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1. Simon Čopar, Daniel Svenšek, Aleš Mohorič, Saša Prelovšek, Rešene kolokvijske naloge iz klasične fizike, Fakulteta za matematiko in fiziko, 2020.

2. Andrej Zorko, Miha Nemevšek, Nejc Košnik, Matic Lubej, Rešene naloge iz moderne fizike, Fakulteta za matematiko in fiziko, 2020.

1. Stane Pajk, “Magnezij”, In: Minerali, vitamini in druge izbrane snovi, Slovensko farmacevtsko društvo, 2020, 139-148.

2. Darja Gačnik, Andreja Jelen, Stanislav Vrtnik, Primož Koželj, Mitja Krnel, Qiang Hu, Janez Dolinšek, “Superconductivity in high-entropy and medium-entropy alloys from the Ti-Zr-Nb-Sn-Hf-Ta system”, In: Reference module in materials science and materials engineering, Elsevier, 2020.

Led by dr. Janez Štrancar, PhD, the researchers of the Biophysics Laboratory of the Condensed Matter Physics Department at the “Jožef Stefan” Institute have made crucial contributions to a large study of the mechanisms for nanomaterial toxicity and inflammation predictions without the use of test animals, published in the Advanced Materials under the title Prediction of Chronic Inflammation for Inhaled Particles: the Impact of Material Cycling and Quarantining in the Lung Epithelium. As part of the SmartNanoTox Horizon 2020 Projects, the Biophysics Laboratory coordinated the work of 34 authors from 9 countries. The authors of the article are the first to identify the key molecular events involved and connect them into a complicated cyclic mechanism that triggers different inflammatory responses. This knowledge allowed them to develop a model for predicting chronic inflammations using only selected cell tests. These findings are already being used to develop autonomous detection systems to predict the safety of materials, chemicals, medications or vaccines.

1. Roman Šink, Ema Valentina Brovč, Stane Pajk, Janez Mravljak, Stabilization of pharmaceutical compositions comprising polysorbate, EP3714902 (A1), European Patent Office, 30. 09. 2020.

1. Luka Drinovec, Griša Močnik, Photo‐thermal interferometer, EP3492905 (B1), European Patent Office, 29. 04. 2020; US10768088 (B2), US Patent Office, 8. 09. 2020.