Yet another paper! 

Technology and research on the influence of liquid crystal cladding doped with magnetic Fe3O4 nanoparticles on light propagation in an optical taper sensor

Michał Niewczas, Karol A Stasiewicz, Natalia Przybysz, Anna Pakuła, Jan Paczesny, Rafał Zbonikowski, Jerzy Dziaduszek, Przemysław Kula, Leszek R Jaroszewicz

Advanced Optical Technologies, 2024, 13, 1422695

https://doi.org/10.3389/aot.2024.1422695

New paper! 

Kusior, A.; Mazurkow, J.; Jelen, P.; Bik, M.; Raza, S.; Wdowiak, M.; Nikiforov, K.; Paczesny, J. 

"Copper Oxide Electrochemical Deposition to Create Antiviral and Antibacterial Nanocoatings".

Published in Langmuir (July 9th, 2024).

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.langmuir.4c00642

Our PhD student Mateusz Wdowiak participated at the 48th FEBS Congress in Milan, Italy (29.06-03.07.2024). The scientific poster he presented discussed the use of sulfonic compounds, with an emphasis on selective, efficient, and biocompatible agents stabilizing bacteriophages from UV irradiation,

We extend sincere congratulations to our Assistant Professor Konrad Giżyński for successfully securing a grant from the Joint Transnational Call 2022 Water4All - Partnership, co-funded by the European Union within the Horizon Europe programme. The funding for Polish partner (IChF)  will be covered by Narodowe Centrum Badań i Rozwoju (NCBR). The project, titled "Ultra-sensitive optical sensor system for simultaneous, in-situ detection of multiple pesticides in surface and ground waters," will be carried out in collaboration with partners from: the Technical University of Denmark (Danmarks Tekniske Universitet - DTU), the Dublin City University (DCU) in Ireland, the National Institute of Materials Physics and the IMT-Bucharest in Romania, and Sintef AS in Norway.

Polish Patent Office granted us the patent for the invention entitled: "Application of sodium salt of 5,5′-indygodisulfonic acid to inhibit bacteriophage infection in biotechnological processes"

Sada Raza, Jan Paczesny Bartłomiej Bończak, Marcin Łoś

P.441746, submission: 2022-07-15, granted: 2024-03-20

Hossein published a paper! Congrats!

Hossein Maleki-Ghaleh,* Ehsan Moradpur-Tari, Mohammad Shakiba, Jan Paczesny, Paul K Hurley, M Hossein Siadati, Lida Ansari, Farzan Gity*

Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, 2024, just accepted, (IF=4)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022369724001392

Bartek and Enkhlin attended (18.03 to 21.03) the Doctoral Seminar organized by the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology. This visit is the next step in building the partnership between IChF and Leibniz-IPHT.

Iraj Alipourfard joined the team! Iraj is medical doctor, pharmacist and biologist, all in one! He will work within OPUS 2022/45/B/ST5/01500 "Antiviral nanoparticles and polymers to selectively fight phage infections without harming bacteria and eukaryotic cells". Welcome!

Witold Adamkiewicz was a guest in Radio WNET on 01.02.2024. You can hear it here!

Sada and Enkhlin are back! We are welcome you after breaks! 

We congratulate Sada on having lovely twins! :) 

Review published in Pathogenes authored by Bartek Kamiński and Jan Paczesny. Congrats!

Bacteriophage Challenges in Industrial Processes: A Historical Unveiling and Future Outlook

Bartosz Kamiński, Jan Paczesny*

Pathogens 2024, 13 (2), 152 (IF=3.7)

https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0817/13/2/152

Microsymposium in IChF PAN. We presented our results and discussed with collegues from other teams. It was fun!

Konrad Giżyński coauthored set of papers in 2023! Congrats!

