Leader: Szczepan Zapotoczny, Professor
e-mail: zapotocz@chemia.uj.edu.pl
room: D1-27

Websites: https://nfpm.chemia.uj.edu.pl/.

Areas of research:

• nanostructural polymeric materials for photochemical and biomedical applications,
• usage of Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) as a primary technique in nanotechnology of soft matter,
• energy/electron transfer processes in the confined environments,
• single-molecule electron transfer process,
• photosensitized reactions in the polymeric nanoreactors,
• photochemistry and photophysics of selected compounds (e.g. Excited-State Proton Transfer),
• contrast agents for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI),
• novel thermoelectric materials.

Leader: Krzysztof Szczubiałka, Professor
e-mail: szczubia@chemia.uj.edu.pl
room: D1-34

Website: https://biomeden.chemia.uj.edu.pl/.

Areas of research:

• polymers controlling blood coagulation – polymeric anticoagulants and polymeric antidotes of anticoagulants,
• photoresponsive polymers for photopharmaceutical applications,
• pegylated block copolymers for biomedical applications,
• hybrid and polymeric photocatalysts for water purification, floating photocatalysts,
• photochemical molecular imprinting of molecules of biomedical interest, selective photoimprinted adsorbents,
• polymeric cell culture supports for tissue engineering, protein-functionalized supports, photocrosslinkable supports.

Leader: Anna Karewicz, PhD, DSc
e-mail: karewicz@chemia.uj.edu.pl
room: D1-30

Areas of research:

• charged liposomes as carriers for biologically active molecules,
• hydrogel micospheres of films from natural biocompatible polymers for sustained and/or controlled release of drugs,
• stimuli-responsive polymers for controlled drug delivery and tissue engineering.

Leader: Mariusz Kępczyński, PhD, DSc
e-mail: kepczyns@chemia.uj.edu.pl
room: D1-29

Areas of research:

• porphyrins with covalently attached polymer chains as sensitizers in Photodynamic Theraphy (PDT),
• liposome-photoactive polymer hybride photosensitizers,
• vesicles as drug vehicles,
• nanocapsules and nanoparticles made from silica and silicone materials.

Leader: Dorota Jamróz, PhD
e-mail: jamroz@chemia.uj.edu.pl
room: D1-26

Areas of research:

• structure and properties of surfactant bilayers,
• interaction of small molecules of biological interest with surfactant or lipid bilayers,
• parametrization of the force field for functional groups which are common constituents of ionic surfactants.

Leader: Joanna Lewandowska-Łańcucka, PhD, DSc
e-mail: lewandow@chemia.uj.edu.pl
room: D1-28

Areas of research:

• silica nano- and microstructures,
• surfactant stabilized vesicles and liposomes as carriers for biologically active molecules,
• magnetic microspheres from silica precursors for biomedical applications.

Leader: Łukasz Łapok, PhD
e-mail: lukaszlapok@chemia.uj.edu.pl
room: D1-28

Areas of research:

• synthesis of organic dyes with the porphine skeleton,
• synthesis of boron-compounds for biomedical applications,
• custom organic synthesis.