About department

Field of Scientific Interest

The main focus in the research of the Department of Hydrosilicates has been on the composition and properties of the fine fractions of bentonites, the clay raw materials containing dominantly montmorillonite or other minerals of the smectite group. Mineralogical and chemical composition and chemical modifications, including replacement of exchangeable cations by various inorganic and organic cations of selected properties and cationic dyes, partial dissolution in acids have been recently studied using mainly spectroscopic methods. Original interpretation of the first overtones and combination vibrations showed that near-infrared spectroscopy provides valuable information on the structure of analysed materials. Hybrid materials based on clay minerals and cationic dyes exhibit interesting properties, such as changes of the energy of absorbed and emitted light, excitation energy transfer, photosensitization, optical anisotropy, etc. These changes are related to the formation of specific supramolecular assemblies of dye cations on the surface of clay mineral particles.

• Head of department: Ing. Helena Pálková, PhD.

Selected publications

BOHÁČ, P** – BUDZÁK, Š – PLANETOVÁ, V – KLEMENT, R – BUJDÁK, J. Adsorption-induced fluorescence of pseudoisocyanine monomers in systems with layered silicates. In Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2022, vol. 126, no. 40, p. 17255-17265. (2021: 4.177 – IF, Q2 – JCR, 1.103 – SJR, Q1 – SJR, CCC). https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.2c03497

DUDKO, V – ROSENFELDT, S – SIEGEL, R – SENKER, J – MATEJDES, M** – BREU, J**. Delamination by repulsive osmotic swelling of synthetic Na-hectorite with variable charge in binary dimethyl sulfoxide-water mixtures. In Langmuir, 2022, vol. 38, no. 35, p. 10781-10790. (2021: 4.331 – IF, Q2 – JCR, 0.884 – SJR, Q1 – SJR). https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.2c00965

FERUS, M** – KNÍŽEK, A – PETERA, L – PASTOREK, A – HRNČÍŘOVÁ, J – JANKOVIČ, Ľ – IVANEK, O – ŠPONER, J – KŘIVKOVÁ, A – SAEIDFIROZEH, H – CIVIŠ, S – CHATZITHEODORIDIS, E – MRÁZIKOVÁ, K – NEJDL, L – SAIJA, F – ŠPONER, JE – CASSONE, G**. Formamide-based post-impact thermal prebiotic synthesis in simulated craters: Intermediates, products and mechanism. In Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2022, vol. 9, art. no. 882145. (2021: 4.055 – IF, Q2 – JCR, 0.947 – SJR, Q1 – SJR). https://doi.org/10.3389/fspas.2022.882145

KUZIELOVÁ, E** – SLANÝ, M – ŽEMLIČKA, M – MÁSILKO, J – ŠILER, P – PALOU, MT. Thermal stability of the phases developed at high-pressure hydrothermal curing of class G cement with different pozzolanic and latent hydraulic additives. In Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry, 2022, vol. 147, no. 18, p. 9891-9902. (2021: 4.755 – IF, Q1 – JCR, 0.639 – SJR, Q2 – SJR). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10973-022-11254-2

LASHEN, ZM. – SHAMS, MS. – EL-SHESHTAWY, HS. – SLANÝ, M – ANTONIADIS, V – YANG, X – SHARMA, G – RINKLEBE, J – SHAHEEN, SM.** – ELMAHDY, SM. Remediation of Cd and Cu contaminated water and soil using novel nanomaterials derived from sugar beet processing- and clay brick factory-solid wastes. In Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2022, vol. 428, p. 128205-1-128205-11. (2021: 14.224 – IF, Q1 – JCR, 1.991 – SJR, Q1 – SJR). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2021.128205

MEDEIROS MELO, T** – SCHAUERTE, M – BLUHM, A – SLANÝ, M – PALLER, M – BOLAN, N – BOSCH, J – FRITZSCHE, A – RINKLEBE, J**. Ecotoxicological effects of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and of a new PFAS adsorbing organoclay to immobilize PFAS in soils on earthworms and plants. In Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2022, vol. 433, p. 128771-1-128771-11. (2021: 14.224 – IF, Q1 – JCR, 1.991 – SJR, Q1 – SJR). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2022.128771

