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New study on an unusual odd-even effect in liquid crystalline dimers realized by Mateusz Pawlak and Maciej Bagiński in collaboration with Carsten Rockstuhl Group (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany), Pablo Llombart (University of Madrid, Spain), Ewa Górecka (UW) and Damian Pociecha (UW) was recently published in Chemical Communications. Read more in Publications Section! Read more here. |
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From 29th to 30th April we were honoured to host professor Guido Clever from Clever lab at Dortmund University in Germany. Professor Clever visited our facilities, talked with us about different branches of our research and gave very interesting talk on metallo-supramolecular assemblies, with special focus on dye-based assemblies, light-switchable and -harvesting systems and catalytically active architectures. Thank you for your visit! See photos from the visit in our Gallery :) See gallery here. |
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New study on chiral plasmonic films with dynamic tunability and moldability realized by Dorota Grzelak and Martyna Tupikowska in collaboration with Carsten Rockstuhl Group (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) and Luis Liz-Marzan Group (BioNanoPlasmonics) from CICbiomaGUNE (Spain) was recently published in Advanced Functional Materials ! Read more in Publications Section! Read more here. |
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Our beloved Boss, Wiktor Lewandowski, was recently promoted to his professorship! It is a marvellous accomplishment, we are looking forward to seeing how you continue to grow and further the paths of nanoscience. Your leadership inspires us every day to take on every arising scientific challenge. Congratulations!!! |
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Our PhD student, Martyna Tupikowska received a prestigious grant from National Science Center Poland - PRELUDIUM 20, for research on Nanomaterials with enhanced and switchable chiral plasmonic properties owing to long-range ordering of metallic nanorods into helical, liquid-crystalline systems. Congratulations and the best of luck with your research! Read more here |
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Our student, Mateusz Pawlak, recently gained a Master’s degrees in Chemistry and Physics and now is starting his PhD with our Group! Congratulations on this amazing opportunity – we are very excited to be part of your scientific journey! |
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Our Team participates in an international conference EMRS Fall Meeting 2021! From 20th to 23rd September 2021 Dorota Grzelak, Sylwia Parzyszek and Wiktor Lewandowski from our Group participated in the 2021 Fall Meeting of the European Materials Research Society (E-MRS) virtual event. They presented the latest results from our research on plasmonic chirality and circular luminescence phenomena observable in thin films. |
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New study on responsive binary assemblies of gold nanoparticles realized by Piotr Szustakiewicz was recently published in Nanomaterials! Read more in Publications Section! here |
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From 25th to 27th August 2021 our Team participated in 9th International Conference ‘Nanotechnologies and Nanomaterials’ NANO-21 in Lviv. Martyna Tupikowska, Zuzanna Lawera, Mateusz Pawlak, Dorota Grzelak, Filip Bandalewicz, Agnieszka Jędrych and Sylwia Parzyszek presented their research in oral presentations. Additionally, Patrycja Szymańska and Maciej Bagiński presented posters with their newest results. Go to Gallery for the photos from the presentations and sights from beautiful Lviv! |
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New study on fluorescence anisotropy in thin films made of quantum dots realized by Sylwia Parzyszek in collaboration with professor Damian Pociecha was recently published in Nanoscale Advances ! Read more in Publications Section! here |
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In June representatives from our Group participated in XIV Kopernikańskie Seminarium Doktoranckie, which is a conference organized by Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, aimed to PhD students from Poland. Martyna Tupikowska, Agnieszka Jędrych and Sylwia Parzyszek presented their latest research in the form of an oral presentation. Agnieszka won a II place for best presentation and Martyna received an distinction for her speech! Congratulations on your presentations and awards! |
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In June our Group participated in an international conference NanoTech Poland. In an online event Martyna Tupikowska, Agnieszka Jędrych, Dorota Grzelak, Natalia Kowalska, Filip Bandalewicz and Dominika Niewczas presented posters with their latest research and took part in heated discussions with other participants. Congratulations on your wonderful presentations! |
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New study on STEM tomography of nanoparticle helical assemblies was published in Microscopy and Microanalysis by Kamil Sobczak in collaboration with our group. Read more in Publications Section! here |
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Our PhD student, Piotr Szustakiewicz was awarded a prestigious stipend from polish Ministry for Higher Education for Outstanding Young Scientist under 35! Piotr was among 217 awarded young scientists, from which only 52 were PhD students in the total of 1835 applications. Congratulations once again!! Read more here |
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Our two PhD students, Dorota Grzelak and Piotr Szustakiewicz were awarded prestigious stipends in START Programme organized by The Foundation for Polish Science ! The stipends are awarded each year to 100 most promising young scientist under 30 in our country from all fields of science. Congratulations !! Read more here |
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New study on in situ observations of crystallization process in reconfigurable plasmonic lattices realized by Maciej Bagiński in collaboration with Ewa Górecka (UW), Carsten Rockstuhl Group (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) and Sara Baals (Electron Microscopy on Materials Research, University of Antwerp, Belgium) was recently published in ACS Nano! Read more in Publications Section! here |
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New Review article on Chirality of liquid crystals formed from achiral molecules was recently published in Advanced Materials, realized by Wiktor Lewandowski in collaboration with Ewa Górecka (UW), Damian Pociecha (UW), Natasa Vaupotic (Univeristy of Maribor, Slovenia) and Luis Liz-Marzan (CICbiomaGUNE, Spain). Read more in Publications Section! here. |
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New study on in situ imaging of colloidal gold nanorod aggregates realized by Dorota Grzelak in collaboration with Petr Kral from University of Chicago (USA) and Luis Liz-Marzan Group (BioNanoPlasmonics) from CICbiomaGUNE (Spain) was recently published in Journal of American Chemical Society! Read more in Publications Section! here. |
