In September we had a short-term group member from Poznan University of Technology. Barbara Piechel, a BSc student at the Faculty of Chemical Technology, worked with Emilia on the newly started project aimed at detecting date rape drugs. The internship also marks the beginning of closer cooperation between IPC PAS and Poznan University of Technology,…
Elżbieta’s paper “Low-cost, syringe based ion-selective electrodes for the evaluation of potassium in food products and pharmaceutical” has recently been accepted in Electrochimica Acta. The article deals with the quantification of potassium in real samples using an electronic tongue based on low-cost syringe electrodes.Ion-selective electrodes (ISE) are well known potentiometric sensors that allow rapid, non-invasive…
From 18 to 23 August 2024, Emilia had the chance to attend the 75th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry in Montréal, Canada. The meeting started with a plenary lecture by Montréal born Nobel Laureate Rudolph A. Marcus – yes, the one from Marcus Theory! – in which he presented his latest research…
Congratulations to Emilia, who recently again won the “Young Researchers IPC PAS” competition. The competition is judged in two categories: Ph.D. students and “young” research workers of the IPC PAS with a Ph.D. degree. A short list of candidates is created based on recent publications. This year, 10 winners were chosen in each category. Congratulations…
From 15th to 18th of April 2024 the group had a chance to learn how to perform XAS measurements at the SOLARIS synchrotron. As it was our first experiment in such a lab and it was recommended to have 2 people per shift we were joined by Kasia Dusiło from a neighbour group at the…
Thanks to funding from NAWA/STER iWARSAW4PhD project for 2022-2024 during January Elżbieta visited Cecilia de Carvalho Castro e Silva’s lab in Mackenzie Institute for Research in Graphene and Nanotechnologies. Elżbieta’s work was aimed at fabrication of electrode arrays using Mackgraphe clean room facilities. Mackgraphe is renowned for its multidisciplinary installation with emphasis on nanoelectronics, microelectronics…
On the occasion of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, Emilia was invited to give a talk at the Liceum Ogólnokształcące Sióstr Nazaretanek w Warszawie. Meeting with the students was a great chance to reflect on her journey of becoming a scientist and to debunk the myth that everyone knows who they…
Elżbieta’s publication “Methods of Protection of Electrochemical Sensors against Biofouling in Cell Culture Applications” was recently accepted in ACS Omega. The article concerns various methods of antifouling coating for electrochemical sensors, especially applied to monitor vital culture parameters in cell cultures. The publication was featured on the main cover of the journal. The work was…
We are super happy to announce that our proposal, “Unravelling the electronic and geometric structure of metal-organic coordination polymeric materials for photo-assisted proton-coupled electron transfer reactions in energy conversion devices”, submitted to the Autumn 2023 Call at SOLARIS, has been accepted!We will work six shifts at the PIRX (Premiere InstRument for Xas) beamline to characterize…
Although we met not so long ago, we could not miss the chance to go curling. There was no fixed place to play in Warsaw this winter, but he got a heads-up from the Curling sports club about a special two-day event.There was also a good occasion as Steven is leaving, at least temporarily, the…