Lecture and seminars
2025
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25 Feb 2025
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024, predicting the structure of natural and completely artificial proteins to improve the quality of our life
- prof. Joanna Sułkowska, University of Warsaw
- Nobel Prize lecture, Aula
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024, predicting the structure of natural and completely artificial proteins to improve the quality of our life
- Date: 25 Feb 2025, 10:00
- Lecturer: prof. Joanna Sułkowska, University of Warsaw
- Institution: Nobel Prize lecture, Aula
- Abstract:
Prof. Joanna Sułkowska (Warsaw University) is interested in the development of multidimensional models for the analysis of energy landscape of proteins with complex structures, as proteins with non-trivial topology; development of analytical methods as direct coupling analysis.
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20 Feb 2025
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Metal-Organic Frameworks as Photocatalysts for Solar Fuels Production
- Prof. Hermenegildo Garcia, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
- IChF Aula and online
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Metal-Organic Frameworks as Photocatalysts for Solar Fuels Production
- Date: 20 Feb 2025
- Lecturer: Prof. Hermenegildo Garcia, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
- Institution: IChF Aula and online
- Place:
Zoom link TBA.
- Abstract:
Prof. Hermenegildo Garcia, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain has published over 900 research articles with current H index of 134 (GS) and has supervised over 50 PhD. He has been in the list of Highly Cited Researchers since this list started in 2014 and has received the Spanish National Research Award in 2021, the Rey Jaime I award in 2016, and the Spanish Royal Chemistry Society in 2011. He is thee recipient of the 2025 Ryland He is mer award given by the North American Chemical Society. He is elected member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Science and of the Spanish National Research Agency.
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6 Feb 2025
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Single-Atom Catalysis for Greener Chemical Processes
- Prof. Gianvito Vile, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- IChF Aula
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Single-Atom Catalysis for Greener Chemical Processes
- Date: 6 Feb 2025
- Lecturer: Prof. Gianvito Vile, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- Institution: IChF Aula
- Abstract:
Prof. Gianvito Vile, Politecnico di Milano, Italy. He has received several awards for his research, including the ETH Medal, the Dimistris N. Chorafas Award from the Weizmann Institute of Sciences, the Felder Award from the pharmaceutical company Bracco, and the ERC Starting Grant from the European Research Council. He is the coordinator or partner of several European grants (among those, SAC_2.0, GreenDigiPharma, SACforCO2, MERGE, and SusPharma), Italian grants (PRIN, PRIN PNRR), and other industrial projects. He is also expert evaluator or panel member for several national or international scientific foundations. Gianvito has been elected Fellow of the Young Academy of Europe, a pan-European academy of 200 top young scientists and scholars from every discipline, supported by Academia Europaea.
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31 Jan 2025
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Scanning tunneling microscopy of monolayer organic films
- Prof. Alexandr Marchenko, Institute of Physics, National Academy of Sciences, Kyiv, Ukraine
- Seminar of the Team 7, Conference room
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Scanning tunneling microscopy of monolayer organic films
- Date: 31 Jan 2025, 11:00
- Lecturer: Prof. Alexandr Marchenko, Institute of Physics, National Academy of Sciences, Kyiv, Ukraine
- Institution: Seminar of the Team 7, Conference room
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29 Jan 2025
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PhD Seminar
- IPC PAS Auditorium
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PhD Seminar
- Date: 29 Jan 2025, from 2:00 PM to approx. 3:00 PM.
- Institution: IPC PAS Auditorium
- Place:
A weekly PhD seminar will be held in the IPC PAS Auditorium on Wednesday.
- Contact person:
Robert Kołos
Head
Doctoral Studies, IPC PAS
- Abstract:
In the programme:
Behdokht Hashemi Hosseini, M. Sc.
‘Synthesis of Chitosan-Lignin Catalysts for Sono-photocatalytic
Reactions: The Role of Sonication and Isotropic Solvents’
Dominik Korol, M. Sc.
‘Not only for text and images: inkjet printing of electrodes and its
application in chemosensing’
This session will be chaired jointly by the PhD students Gunjan Tiwari
and Klaudia Staśkiewicz.
Everybody is most welcome to attend (the Thesis Supervisors in particular!)
