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On October 20, 2016, the Scientific Counsil of the J. Stefan Institue warded the Honorary distinction of the ‘Jožef Stefan’ Intitute to dr. Janez Pirš. Dr. Janez Pirš was awarded the Honorary distinction for his contribution to development of new high-tech products based on scientific and technological achievements of the ‘Jožef stefan’ Institute. Dr. Janez Pirš worked for a long time at the F5 department and was the instigator of the first real collaboration with Slovene industry in 1980.  His most important achievement was the collaboration between the Institute and the Balder d.o.o. company, which was in 1997 created as a sipin-off company od the Institute for development, production and selling of protictive weldinf filters. Thanks to dr. Janez Pirš, the ‘Jožef Stefan’ Insitute and Balder d.o.o. have been successfully collaborating from the very begining, and this collaboration continued also after 2012, when Balder d.o.o. became part of the international company Kimberly Clark Proffesional.

1.  Urban Mur, Simon Čopar, Miha Ravnik, Miha Čančula, Slobodan Žumer, “Unveiling details of defect structures in chiral and achiral nematic droplets by improving simulations of optical images”, In: Liquid crystals XX, San Diego, California, United States, August 28-30, 2016, (Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering, vol. 9940),  p. 9 [COBISS.SI-ID 3021924]

     2.  Miha Ravnik, Mitja Štimulak, Urban Mur, Miha Čančula, Simon Čopar, Slobodan Žumer, “Photonic crystals, light manipulation, and imaging in complex nematic structures”, In: Emerging Liquid Crystal Technologies XI, Tuesday-Wednesday 16-17 February 2016, San Francisco, California, United States, (Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering, vol. 9769), pp. 97690B-1-97690B-10. [COBISS.SI-ID 2931556]   

1.  Božidara Cvetković, Vito Janko, Anton Gradišek, Mitja Luštrek, Tanja Kajtna, Boro Štrumbelj, “Mobile application to stimulate physical activity in schoolchildren”, V: IE 2016, The 12th International Conference on Intelligent Environments, 14-16 September 2016, London, United Kingdom, pp. 206-209. [COBISS.SI-ID 29774887]

     2.  Božidara Cvetković, Urška Pangerc, Anton Gradišek, Mitja Luštrek, “Monitoring patients with diabetes using wearable sensors: predicting glycaemias using ECG and respiration rate”, In: Proceedings, 1st ECAI Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Diabetes, AID, at the 22nd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2016), 30 August 2016, The Hague, Holland, pp. 18-21. [COBISS.SI-ID 29723431]

     3.  Martin Frešer, Božidara Cvetković, Anton Gradišek, Mitja Luštrek, “Anticipatory system for T-H-C dynamics in room with real and virtual sensors”, In: UbiComp 2016: The 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, September 12-16, 2016, Heildeberg, Gemany, pp. 1267-1274. [COBISS.SI-ID 29776423]

     4.  Martin Frešer, Božidara Cvetković, Anton Gradišek, Mitja Luštrek, “An intelligent system to improve T-H-C parameters at the workplace”, In: UbiComp 2016: The 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, September 12-16, 2016, Heildeberg, Gemany, pp. 61-64. [COBISS.SI-ID 29776679]

     5.  Janez Grad, Anton Gradišek, Matjaž Gams, “Čmrlji: pašna dejavnost in zvok brenčanja: daily foraging behavior and buzzing sounds”, In: Zbornik referatov, 2.… Read the rest “Published Conference Contribution”

   1.  Igor Serša, Franci Bajd, “Current density imaging as means to follow tissue electroporation”, V: Handbook of electroporation: living reference work, Damijan Miklavčič, ed., Gregor Serša, ed., Continuously updated ed., Switzerland, Springer International Publishing, cop. 2016, pp. 1-21. [COBISS.SI-ID 29778215]

Liquid crystal elastomers are promising for building actuators due to their excellent thermomechanical response, but it is challenging to manufacture them additively. Members of the Solid State Department (F5) of Jožef Stefan Institute, A. Rešetič, J. Milavec, B. Zupančič, B. Zalar and V. Domenici from Italy have shown that limitations imposed by the synthesis of liquid crystal elastomers can be overcome by doping microparticles to the polymer matrix and curing the composite resin in external magnetic field. The new composite material provides for conventional moulding of elastic objects of general shapes and thermomechanical deformation modes. This work has been published in an article Polymer-dispersed liquid crystal elastomersin Nature Communications.