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Department of Nanocatalysis, HI CAS @dnanocatalysis.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Visit to our labs from the NANO2026 Summer School (K. Stejskalová) Students explored heterogeneous catalysis on clusters and NPs, saw how atomically precise clusters are made and tested, learned about partnerships in modelling, characterization and synchrotron research from our student Petr Vítek

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Department of Nanocatalysis, HI CAS @dnanocatalysis.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Visit to our labs from the EXELAB program (K. Stejskalová) Students explored heterogeneous catalysis on clusters and NPs, saw how atomically precise clusters are made and tested, and learned about our collaborations in modelling, characterization and synchrotron research from our student Petr Vítek

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Department of Nanocatalysis, HI CAS @dnanocatalysis.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

The Student Seminar brought together students and researchers at beautiful Hejnice Monastery. Special recognition for @heyrovskeho-ustav.bsky.social 's student Petr Vítek, whose presentation was recognized as one of the seminar’s outstanding contributions! 🎉 Read more on our FB 👇 shorturl.at/3jWnt

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Department of Nanocatalysis, HI CAS @dnanocatalysis.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

𝗔𝗠𝗨𝗟𝗘𝗧 𝗧𝗮𝘀𝗸 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝘂𝗺 On May 7 the #AMULET Task Forum brought together early-career researchers for 19 talks from institutions involved in the project, where @heyrovskeho-ustav.bsky.social's student presented his talk about atomically precise clusters. Read more on our FB 👇 shorturl.at/dZEKp

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Department of Nanocatalysis, HI CAS @dnanocatalysis.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

𝗩𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗡𝗮𝗻𝗼𝗚𝗮𝗽 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗡𝗮𝗻𝗼𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗹𝘆𝘀𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 @heyrovskeho-ustav.bsky.social Martín Dieste Places, NanoGap PhD student, researches nanomaterial catalysts for CO2 valorization and green H2 and is visiting us for ODH catalyst studies.

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Department of Nanocatalysis, HI CAS @dnanocatalysis.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

We happily shere our latest publication from @heyrovskeho-ustav.bsky.social in @pubs.acs.org Journal of Physical Chemistry C! The controlled milling of ZrO₂ introduces oxygen vacancies enhancing CO₂ activation and improve Ni/ZrO₂ catalysts for DMR. You can read it here pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

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Department of Nanocatalysis, HI CAS @dnanocatalysis.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

♻️ Proud to share latest paper from @heyrovskeho-ustav.bsky.social in @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social's Molecules (Special Issue: Nano and Micro Materials in Green Chemistry) Low-temperature propane ODH over alumina-supported Cu nanoparticles achieves up to 100% propylene selectivity with CO₂ as oxidant

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Department of Nanocatalysis, HI CAS @dnanocatalysis.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 On 28. Jan 2026, 21 students from Czech universities participated at the Student Catalytic Seminar, taking place at @masarykuniversity.bsky.social. Our 3rd year BSc. student, Petr Vítek gave a lecture, which was recognized as one of three best presentations of seminar.

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Department of Nanocatalysis, HI CAS @dnanocatalysis.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

👩‍🔬Elen Flanderková, a student at Gymnázium Omská, has started an internship in the Open Science 2026. In her project, “Subnanometer clusters as high-performance catalysts”, she will study atomically precise subnanometer clusters and their use in industry-relevant reactions, supervised by Petr Vítek.

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Department of Nanocatalysis, HI CAS @dnanocatalysis.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

🎊 Success of our student at Student Scientific Conference at UCT Prague 👨‍🔬 Our 3rd year Bc. student, Petr Vítek, presented in the Chemical Engineering I section titled “Atomically Precise CuPd Pentamer Clusters for Catalytic Dehydrogenation of Cyclohexene”, which earned him a 1st place award.

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Department of Nanocatalysis, HI CAS @dnanocatalysis.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

🔬✨ We were glad to welcome Dr. Soňa Ehlerová, member of the Academic Council of @akademievedcr.bsky.social, to our Nanocatalysis Labs on Nov 7. An astrophysicist studying the Milky Way and star formation, she explored our nanocatalyst research led by Štefan Vajda. ⚗️🌱

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Department of Nanocatalysis, HI CAS @dnanocatalysis.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

💡✨️ During the Week of the Academy of Sciences 2025, we opened the doors of the Department on Nanocatalysis to visitors! Our bachelor student, Petr Vítek gave an excellent tour of our laboratories on Thursday 8th of November, explaining how we prepare and study catalysts at the nanoscale. ✨️🗣

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Department of Nanocatalysis, HI CAS @dnanocatalysis.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Our bachelor student Petr showing attendees from Letní Škola NANO2025 (organized by K. Stejskalová) the dept. of Nanocatalysis labs, including deposition machines, which use magnetron sputtering and mass selection) to prepare atomically precise clusters and the experimental set-ups for their testing

To the right, Petr Vítek in a light blue t-shirt is showing a presentation on a projection screen to 5 students (in dark blue t-shirts) about the cluster deposition apparatus inside a laboratory. There are large canisters of liquid nitrogen on the right side, in front of Petr and electronics above the canisters.

