PLASTKO
2018

Mr. Smarak Bandyopadhyay, doctoral student (3rd year) of the Group ‘Biocomposites Systems’ of CPS, Tomas Bata University in Zlin, Czech Republic awarded ''Third Prize'' for his POSTER presented in 4th International Conference on Bio-Based Polymers and Composites, Balatonfured, Hungary, September 2-6, 2018. Title of the presented Poster is “Preparation and characterization of bacterial cellulose suspension to fabricate thin film intended for its application in food packaging” which is co-authored by Nabanita Saha, Oyunchimeg Zandraa and Petr Saha. He is working under supervision of Prof. Petr Saha and Assoc. Prof. Nabanita Saha.

Tomas Bata University in Zlín hosted on the 5th of September 2018 Mr. Stephen B. King, the United States Ambassador to the Czech Republic. Accompanied by Prof. Petr Sáha, TBU Rector, he took a tour of the Centre of Polymer Systems research unit.

Stephen King has been in the office of the U.S. Ambassador to the CR since autumn 2017. He used to run business in chemical industry – he built and later sold a chemical manufacturing business; it thus comes as no surprise that he was interested in visiting the Centre of Polymer Systems due to this experience.

Mr. Pavel Hrnčíř M.A., the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Czech Republic to Canada visited the Centre of Polymer Systems today. Accompanied by Professor Saha and Pavel Velev of the Baťa Foundation, he observed the environment of the research laboratories, which he was very interested in.

Probal Basu , 2nd year Doctoral student of CPS , received the Award/Certificate for 3rd place in the competition Show-off / Zeig dich 2018 , held on 18 April, 2018, organized by Faculty of Humanities, Tomas Bata University in Zlin. Congratulations!