Our Open Science II student Barbora Heřmanovská was awarded a bronze medal in I-SWEEP 2013 competition (International Sustainable World: Energy, Engineering & Environment Project Olympiad). Barbora has presented a project supervised by Dr. Tomáš Matoušek entitled: Determination of arsenic in natural water applying hydride generation atomic-absorption spectrometry (HG-AAS).
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Pavel Novotný has studied interferences of other hydride forming elements on ultratrace determination of lead by in-atomizer trapping of plumbane. As such he has significantly contributed to the following article in SAB:

“NOVOTNÝ P., KRATZER J.: Hydride generation – in-atomizer collection of Pb in a quartz trap-and-atomizer device for atomic absorption spectrometry – an interference study.Spectrochimica Acta Part B: Atomic Spectroscopy 79-80 (2013), 77-81.

The aim of the Open Science is the systematic integration of talented secondary-school students in scientific-research activities. The project was begun in July 2012 and lasts until June 2014. It was approved within the Operational Programme Education for Competitiveness, Support Area 2.3, co-financed from the state budget of the CR and the European Social Funds. The registration number of the project is CZ.1.07/2.3.00/35.0023.

Two secondary-school students are supervised in our laboratory:
Barbora Heřmanovská (Vyšší odborná a střední zemědělská škola Benešov, Benešov u Prahy) – supervisor RNDr. Tomáš Matoušek, Ph.D., 2.19 Speciation analysis of arsenic traces in water samples from “Mokrsko” region
Miroslav Soukup (SPŠ Česká Lípa) – supervisor RNDr. Jan Kratzer, Ph.D., 6.01 Mercury content in fish samples in “Orlicko” region as an environmental indicator

MORAES D.P., SVOBODA M., MATOUŠEK T., FLORES E.M.M., DĚDINA J.:
Selective Generation of Substituted Arsines – Cryotrapping – Atomic Absorption Spectrometry for Arsenic Speciation Analysis in N-methylglucamine antimonate
Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, 27 (2012), 1734-1742.

Our image was chosen for outside cover of JAAS issue (image by S. Musil):

MUSIL S., KRATZER J., VOBECKÝ M., MATOUŠEK, T.:
In situ collection of volatile silver species in a new modular quartz tube atomizer for atomic absorption spectrometry.
J. Anal. Atom. Spectrom., 27 (2012), 1382-1390.

Barbora Heřmanovská has successfully presented her “Open Science II project Speciation analysis of arsenic in biological material by analytical atomic spectrometry with hydride generation” in Expo Science Amavet competition. Barbora will participate in I-SWEEP competition (2013 in Houston)