Doc. Dr Tomaž Apih

Brief CV

Born: 22.8.1965, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Married, one child

Education:

B.Sc. Degree in Physics »Study of phase transitions in deuterated Rochelle salt by 23Na NMR«, (1989) Department for Physics, Faculty of natural sciences and technology, University of Ljubljana

M.Sc. Degree in Physics: »Study of phase transitions in RbSCN, KSCN and NH4SCN with quadrupolar perturbed nuclear magnetic resonance«, (1993) Department for Physics, Faculty of natural sciences and technology, University of Ljubljana

Ph.D. in Physics: »Study of multidimensionally modulated incommensurate systems with nuclear magnetic and quadrupole resonance«, (1996) Department for Physics, Faculty of natural sciences and technology, University of Ljubljana

1999 – Post-doc position, prof. Hans Rudolf Ott, Solid State Physics Laboratory, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Employment:

1988: Young Researcher, Condensed Matter Physics Dept., J. Stefan Institute, Ljubljana

1999: Post-doc position, prof. Hans Rudolf Ott, Solid State Physics Laboratory, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

2000: Research Associate, full time, Condensed Matter Physics Dept., J. Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

2005- : Senior Research Associate, Condensed Matter Physics Dept., J. Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

2007- : Assistant Professor Habilitation, J. Stefan International Postgraduate School, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Comissions, memberships:

• Groupement AMPERE (European society for magnetic resonance)
• EFNDT - WG5 APLD (European federation for non destructive testing, Work group 5, anti-personnel landmine detection)

Scientific interests

• Techiques

  • Nuclear Magnetic Resonance(NMR)
  • Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance (NQR)
  • Fast Field Cycling (FFC) Relaxometry

• Materials

  • partially ordered or aperiodic matter, phase transitions, order-disorder
    • Incommensurate systems
    • CDW, SDW
    • Quasicrystals
    • Complex Metallic Alloys
  • Hydrogen storage
  • Soft Matter
    • Liquid crystals
    • Elastomers
    • Dendrimers
    • Ionic Liquids

• Applied research in industry and civil engineering

  • Cement hydration, influence of additives
  • Dental cements
  • Bitumen, polymers
  • Porous systems
  • Detection of pharmaceutical polymers
  • Development of new NQR methods for remote detection of illicit nitrogen compounds (explosives and drugs)

• Instrumentation

  • Author of SeveNMR NMR program, which runs on 5 NMR/NQR spectrometers at JSI in Ljubljana (+few more at other institutions)

Selected publications:

