• Equipping the laboratory for the chemical synthesis of multiferroic perovskites

• Employment of one postdoctoral investigator specialized in sol-gel synthesis

• Crystallochemical design and preparation of new perovskite-based multiferroics A₂BTeO₆

• Thin film deposition of the selected compounds

• Determination of chemical compositions of the obtained samples by microprobe analysis, EDX, ICP-AES and CHN analysis

• Structural characterization of samples by single crystal and powder X-ray diffraction including Rietveld refinement

• Preparation and submission of publications; active attendance on conferences

Accepted articles

• C. Suchomski, C. Reitz, D. Pajic, Z. Jaglicic, I. Djerdj, and T. Brezesinski, Large-Pore Mesoporous Ho₃Fe₅O₁₂ Thin Films with a Strong Room-Temperature Perpendicular Magnetic Anisotropy by Sol–Gel Processing, Chem. Mater., 2014, 26 (7), pp 2337–2343. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/cm5003324

• D. Gracin, V. Štrukil, T. Friščić, I. Halasz, K. Užarević, Laboratory real-time and in situ monitoring of mechanochemical milling reactions using Raman spectroscopy. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. accepted for publication, DOI: 10.1002/anie.201402334 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.201402334/abstract

Accepted conference abstracts

• J. Popović, Ž. Skoko, I. Djerdj, N. Smrečki, B. M. Kukovec, Y. Liu, J. Zhang, and Z. Popović, Catalytic activity of palladium(II) complexes with N-arylalkyliminodiacetic acids in alkoxycarbonylation of iodobenzene, accepted for The Seventh Tokyo Conference on Advanced Catalytic Science and Technology (TOCAT7) June 1 to 6, 2014, Kyoto, Japan.