LABORATORY FOR APPLIED AND SUSTAINABLE CHEMISTRY

Welcome to the Laboratory for Applied and Sustainable Chemistry website!
We are a laboratory within the Ruđer Bošković Institute in Zagreb, Croatia, headed by Dr. Krunoslav Užarević. Our main focus is advancing mechanochemistry in the search of new materials with exciting properties.

The famous "Hello Kitty" mill from InSolido Technologies showing a typical milling action of a mixer mill. The white teflon jars contain the reagents and milling media (e.g. zirconia balls). Video credit: Ivan Kulcsar (RBI).

LASC News

December 10, 2021. The LASC team is attending the Supramolecular Chemistry 2021 meeting at the Faculty of Science in the University of Zagreb. Tomislav and Ivana gave wonderful talks! Special thanks to Prof. Ivica Đilović for including a rare archeological photo from 2008 showing Kruno with hair in his presentation.
December 9, 2021. Kruno served as a main evaluator for the PhD thesis of Jessica Špačkova titled «Exploration de nouvelles voies d’enrichissement d’acides carboxyliques en oxygène-17 grâce à la mécanochimie et application à des études RMN haute résolution». Jessica was mentored by Thomas-Xavier Metro and Danielle Laurencin from Université de Montpellier. He was very impressed with Jessica's work and defense. Congrats Jessica!
October 4, 2021. Tomislav Stolar defends his PhD thesis topic. Congratulations Tomislav!
September 23, 2021. The LASC team is attending the 27th annual meeting of the Slovenian Chemical Society. Valentina gave a poster, Kruno gave an invited talk, and everyone had a great time in lovely Portorož!
August 31, 2021. Ivana Brekalo leaves for a 6-month visit to University of Warsaw where she will learn some computational chemistry. We wish her the best of luck!
July 1, 2021. HELLO WORLD The Laboratory for Applied and Sustainable Chemistry is born! We are now officially a laboratory within the IRB family, and what better way to celebrate than with a nice barbecue, celebrating the hot Zagreb summer that just began. Check out some images in the gallery, it was a blast!