• Original Sientific Article
  1. APIH, Tomaž, DOLINŠEK, Janez, TOPIČ, Bogdan, BLINC, Robert. 23Na NMR study of the phase transition in deuterated ammonium Rochelle salt. Phys. rev., B, Condens. matter, 1990, vol. 41, str. 7227-7230.
  2. BLINC, Robert, SELIGER, Janez, ŽAGAR, Veselko, APIH, Tomaž, DOLINŠEK, Janez, WARHANEK, E., FUITH, A., SHRANZ, W. 14N nuclear-quadrupole-resonance study of the structural phase transitions in NH[sub]4SCN. Phys. rev., B, Condens. matter, 1990, vol. 42, str. 8125-8132.
  3. FAJDIGA-BULAT, Andrea M., APIH, Tomaž, DOLINŠEK, Janez, BLINC, Robert, LEVANYUK, A. P., MINYUKOV, S. A., AILION, D. C. Thermal fluctuations and NMR spectra of incommensurate systems. Phys. rev. lett., 1992, vol. 69, str. 2721-2724.
  4. MIKAC, Urška, APIH, Tomaž, KOREN, Marko, DOLINŠEK, Janez, SELIGER, Janez, SLAK, Janez, BLINC, Robert. 35Cl NQR in incommensurate bis(4-chlorophenyl) sulfone. Phys. rev., B, Condens. matter, 1996, 54, str. 9141-9146.
  5. APIH, Tomaž, MIKAC, Urška, KITYK, A., BLINC, Robert. 27[sup]Al NMR of the incommensurate phase in AlPO[sub]4. Phys. rev., B, Condens. matter, 1997, 55, str. 2693-2696.
  6. DOLINŠEK, Janez, APIH, Tomaž, LAHAJNAR, Gojmir, BLINC, Robert, PAPAVASSILIOU, G., PINTAR, Milan M. Two-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance study of a hydrated porous medium : an application to white cement. J. appl. phys., 1998, vol. 83, str. 3535-3540.
  7. APIH, Tomaž, MIKAC, Urška, SELIGER, Janez, DOLINŠEK, Janez, BLINC, Robert. Evidence for a 1-q to 3-q transition and 3-q soliton lattice in incommensurate proustite. Phys. rev. lett., 1998, 80, str. 2225-2228.
  8. DOLINŠEK, Janez, APIH, Tomaž, SIMSIČ, Marko, DUBOIS, J. M. Self-diffusion in icosahedral Al[sub]72.4Pd[sub]20.5Mn[sub]7.1 and phason percolation at low temperatures studied by [sup]27Al NMR. Phys. rev. lett., 1999, vol. 82, str. 572-575.
  9. DOLINŠEK, Janez, APIH, Tomaž, BILJAKOVIĆ, K. Thermal fluctuations of charge-density waves studied by NMR. Phys. rev., B, Condens. matter mater. phys., 1999, vol. 60, str. 3982-3988.
  10. APIH, Tomaž, PLYUSHCH, O., KLANJŠEK, Martin, DOLINŠEK, Janez. Electric quadrupole effects and nuclear spin relaxation in a Al[sub](72.4)Pd[sub](20.5)Mn[sub](7.1) icosahedral quasicrystal studied by NMR. Phys. rev., B, Condens. matter mater. phys., 1999, vol. 60, str. 14695-14701.
  11. LEVENTIS, A., PAPAVASSILIOU, G., FARDIS, M., MILIA, F., CHANIOTAKIS, E., DOLINŠEK, Janez, APIH, Tomaž. 1H NMR study of the local magnetic field gradients in evoluting porous structures. An Application to cement gels. J. chem. phys., 2000, vol. 113, str. 7621-7626.
  12. DOLINŠEK, Janez, JEGLIČ, Peter, APIH, Tomaž, LAHAJNAR, Gojmir, NAGLIČ, Olga, SEVER, Alojz. Temperature-dependent bitumen softening studied by NMR. J. phys., D, Appl. phys., 2000, vol. 33, str. 1615-1624.
