The European Commission awarded the COUNTERFOG project with the 2022 Security Innovation Award. The international interdisciplinary project involves 30 scientists from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The EU prize is awarded for a research project in the field of security technologies. The aim of the COUNTERFOG project is to create systems for the protection of public facilities in the event of terrorist attacks with weapons of mass destruction, military actions, industrial accidents, disasters, etc. The project is implemented by a consortium of 10 European institutions. The head of the Bulgarian team is Assoc. Prof. Ognyan Ivanov. The project is implemented at BAS by the Institute of Solid State Physics and GIS - TRANSFER CENTER. The team from the Academy has developed instrumentation to control fog [...]

Nanocoatings that can stop viruses and bacteria from infecting surfaces such as door handles and ATMs are being developed by an international team of scientists as part of the Surface Transfer of Pathogens (STOP) project. The aim is to prevent infections from occurring through contact with contaminated surfaces and thus improve the protection of human health. The research involves a team from the Institute of Electronics of BAS which will seek to address the problem by surface structuring to improve antimicrobial activity. The STOP project is funded by the EU and involves 15 organisations from industry and academia. "The 'Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung' (BAM) in Germany and the University of Birmingham (UoB) are leading the research. Different surfaces in areas frequented by many people, [...]

A delegation from the Turkish University Çankırı Karatekin, led by the Rector Prof. Harun Çifçi, visited the laboratories of the Institute of Electronics of BAS and got acquainted with the latest scientific achievements of Bulgarian researchers. Director Assoc. Prof. Tatiana Kutsarova presented the activities and the coordinators of the scientific teams at the Institute. The possibilities were discussed for cooperation in the field of new materials and coatings, methods and technologies in the field of materials science, electron-beam technologies, remote sensing of the atmosphere and non-linear optics with applications in industry, biomedicine and the environment, on which the scientists of the Institute of Electronics are working. A total of five patents and utility models were supported by IE in the past year, and another 7 [...]