Program Leader B. Ogorevc has been since 2010 a member of the Editorial Board of the American Journal of Biomedical Sciences, which is an open-access on-line journal publishing peer reviewed original and review articles covering all fields of bio-medical sciences.
C.06 Editorial board membership
COBISS.SI-ID: 4383002Mladen Franko is an Associate editor of Acta Chimica Slovenica, an international scientific journal published by the Slovenian Chemical Society. As a member of the Editorial board, he is responsible for the fields of analytical and environmental chemistry. Together with other members of the Editorial board he has contributed to international recognition of Acta Chimica Slovenica, and to the growth of its impact factor.
C.04 Editorial board of an international magazine
A broadband three incoherent light source was introduced into thermal lens microscope to improve specificity. A three-layer theoretical model was built. Through numerical simulation it was found that at a usual 100 m sample length in micro-volumes, the sensitivity can be increased by approximately one order of magnitude at low frequencies when the top and bottom layers are organic solvents. The sensitivity is even higher than in the case of laser excited TLM.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 2467323In the last decade it was demonstrated that organic aerosol (OA) represents a significant fraction of ambient aerosol; a big portion of it is secondary organic aerosol (SOA). Biomass burning (BB) emits huge amounts of organic aerosols in the atmosphere; many different compounds can be present in BB aerosol. Some of these compounds are very specific to BB, thus they can be used as markers. An important class of compounds of SOA are nitrocatechols known as very strong absorbers of UV and Vis light. Very recently, methyl nitrocatechols were proposed as suitable tracers for highly oxidized secondary BBA. In the lecture at the European Aerosol Conference in Granada, Spain, our research on characterization of nitrocatechols and related compounds in ambient aerosols using liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry was presented. A new method for the separation and identification of these compounds has been developed, further validated and applied for analysis or real atmospheric aerosols.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
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