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Less Chemicals in Farming | Patent by USil Scientists

| Małgorzata Kłoskowicz, PhD | BioEkoDiox – that’s the acronym for the project implemented by scientists associated with the University of Silesia in Katowice; they develop new solutions for agro- and petrochemistry and in the area of plastic recycling. The solutions—one of which has been protected by patents—concern 1,3-dioxolanes, organic chemical compounds of wide application. ‘We...

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To leave the lenses and the analyses behind | Research by Prof. Krzysztof Kula

| Maria Sztuka | Visual works created using new means of artistic expression are increasingly often included in art gallery exhibitions. Virtual space, video art, installation, and artistic performances evoke many different feelings, which is very often what their creators are hoping for while searching for their own intermedium. We met with Prof. Krzysztof Kula...

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From Unique Property of Crystal to an Invention | Patent of the Usil Physicists

| dr Małgorzata Kłoskowicz | Perovskites are materials that are used in the automotive industry, electronics, photovoltaic panels, and modern scientific research equipment. They are often discussed in the context of the oenergy of the future. The unique properties of oxygen perovskites have been studied for many years by physicists from the University of Silesia....

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New ambulance equipment | An invention of USil scientists

| Małgorzata Kłoskowicz, PhD | Scientists have designed a special pneumatic tent for safe transport by ambulance of patients suspected of having an infectious disease. The invention, which was registered with the Polish Patent Office, is currently being tested in clinical conditions in several Silesian hospitals. The folded pneumatic tent is the size of a...

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Small plant, great possibilities | Research by Prof. Małgorzata Gaj

| Weronika Cygan-Adamczyk | When she started her career as a scientist, no one in Poland was working on this small, inconspicuous plant. Only thanks to her promoter, Prof. Mirosław Małuszyński, who in the 1980s brought small seeds from an internship in Belgium and began his adventure with Arabidopsis thaliana – the thale cress, also...

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How to show that science is interesting? | Interview with Prof. A. Daszkowska-Golec

‘You don’t need decorations to convince someone that science is interesting’ | Weronika Cygan-Adamczyk | In January 2024, Agata Daszkowska-Golec, PhD, Dsc, Associate Professor, Deputy Dean for Research Promotion and Internationalisation at the Faculty of Natural Sciences of the University of Silesia returned from a research stay in the United States. She will go back...

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