24 / 4 / 2022
Pyrolysis, classified as a tertiary (thermochemical) plastics recycling process, is currently promoted as an effective solution for recycling a wide range of plastic wastes. Although it is not a new technology, it is just now finding an economically su...
23 / 3 / 2022
Restoring Natural Forests as the Most Efficient Way to Water Quality and Abundance: Case Study from Želivka River Basin One of the old folk proverbs says: "Where there is a forest, there is water." A perceptive nature observer, the Austrian forester V...
10 / 2 / 2022
Metal-organic frameworks, MOFs, are hybrid coordination polymers consisting of inorganic nodes linked together via organic ligands called linkers. MOFs are 3D crystalline structures with high surface area and porosity. Due to the high number of possib...
17 / 1 / 2022
The publication, which was prepared in collaboration with colleagues from the Institute for Nanomaterials, Advanced Technologies and Innovation of the Technical University of Liberec, follows up the previous research on energy plants and their potentia...
30 / 11 / 2021
The presented article was written thanks to the inter-university cooperation between the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the CTU in Prague (Department of Geomatics) and the Faculty of Environment UJEP (Department of Geoinformatics - KGI). The main topi...
8 / 11 / 2021
Polyaromatic hydrocarbons are commonly formed during incomplete combustion under improper conditions. They spread through the environment bound to flying ash without significant natural decomposition, and some of them are proven carcinogens. For treatm...
1 / 10 / 2021
Cerium dioxide is one of the oxides formed of rare earth elements. It has remarkable physical and chemical properties, particularly the ability to cleave many chemical bonds in hazardous and biologically active substances. This ability is related to th...
9 / 7 / 2021
The RSC Advances journal (Royal Society of Chemistry) published recently an article describing the decomposition of toxic organophosphates with the aid of functionalized bead cellulose. In this paper, the team lead by Prof. Janos (Faculty of Environmen...
8 / 7 / 2021
Perhaps all floodplains in Central Europe are contaminated by elements imprecisely but aptly called “heavy metals“. This contamination mostly results from past human activities, commonly during past centuries. The “heavy metals” can be considered almos...
2 / 6 / 2021
Towards the end of World War II, strategic industrial sites were bombed by the Allies. In our region, these included important railway junctions (Ústí nad Labem, Karlovy Vary, Chomutov) or industrial plants (the chemical complex Záluží near Litvínov). ...