Two IUPAC Poster Prize Certificates awarded at the 75th Annual Congress of the Slovak & Czech Chemical Societies

Milan Drábik

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Two IUPAC Poster Prize Certificates awarded at the 75^th Annual Congress of the Slovak & Czech Chemical Societies

Milan Drábik
Milan Drábik is the Chair of Slovak National Committee of IUPAC and in IUPAC, he is Titular Member of ICTNS.

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From the journal Chemistry International Volume 46 Issue 1

The 75^th Annual Congress of the Slovak & Czech Chemical Societies (held from 4-8 September 2023 in High Tatras, Slovakia) attracted nearly 400 participants who presented and discussed the large scope of topics and achievements of chemists from Slovakia and The Czech Republic. The program comprised an exclusive plenary lecture – Mass photometry: weighing molecules with light, by Prof. Philipp Kukura, Oxford University, U.K., invited lectures, lectures and poster presentations. The organisers had the credit and responsibility to decide on two awardees of IUPAC Poster Prize Certificates. The IUPAC Poster Prize is aimed at PhD students and chemists younger than 40 years, thus poster presentations of nearly 100 young colleagues have been monitored and evaluated with the aim to choose two posters and authors to be awarded. The members of ad-hoc monitoring and evaluating committee, chaired by Milan Drábik, after two evenings of viewing of posters and scientific discussions with authors decided to award and present the certificates to:

Dhiya Krishnan, PhD student at the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia;for the poster entitled “ THE PHASE EQUILIBRIA OF Na₃AlF₆–NdF₃ AND (Na₃AlF₆–NdF₃)_EUT–Nd₂O₃ SYSTEM“.

From left to right: Assoc. Prof. Monika Jerigová – chair of the Organizing Committee of the 75^th Annual Congress of the Slovak & Czech Chemical Societies, Ms. Dhiya Krishnan – IUPAC Poster Prize awardee, Assoc. Prof. Milan Drábik – Chairman of Slovak National Committee of IUPAC, Prof. Ľubomír Švorc – president of Slovak Chemical Society

Chairman of Slovak National Committee of IUPAC (Milan Drábik) with IUPAC Poster Prize awardees holding the Certificates (left to right: Martina Machalová and Dhiya Krishnan

Martina Machalová , PhD student at the Institute of Chemistry and Technology of Environmental Protection, Faculty of Chemistry, Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic;for the poster entitled “LA-ICP-MS IN MEDICAL RESEAERCH)”.

Awardees, when asked to describe in brief their research and results for readers of Chemistry International, answered confidently as follows. Dhiya Krishnan: “I conducted the thermal analysis to investigate the phase equilibria of molten salts to determine the temperatures of primary crystallization and the eutectic temperatures. Notably, the research revealed that the solubility of Nd₂O₃ in the molten eutectic system of Na₃AlF₆-NdF₃ is relatively high compared to the solubility of Nd₂O₃ in the current molten industrial electrolyte (2 wt.%, 0.96 mol.%) for the electrowinning of neodymium (LiF-NdF₃). Results of this investigation hold the potential to provide useful information for electrometallurgical applications, particularly in the electrowinning of Nd and related rare earth elements.”

Martina Machalová: “The presented contribution – LA-ICP-MS in medical research, was focused on the application of laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry in 2D elemental imaging within soft tissue. In this context, a methodology has been developed for the analysis of rat heart sections to study the changes in elemental distribution as a result of myocardial fibrosis. A positive correlation has been found between increased iron distribution and the myocardial fibrosis locations.”

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Milan Drábik

Milan Drábik is the Chair of Slovak National Committee of IUPAC and in IUPAC, he is Titular Member of ICTNS.

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