RESEARCH TEAMS

Research topics:

• Investigation of surface properties of various materials, including carbon-based electrodes, metallic electrodes, and surface or bulk modified electrodes with nanomaterials, conducting polymers, etc., using microscopic and electrochemical techniques.
• Development of electroanalytical procedures for the determination of biologically active compounds (pesticides, drugs, neurotransmitters, veterinary antibiotics) using voltammetric techniques.
• Studies on the electrochemistry of biomimetic membranes and the interactions of mitotic inhibitors used in cancer treatment with self-organizing biomolecules on the membrane.
• Investigation of electrode reaction kinetics and mechanisms using voltammetric techniques.
• Electrochemical deposition of nanostructures and metallic and alloy coatings, fabrication of ceramic coatings using the sol-gel method.
• Corrosion studies of metallic materials, mainly biomaterials for orthopedic and dental implant applications.
• Functionalization of biomaterials through various surface modifications.
• Analysis of surface properties of biomaterials (microscopic methods, wettability).

• Electrified soft interface in the form of liquid-liquid and liquid-liquid-solid junctions.
• Electrochemistry of biomimetic interfaces (electrochemistry of lipidic systems, electrochemistry of cell membrane models).
• Electro-membrane processes.
• Additive manufacturing, development, and fabrication of measurement systems based on 3D printing technology.
• Surface modification via electrochemistry facilitated/controlled reactions.
• Application: synthesis of new materials, electrochemical sensors, oxygen reduction reaction, operando measurements, biomimetic systems, membranes, energy storage devices, 3D printing, printable materials, charge transfer reactions, micro- and nano-electrochemical systems.

Research topics

• Chemical, physical, mechanical, thermal and biological testing of polymer composites, alternatively also in a constant magnetic field.
• Studies of chemical, electrochemical reactions and organic syntheses in a constant magnetic field.
• Recycling of selected packaging materials and laminates.
• Research on the impact of xenobiotics on phytoplankton.
• Bisphenol A and its analogues: toxicity, determination and degradation.
• Chemical hazards in surface and drinking/industrial waters.
• Equilibria in macromolecular solutions.
• Studies of mechanisms, kinetics of electrode processes and electrocatalysis on modified electrodes with transition metal complexes with Schiff bases and azamacrocycles.

Research topics

• Bio- and food electroanalysis
• Drug - DNA interactions
• Theory of square-wave voltammetry and development of novel electrochemical techniques
• Electrode mechanisms, kinetics, and electrocatalysis
• Synthesis and characterization  of novel electrocatalytic materials for methanol oxidation and water splitting
• Electrochemistry at liquid interfaces of three-phase electrodes
• Seeking for new types of elecrodes and electrode materials