Focus:

• nanostructural polymeric materials for photochemical and biomedical applications,
• usage of Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) as a primary technique in nanotechnology of soft matter,
• energy/electron transfer processes in the confined environments,
• single-molecule electron transfer process,
• photosensitized reactions in the polymeric nanoreactors,
• photochemistry and photophysics of selected compounds (e.g. Excited-State Proton Transfer),
• contrast agents for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI),
• novel thermoelectric materials.

Syntheses:

• syntheses of amphiphilic photoactive polymers using Controlled Radical Polymerization,
• Surface Initiated Polymerization (SIP) for the formation of polymer brushes,
• syntheses of new hybrid materials for thermoelectric applications.

Materials and methods:

• multilayer photoactive films and capsules prepared by Layer-by-Layer (LbL) approach,
• biocompatible capsules for controlled drug delivery,
• polymer brushes as advanced functional platforms,
• Force Spectroscopy on biological objects (e.g. receptor sites on macrophages),
• superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPION) as contrast agents for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI),
• hybrid polymer-inorganic materials for thermoelectric applications.