Scientific Achievements

Ljubljana, 02/17/2017

The fungal genus Aspergillus is of critical importance to humankind. Species include those with industrial applications, important pathogens of humans, animals and crops, a source of potent carcinogenic contaminants of…

Ljubljana, 01/24/2017

Hydrophobicity or water repelling is one of the most important phenomena in nature. The physical origin of hydrophobicity remains unclear even after seven decades of intense research. The classical explanation of…

Ljubljana, 01/11/2017

In novel technologies of heating and cooling of buildings, alternative approaches to energy storage and allocation are investigated. Several of these approaches aim at energy storage that would not require the…

Ljubljana, 11/15/2016

Researchers from Jožef Stefan Institute and National Institute of Chemistry, in collaboration with colleagues from Switzerland and Japan, were the first to identify accumulation of charged defects at domain walls in ferroelectric BiFeO3. This finding explains the p-type hopping conduction at the domain walls in BiFeO3 and thus represents the missing piece for explaining the intriguing electrical properties of domain walls in ferroelectrics. The study was published in Nature Materials with a 2015 impact factor of 38.89, which currently makes it one of the highest-impact scientific journals. The entire study was conceived and experimentally implemented at the two Slovenian research institutions.

Ljubljana, 10/25/2016

Metals present the perfect recycling material, since they are completely recyclable and in theory do not get consumed in the process circle from product to waste and back. Precious metals are extremely resistant to corrosion (dissolution) therefore leaching techniques rely on very aggressive chemicals and hazardous processes.

Ljubljana, 10/12/2016

NMR structural study of the interaction between a small-molecule optical probe (DAOTA-M2) and a G-quadruplex from the promoter region of the c-myc oncogene revealed that they interact at 1:2 binding stoichiometry. NMR…

Ljubljana, 09/08/2016

On the importance and challenges of a completely new technique, referred as electrochemical in-situ liquid cell electron microscopy, for the use in the field of energy conversion ("Importance and Challenges of Electrochemical and In situ Liquid Cell Electron Microscopy for Energy Conversion Research")

Ljubljana, 07/14/2016

In the modern world, obesity is becoming an increasing health and social problem since it is tightly linked to a shortened life expectancy and the development of chronic diseases, such as type 2 diabetes. In a study…

Ljubljana, 05/12/2016

Researchers of the Institute of Chemistry have described the structure of an earthworm toxin with which they could explain the function principle of some important bacterial toxins. Earthworms use the toxin lysenin as a…

Ljubljana, 04/12/2016

Immunoproteasome represents an interesting target for the development of new drugs for the treatment of autoimmune, inflammatory, and cancer diseases. Collaborators of the Laboratory for Molecular Modeling (L17) at the…

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News

Comparative genomics reveals high biological diversity and specific adaptations in the industrially and medically important fungal genus Aspergillus

Origin of hydrophobicity

A superior material for solar-energy storage and application in heat pumps and cooling devices

Publication in Nature Materials

New concept of platinum dissolution for the purposes of green recycling

NMR Structure of a Triangulenium-Based Probe Bound to a G-Quadruplex

Electrochemical in Situ Liquid Cell Electron Microscopy

Discovery of the Slimness Gene Opens New Therapy Possibilities for Obesity-Related Diabetes

Earthworms, pores and nanobiotechnology

Nonpeptidic Selective Inhibitors of the Chymotrypsin-Like (β5 i) Subunit of the Immunoproteasome