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University of Belgrade
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National Institute of the Republic of Serbia

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The success of our researchers - award for the best technological innovation in Serbia in 2020 in the category of student innovation

Jovanka Kovačina, a research trainee at ICTM, received the award on behalf of the team Anti-corrosion in the category Innovative Idea, for the best student innovation entitled: Production of environmentally friendly anti-corrosion agents for industrial coatings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s48F-3sOORQ

Antikorozivi team members are Jovanka Kovačina (ICTM, team leader), Jelena Gojgić, Andreja Živković, Natalija Čutović, Aleksandar Jovanović, Milena Milošević (ICTM), Anđela Simović, Branimir Stamenković, Milica Zagorac.

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The success of our researchers - the conservation of the Gateway Arch monument

A scientific study by Serbian researchers will be used to conserve the Gateway Arch, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, the tallest monument made in the western hemisphere and the tallest arch ever built in the world. The study entitled "Corrosion characteristics of laser-cleaned surfaces on iron artefact" was done by researchers from the Central Institute for Conservation (CEC) and the Institute of Chemistry, Technology and Metallurgy (ICTM), University of Belgrade. Studies by the French-Greek and Chinese research teams will also be used. The Politika newspaper followed this success (link in Serbian).

Happy New Year holidays

We wish all ICTM employees, colleagues and associates happy upcoming holidays and a lot of health, success and happiness in the New 2021.

The success of our researchers - Stanford University list of top 2% scientists in the world

We are proud of the result of our colleague Svetlana Štrbac, who is on the list published by Stanford University of top 2% scientists in the world. The list, based on a standardized citation metrics, includes about 160,000 researchers, of which 49 are scientists from institutions in Serbia from various disciplines. A list, formal comments and information on the methodology of creating the database can be found at: https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3000918