  13. GAVILANO, J. L., MUSHKOLAJ, S., OTT, H. R., APIH, Tomaž, DOLINŠEK, Janez, DUBOIS, J. M., URBAN, K. NMR studies of an icosahedral Al[sub](72.4)Pd[sub](20.5) Mn[sub](7.1)quasicrystal. Phys., B Condens. matter. , 2000, vol. 284-288, str. 1167-1168.
  14. APIH, Tomaž, MIKAC, Urška, DOLINŠEK, Janez, SELIGER, Janez, BLINC, Robert. Unique 1-q and 3-q incommensurate phases in proustite : [sup](75)As NQR line-shape and spin-lattice relaxation study. Phys. rev., B, Condens. matter, 2000, 61, str. 1003-1013.
  15. APIH, Tomaž, KLANJŠEK, Martin, RAU, D., DOLINŠEK, Janez. Distribution of inequivalent lattice sites in icosahedral quasicrystal Al[sub](72.4)Pd[sub](20.5)Mn[sub](7.1) studied by NMR. Phys. rev., B, Condens. matter, 2000, vol. 61, str. 11213-11216.
  16. APIH, Tomaž, LAHAJNAR, Gojmir, SEPE, Ana, BLINC, Robert, MILIA, Fani, CVELBAR, Robert, EMRI, Igor, GUSEV, Boris V., TITOVA, Larisa A. Proton spin-lattice relaxation study of the hydration of self-stressed expansive cement. Cem. concr. res. , 2001, vol. 31, no. 2, str. 263-269.
  17. APIH, Tomaž, LEBAR, Andrija, PAWLING, O., TRETTIN, R. Continuous monitoring of the zinc-phosphate acid-base cement setting reaction by proton nuclear relaxation. J. appl. phys., 2001, vol. 89, str. 7784-7790.
  18. VILFAN, Marija, APIH, Tomaž, GREGOROVIČ, Alan, ZALAR, Boštjan, LAHAJNAR, Gojmir, ŽUMER, Slobodan, HINZE, G., BÖHMER, R., ALTHOFF, G. Surface-induced order and diffusion in 5CB liquid crystal confined to porous glass. Magn. reson. imag. , 2001, 19, str. 433-438.
  19. BLINC, Robert, APIH, Tomaž, JEGLIČ, Peter, ARČON, Denis, DOLINŠEK, Janez, MIHAILOVIĆ, Dragan, OMERZU, Aleš. Transition to inhomogeneous ferromagnetic state in TDAE-C[sub](60) at low temperatures. Europhys. lett., 2002, vol. 57, str. 80-85.
  20. BLINC, Robert, MIKAC, Urška, APIH, Tomaž, DOLINŠEK, Janez, SELIGER, Janez, SLAK, Janez, ŽUMER, Slobodan, GUIBE, L., AILION, David C. Dynamics of the pinned modulation wave in incommensurate bis (4-chlorophenyl) sulfone (BCPS). Phys. rev. lett., 2002, 88, str. 015701-1-015701-4.
  21. BLINC, Robert, JEGLIČ, Peter, APIH, Tomaž, SELIGER, Janez, ARČON, Denis, OMERZU, Aleš. Beltlike C[sub](60)[sup]- electron spin density distribution in the organic ferromagnet TDA-C[sub](60). Phys. rev. lett., 2002, 88, str. 086402-1-086402-4.
  22. JEGLIČ, Peter, BLINC, Robert, APIH, Tomaž, OMERZU, Aleš, ARČON, Denis. Jahn-Teller dynamics of the organic ferromagnet-tetrakis (dimethylamine) ethylene-C[sub](60). Phys. rev., B, Condens. matter mater. phys., 2003, vol. 68, str. 184422-1-184422-8.
  23. APIH, Tomaž, KHARE, Varsha, KLANJŠEK, Martin, JEGLIČ, Peter, DOLINŠEK, Janez. Hydrogen diffusion in partially quasicrystalline Zr[sub](69.5)Cu[sub](12)Ni[sub](11)Al[sub](7.5). Phys. rev., B, Condens. matter mater. phys., 2003, vol. 68, str. 212202-1-212202-4.
  24. BLINC, Robert, APIH, Tomaž, SELIGER, Janez. Nuclear quadrupole double resonance techniques for the detection of explosives and drugs. Appl. magn. reson., 2004, vol. 25, str. 523-534.