Fundamental Relation for Gas of Interacting Particles in a Heat Flow

Hołyst, Robert; Makuch, Karol; Giżyński, Konrad; Maciołek, Anna; Żuk, Paweł J,, Entropy, 2023, 25 (9), 1295, 10.3390/e25091295

Fundamental Relation for the Ideal Gas in the Gravitational Field and Heat Flow

Hołyst, Robert; Żuk, Paweł J; Makuch, Karol; Maciołek,   Anna; Giżyński, Konrad, Entropy, 2023, 25 (11), 1483, 10.3390/e25111483

Parameters of State in the Global Thermodynamics of Binary Ideal Gas Mixtures in a Stationary Heat Flow

Maciołek, Anna; Hołyst, Robert; Makuch, Karol; Giżyński, Konrad; Żuk, Paweł J., Entropy, 2023, 25 (11), 1505, 10.3390/e25111505

Steady-state thermodynamics of a system with heat and mass flow coupling

Makuch, Karol; Hołyst, Robert; Giżyński, Konrad; Maciołek, Anna; Żuk, Paweł J., The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2023, 159 (19), 194113, 10.1063/5.0170079

Our review in Antibiotics is among most notable papers published in the journal.

Natasha Atamas published papers! Congrats!

Structure and Dynamic Inhomogeneity of Liquids on the Liquid–Gas Coexistence Curve Near the Triple Point

N. O.   Atamas, K. S. Yablochkova, D. A. Gavryushenko M. M. Lazarenko, Journal of Phase Equilibria and Diffusion, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11669-023-01070-y

Relaxation, temporal diffusion, and polarity of aromatic hydrocarbons in ionic liquid

N. O. Atamas, K. S. Yablochkova, M. M. Lazarenko, G. Taranyik, Applied   Nanoscience, 2023 https://doi.org/10.1007/s13204-022-02696-z

Liquids clathrate formation and the diffusion model for aromatics hydrocarbons in   ionic liquids

N.O. Atamas, K.S. Yablochkova, I.P. Matushko, M.M. Lazarenko, Fluid   Phase Equilibria, 2024, 113951, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fluid.2023.113951

On December, 19th, 2023 Jan Paczesny and Mateusz Wdowiak were guests of Łukasz Badowski in RDC auditon entitled "Z innej planety". Topic: tea-based silver nanoparticles. https://www.rdc.pl/podcast/z-innej-planety_fY7TF0S0caRGGuoABNJe?episode=tFzTjliyF5H2yM70rqGK 

Meeting between IChF PAN and Leibniz-IPHT in Jena, Germany. Jan Paczesny gave talk describing the Living Materials group in order to boost the international cooperation on dynamic thin films.

Mateusz Wdowiak attended conference. 

Press release about TeaNPs. Read more here.

Jan Paczesny took part in a meeting with ERC Executive Agency in Brussels.

Dr Konrad Giżyński together with Dr Tomasz Andryszewski encourage kids to like science! They are presenting the amazing chemical show to joungsters from kinergartens and schools.

Our review paper was mentioned as one the most notable reviews published in the first half of 2023 in Nanomaterials!

From 3rd to 7th of November, Rafał Zbonikowski and Natalia Szczepańska attended 11th International Workshop on Surface Modification for Chemical and Biochemical Sensing (picture from SMCBS archive).

Natalia presented a poster entitled

 ”Fully Inorganic Nanocoatings for Antibacterial and Catalytical Applications”, 

and Rafał gave a talk about 

”Interfacial Colloidal Stimuli-responsive System Composed of Nanoparticles Decorated with Poly(N-isopropyl acrylamide) (PNIPAM)”. 

Hoping to see you at the 12th edition!

Jan Paczesny attended (13.10 to 15.10) the meeting celebrating 100 years of active work of the Scientific Association of Chemists at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Janek is an honorary member of the association. He gave a lecture about the Living Materials team research. This was a fabulous opportunity to meet after so many years!

Picture - NKCh archives by Agata Warlich.

On the 13th of October, Michał Folga obtained his MSc degree for his work done in our group. Warsaw University of Technology awarded the degree, and Prof. Mariusz Pietrzak acted as supervisor.