The 10th TSRC Open Day, organized by the Textile Science Research Centre (TSRC) of the University of Zagreb Faculty of Textile Technology, was held in a hybrid form on 28th September 2023, in the Technical Museum Nikola Tesla in Zagreb, under the topic:
MICRO-NANO WORLD OF TEXTILES.
The event was announced by the TSRC Head Prof. Sandra Bischof on OTV’s show Svakodnevica, on Tuesday 26th September 2023.
Lecturers from the University of Zagreb Faculty of Textile Technology (TTF), the Institute for Medical Research and Occupational Medicine (IMI), the Croatian State Archives, Oxford Instruments (UK) and the association from Brussels Cefic made their contributions in the form of oral presentations. The lectures were held in two sections.
The first section was opened by Dunja Drmač, a representative of the Cefic company from Brussels, with a lecture:
Tightening the seams of EU chemical legislation – how to prepare?
The following lectures gave:
Ivana Vinković Vrček (IMI):
Risks of human exposure to complex mixtures of chemicals and nanoplastics
Karlo Lelas (TTF):
Damped harmonic oscillations: a different point of view
Suzana Njegač (State Archives) and Edita Vujasinović (TTF):
The mystery of archival papers
In the second section, the folowing lectures were held:
Lucia Spasevski (Oxford instruments, UK):
Solutions for advanced textile inspection by Oxford Instruments Nanoanalysis
Anja Ludaš (TTF):
Plasma in a micro-nano world
Iva Brlek (TTF):
Why encapsulate dyes?
At the end, two TSRC Annual Awards were given for excellent scientific papers in the student and young scientist categories. Awards were given to:
Ines Dominić (student):
Pretreatments of energy culture Miscanthus x Giganteus for fibers extraction
Petra Mihovilović (young researcher):
The possibility of using azo dye in the determination of chitosan in textile wastewaters.
Winner of the TSRC award in student category Ines Dominić, with TSRC Head and her mentor, Assist.Prof. Zorana Kovačević
Head of the Textile Science Research Centre, Prof. Sandra Bischof thanked all the lecturers, authors, participants, employees of the Technical Museum Nikola Tesla, the Agency for Vocational Education and Training and Adult Education (ASOO) and the media, which participated at the 15th anniversary of the activities and scientific achievements of TSRC.
The abstracts of the presentations are presented in The Book of Abstracts of the TSRC Open Day 2023.