MEHMOOD, S* – AHMED, W* – ALATALO, J – MAHMOOD, M – IMTIAZ, M – DITTA, A – ALI, Esmat F. – ABDELRAHMAN, H – SLANÝ, M – ANTONIADIS, V – RINKLEBE, J* – SHAHEEN, SM.** – LI, W**. Herbal plants- and rice straw-derived biochars reduced metal mobilization in fishpond sediments and improved their potential as fertilizers. In Science of the Total Environment, 2022, vol. 826, p. 154043-1-154043-13. (2021: 10.753 – IF, Q1 – JCR, 1.806 – SJR, Q1 – SJR). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.154043

PRIBUS, M** – BUDZÁK, Š – PRIBUSOVÁ SLUŠNÁ, L – ŠIMONOVÁ, T – JANKOVIČ, Ľ – MÉSZÁROS, R. – BUJDÁK, J. Luminescence of Reichardt´s dye in polyelectrolyte-modified saponite colloids. In Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, 2022, vol. 642, p. 128663-1-128663-10. (2021: 5.518 – IF, Q2 – JCR, 0.758 – SJR, Q2 – SJR). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.colsurfa.2022.128663

PRIBUS, Marek** – ORLIK, Marek – VALENT, Ivan**. From classical metal-catalyzed homogeneous oscillators to an uncatalyzed version of the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction: a review. In Reaction Kinetics, Mechanisms and Catalysis, 2022, vol. 135, no. 3, p. 1211-1260. (2021: 1.843 – IF, Q4 – JCR, 0.335 – SJR, Q3 – SJR). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11144-021-02151-0

SKOURA, E – BOHÁČ, P – BARLOG, M – PÁLKOVÁ, H – DANKO, M – ŠURKA, J – MAUTNER, A – BUJDÁK, J**. Modified polymer surfaces: Thin films of silicate composites via polycaprolactone melt fusion. In International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2022, vol. 23, art. no. 9166, [16] p. (2021: 6.208 – IF, Q1 – JCR, 1.176 – SJR, Q1 – SJR). https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms23169166

SLANÝ, M** – JANKOVIČ, Ľ – MADEJOVÁ, J. Near-IR study of the impact of alkyl-ammonium and -phosphonium cations on the hydration of montmorillonite. In Journal of Molecular Structure, 2022, vol. 1256, p. 132568-1-132568-10. (2021: 3.841 – IF, Q3 – JCR, 0.480 – SJR, Q2 – SJR). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molstruc.2022.132568

ŠUTEKOVÁ, M – BARLOG, M – ŠIMONOVÁ, T – KLEMENT, R – RICHARDS, GJ – HILL, JP – LABUTA, J – BUJDÁK, J**. Pyrazinacene luminescence enhancement by heat-activated surface adsorption and de-aggregation in a saponite colloidal system. In Applied Clay Science, 2022, vol. 218, p. 106413-1-106413-8. (2021: 5.907 – IF, Q1 – JCR, 0.958 – SJR, Q1 – SJR). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clay.2022.106413

XING, J – WANG, J** – KINDER, CES – YANG, X – SLANÝ, M – WANG, B – SONG, H – SHAHEEN, SM. – LEINWEBER, P – RINKLEBE, J**. Rice hull biochar enhances the mobilization and methylation of mercury in a soil under changing redox conditions: Implication for Hg risks management in paddy fields. In Environment International, 2022, vol. 168, no., p. 107484-1-107484-11. (2021: 13.352 – IF, Q1 – JCR, 2.757 – SJR, Q1 – SJR). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2022.107484

International and National Projects

Foreign cooperating institutions

• Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry of the ASCR, Prague, Czech Republic
• Institute of Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic
• Institute of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, Poland
• Institute of Polymers, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
• University of Poitiers, CNRS, HydrASA, Poitiers, France
• University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
• University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece
• Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK
• National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan
• Nagoya University, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya, Japan
• Tokyo Metropolitan University Faculty of Urban Environmental Sciences, Tokyo, Japan
• Yamaguchi University, Graduate School of Medicine, Yamaguchi, Japan
• University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, USA
• Monash University, Melbourne, Australia