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New study on supramolecular chirality synchronization in thin films realized by Piotr Szustakiewicz and Natalia Kowalska in collaboration with Hiromi Okamoto Group from Institute for Molecular Science (Japan) and Luis Liz-Marzan Group (BioNanoPlasmonics) from CICbiomaGUNE (Spain) was recently published in ACS Nano! Read more in Publications Section! here. |
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The photographic coverage of the Microsymposium on Soft and Plasmonic Nanomaterials 2020 is avalible here. |
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We would like to prodly invite everyone to participate in microsymposium held by our group on the topics regarding nanomaterials, liquid crystals and soft-matter. The event will take place in Biological and Chemical Research Centre, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland, from 9 to 10 march 2020. More information on the website here. |
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From 1st to 3rd of December students: Piotr Kuczyński & Szymon Szostak participated in international exhibition III Indian International Innovation Fair, which took place in Hyderabad, called Silicon Valley of India. They presented project Pharma Grade Nanoparticles for the Construction of Novel Drug Delivery Systems distinguished with gold medal and IIIF 2019 The Best Innovation Award. |
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From 10th to 14th April 2019 two students: Zuzanna Lawera & Szymon Szostak took part in exhibition Geneva Inventions in Switzerland. This is the largest innovation exhibition in the world, over 800 exhibitors from over 40 countries present their innovations in several categories. Zuzanna & Szymon presented the project: Pharma Grade Nanoparticles for the Construction of Novel Drug Delivery Systems and received gold medal in the category of medicine. |
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On 10th-14th of April 2019 a SSPtchem Spring Meeting in Ustron took place. The symposium attended 11 members of our team, who presented 10 oral communications and 1 posters of own research. |
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From 2nd to 6th February 2019 our teammates: Agnieszka Jędrych, Zuzanna Lawera, Szymon Szostak & Martyna Tupikowska participated in Bangkok International Intellectual Property, Invention, Innovation and Technology Exposition in Thailand, presenting the invention of our group: Pharma Grade Nanoparticles for the Construction of Novel Drug Delivery Systems. Project was awarded with golden medal, Young Inventor Award for the Best International Invention and Innovation for Social and Quality of Life and received distinction Special Award from Mi-Young Han, president of World Woman Inventors & Entrepreneurs Association. |
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Congratulations for Zuzanna Lawera, Martyna Tupikowska, Mateusz Pawlak and Szymon Szostak, who have won scholarship of Ministry of Science and Higher Education. |
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On 15th member of our group - Martyna Tupikowska received a scholarship 100/100 on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Poland's independence. Congratulations! |
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From 8th to 10th December 2018 students from our team: Agnieszka Jędrych, Zuzanna Lawera & Szymon Szostak took part in Kaohsiung International Innovation and Design Exhibition in Taiwan. They presented the solution: Pharma Grade Nanoparticles for the Construction of Novel Drug Delivery Systems which was awarded with golden medal. |
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On 8th-9th of December 2018 a SSPtchem Winter Meeting in Warsaw took place. The symposium attended 5 members of our team, who presented posters of own research. One of the invited guest was Ph. D. Wiktor Lewandwski, who presented oral communication "Dynamic self-assembly of nanoparticles - from SSPTChem 2009 to today". |
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On 6th december the prize-giving of the 8th edition of the Gold Medal of Chemistry competition took a place. A member of our group - Martyna Tupikowska was one of the winners. She received an award for her work titled "Self-assembly of liquid crystalline nanoparticles into helical systems". Congratulation! |
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On 17th-21th September 2018 a Polish Chemical Society Metting in Krakow took place. The symposium attended 11 members of our team, who presented oral communications and posters of own research. |
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On 12th-13th of September 2018 members of our group participated in an international forum for scientists, business support organizations and students working in a nanotechnology. It was our first time, when we were at Business-to-Science Science-to-Business conference. This year's edition was focus on application of nanoscience in industry, in particular in medicine. During the symposium 8 members of our team presented posters of their own research. One of them - Piotr Szustakiwicz received a prize for the best poster. Congratulation! |
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On 25th-29th of April 2018 a SSPtchem Spring Meeting in Skorzecin took place. The symposium attended 12 members of our team, who presented 8 oral communications and 4 posters of own research. During the meeting, our team's member- Zuzanna Lawera received a prize for the best oral communication in category First Degree Studies. She also received a prize money of 150 EURO funded by EVONIK for the best oral presentation. Congratulations! Apart from science, it was a great opportunity to integrate and spend time together! |
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On 11th-14th of April we hosted scientists from Spain, Ana Sanchez-Iglesias and dr Marek Grzelczak in our laboratory. Ana works in BioNanoplasmonics Lab in Luis-Liz Marzan's group in San Sebastian. Marek has his own scientific group in Donostia International Physic Centrum. They are notable scientists, who, despite their young age, have huge experience in laboratory work and conduct research on really high level. The group of Luis-Liz Marzan is one of the best groups, which specialize in synthesis of anisotropic nanoparticles all around the world. We had amazing opportunity to hear about what they do in their laboratory, learn about their research results, but also carry out synthesis of anisotropic gold nanoparticles under the guidance of experts. It was really instensive, but also worthwhile meeting. We are really thankful for time, which they dedicated for us, and the knowledge, which they transmited to us. |
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On 8th-9th of December 2017 a SSPtchem Winter Meeting in Bydgoszcz took place. The symposium attended 10 members of our team, who presented posters of own research. During the meeting, our team's member- Maciej Baginski received an audience award for the best poster. Congratulations! Apart from science, it was a great opportunity to integrate and visit the city. |
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On 17th-21th September 2017 a Polish Chemical Society Metting in Wroclaw took place. The symposium attended 14 members of our team, who presented 8 oral communications and 6 posters of own research. |
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