  25. DOLINŠEK, Janez, APIH, Tomaž, JEGLIČ, Peter, KLANJŠEK, Martin. NMR methods for detection of slow atomic motions in quasicrystals. J. non-cryst. solids. , 2004, vol. 334&335, str. 280-286.

  26. LUŽNIK, Janko, PIRNAT, Janez, JAZBINŠEK, Vojko, APIH, Tomaž, GREGOROVIČ, Alan, BLINC, Robert, SELIGER, Janez, TRONTELJ, Zvonko. Polarization enhanced "single shot" [sup](14)N nuclear quadrupole resonance detection of trinitrotoluene at room temperature. Appl. phys. lett., 2006, vol. 89, iss. 12, 3 str.
  27. BLINC, Robert, CEVC, Pavel, ARČON, Denis, ZALAR, Boštjan, ZORKO, Andrej, APIH, Tomaž, MILIA, Fani, MADSEN, N. R., CHRISTY, A. G., RODE, A. V. [sup](13)C NMR and EPR of carbon nanofoam. Phys. status solidi, b Basic res., 2006, vol. 13, str. 3069-3072.
  28. DOLINŠEK, Janez, APIH, Tomaž, KLANJŠEK, Martin, JIN KIM, Hae, KÖSTER, Uwe. Hydrogen diffusion in quasicrystalline and amorphous Zr-Cu-Ni-Al. Catal. today. , 2007, vol. 120, issue 3-4, str. 351-357.
  29. LUŽNIK, Janko, PIRNAT, Janez, JAZBINŠEK, Vojko, APIH, Tomaž, BLINC, Robert, SELIGER, Janez, TRONTELJ, Zvonko. Improved [sup](14)N nuclear quadrupole resonance detection of trinitrotoluene using polarization transfer from protons to [sup](14)N nuclei. J. appl. phys., 2007, vol. 102, iss. 8, str. 084903-1 - 084903-7.
  30. BLINC, Robert, ARČON, Denis, UMEK, Polona, APIH, Tomaž, MILIA, Fani, RODE, A. V. Carbon nanofoam as a potential hydrogen storage material. Phys. status solidi, b Basic res., 2007, vol. 244, no. 11, str. 4308-4310.
  31. VILFAN, Marija, APIH, Tomaž, SEBASTIAO, P. J., LAHAJNAR, Gojmir, ŽUMER, Slobodan. Liquid crystal 8CB in random porous glass : NMR relaxometry study of molecular diffusion and director fluctuations. Phys. rev., E Stat. nonlinear soft matter phys. (Print), 2007, 76, str. 051708-1-051708-15.
  32. APIH, Tomaž, CEVC, Pavel, BLINC, Robert, JEVNIKAR, Peter, FUNDUK, Nenad. Proton spin-lattice relaxation study of the setting reaction in conventional and resin-modified glass-ionomer dental cements. Appl. magn. reson., 2008, vol. 33, no. 3, str. 323-332.
  33. GREGOROVIČ, Alan, APIH, Tomaž. Relaxation during spin-lock spin-echo pulse sequence in [sup](14)N nuclear quadrupole resonance. J. chem. phys., 2008, vol. 129, no. 21, str. 214504-1-214504-7.
  34. GRADIŠEK, Anton, KOCJAN, Andraž, MCGUINESS, Paul J., APIH, Tomaž, KIM, Hae Jin, DOLINŠEK, Janez. Deuterium dynamics in the icosahedral and amorphous phases of the Ti[sub](40)Zr[sub](40)Ni[sub](20)hydrogen-absorbing alloy studied by [sup]2H NMR. J. phys., Condens. matter, 2008, vol. 20, no. 47, str. 475209-1-475209-7.
  35. DOMENICI, Valentina, APIH, Tomaž, VERACINI, Carlo Alberto. Molecular motions of banana-shaped liquid crystals studied by NMR spectroscopy. Thin solid films. , 2008, vol. 517, no. 4, str. 1402-1406.
  36. LUŽNIK, Janko, PIRNAT, Janez, TRONTELJ, Zvonko, APIH, Tomaž, GREGOROVIČ, Alan. [sup](14) N nuclear quadrupole resonance study of polymorphism in trinitrotoluene samples obtained from old ordnances. Appl. magn. reson., 2009, vol. 36, no. 1, str. 115-120.
  37. GREGOROVIČ, Alan, APIH, Tomaž. TNT detection with [sup](14)N NQR : multipulse sequences and matched filter. J. magn. reson. (San Diego, Calif., 1997 : Print), 2009, vol. 198, no. 2, str. 215-221, doi: 10.1016/j.jmr.2009.02.011.
