Here you will find a chronologically sorted list of the most important published scientific achievements.
For simple fluids adsorbed at a planar solid substrate, critical-point wetting, that is, the vanishing of the contact angle θ at a temperature Tw lying below that of the critical point Tc, need not occur. While critical-point wetting necessarily happens when the wall-fluid and fluid-fluid forces have the same range (e.g., both are long-ranged (LR)…
Research of chiral push-pull systems based on helicenes continues successfully in the Group of Advanced Materials and Organic Synthesis (GAMOS). This type of molecules, containing one or more electron-rich (donor, D) and electron-deficient (acceptor, A) groups directly connected to the π-system of helicene, is suitable for the preparation of lumin…
Wheat germ agglutinin (WGA) is a carbohydrate-binding protein (lectin) abundant in the seeds of common wheat. WGA is used as a model lectin to elucidate the principles governing carbohydrate-lectin interactions. Moreover, WGA acts as a fungistatic, cytotoxic, or antiviral agent with potential in various biomedical applications. For example, WGA dis…
Capillary condensation is a well-known example of finite-size effects referring to a shift in the condition for condensation of fluids confined by solid walls. The phenomenon is ubiquitous in nature and plays an important role in many technological applications. Although well-described for simple models (e.g., planar or cylindrical geometry), the p…
Apparent wall slip (AWS) is an interphase phenomenon which describes a specific boundary conditions when a dispersion flows along a wall. AWS is caused by dispersion-wall interaction (spatial reasons, electrostatic interactions) and can be either positive (formation of depleted layer apparently amplifies flow intensity) or negative (formation of st…
If two solid surfaces immersed in a fluid get sufficiently close together, a local condensation between them may occur. These so-called bridging transitions, referring to the formation of a liquid film connecting the surfaces, depend sensitively on their shape. The theoretical study led by Prof. Alexandr Malijevský and published in Physical Review…