Areas of Scientific Activity:

Liquid crystals, nanocrystaline structures.
Synthesis of mesogens with non-conventional molecular structure - compounds with hydrogen bonded quasi rings, metallorganic cores and chiral flexible joints. Experimental methods: calorimetry, polarizing microscopy, EPR and X-ray diffraction.

Representative publications:

• H. Takezoe, E. Gorecka, M. Cepic
  Antiferroelectric liquid crystals: Interplay of simplicity and complexity
  Reviews of Modern Physics, 82, 897-937 (2010)
• P. Niton, A. Zywocinski, R. Holyst, R. Kieffer, C. Tschierske, J. Paczesny, D. Pociecha, E. Gorecka
  Reversible aggregation of X-Shaped bolaamphiphiles with partially fluorinated lateral chains at the air/water interface
  Chemical Communications, 46, 1896-1898 (2010)
• N. Vaupotic, J. Szydlowska, M. Salamonczyk, A. Kovarova, J. Svoboda, M. Osipov, D. Pociecha, E. Gorecka
  Structure studies of the nematic phase formed by bent-core molecules
  Physical Review E, 80, art. no. 030701 (2009)
• M. Kohout, J. Svoboda, V. Novotna, D. Pociecha, M. Glogarova, E. Gorecka
  A nematic-polar columnar phase sequence in new bent-shaped liquid crystals based on a 7-hydroxynaphthalene-2-carboxylic acid core
  Journal of Materials Chemistry, 19, 3153-3160 (2009)
• M. Wojcik, W. Lewandowski, J. Matraszek, J. Mieczkowski, J. Borysiuk, D. Pociecha, E. Gorecka
  Liquid-Crystalline Phases Made of Gold Nanoparticles
  Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 48 (28), 5167 (2009)
• A. Glebowska, K. Kamienska-Trela, A. Krowczynski, D. Pociecha, J. Szydlowska, J. Szczytko, A. Twardowski, J. Wojcik, E. Gorecka
  Mesogenic Ni(II) and Cu(II) complexes of barbituric acid derivatives - toward one-dimensional magnets
  Journal of Materials Chemistry, 18, 3419-3421 (2008)
• E. Gorecka, D. Pociecha, N. Vaupotic, M. Cepic, K. Gomola, J. Mieczkowski
  Modulated general tilt structures in bent-core liquid crystals
  Journal of Materials Chemistry, 18, 3044-3049 (2008)
• E. Gorecka, N. Vaupotic, D. Pociecha
  Electron density modulations in columnar banana phases
  Chemistry of Materials, 19, 3027-3031 (2007)
• N. Vaupotič, M. Čopič, E. Gorecka, D. Pociecha
  Modulated Structures in Bent-Core Liquid Crystals: Two Faces of One Phase
  Physical Review Letters, 98, 247802 (2007)
• D. Pociecha, E. Gorecka, M. Čepič, N. Vaupotič, W. Weissflog
  Polar order and tilt in achiral smectic phases
  Physical Review E, 74, 021702 (2006)
• H. Takezoe, K. Kishikawa, E. Gorecka
  Switchable columnar phases
  Journal of Materials Chemistry, 16, 2412-2416 (2006)
• E. Gorecka, N. Vaupotic, D. Pociecha, M. Cepic, J. Mieczkowski
  Switching mechanism in polar columnar mesophases made of bent-core molecules
  ChemPhysChem, 6, 1087-1093 (2005)
• E. Gorecka, D. Pociecha, J. Mieczkowski, J. Matraszek, D. Guillon, B. Donnio
  Axially polar columnar phase made of polycatenar bent-shaped molecules
  Journal of the American Chemical Society, 126, 15946-15947 (2004)
• J. Szydlowska, J. Mieczkowski, J. Matraszek, D. W. Bruce, E. Gorecka, D. Pociecha, D. Guillon
  Bent-core liquid crystals forming two- and three-dimensional modulated structures
  Physical Review E, 67, art. no. 031702 (2003)
• U. Pietrasik, J. Szydłowska, A. Krówczynski, D. Pociecha, E. Górecka, D. Guillon
  Re-entrant isotropic phase between lamellar and columnar mesophases
  Journal of American Chemical Society, 124, 8884, (2002)
• D. Pociecha, E. Górecka, M. Čepič, N. Vaupotič, B. Žekš, D. Kardaś, J. Mieczkowski
  Re-entrant ferroelectricity in liquid crystals
  Physical Review Letters, 86, 3048, (2001)
• E. Gorecka, D. Pociecha, F. Araoka, D.R. Link, M. Nakata, J. Thisayukta, Y. Takanishi, K. Ishikawa, J. Watanabe, H. Takezoe
  Ferroelectric phases in a chiral bent-core smectic liquid crystal: Dielectric and optical second-harmonic generation measurements
  Physical Review E, 62, R4524-R4527 (2000)
• E. Gorecka, M. Nakata, J. Mieczkowski, Y. Takanishi, K. Ishikawa, J. Watanabe, H. Takezoe, S. H. Eichhorn, T. M. Swager
  Induced antiferroelectric smectic-C-A* phase by doping ferroelectric-C* phase with bent-shaped molecules
  Physical Review Letters, 85, 2526-2529 (2000)
• J. Matraszek, J. Mieczkowski, J. Szydlowska, E. Gorecka
  Nematic phase formed by banana-shaped molecules
  Liquid Crystals, 27, 429-436 (2000)
• M. Pękała, W. Gadomski, J. Szydłowska, A. Tampieri, M. Ausloos
  Broadening of the Resistive Transition in Polycrystalline Bi/Pb2223s
  Superconductor Science and Technology, 13, 1142, (2000)
• I. Rychetsky, D. Pociecha, V. Dvorak, J. Mieczkowski, E. Gorecka, M. Glogarova
  Dielectric behavior of ferroelectric liquid crystals in the vicinity of the transition into the hexatic phase
  Journal of Chemical Physics, 111, 1541 (1999)
• E. Gorecka, D. Pociecha, M. Glogarova, J. Mieczkowski
  Observation of a frustrated phase in mixtures of ferroelectric and antiferroelectric liquid crystals
  Physical Review Letters, 81, 2946-2949 (1998)