The Best Poster Competition
Take part in the competition for the best poster.
The first three winners will receive prizes, and five honorable mentions will be awarded.
A condition of participation in the competition is the personal presentation of the poster during the poster session.
The award ceremony for the best poster takes place after the poster session on October 1, 2026, at 19:00.
Winners of the competition - NANOCON 2026
| 1. place | CHVOJKA Tomáš - University of Chemistry and Technology Prague, Czech Republic, EU Dual-Plasmon Active Catalyst for Methanol Oxidation |
| 2. place | RYBOVÁ Tereza - Masaryk University, CEPLANT, Brno, Czech Republic, EU Plasma-Reduced Graphene Oxide/Nanofiber Composite Membranes for Advanced Water Purification |
| 3. place | ZAMFIR Lucian-Gabriel - National Institute for Research and Development in Chemistry and Petrochemistry, ICECHIM, Bucharest, Romania, EU Advanced Fuctionalized Mxene Architectures for Enhanced Electrochemical Detection of Tumor Biomarkers |
Honorable mentions
OGNJANOVIĆ Miloš - University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
Engineering Manganese-Substituted Maghemite Nanoflowers for Bimodal Cancer Therapy via Hyperthermia and Radionuclide Delivery
MEDŘÍKOVÁ Zdenka - Palacký University Olomouc, CATRIN-RCPTM, Olomouc, Czech Republic, EU
Oxidation Engineering of Magnetite Nanoparticles for High-Performance Au-Based Catalysts
GÎFU Ioana Cătălina - National Institute for Research & Development in Chemistry and Petrochemistry, INCDCP- ICECHIM,
Bucharest, Romania, EU
Smart Polysaccharide-Derived Hydrogels for Sustainable Removal of Pharmaceutical Residues from Aqueous Environments
JENA Rohan - VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic, EU
Intrinsic Peroxide Pathway Engineering in Ni(OH)₂ via Lanthanide Single Atoms for Selective Electrochemical H₂O₂ Production
NIEWĘGŁOWSKI Arkadiusz - Gdańsk University of Technology, RedOx, Gdańsk, Poland, EU
Development of an Electrochemical Protocol for Quality Assessment of Biowaste-Derived Carbon Paste Electrodes
KURTYKA Klaudia - Centre of Polymer and Carbon Materials, PAS, Zabrze, Poland, EU
The Role of Nanoscale Dimensions and Interconnectivity in the Electrochemical Performance and Structural Stability of Hollow
3D Graphitic Structures during Cycling
Dr. Tasilo Prnka Prize for the authors under age of 33
The Dr. Tasilo Prnka Prize is named after the founder of the NANOCON conference - Ing. Tasilo PRNKA, DrSc., 1932-2010, scientist and manager in the field of metallurgy and materials, author of numerous publications, researcher and opponent of many projects and scientific papers, since 1997 popularizer of nanotechnology and nanomaterials, later other nano-disciplines.
The Dr. Tasilo Prnka prize is open to authors of lectures up to 33 years of age.
The winner will receive a valuable prize. In addition, an honorable mention will be presented.
A condition for participation in the competition is a personal presentation of the lecture at the conference. A personal presentation is a talk (oral presentation, not a poster) given by an author (up to 33 years of age) during the conference. Presentations by young authors are reviewed and evaluated by members of the Programme Committee during the conference.
The award ceremony takes place on October 2, 2026, at 12:35.
Winner of the Competition - NANOCON 2026
ŠPAČEK Pavel - Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, EU
Photon-Upconversion Nanoparticle-Based Immunoassays for High-Throughput Biomarker Detection: Comparing Two Single-Molecule Approaches
Honorable mentions
HARUTYUNYAN Ani - Yerevan State University, Yerevan, Armenia
Limnospira-Derived Antibacterial ZnO Nanoflowers
NAZARI Neda - Wood K plus - Kompetenzzentrum Holz GmbH, Linz, Austria, EU
Bio-based Self-Standing Hard Carbon and Activated Carbon Electrodes for Sustainable Energy Storage
RUBINO Riccardo - University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy, EU
Tunable Dual-Wavelength Lasing With Random Mode Competition in Rod-Shaped Graphene Quantum Dots
