sorption.

Congratulations Tomáš and Adéla!

Karel and Dániel visited the group of prof. M. Kaspereit of the Advanced Seperation Processes at the Institute of Separation Science and Technology, FAU Nürnberg-Erlangen.

Our final project meeting was aimed to sum up and reflect the progress that was made during our joint project, and also brainstorming about the future steps in order to keep this international bilateral cooperation going actively.

We were also warmly welcomed by the head of the Institute prof. M. Thommes, who also invited us for a guided lab tour over the Institute.

This succesful BTHA project was coordinated by two Ph.D. students: Johannes Wieczorek from Germany and Dániel Gardenö from our group.

Thank you for such an opportunity.

Dániel recently came back from his two month Erasmus stay at the University of Naples Federico II (UNINA), Italy.

He further expanded the stable base of the cooperation between our group and the group of prof. G. Mensitieri and prof. G. Scherillo.

During his stay, he focused mostly on testing his 2D carbon-based composite membranes, combining the fields of transport modelling and material engineering.

The measured results will be included in his Ph.D. thesis and soon published in high-impact scientific journals.

Also, during a quick weekend trip, he had the chance to visit our researcher partners (Jansen Group) at ITM-CNR in Calabria.

Grazie mile ragazzi!

An article by our group just got published at the Journal of Chemical Engineering Advances.

It’s called ,,Demonstrating the Potential of Versatile Single-crystal Spinel Magnetic CoFe2O4-Ti3C2Tx MXene-based Hybrid Platforms for Multifaceted Nano-level Separations in Gas and Liquid Phases” and is motivated towards exploring MXenes-based hybrid platforms for multifaceted nano-level separations in gas and liquid Phases.

Link for the article: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ceja.2025.100937