Mini-lab teambuilding happened during summertime. Three of our members participated in a wine degustation in Southern-Slovakia and spent 2 days in Hungary.

Saeed was invited to attend Baden Württemberg post-conference meeting. This fascinating conference was held at the University of Konstanz, University of Tübingen, University of Freiburg, Ulm University, University of Stuttgart, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Heidelberg University, and Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology (ICT). This comprehensive programs provide opportunities, collaboration and realizing the cutting-edge in the research works on Fuel cells, Batteries, Supper capacitors, MOFs, bio-physics and recent advances in clean energy.

Saeed participated in 71st Lindau Nobelist prize meeting among 600 top young scientists and 30 Nobel laureates in the multidisciplinary research area.

Daniel was awarded the best poster presentation at the National Chemical and Process engineering congress CHISA 2021.  The 68. congress was postponed due to COVID restrictions and was held in Liblice between 16. and 18. May 2022.

Karel participated in The North American Membrane Society 31st annual meeting “Membranes for sustainability” in Tempe, Arizona. He has presented an oral lecture on the topic of “Metal ions-doped ultrahigh flux composite GO-SWCNT membranes for efficient H2 separation and a poster of his doctoral student Saeed work on the topic of Magneto-responsive polycrystalline Co0.5Ni0.5FeCrO4: Synthesis, dispersion control, and its tunability into CTA polymer matrix under the augmented-magnetic field for CO2 capturing and H2 separation applications.

The grant proposal which was prepared by Karel and Saeed from UCT and Prof. Dinca from MIT (USA) was approved by MISTI Global seed Funds Awards. The UCT-MIT teams will have cross-functional collaboration and work on “Clean Energy Applications with Mixed Matrix Membranes of 2D MOFs”. This indeed gives and creates lots of opportunities for the UCT and MIT sides.

Saeed Jamali Ashtiani has successfully passed a multi-stage process at UCT Prague, Czech Republic, and Max-Plack-Society levels and he has been selected to participate in the 71st Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting.

Saeed was awarded Emil Votocek scholarship for 2022. The scholarship is intended for the best 20 Ph.D. students from UCT Prague faculties.

Karel Friess and Tereza-Markéta Durďáková participated at Euromembrane 2021 (Copenhagen, Denmark, 28.11.-2.12.2021). Tereza-Markéta presented the lecture on the topic “Perstraction and
Pervaporation: Two Approaches for Xylene Isomers Separation” and Karel spoke about “Metal ions-doped ultrahigh flux composite graphene oxide/carbon nanotubes (GO-SWCNT) membranes for targeted gas separations”