The Department of Polymers and Organic Synthesis carries out research on the synthesis of polymers and polymer-inorganic hybrids of the magnetic core-polymer shell type and organic synthesis of compounds with biological activity. The subject of scientific interest are also intermolecular interactions investigated by spectroscopic methods with the use of computational methods. The following methods are used to assess the physicochemical properties of polymers and organic compounds: spectroscopic (NMR, MS, IR, Raman, UV-VIS-NIR, spectrofluorimetry), thermal (TGA, DSC), microscopic (TEM, SEM, AFM), chromatographic (MPLC , HPLC, Flash) and trubidimetry (UV-VIS), nitrogen porosimetry, CHNS elemental analysis, XRD, DLS and others.
The Department consists of three independent researchers:
prof. dr hab. Agnieszka Z. Wilczewska, - Head of the Department
prof. dr hab. Ryszard Łaźny
dr hab. Alina T. Dubis, prof. UwB
Research and teaching staff:
dr Karolina H. Markiewicz
dr Iwona Misztalewska-Turkowicz
dr Paweł Misiak
Engineering and technical staff:
dr Michał Sienkiewicz
dr Barbara Seroka
mgr Joanna Wołosewicz
mgr Dawid Szymczuk - Doctoral School of Exact and Natural Sciences
Ongoing Grants:
"Thermosensitive star polymers based on steroids and saccharides as modern drug delivery systems," project duration: February 2021 - February 2024, PRELUDIUM 19 (2020/37/N/ST5/02140). Location: University of Białystok, Project Leader - Paweł Misiak.
"Two in one - new fluorescent polymers for simultaneous imaging and drug delivery," project duration: September 2020 - September 2024, OPUS 18 (2019/35/B/ST5/03391). Location: University of Białystok, Project Leader - Agnieszka Wilczewska.
"New nanoparticles with superparamagnetic properties as heterogeneous palladium catalysts for water-based reactions," project duration: March 2017 - March 2024, PRELUDIUM 11 (2016/21/N/ST5/013/16). Project Leader - Iwona Misztalewska-Turkowicz.
Completed Grants:
"New stimuli-responsive copolymers for controlled drug delivery," project duration: March 2017 - February 2021, OPUS 11 (2016/21/B/ST5/01365). Location: University of Białystok, Project Leader - Agnieszka Wilczewska.
"Polymer-stabilized magnetic nanoparticles (PSMNP) for biomedical applications," project duration: 2015-2016, International research project POLONIUM, No. 3550ZD. Locations: University of Białystok and Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse, France. Project Leaders - Agnieszka Wilczewska, Mathias Destarac.
"Development of new materials based on carbon nanotubes and ion-imprinted polymers (CNT-IIP)," project duration: 2015-2018, NCN research grant: PRELUDIUM 7 (2014/13/N/ST5/01563). Location: University of Białystok, Project Leader - Karolina H. Markiewicz.
Polymer and Organic Synthesis Department & Laboratory for Modern Polymer Synthesis and Analysis (BioNanoTechno Equipment): GPC/SEC gel chromatographs, HPLC chromatograph with DAD, DSC differential scanning calorimeter, TGA thermogravimeter, melting point apparatus, UV-VIS-NIR spectrometer, nitrogen sorptometer, polarimeter with temperature attachment, polymer synthesis reactor, MPLC, gradient flash chromatograph, isocratic flash chromatograph, micro-distillers, FT-IR spectrophotometer, Raman spectrometer, lyophilizer.
2024
2023
2022
M. Kravets, I. Misztalewska-Turkowicz, V. Sashuk “Probing E/Z Isomerism Using Pillar[4]pyridinium/Gold Nanoparticle Ensembles and Their Photoresponsive Behavior”, Langmuir 38, 16 (2022), 4942–4947, IF – 4,331, MNiSW – 100,
M. Sienkiewicz, D. Pawelski, K. Podgorska, R. Lazny, "Retro-aza-Michael reaction in continuous flow. Approaches to synthesis of adaline and euphococcinine related products", Tetrahedron 109 (2022) 132686, IF – 2,338, MNiSW – 70.
