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NEWS
2008
- János Szépvölgyi was appointed to director - of the Institute of Materials and Environmental Chemistry Chemical Research Center - for five more years by József Pálinkás, President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, on December 15, 2008.
- The scientists' general assembly supported the proposal of János Szépvölgyi as a candidate for the position of Director of the Institute of Materials and Environmental Chemistry CRC HAS by 100% of the votes at its meeting on October 30, 2008.
- From Népszabadság, October 31, 2008 issue: According to the results of the research group of the Institute of Materials and Environmental Chemistry Chemical Research Center lead by Klára Szentmihályi, the bioavailability of essential metals, like iron, in the human organism is higher from a pectin complex form than from an inorganic compound. The outcome of this finding is a pill called Ferrocomp, produced by In Vitro Ltd. containing not only iron but also other metals and vitamins.
- Nano and micro particles that are able to bind protein based medicine and are suitable to deliver them into the human organism were manufactured at the Institute of Materials and Environmental Chemistry of the Chemical Research Center. These composite particles, after entering the body, can cause a well defined and long term release of the medicine. Animal tests proved that the active ingredient, either it is built in a pill or is dissolved in injection, enters the bloodstream and is able to cause the desired therapeutic effect.
- Sándor L. Szabó defended his PhD thesis entitled "Poly(N,N-dimetyl-akrylamide)-l-Poly(dimetylsiloxane) Amphiphilic Conetworks" on April 18, 2008.
2007
- The project, "Fast Atom Beam Surface Engineering" of András Tóth and coworkers was among the winners of the ValDeal Project Competition. The authors elaborated a method for the surface treatment of various plastics parts, to modify purposefully their wear resistance, electric conductivity, and other physico-chemical properties.
- Szilvia Klébert defended her PhD thesis entitled "Modification of Cellulose Acetate by Reactive Processing - Chemistry, Structure and Properties" on December 7, 2007.
- Zoltán May defended his PhD thesis entitled "Homogeneous catalytic activation of dioxygen by dioximatoiron(II) complexes" on November 26, 2007.
- Our colleague, Ferenc Till , died on November 19, 2007. He worked nearly forty years in the Institute or in its predecessors. His name is connected with several unique, outstanding developments.
- László Kótai defended his PhD thesis entitled "Synthesis and properties of simple and complex salts of permanganic acid" on April 4, 2007.
2006
- Márton Haraszti defended his PhD thesis entitled "Novel Nanostructured Materials: Poly(methacrylic acid)-l-Polyisobutylene Amphiphilic Conetworks" on November 2, 2006.
- Enikő Földes defended her DSc ( Doctor of Hungarian Academy of Sciences ) thesis entitled "The role of physical effects in the efficiency of polymer additives" on October 31, 2006.
- Erika Mészáros defended her PhD thesis entitled "Thermal analysis of lignocellulosic materials" on March 10, 2006.
- János Szépvölgyi was elected chairman of the Editorial Board of the Magyar Kémikusok Lapja (Hungarian Chemical Journal), published by the Hungarian Chemical Society.
2005
- Péter Groh Werner defended his PhD thesis entitled "The effect of different reaction circumstances on the quasiliving carbocationic polymerization of isobutylene" on December 19 , 2005.
2004
- György Horányi – Győző Láng: Perchlorate Contamination
Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, 2004
The book, co-authored by György Horányi , member of the Institute, was awarded Prize of Excellence by the publisher.
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