A Way to Produce Black Titanium Dioxide
White titanium dioxide is frequently used in the form of nanoparticles. There is a real chance now that black titanium dioxide in the form of nanotubes will see its first industrial application; it will appear on a clock face of a famous watch manufacturer. When approached by this manufact…
Technology Transfer Demands Practical Applicability
We talked to Jan Vodička, who is involved in research into smell and taste at the University of Pardubice. What is the clinician's view of Czech science? And how do innovations in medicine come into practice? You are a doctor with clinical experience, you work at the Faculty of Medical Stu…
US Patent for Nanolayer Improving the Speed of Saving Data
Scientists from the University of Pardubice obtained an American patent protection for a special alloy nanolayer with unique properties. It enables to save data thousand times faster and in ten times higher density than materials which have been used for storage media up until now. Researchers fr…
From Sugar to Fame
Sixteen months. For such a long time did the experts from the Faculty of Restoration keep a 7,000 years old well in sugar solution. They aimed to preserve the oldest wooden structure worldwide, found by archaeologists near Ostrov na Chrudimsku in 2018. They succeeded. Experts have just taken out …
EGNOS Soon to Monitor Rail Traffic
The rail traffic management in Europe will become more modern and safer thanks to the EGNOS satellite navigation system that has been used in civil aviation up to now. The use of satellite navigation for train positioning also involves reduction of operation costs. Aleš Filip, Associate Professor…
Smell Training Can Work Wonders
Smell is extremely important in social relations. In some cases, losing smell may well result in losing a job. As many as 20% of the population suffer from impaired smell. COVID-19 patients also lose their sense of smell for a limited period of time. How to regain the sense of smell? In this inte…
Galileo Masters Prize 2020 for prof. Filip
A researcher of the University of Pardubice becomes the Czech winner of the Galileo Masters 2020 in recognition of a solution that Europe has spent 10 years looking for. Aleš Filip of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics proposed a solution that may reduce railway traffic managem…
Women's Interest in High-skilled Work Brought Problems
Milena Lenderová is a prominent Czech historian. Her main focus lies in the history of everyday life and history of gender in the 19th century. When I wanted to learn more about the beginnings of female emancipation, I did not hesitate a moment to decide who I would approach. For centuries…
Which Substances in Food Should we Fear?
“All things are poison and nothing is without poison. Solely the dose determines that a thing is not a poison,” says Miloslav Pouzar, a toxicologist, with reference to the famous quote of Paracelsus. He hastens to add, however, that the fear of toxins and poisons around us is often exaggerated. W…
Saving Books From Ashes
Some are five hundred years old. They are old and damaged. Yet beautiful. Their new life starts at the Faculty of Restoration. We are talking about books. Ivan Kopáčik, Head of the Studio of Restoration and Conservation of Paper, Bookbinding and Documents takes one such book and describes in deta…
