On 20 October 2026, the Institute held its traditional Young Scientists Competition. The competition was organised by Blanka Kubíková, Secretary for Education. The young researchers briefly presented their latest results obtained during their studies.

The evaluation committee selected the three best presentations from among the participants, in the following order:

1. Leonardo Kleman Santos
2. Emma Mičejová
3. Malihe Ghaffari and Muhammad Saad Ur Rahman

Congratulations to all the winners!

Program súťaže:

09:00 Opening

09:05 Leonardo F. Kleman – The Multidisciplinary Weapon: Harnessing Six Branches of Chemistry to Combat Antimicrobial Resistance (Abstract)

09:20 Beste Ecem Kayar – A Comparison of the Microstructural and Tribological Properties of TiB2–TiC Composites Doped with Graphene Nanoplatelets and Hexagonal Boron Nitride (Abstract)

09:35 Ema Mičejová – Immobilization of 1,10-Phenanthroline by Montmorillonite and Saponite – DFT Study (Abstract)

09:50 Shubham Gupta – Development of Upconversion Phosphor-in-Glass Composites toward White Light Emitting Applications (Abstract)

10:05 Daniela Jaramillo Raquejo – Development of Novel Bone Filler Composites with Enhanced Bioactivity and Biological Response (Abstract)

10:20 Parisa Labib Shotorban – Smectite-polymer film composites as a pH-responsive delivery system (Abstract)

Break (10:35 – 10:50)

10:50 Muhammad Saad Ur Rahman – Computationally Guided Design and Experimental Synthesis of p-Type High-Entropy Perovskite Oxides for High-Temperature Thermoelectric Applications (Abstract)

11:05 Asif Ali – Low Thermal Conductivity and Enhanced Charge Transport in Nb⁵⁺-Substituted High-Entropy Perovskite Ceramics (Abstract)

11:20 Kumar Ashutosh – Influence of particle morphology and atomic layer deposition of ZnO on the electrochemical performance of Si/graphite anodes for Li-ion batteries (Abstract)

11:35 Malihe Ghaffari – Effect of NH₃ nitridation on the structural, chemical, and optical properties of sputtered Al-doped ZnO thin films (Abstract)

11:50 Fatemeh Borzooei – Recent Research Progress in High-Entropy Ceramic Thermal Barrier Coatings (Abstract)

Lunch (12:05 – 12:50)

12:50 Bryan Melo – Relativistic iterative linear damped response TDDFT solver for predicting X-ray absorption spectra of open-shell molecules (Abstract)

13:05 Ayesha Asbat – Comparative First-Principles Study of Ciprofloxacin Intercalation in Montmorillonite and Kaolinite (Abstract)

13:20 Sachin Pundir – Brown Mud-Derived Fe3O4 as a Bifunctional Electrode for Supercapacitor and Oxygen Evolution Applications (Abstract)

13:35 Alireza Karimi – Microstructure Engineering of Hastelloy N/Incoloy 800HT Dissimilar Joints for Corrosion Resistance in Molten FLiNaK: A Data-Driven Approach (Abstract)

14:10 Results

 

Committee:

• prof. RNDr. Juraj Bujdák, DrSc.
• Ing. Blanka Kubíková, PhD.
• Ing. Monika Michálková, PhD.
• Ing. Eva Scholtzová, CSc.
• prof. RNDr. Pavol Šajgalík, DrSc.