Synthetic or bio? Tracking down new materials
Biopolymers are in demand in the medical professions and the packaging industry due to reservations - often unjustified - about synthetics. Recent biopolymer findings and those on responsive materials, i.e., materials that respond rapidly to environmental changes, were summed up by the BiPoCo 2014 international scientific conference, of which one [...]
The role of intuition in chemical research – MTA researchers publishing in a prestigious professional journal
Miklós György Keserű, the director in chief of MTA Research Centre for Natural Sciences (TTK) and Tibor Soós, a Momentum team leader top the authors' list of the study published in Chemical Society Reviews using cognitive psychology to analyse how the intuition of researchers influences the development of synthetic chemistry. [...]
MFA’s Professor László P. Biró joins the Graphene Flagship project
To coincide with Graphene Week2014, the Graphene Flagship is proud to announce that today one of the largest-ever European research initiatives is doubling in size. 66 new partners are being invited to join the consortium following the results of a €9 million competitive call. While most partners are universities and [...]
“MTA’s Momentum Programme for Excellence offers autonomy for research”
Balázs Győrffy, Associate Professor at the Paediatric Clinic No. II of Semmelweis University, who has received the opportunity to set up a Momentum research group at the MTA Research Centre for Natural Sciences, wishes to come forward with efficient anticancer therapies. He hopes to improve Hungary's present negative record in [...]
Informal Meeting on Mass Spectrometry
The 32nd Informal Meeting on Mass Spectrometry conference was organized from 11 to 14 May 2014 in Balatonszárszó, Hungary. This well-known scientific event takes place in various European countries every year. Founders and co-chairmen of the meeting are Pietro Traldi and Károly Vékey; the organizers were László Drahos and members [...]