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23 Jan 2025
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Imaging infections using label-free Raman spectroscopy
- Prof. Ute Neugebauer, Leibniz IPHT, Jena, Germany
- IChF Aula
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Imaging infections using label-free Raman spectroscopy
- Date: 23 Jan 2025, 13:00
- Lecturer: Prof. Ute Neugebauer, Leibniz IPHT, Jena, Germany
- Institution: IChF Aula
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22 Jan 2025
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PhD Seminar
- IPC PAS Auditorium
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PhD Seminar
- Date: 22 Jan 2025, from 2:00 PM to approx. 3:30 PM.
- Institution: IPC PAS Auditorium
- Place:
A weekly PhD seminar will be held in the IPC PAS Auditorium on Wednesday.
- Contact person:
Robert Kołos
Head
Doctoral Studies, IPC PAS
- Abstract:
In the programme:
Gunjan Tiwari, M. Sc.
‘Co-assembly of magnetic nanoparticles and amino acid architecture using
Langmuir-Blodgett trough experiment’
Klaudia Staśkiewicz, M. Sc.
‘Characterization of bacterial biofilm growth using microfluidic devices’
Wojciech Mazurkiewicz, M. Sc.
‘An antifouling study of surface-modified carbon fiber microelectrodes
against dopamine oxidation byproducts’
This session will be chaired jointly by the PhD students Habibollah
Atigheh, Abhishek Viswanath, and Julia Maciejewska-Komorowska.
Everybody is most welcome to attend (the Thesis Supervisors in particular!)
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21 Jan 2025
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A molecular view at interfaces - emulsion and catalysis
- Prof. Ellen Backus, University of Vienna
- Excellent Chemistry Lecture - Cluster 2, IChF Aula
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A molecular view at interfaces - emulsion and catalysis
- Date: 21 Jan 2025, 11:00
- Lecturer: Prof. Ellen Backus, University of Vienna
- Institution: Excellent Chemistry Lecture - Cluster 2, IChF Aula
- Contact person:
dr Sylwester Gawinkowski
- Abstract:
Interfaces are important areas where reactions are taking place or where interactions on the molecular level determine the energetics. However, often it is difficult to obtain molecular level information from an interface, as the surrounding bulk molecules overwhelms the signal from the few interfacial molecules. In this talk we will discuss how sum frequency generation spectroscopy (SFG) can be used to obtain molecular level information of interfaces. Sum-frequency generation (SFG) spectroscopy is a technique capable of retrieving vibrational information of selectively interfacial molecules even if bulk amounts of liquid are present. Here, we will discuss two recent highlights of our work.
In the first part of the talk we will aim to understand the molecular scale interactions of a switchable emulsifier comprising poly(methacrylic acid) (PMAA) and poly(ethylene glycol) methacrylate (PEGMA). This emulsifier forms stable oil/water emulsions at pH > 10, but the emulsion becomes unstable at pH < 3 due to droplet aggregation. Using SFG, we study the PMAA/PEGMA polymer deposited on an aqueous subphase. We find that at pH 2.5, both MAA-EG H-bonds and MAA = MAA cyclic dimers contribute to droplet aggregation in the emulsion. In contrast, at pH 11.5 deprotonation and solvation of the PMAA component lead to a polymer restructuring forming a negative shell around the droplets, electrostatically stabilising the emulsion in alkaline conditions.
In the second part of the talk will follow the dynamics of water molecules at the TiO2-water interface after photoexcitation with UV light. A critical step in photocatalytic water dissociation is the hole-mediated oxidation reaction. Using femtosecond time-resolved SFG spectroscopy we could obtain molecular-level insights into the mechanism of this complex reaction under realistic conditions. Following the generation of holes at the surface immediately after photoexcitation of the catalyst with UV light, water dissociation occurs on a sub-20 ps timescale. At both pH 3 and 11, we observe the conversion of H2O into Ti-OH groups and the deprotonation of pre-existing Ti-OH groups. This study provides unique experimental insights into the early steps of the photo-induced dissociation processes at the photocatalyst-water interface.
Ellen Backus obtained her PhD in 2005 at Leiden University in the Netherlands. After a PostDoc at the University of Zurich, she moved back to the Netherlands for an independent PostDoc position at AMOLF in Amsterdam. In 2012, she joined the Molecular Spectroscopy department at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research as a group leader. Since 2018 she is professor for physical chemistry at the University of Vienna and leading the Ultrafast and Nonlinear Spectroscopy group. The overall research goal of her group is understanding the structure, relaxation dynamics, and reactivity of soft matter at interfaces and in bulk on the molecular scale.