Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME)
Institute for General and Analytical Chemistry
Institutum Geometrico-Hydrotechnicum, the legal predecessor of Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) was founded in 1782, and it was the first institute in Europe to train engineers at university level. BME, as a prestigious Hungarian higher education institute is committed to differentiated, multilevel, high-standard education, founded on intensive basic training, research, development and innovation, and scientific qualification in technical and natural sciences and in certain fields of economic and social sciences. It comprises 8 faculties among them the Chemical and Bioengineering Faculty. The Institute for General and Analytical Chemistry is its biggest department teaching analytical chemistry at basic and advanced level and also keeping specialist courses. There is an intensive research activity at the institute - the main fields of interest are listed below.
- Development, investigation, and application chemical sensors and biosensors
- Development of chemical microscopy techniques for surface studies (Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy)
- Investigation of ion-selective membrane surface and bulk processes
- Determination of drugs and their metabolites in biological matrices
- Separation of enantiomers by HPLC and GC
- Developing sample treatment procedures for the determination of organic pollutants in air, water, and soil
- Methodological development by expert systems in HPLC
- GC-MS investigations and method development
- Thermoanalytical and X-ray diffraction studies on phase transitions and thermal reactions in organic and inorganic materials
- Thermal investigations on inclusion compounds and complexes
- Application of thermal analysis in the design and optimation of chiral resolutions
- Technology of heterogenous processes
- Chemometrics, optimation of chemical analysis methods
- Structural chemistry and molecular spectroscopy (gas-phase electron diffraction, FTIR, computational techniques)
- Stereochemistry of natural and synthetic compounds by multinuclear and multidimensional NMR spectroscopy, host-guest interactions
- Flow immunoassay methods
- Molecularly imprinted polymers
- Development of special sample introduction methods and devices for ICP-OES and ICP-MS
- Analysis of environmental samples
E-mail: george.horvai@mail.bme.hu
Website: http://www.tki.aak.bme.hu/ [new window]