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Department of Nanocatalysis, HI CAS @dnanocatalysis.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

A huge congratulations to the poster prize winners at #ClusterMeeting2025: ✨ David Kugler ✨ Federico Loi ✨ Stanislav Valtera ✨ Deborah Perco ✨ Mykhailo Vaidulych ✨ Swathilaksmi Swathilakshmi

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Department of Nanocatalysis, HI CAS @dnanocatalysis.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Poster session snapshots from Thursday! 🧪 Our colleagues Mehran Sajad, Volodymyr Sydorchuk and Karolína Simkovičová did a great job presenting their work. And Mehran giving a talk on Friday! I hope you didn't miss it 👏 #ClusterMeeting2025

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Department of Nanocatalysis, HI CAS @dnanocatalysis.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

📢 Huge shoutout to our team members, Stanislav Valtera, Petr Vítek and Federico Loi, who represented us at the Monday poster session of #ClusterMeeting2025 Special kudos to Petr and Federico, who also gave fantastic talks on Tuesday🎤👏💡 @nanocattwinning.bsky.social @heyrovskeho-ustav.bsky.social

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Department of Nanocatalysis, HI CAS @dnanocatalysis.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Many thanks to our generous sponsors for supporting emerging researchers! Best of luck to all the students competing for the prize at ✨️ #ClusterMeeting2025 ✨️ The Nanocatalysis team is looking forward to seeing you all in Prague @nanocattwinning.bsky.social

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Department of Nanocatalysis, HI CAS @dnanocatalysis.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Proud to be part of the AMULET project team presenting our latest research results, it's a great opportunity to share science and connect with fellow researchers🧪🔬 #AMULET

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Department of Nanocatalysis, HI CAS @dnanocatalysis.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

🔥Turn up the heat 🌡️ Hydrothermal treatment transforms amorphous ZrO₂ into stable, mesoporous monoclinic phase. 🔬 Then, a light milling adds defects. 💡 The result? ZrO₂ with boosted visible-light photocatalysis and serious promise as a smart catalyst support. Read here 👇👇👇 doi.org/10.1039/D4MR...

The graphical abstract of cited paper in the post, it has a blue background and it includes three sub-images and text. The title of the image reads "Controlling phase transition and defect structure". Under the title on the right, there is a black and white image of two hammers breaking up a stone-like material with a description "mechanochemical treatment", next to it is a simple schemiatic depictind an Erlenmayer flask with a liquid inside with a description "hydrothermal treatment". From these two images an arrow points to a third image which is a black and white scanning electron microscopy image of the surface of the catalyst with a UV-Vis spectra overlay, the description reads "dye photodegradation on ZrO defects".

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Heyrovský Institute CAS @heyrovskeho-ustav.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Scientists from various institutes and universities presented their current scientific projects related to - quantum technologies, - conversion and storage of electrical energy, - biosensors, and - photocatalysis, which can purify wastewater. 👉 www.jh-inst.cas.cz/news-heyrovs...

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Department of Nanocatalysis, HI CAS @dnanocatalysis.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Our PhD students, Karolína Simkovičová and Stanislav Valtera, represented the Department of Nanocatalysis at the conference "Heyrovský Institute opens its door" on May 15, presenting their works on dehydrogenation of hydrocarbons. #Amulet (Advanced MUltiscaLe materials for key Enabling Technologies)

Two young researchers, a woman and a man, stand smiling in front of scientific posters at an event hosted by the Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry. The poster on the left describes a research on oxidative dehydrogenation of propane over alumina-supported copper nanoparticles titled "Selective Low-Temperature Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Propane over Alumina-Supported Copper Nanoparticles". The poster on the right describes research on oxidative dehydrogenation of cyclohexene using supported metal clusters titled "Switching Selectivity in the Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Cyclohexene by Atomic-Precision Control of Catalyst Composition".
In front of the researchers is a white table displaying two 3D printed models of textured surfaces (nanodiamond and blank Si chip) with a reprasentation of bimetalic clusters on them, a gold custom made reaction cell and a disassembled reaction cell, which is also 3D printed.

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Department of Nanocatalysis, HI CAS @dnanocatalysis.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

💫 Registration for Clustermeeting 2025 is OPEN ❗ www.clustermeeting2025.eu/registration...

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Registration | Cluster Meeting 2025

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Department of Nanocatalysis, HI CAS @dnanocatalysis.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

✨️Dear Cluster Friends✨️ The abstract submission is now OPEN ❗️ You can find the information on abstract submission at the conference website: clustermeeting2025.eu/abstracts-su...

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Department of Nanocatalysis, HI CAS @dnanocatalysis.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

SAVE THE DATE! Abstract Submission for the CLUSTER MEETING 2025 will be opened 31. January! Abstracts of all accepted contributions will be printed in the Book of Abstracts. Instructions on the abstract submissions are listed on the conference website: clustermeeting2025.eu/abstracts-su...

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Welcome to Cluster Meeting 2025 | Clustermeeting 2025

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