Dr. György Horvai

munkatárs profilkép

Professor Emeritus

Member

Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Education

PhD in chemistry, Technical University of Budapest, 1980

DSc Hungarian Academy of Sciences 1991

Contact information

Ch building ground floor room 024 Szt. Gellért tér 4, 1111 Budapest
+36-1-463-1480
http://goliat.eik.bme.hu/~horvai/

Research

Current research interests:

  • Selectivity in analytical chemistry
  • Molecularly imprinted polymers
  • Molecular dynamics of fluid interfaces
  • Unusual acid-base interactions

Earlier work:

  • Ion selective electrodes – mechanism and applications
  • Ion selective amperometry, voltammetry, impedance spectroscopy
  • Precision of potentiometric measurements, single point titrations
  • Automated analysis (flow injection methods, analytical robots, flow chemistry)
  • Pharmacokinetic analysis
  • Electrochemical and MS detection in HPLC

Honors

  • ‘Academy Prize’ of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
  • ‘Széchenyi Prize’ of the President of the Republic of Hungary
  • ‘Outstanding Inventor’ prize of the Hungarian Minister of Industry
  • Preisich prize, I. Náray-Szabó prize (Hung. Chem. Soc.)
  • A. Ipolyi prize (OTKA)

Publications

For full list see: https://m2.mtmt.hu/gui2/?type=authors&mode=browse&sel=1285171

  • Becskereki , G. Horvai, B. Tóth, The Selectivity of Immunoassays and of Biomimetic Binding Assays with Imprinted Polymers, Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2021, 22, 10552.
  • Nagy-Szakolczai, A. Sváb-Kovács, A. Krezinger, B. Tóth, L. Nyulászi, G. Horvai, The molecular imprinting effect of propranolol and dibenzylamine as model templates: Binding strength and selectivity, ANALYTICA CHIMICA ACTA 1125 pp. 258-266. , 9 p. (2020)
  • P. Pešić, M.D. Todorov, G. Becskereki, G. Horvai, T. Ž. Verbić, B. Tóth, A novel method of molecular imprinting applied to the template cholesterol, TALANTA 217 Paper: 121075 , 7 p. (2020).
  • Fabian, G. Horvai, A. Idrissi, P. Jedlovszky, Vapour-liquid equilibrium of acetone-CO2 mixtures of different compositions at the vicinity of the critical point, JOURNAL OF CO2 UTILIZATION 34 pp. 465-471. , 7 p. (2019)
  • Hantal, M. Sega, G. Horvai, P. Jedlovszky, Contribution of Different Molecules and Moieties to the Surface Tension in Aqueous Surfactant Solutions, JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C 123 : 27 pp. 16660-16670. , 11 p. (2019)

Teaching

  • Separation science (in the PhD course on analytical chemistry)