by Manca Žitnik | May 8, 2025 | Uncategorized
Control loops exist in nature, in social systems and in technology. Among other things, the control loop ensures that the human body maintains its temperature, that the company achieves its goals through certain measures and that the radiator heats the room to an...
by Manca Žitnik | Apr 23, 2025 | 2025
Oriented intergrowths are common in both natural minerals and synthesized functional materials. Examples include contact, cyclic, and interpenetration twins, as well as epitaxial intergrowths of structurally related phases. In my lecture, I will present various...
by Manca Žitnik | Apr 9, 2025 | 2025
Many proteins can bind to RNA and in this way form granules in cells, whose changes are a characteristic phenomenon in many neurodegenerative diseases. I will describe our recent research showing that some proteins can attract their own mRNAs into granules when they...
by Manca Žitnik | Apr 8, 2025 | 2025
The presentation will review the fundamental functional principles of quantum information processing and provide an update on the status of the Innsbruck trapped-ion quantum computer. Using strings of trapped ions, a quantum information processor is implemented to...
by Manca Žitnik | Mar 27, 2025 | 2025
Perovskites comprise a vast family of materials with many important applications in areas such as dielectrics, superconductivity and photovoltaics, among others. From a structural chemical perspective, the basic perovskite, ABO3, is the parent of a large variety of...
