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 1.  Igor Muševič, Matjaž Humar, Kroglasti tekočekristalni laser, US9263843 (B2), US Patent Office, 16. 02. 2016. [COBISS.SI-ID 24447015]

1.  Sergej Faletič, Merjenje molekularne dinamike z oscilirajočo prostorsko razglasitvijo faze spinov: doctoral dissertation, Ljubljana, 2016 (mentor Aleš Mohorič). [COBISS.SI-ID 3016548]

     2.  Andraž Rešetič, Polimerno dispergirani tekočekristalni elastomeri: doctoral dissertation, Ljubljana, 2016 (mentor Boštjan Zalar). [COBISS.SI-ID 288842240]

     3.  Ana Varlec, Električne, optične in strukturne lastnosti nanomaterialov na osnovi molibdena in njihovih polimernih kompozitov: doctoral dissertation, Ljubljana, 2016 (mentor Maja Remškar). [COBISS.SI-ID 2962020]

     4.  Petra Dolšak, Source specific fog deposition of black carbon from the atmosphere: master’s thesis, Halmstad, 2016 (mentor Marie Mattsson; co-mentor Griša Močnik). [COBISS.SI-ID 29952039]

     5.  Jože Luzar, Fizikalne lastnosti visokoentropijskih zlitin Cu-Co-Cr-Fe-Ni-Zr-Al: master’s thesis, Ljubljana, 2016 (mentor Janez Dolinšek). [COBISS.SI-ID 29912359]

     6.  Matic Bergant, Določanje vsebnosti meglumina z derivatizacijo z natrijevim naftokinonsulfonatom in tekočinsko kromatografijo visoke ločljivosti: master’s thesis, Ljubljana, 2016 (mentor Stane Pajk; co-mentor Jožko Cesar). [COBISS.SI-ID 4219249]

     7.  Jakob Frontini, Nematsko-nematsko površinsko sidranje: master’s thesis, Ljubljana, 2016 (mentor Miha Ravnik). [COBISS.SI-ID 3006564]

     8.  Saša Harkai, Vpliv končne velikosti v mehki snovi v električnem polju: master’s thesis, Maribor, 2016 (mentor Samo Kralj; co-mentor Victor Teboul). [COBISS.SI-ID 22560264]

     9.  Boštjan Kokot, Identifikacija kontakta med nanodelci in lipidnim dvoslojem: master’s thesis, Ljubljana, 2016 (mentor Janez Štrancar; co-mentor Iztok Urbančič). [COBISS.SI-ID 2950244]

  10.  Nina Lokar, Optimizacija kontrasta pri fluorescenčni konfokalni mikroskopiji človeških lečnih epitelnih celic: master’s thesis, Ljubljana, 2016 (mentor Janez Štrancar; co-mentor Marko Hawlina).… Read the rest “Mentoring”

From September 14 to Septemebr 16, 2016, the ‘Jožef Stefan’ Institute hosted the 6th Workshop on Liquid Crystals for Photonics, which brought together world first class scientists, in particular physicists, chemists and engineers, involved in photonic applications of liquid crystals. The workshop was co-organised by the ‘Jožef Stefan’ Institute and by the Group for Physics of Soft and Partially Ordered Matter from the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the University of Ljubljana.

Matjaž Humar from Condensed Matter Physics department at Jožef Stefan Institute won 1st Place Poster Prize at prestigious Nobel Laureate Meeting 2016. The meeting has taken place in Lindau, Germany from 26. June to 1. July. There were 400 invited young scientists from 80 countries and 29 Nobel laureates attending the 66. Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting. The attendees of the meeting are carefully selected by a committee giving priority to young scientists who are strongly committed to science and research. This year meeting was focused on physics. Matjaž presented a poster about lasers embedded into single live cells. His poster got the most votes given by the young scientists and Nobel laureates.

Director’s Council reached an unanimous decision to finance the Live and Edible Photonics Project, proposed by dr. Matjaž Humar form the Departement for condensed matter physics. The goal of the project is to build a leading bio-integrated photonics laboratory in the ‘Jožef stefan’ Institue. The laboratory will be located in the former library rooms, which will be renovated and adapted to form the

 perfect environment for the proposed studies. The laboratory will develop photonic components, such as laser,  made entirely of biocompatible and living materials, which will be suitable for consumption or for insertion into a human body. Biodegradable photon sensors will also be used in combination with optically coherent tomography (OCT) and will enable the use of sensors deeper inside the body than before and with greater resolution. OCT will be used to study live active self-organising systems and their interaction with light. The methods developed as part of the Project will allow a new level of manipulation of biological systems, biosensing and new human-machine interfaces.