2021
2020
I. Misztalewska-Turkowicz*, O. Coutelier, M. Destarac*, Two Pathways of Thiolactone Incorporation into Polyurethanes and Their One-Pot Double Postfunctionalization, Macromolecules, 2020, 53, 10785−10795, IF – 5,918, MNiSW – 140 (doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.0c01779)
P. Misiak, K. Niemirowicz-Laskowska, K. H. Markiewicz*, I. Misztalewska-Turkowicz, P. Wielgat, I. Kurowska, G. Siemiaszko, M. Destarac, H. Car, A.Z. Wilczewska* “Evaluation of Cytotoxic Effect of Cholesterol End-Capped Poly(N-Isopropylacrylamide)s onSelected Normal and Neoplastic Cells” International Journal of Nanomedicine, 2020:15 7263-7278 IF – 5,115, MNiSW – 140. (doi.org/10.2147/IJN.S262582)
M. Kravets, G. Sobczak, N. Rad, I. Misztalewska-Turkowicz, O. Danylyuk, V. Sashuk, Visual discrimination of aromatic acid substitution patterns by supramolecular nanocooperativity, Chem. Comm., 2020, 56, 8595-8598. IF – 5,996, MNiSW – 200, (doi.org/10.1039/D0CC03633A)
P. Misiak*, K. H. Markiewicz, D. Szymczuk, A.Z. Wilczewska* "Polymeric Drug Delivery Systems Bearing Cholesterol Moieties: A Review" Polymers 2020, 12(11) 2620; IF - 3,426, MNISW - 100 (doi.org/10.3390/polym12112620)
E. Regulska, A. Breczko, A. Basa, A.T. Dubis, Rare-Earth Metals-Doped Nickel Aluminate Spinels for Photocatalytic Degradation of Organic Pollutants, Catalysts 2020, 10(9), 1003, IF – 3,52, MNiSW – 100, (doi.org/10.3390/catal10091003)
E. Piktel, K.H. Markiewicz, A.Z. Wilczewska, T. Daniluk, S. Chmielewska, K. Niemirowicz-Laskowska, J. Mystkowska, P. Paprocka, P. B. Savage, R. Bucki, ”Quantification of synergistic effects of ceragenin CSA-131 combined with iron oxide magnetic nanoparticles against cancer cells”, International Journal of Nanomedicine, 2020:15 4573-4589, IF – 4.471 (5y 5.029), MNiSW – 140, (doi.org/10.2147/IJN.S255170)
W. Rumińska, M. Szymańska-Chargot, D. Wiącek, A. Sobota, K.H. Markiewicz, A.Z. Wilczewska, A. Miś, A. Nawrocka, “FT-Raman and FT-IR studies of the gluten structure as a result of model dough supplementation with chosen oil pomaces”, Journal of Cereal Science, 93 (2020) 102961-102973, IF – 2,452, MNISW – 140 (doi.org/10.1016/j.jcs.2020.102961).
K. Niemirowicz-Laskowska, J. Mystkowska, D. Łysik, S. Chmielewska, G. Tokajuk, I. Misztalewska-Turkowicz, A.Z. Wilczewska, R. Bucki „Antimicrobial and Physicochemical Properties of Artificial Saliva Formulations Supplemented with Core-Shell Magnetic Nanoparticles”, International Journal of Molecular Science, 2020, 21(6), 1979-1996, IF – 4,183, MNISW – 140 (doi.org/10.3390/ijms21061979).
E. Piktel, U. Wnorowska, M. Cieśluk, P. Deptuła, S.V. Prasad, G. Król, B. Durnaś, A. Namiot, K.H. Markiewicz, K. Niemirowicz-Laskowska, A. Z. Wilczewska, P.A. Janmey, J. Reszeć, R. Bucki “Recombinant human plasma gelsolin stimulates phagocytosis while diminishing excessive inflammatory responses in mice with Pseudomonas aeruginosa sepsis”, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2020, 21(7) IF – 4,183, MNISW – 140 (10.3390/ijms21072551).
G. Świderski, S. Wojtulewski, M. Kalinowska, R. Świsłocka, A. Z. Wilczewska, A. Pietryczuk, A. Cudowski, W. Lewandowski, “The influence of selected transition metal ions on the structure, thermal and microbiological properties of pyrazine-2-carboxylic acid”, Polyhedron 175 (2020) 114173, IF – 2,284, MNiSW – 100. (doi.org/10.1016/j.poly.2019.114173)
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Older publications are listed on the websites of individual employees.