Faculty of Chemistry - Technological / Research offer

Department of Inorganic, Analytical Chemistry and Electrochemistry

• determination of pharmaceuticals, flavonoids, pesticides and other organic environmental pollutants, preservatives, vitamins present in commercial preparations (e.g. cosmetics, medicines, food) as well as in environmental samples (UHPLC, HPLC, LC-MS)

 Department of Organic Chemistry, Bioorganic Chemistry and Biotechnology offers research in the following areas:

• structural studies using NMR, IR and X-ray

• structural and qualitative analysis of organic compounds and their mixtures;

• design of synthesis routes and synthesis of organic compounds;

• literature survey encompassing chemistry and chemical technology;

• synthesis of organic compounds of high purity (including optical purity);

• synthesis of model compounds for studying medical chemistry or biotechnology;

• synthesis of carbohydrate derivatives; intermediates for drug manufacture;

• biotransformation reactions using native and immobilized enzymes and whole cells; 

• plant and bacterial enzyme isolation (especially proteolytic enzymes), characteristics and inhibition study;

• research on biomass transformation.

Contact:

Krzysztof.Walczak@polsl.pl

Ilona.Wandzik@polsl.pl 

Danuta.Gillner@polsl.pl

Slawomir.Boncel@pols.pl

Nikodem.Kuznik@polsl.pl

Department of Chemical Engineering and Process Design conducts and offers research in the following fields of study:

• technical project documentation of installation and apparatus for chemical and processing industry (especially crystallization, absorption, pneumatic transport);

• determining particle size distribution with a laser particle size analyser;

• determining the isoelectric point (IEP) of particles suspended in liquids;

• determining filtration properties of solids suspended in liquids;

• determining thermal conductivity of solids;

• engineering of catalyst and porous materials; 

• immobilization of enzymes, bioprocess engineering;

• measurement of surface area and pore volume by nitrogen adsorption (BET, BJH);

• measurement of air pollutants emission (including particulate emission);

• testing the effectiveness of flocculants.

Department of Physical Chemistry and Technology of Polymers’ main research areas are studied by the following research groups:

Group of Polymer Chemistry and Technology:

• synthesis of functional polymers and polymers for special applications using various techniques: ATRP, RAFT, ROP, click reactions, free radical polymerization and polycondensation;

• characterization of macromolecular compounds using SEC, DSC, NMR, FTIR, DLS, Raman spectroscopy, UV-Vis spectroscopy and SEM;

• synthesis of new bone cements and in-situ curable biomaterials;

• application of polymer materials in controlled drug delivery systems.

Group of Physical Chemistry:

• synthesis and characterization of conjugated polymers and oligomers;

• application of spectroelectrochemical techniques for in situ studies of electrode processes;

• organic electronics and optoelectronics;

• preparation and characterization of polymer membranes for separation of gaseous and liquid mixtures.

Group of Chemical Physics and Biophysics:

• analysis of transport processes in ion channels of living cells;

• transport through membranes and separation processes;

• chaos and nonlinear phenomena in ionic transport;

• analysis of non-stationary states of diffusion.

Department of Chemical Organic Technology and Petrochemistry’s technological and research offer includes the following fields of research:

• development of synthesis and purification procedures of organic substances, such as catalytic and non-catalytic oxidation of alkylaromatic hydrocarbons and polyolefins; processes involving ionic liquids; phase transfer catalysis applications; synthesis and study of properties of organic peroxy compounds;
• development of chemical technologies applicable for fine chemicals;
• industrial organocatalytic processes;
• absorption of CO2 from industrial gases;
• processes involving CO2 as a chemical reagent;
• laboratory scale studies on high-pressure synthesis;
• determination of thermal effects of chemical and physical processes with real-time calorimetry (RTCal);
• determination of reaction course with in-situ real-time FT-IR spectrometry;
• identification and structure determination of organic compounds with chromatographic and spectrometric techniques (GC-MS, UPLC-MS, HR-MS, NMR, FT-IR);
• quantitative and qualitative analysis and development of analytical protocols for organic compounds (GC, HPLC, UPLC, GS-MS, UPLC-MS, polarimetry, UV-Vis, NMR);
• analytical enantiomers separation using chromatographic techniques;
• studies on the use of laboratory scale synthesis of ionic liquids;
• waste management;
• use of computer methods in process simulation;
• determination of optical purity using chromatography or polarimetry;
• synthesis of organic substances on a laboratory scale up to 5 kg;
• purification of organic substances by preparative chromatographic methods, preparation of samples of high purity;