Research

Aimed preparation of special compounds and materials and the investigation of their physical and chemical properties and supramolecular structures.

Advanced analytical and separation methods and their application in the diagnostics and the technology of animate and inanimate materials.

Research Objectives

goal-directed preparation of special organometallic compounds, special energetic materials and supramolecular structure systems, particularly the study of composite materials and their constituents – polymeric as well as inorganic matrices, both inorganic and organic pigments and fillers, particle shaped and fibrous reinforcement systems • orientation to special compounds and inorganic, organometallic, organic and polymeric materials, including construction composite materials, environmentally friendly materials for surface finishing, bioactive materials, compounds and materials for homogeneous and heterogeneous catalyses, optoelectronics • a deep understanding of intramolecular interactions, their goal-directed modification and subsequent application of the findings to the construction of new entities including new ways of preparation • a deeper understanding of intermolecular interactions, i.e. in the preparation of condensed or quasicondensed systems, and of the role of intramolecular and intermolecular interactions in the formation of such systems, and the determination of their physico-chemical properties • local (point) defect states that significantly affect the reactivity of mentioned entities or compounds and their physico-chemical properties • the improvement of modern analytical control methods, including electrochemical methods applicable in the identification of organic and inorganic substances • enzymatic reaction studies and the development of bioaffinity microreactors • the study of microbiological techniques in the field of foodstuff control and the monitoring of selected pathogenic and conditionally pathogenic microorganisms • the study of kinetics and the reaction mechanism of biotransformations of higher alcohols by means of immobilised microorganisms in reactors of various types (batch, fed-batch, continuous) with a mathematical description of the reaction models • both experimental and theoretical analysis concerning the general process characteristics of membrane processes • the applications of membrane separations for the purification and liquidation of wastewater including the methods of liquidation of outlet streams contaminated with e.g. heavy metals, solvents etc.

Specific Equipment

Atomic absorption spectrophotometer GBC 906 AA with Zeeman correction

Bruker AMX 360 NMR and AVAMCE 500 spectrometers

Diffractometer Bruker D8

Electron scanning microscope JEOL JSM-5500LV with energy dispersion micro-analyser IXRF System

(Gresham Sirius 10 detector)

FTIR spectrophotometers of type Nicolet Protégé 460, Bio-Rad 45, 175CGas chromatograph LP 4600 GC with FID and ECD (Unicam)

Hewlett Packard, SX. 18 MV-R Photophysics (stopped flow spectrophotometer)

Hot uniaxial pressing system (TTC GmbH)

HPLC system LC-10 Avp (Shimadzu)

IFS 56 Equinox (Bruker) with Raman extension

Laser deposition system (Lambda Physik)

Liquid chromatograph Hewlett-Packard 1090

Liquid chromatograph Waters with UV detection in connection with mass spectrometer platform

(Micromass)

Mass spectrometer Esquire 3000 (Bruker)

Modular ion chromatograph (Shimadzu)

Optical emission spectrometer ICP-OES (GBS)

Particle analyser Mastersizer 2000/MU (Malvern)

Perkin-Elmer step scan calorimeter Pyris 1

Simultaneous thermal analyzer 449 Jupiter (Netzsch)

Systems for electro-analysis: polarograph Labio, EcoTribo polarograph, PAR174A (Princeton Applied Research),

BAS100W electrochemical analyser, TraceLab, potentiometric stripping unit (Radiometer), ATI Orion 960

autochemistry system (Orion Research), analyser for capillary isotachophoresis Ionosep 2001 (Recman), apparatus for extraction with supercritic liquid (SFE) and high-pressure extraction (PFE), capillary electrophoresis (Prince)

X-ray fluorescence spectrometers EAGLE II (RTG Messtechnik GmbH)

Zeta potential analyzer Zeta Pals (Brookhaven)