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 [...]

The International Scientific Conference MetMat2022, dedicated to methods and materials for clean technologies, took place from 7 to 10 September in the city of Sandanski. The scientific forum is organized by the Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry at BAS which is one of the leading scientific organisations in Bulgaria in the field of materials chemistry. The MetMat2022 training workshop was implemented within the framework of the European Twinning on Materials Chemistry Enabling Clean Technologies (TwinTeam) project, coordinated by the IGIC-BAS. The forum was held in a hybrid format - in-person and online and brought together about 85 scientists who presented and discussed current trends in the development of next generation materials in three main areas - A: Materials and thin films for environmental protection, [...]

The International School on Condensed Matter Physics, which has been organised since 1980 by the Institute of Solid State Physics, took place from 29 August to 2 September 2022 at the International House of Scientists "Frederic Joliot-Curie" near Varna. The scientific forum on "State of the Art in Functional Materials & Technologies" was dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the organizing scientific institution. The high level of the speakers and the poster presentations contributed to the creative atmosphere of the event which was attended by over 90 scientists from 16 countries and led to the birth of new ideas, fruitful discussions and possibly successful future collaborations between scientists in the thematic areas: - Novel Materials and Technologies; - Nanomaterials and Composites; - Materials processing; - [...]

Scientists from BAS are developing in vitro systems to direct the accumulation of targeted secondary metabolites in Bulgarian medicinal plants. In vitro cultures of the medicinal plant British yellowhead (Inula britannica L.) were used in the research. The plant is popular in Chinese Traditional Medicine, where it is used in asthma and as a cough expectorant in pulmonary diseases. In Japanese Kampo traditional practice, a decoction of the flowers is used by nausea and as an expectorant. Pharmacological studies on extracts of various parts of the plant have shown their potential as a hepatoprotective, anticancer and anti-inflammatory agent. Scientific studies on the plant substantiate these activities by the presence of sesquiterpene lactones, diterpenes and flavonoids. The experiment conducted was with in vitro cultures obtained from [...]