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

On Friday, October 24th, Karel, at the invitation of Marcel Schmengler and Giuseppe Genduso, visited the Evonik Fibres GmbH branch in Schörfling am Attersee.

After a discussion and presentation in which Karel introduced Membranegroup.cz and its recent results, he also visited the production area and inspected the production of hollow fibres, and the finalization of modules.

An excellent experience for understanding the complexity of the individual process steps for manufacturing HF modules.

Gentlemen, thank you very much.

We would like to say farewell to our visiting postdoc, Dr. Katarzyna Knozowska, who spent a month in our group.

The main focus of her stay was to expand her knowledge in gas separation and luckily, this aim was met and the cooperation will go on.

To show our gratitude and say goodbye to Kasia, we organised her a fun afternoon combined with bowling.

Thank you for everything and see you soon!

This september, Jana and Josef had the chance to participate and present their latest results at the Imagine Membrane 2025 conference.

The conference itself aims to connect top researchers working with membranes from mainly from Northern America and Europe as by tradition, it is co-organised by the EMS and the NAMS community. IM2025 took place in Portugal, at Angra do Heroísmo, island of Terceira (Azores) 14-19 September 2025.

Jana and Josef both presented their results with a poster.

We are pleased to announce the publication of our latest manuscript on Pebax 1657-based MMM’s with controlled deposition of nanoadditives, which leads to enhanced gas separation properties.

Great job, Jana!

And also thanks to all collaborators.

Our undergraduate student, who just recently defended her bachelor thesis and started her master studies, attended the biggest national conference focused on membranes MEMPUR 2025 and returned home with an award!

This was her very first conference to attend and we are extremely proud to share that she won the Best Student Presentation Award.

She was in the same category as fellow Master and Ph.D. students coming from Czechia and Slovakia too.

Congratulations Adéla, well deserved.