Jan Proch\u00e1zka, a nanotechnology genius and the inventor of the 3D accumulator, has had a number of jobs \u2013 he washed dishes in Germany or drove a taxi in the USA, but he has never lost his lifetime passion for chemistry. The first success in Czechia and abroad came with his self-cleaning coating that could turn Prague into the cleanest place in Europe, but today he is best known as the author of the safest accumulator in the world.<\/p>\n
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His love for chemistry began at the primary school when an old school chemistry lab found a new home at Jan\u2019s parents\u2019. \u201cIt was such an adventure for me that I plunged right into it and I have been enjoying it ever since,\u201d says Jan Proch\u00e1zka, his eyes sparkling, and he recalls how he mixed different salts, observing the resulting colour changes and sediments. He says it was right then that he developed his sense for how things behave in chemistry. He studied university textbooks already in eighth grade and his classmates used to say that he knew more than the teachers.<\/p>\n