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Photochromism paper published in PNAS!
Our paper about photochromism in natural minerals was just published in the prestigeous PNAS journal! Big credit is due to the computational wizards from Lyon as well as our collaborators in Antwerp and UTU Physics.
Read online:
Happy International Workers’ Day 2022!
Happy International Workers’ Day 2022! Hauskaa vappua!
IMC & hackmanite in the main national TV news
We have now been in the big news headlines about our hackmanite research. First, there was a big deal in Turku Sanomat’s print paper and website (https://www.ts.fi/tiede/5625235), and yesterday we got nationwide coverage when we were on Finnish Broadcasting Company’s (Yle) main news broadcast at 8:30 pm! Yle’s story can be found at https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-12365153
We were at the end of the main national TV news at 20.30:
https://areena.yle.fi/1-50931640 (from 18:35 onwards)
Yle also published the same in their radio:
https://areena.yle.fi/audio/1-1440981 (from 7:50 onwards):
A long newspaper article about hackmanite published
Turun Sanomat’s extensive story about IMC’s hackmanite research was published last week. The paper magazine (13 April) had a full page, but a longer story and more media can be found in TS’s paid online article: https://www.ts.fi/tiede/5625235
Happy Easter!
IMC wishes you a happy Easter!
Turun Sanomat visits to make a story about hackmanite
Turun Sanomat (Turku area’s biggest newspaper) came to visit to make an article about us. The main topic was hackmanite, its properties and synthesis. In the picture, Hannah is showing and telling journalist Ritva Setälä (left) how hackmanite is synthesized.
Yle visits to make a story about hackmanite
Today was an interesting day when Finland’s national public broadcasting company Yle visited our lab for a couple of hours. Journalist Markku Sandell interviewed us asking good questions about hackmanite research and patterns of cooperation with the European Space Agency. There is no exact information yet on when the thing will air, but we’ll notify when we know.
Professor Lastusaari
As Mika Lastusaari has just ascended among the full professors of the University of Turku, we as a research group awarded him today with a congratulation card and a 5x5x5 Rubik’s cube, named aptly Rubik’s Professor!
Pasi interviewed for the news about the Post Docs in Companies (PoDoCo) program
PoDoCo is a matchmaking program supporting long term competitiveness and strategic renewal of companies and employment of young doctors in the private sector. IMC’s PhD Pasi Salonen was interviewed for the news about the program:
“In his own PoDoCo project, the recent PhD Pasi Salonen from the University of Turku is developing a method for the treatment and recovery of rare-earth elements (REEs), especially from electronic scrap and industrial by-products. Demand for REEs have increased because they are being used in many new solutions to combat climate change, such as wind farms and electric cars.
In his project promoting the circular economy, Salonen is developing 4D-printed filters for metal capture together with Weeefiner Oy in Jyväskylä. They are 3D-printed filters that are chemically functionalized.
In addition to the academic research world, I have always been interested in the industry, and PoDoCo combines both. The PoDoCo project with 4D REE catchers in cooperation with Weeefiner Oy is interesting and important to me, it enables the utilization of the knowledge and skills obtained in my dissertation in the face of a practical challenge. Through the PoDoCo program, the door is open to both the academy and industry, Pasi Salonen says.”
The news (in Finnish):