Achievements

The Laboratory for Multiphase Processes of Nova Gorica Polytechnic was involved in the modernization process of the continuous caster device.

In June 2005 the Centre for Atmospheric Research at Otlica above Ajdovščina opened a lidar observatory, which contains a lidar for detecting aerosols, developed by the Laboratory for Astroparticle Physics. An upgrade of the existing aerosol lidar to the Raman version is planned; this will, in addition to the measurements of aerosols, also enable the assessment of the vertical profiles of water vapour and nitrogen content in the atmosphere. The development of a mobile lidar for detecting aerosols is underway. With the simultaneous use of meteorological models, the mobile lidar will enable the study of the spreading of pollution in the troposphere.

A colleague of the University of Nova Gorica, Prof. dr. Iztok Arčon, reported with his colleagues in a recently published article on the key improvements in the preparation of a known drug in cancer chemotherapy - cisplatin, which substantially increases the drug's effectiveness in treatment. The research was carried out in co-operation between the University of Nova Gorica, the American company Liposome Consultations from California, the Jožef Štefan Institute, and the Department of Physics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the University of Ljubljana.