Rafał Sadowski has got his PhD degree. Congratulation! Photocatalytic coatings for medicine and food industry The main goal of the doctoral thesis was to obtain stable and photoactive upon visible light irradiation semiconductor coatings on various polymers. A further purpose of this study was to understand the nature of semiconductor particles binding to polymer surface [...]
MSc. Marcin Surówka obtained a grant from National Science Centre within PRELUDIUM 8 programme. The project goal and title are “Charakterystyka spektroskopowa i fotokatalityczna materiałów opartych na tlenku tytanu(IV) modyfikowanych różnymi tlenkami metali”. Congratulations!
Tomasz Baran has got his PhD degree. Congratulation! Photocatalytic reduction of carbon dioxide in hybrid systems Carbon dioxide utilization may contribute to controlling its atmosphere level, reducing the emission and recycling carbon. Various methods of CO2 reduction are under intensive study, including photocatalysis that is promising, environmentally friendly technique of solar to chemical energy conversion. Three [...]
We are pleased to announce that the forthcoming, 21st International Symposium on the Photophysics and Photochemistry of Coordination Compounds will be held in Kraków, 5th-9th July 2015.
The cooperation with Prof. Bunsho Ohtani and Prof. Ewa Kowalska reaches new levels – Wojciech Macyk spends one month as a visiting professor in Catalysis Research Center, Hokkaido University in Sapporo.
Our new paper submitted to Dalton Transactions has been selected by the Editors to be announced at the first cover page. The paper entitled “UV and visible light active aqueous titanium dioxide colloids stabilized by surfactants” (Michał Pacia, Piotr Warszyński, Wojciech Macyk; Dalton Trans. 2014, 43, 12480-12485) describes the synthesis and activity of photosensitized titanium [...]
Elżbieta Świętek has got her PhD degree. Congratulation! Redox Characteristics of Semiconducting Photocatalytic Materials The aim of the studies was to develop the method based on spectroelectrochemical measurements, which allows for the characterization of redox properties of various types of semiconducting materials, including determination of the impact of structural modification and surface as well as [...]
Our newest paper, entitled “Photocatalytic carboxylation of organic substrates with carbon dioxide at zinc sulfide with deposited ruthenium nanoparticles”, has been published in ChemPlusChem(Tomasz Baran, Angela Dibenedetto, Michele Aresta, Krzysztof Kruczała, Wojciech Macyk,ChemPlusChem 2014, 79, 708-715). It describes a photocatalytic synthesis of carboxylic acids using CO2 and acetylacetone as substrates in the presence of ZnS-based [...]
Prof. Leonardo Palmisano from University of Palermo was our guest this week.
To activate not only small molecules, but also minds and bodies, on April 11-12th we enjoyed a trip to Pieniny mountains. We spent two nice days hiking in this beautiful area. (Everybody reached Trzy Korony.)
