Ing. Tomáš Němec, Ph.D.

Education

• Ph.D. – Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering CTU in Prague, Applied Natural Sciences programme (2006)
• Ing. (MSc. equivalent) – Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering CTU in Prague, Mathematical Engineering programme (2001)

Experience

• Institute of Thermomechanics ASCR, v. v. i., Department of electrical engineering and electrophysics (since 2017)
• New Technologies – Research centre UWB in Pilsen, Department of engineering of special materials (2011–2017)
• Institute of Thermomechanics ASCR, v. v. i., Department of thermodynamics (2003–2017)
• Soluziona, s.r.o. (2001–2002)

Research visits

• Industrial Technology Research Institute (2019), Green Energy and Environment Research Laboratories, Tchaj-wan, Development of fuel cell catalytic layers produced by spark discharge (3 months)
• Univerzita Stuttgart (2012), Institute of Aerospace Thermodynamics, Německo, Theoretical research of ice nucleation in supercooled water droplets, projekt SFB Transregio 75 (3 months)
• Oak Ridge National Laboratory (2003), Chemical Sciences Division, USA, Binary nucleation in aqueous systems, Young Scientist IAPWS Project (6 months)

Community membership

• HYTEP – Czech Hydrogen Technology Platform
• EERA – SP2 Catalysts and Electrodes – JP on Fuel Cells and Hydrogen
• IAPWS – member of Physical Chemistry of Aqueous Systems (PCAS) working group
• CZPWS – chairman of Czech Society for the Properties of Water and Steam (2018–2022)

Selected publications

• Němec T.: Nucleation parameters of SPC/E and TIP4P/2005 water vapor measured in NPT molecular dynamics simulations, Journal of Molecular Modeling, 28, 174, 2022.
• Němec T., Šonský J., Gruber J., Prado E., Kupčík J., Klementová M.: Platinum and platinum oxide nanoparticles generated by unipolar spark discharge. Journal of Aerosol Science, 141, 105502, 2019.
• Němec T.: Critical analysis of the slope method for estimation of ice-water interfacial energy from ice nucleation experimental data (with reviews), arXiv:1503.02967v3 [cond-mat.mtrl-sci], 2018.
• Němec T.: Homogeneous bubble nucleation in binary systems of liquid solvent and dissolved gas. Chemical Physics, 467, 26-37, 2016.
• Němec T.: Scaled nucleation theory for bubble nucleation of lower alkanes. European Physical Journal E, 37 (11), 111, 2014.
• Němec T.: Estimation of ice-water interfacial energy based on pressure-dependent formulation of classical nucleation theory. Chemical Physics Letters, 583, 64-68, 2013.
• Němec T., Maršík F., Palmer D. A.: Binary nucleation of water and sodium chloride. Journal of Chemical Physics, 124 (4), 0445091-0445096, 2006.

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