  38. GREGOROVIČ, Alan, APIH, Tomaž. Applicability of TNT "super-Q detection" to multipulse sequences. J. magn. reson. (San Diego, Calif., 1997 : Print), 2009, vol. 201, no. 2, str. 131-136, doi: 10.1016/j.jmr.2009.08.013.
  39. GREGOROVIČ, Alan, APIH, Tomaž. Improving [sup](14)N nuclear quadrupole resonance detection of trinitrotoluene using off-resonance effects. Solid state nucl. magn. reson. , Oct. 2009, vol. 36, no. 2, str. 96-98, doi: 10.1016/j.ssnmr.2009.06.006.
  40. GRADIŠEK, Anton, APIH, Tomaž. NMR-based liquid explosives detector. Appl. magn. reson., 2010, vol. 38, no. 4, str. 485-493.
  41. WENCKA, Magdalena, JAGODIČ, Marko, GRADIŠEK, Anton, KOCJAN, Andraž, JAGLIČIĆ, Zvonko, MCGUINESS, Paul J., APIH, Tomaž, YOKOYAMA, Y., DOLINŠEK, Janez. Physical properties of Zr[sub](50)Cu[sub](40 - x)Al[sub](10)Pd[sub]x bulk glassy alloys. J. alloys compd. , 2010, vol. 504, no. 1, str. 16-21.
  42. APIH, Tomaž, DOMENICI, Valentina, GRADIŠEK, Anton, HAMPLOVÁ, Vera, KASPAR, Miroslaw, SEBASTIAO, Pedro J., VILFAN, Marija. [sup]1H NMR relaxometry study of a rod-like chiral liquid crystal in its isotropic, cholesteric, TGBA*, and TGBC* phases. J. phys. chem., B Condens. mater. surf. interfaces biophys., 2010, vol. 114, no. 37, str. 11993-12001, doi: 10.1021/jp105211q.
  43. KOCJAN, Andraž, KOVAČIČ, Simon, GRADIŠEK, Anton, KOVAČ, Janez, MCGUINESS, Paul J., APIH, Tomaž, DOLINŠEK, Janez, KOBE, Spomenka. Selective hydrogenation of Ti-Zr-Ni alloys. Int. j. hydrogen energy. , 2011, vol. 36, issue 4, str. 3056-3061, doi: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2010.11.116.
  44. GREGOROVIČ, Alan, APIH, Tomaž, KVASIĆ, Ivan, LUŽNIK, Janko, PIRNAT, Janez, TRONTELJ, Zvonko, STRLE, Drago, MUŠEVIČ, Igor. Capacitor-based detection of nuclear magnetization : Nuclear quadrupole resonance of surfaces. J. magn. reson. (San Diego, Calif., 1997 : Print), 2011, vol. 209, no. 1, str. 79-82.
• Review paper
  1. BLINC, Robert, APIH, Tomaž. NMR in multidimensionally modulated incommensurate and CDW systems. Prog. Nucl. Magn. Reson. Spectrosc. , 2002, vol. 41, str. 49-82.
• Independent scientific component part or a chapter in a monograph
  1. LUŽNIK, Janko, PIRNAT, Janez, JAZBINŠEK, Vojko, TRONTELJ, Zvonko, APIH, Tomaž, GREGOROVIČ, Alan, BLINC, Robert, SELIGER, Janez. Polarization enhanced NQR detection at low frequencies. V: FRAISSARD, Jacques P. (ur.), LAPINA, Olga Borisovna (ur.). Explosives detection using magnetic and nuclear resonance techniques, (NATO science for peace and security programme, Series B, Physics and biophysics). Dordrecht: Springer, 2009, str. 41-56.
  2. GREGOROVIČ, Alan, APIH, Tomaž, LUŽNIK, Janko, PIRNAT, Janez, TRONTELJ, Zvonko. [sup](14)N nuclear quadrupole resonance signals in paranitrotoluene and trinitrotoluene, Spin-lock spin-echo off-resonance effects. V: FRAISSARD, Jacques P. (ur.), LAPINA, Olga Borisovna (ur.). Explosives detection using magnetic and nuclear resonance techniques, (NATO science for peace and security programme, Series B, Physics and biophysics). Dordrecht: Springer, 2009, str. 171-191.