Smell and taste research team presents work in Dresden
The scientist and academic Pavlína Brothánková from the Faculty of Health Studies and her team travelled to Dresden to visit the Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Riechen und Schmecken, a specialised research centre for smell and taste disorders, which brings together experts from all over the world…
International Colloquium on the Emmaus Cycle Preservation
SAVE THE DATE! As part of the three-year international project "Concept for the preventive conservation, securing and preservation of the cycle of wall paintings in the cloister of the Emmaus Monastery in Prague", funded by the Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (German Federal Foundation for the Enviro…
Prof. Holčapek receives prestigious USA award
Analytical chemist Michal Holčapek from the University of Pardubice received the Herbert J. Dutton Award in the USA as the first Czech ever. The credit for this goes to his many years of research on lipids at the Faculty of Chemical Technology. Among other results, this has led to a method that a…
UPCE smart sensors to save water usage
A smart environmental sensor to help farmers manage irrigation efficiently is a discovery by the researchers from the Faculty of Chemical Technology at the University of Pardubice and their partners. The novelty in the field of material printing can measure both soil moisture and temperature, thu…
UPCE restorers save rare mosaic
Experts from the Faculty of Restoration at the University of Pardubice participated in the restoration of a valued mosaic from the period of socialist realism in Liberec. The mosaic depicting a female and male student with attributes of technical disciplines towered over the entrance to the forme…
Research at the University of Pardubice gains worldwide recognition
The method of pancreatic cancer diagnosis, as discovered by the team of analytical chemist Michal Holčapek of the Faculty of Chemical Technology, University of Pardubice, has earned worldwide recognition. The result of the research has been published by the prestigious journal Nature Communicatio…
Special Filter to Help Scientists Catch Virus in Classrooms
Scientists at the Centre for Materials and Nanotechnologies (CEMNAT), the Faculty of Chemical Technology at the University of Pardubice, have introduced a new air filtration system that effectively prevents SARS-COV-2 transmission indoors. The device, which significantly reduces the concentration…
A Way to Produce Black Titanium Dioxide
White titanium dioxide is frequently used in the form of nanoparticles. There is a real chance now that black titanium dioxide in the form of nanotubes will see its first industrial application; it will appear on a clock face of a famous watch manufacturer. When approached by this manufact…
Technology Transfer Demands Practical Applicability
We talked to Jan Vodička, who is involved in research into smell and taste at the University of Pardubice. What is the clinician's view of Czech science? And how do innovations in medicine come into practice? You are a doctor with clinical experience, you work at the Faculty of Medical Stu…
US Patent for Nanolayer Improving the Speed of Saving Data
Scientists from the University of Pardubice obtained an American patent protection for a special alloy nanolayer with unique properties. It enables to save data thousand times faster and in ten times higher density than materials which have been used for storage media up until now. Researchers fr…
