After what feels like a very long journey, our article on ion transfer in paper using an electrochemical pen has finally been publishedThe seed to this started several years ago as a sketch during a meeting. The idea was to do standard ion transfer, but with the aqueous and organic […]
Yearly archives: 2020
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Last month, Ela, Karthika and Andrzej as a members of organizing Committee, organized the Graduate Student Symposium on Advantageous Electrochemistry, belonging to the ISE Satellite Regional Student Meeting. Due to the pandemic situation, the symposium was held on Zoom platform, which allowed us to host participants from 22 different countries. […]
A huge congratulation to Vishwa, who passed his PhD defence on Monday. His defence was the second this month from our group and also took place online over Zoom. Despite some technical issues the defence was over in little over two hours and then the chairman of the committee announces […]
Emila and Martin are guest-editing a special issue of Chemosensors focussed on “Paper-Based Sensors and Microfluidic Devices”. This is of course due to Emilia’s expertise in the field, but maybe also because of the review we recently wrote in ChemElectroChem. The special issue already has its own web address and […]
More β-amyloid news! Magdalena got a small grant (Miniatura) to conduct research focused on a selected group of N-terminal β-amyloids, which differ significantly in the way of coordinating copper (II) ions. What are β-amyloids? According to one of the most popular theories they are peptides responsible for the development of […]
Huge congratulations to Magdalena who passed her PhD defence yesterday! As we are still in the middle of the pandemic, the defence was held online, which really is not the same as a real proper in-person event. But Magdalena passed her Zoom-defence with flying colours and gave good answers to […]
Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is one of the most common neurodegenerative diseases. The first time it was described 100 years ago; however, up to now, it is mysterious. According to the most accepted theory, development of this disease is connected to the interactions of copper ions with peptides called beta-amyloids. The […]
After a long haul, our paper describing three-phase experiments with a new hydrophobic Ru-complex redox-probe was finally published in Electrochimica Acta. This work is a collaboration between our group and Prof. Masa-Aki Haga’s at Chuo University in Tokyo. About two years ago Haga visited our institute and gave a talk, […]
We’re very happy to welcome our new postdoc, Ewelina Kuna, to the group. Ewelina did her PhD at the University of Bologna and then spent some time as a postdoc at the Catholic University in Leuven, Belgium. Her work has been focused on photo-catalysis, and this is a topic that […]
We just published a review-article in ChemElectroChem on paper-based electrochemical devices. Instead of a classic review of the published literature (of which there are plenty for paper-based devices) we opted to write a more practical guide for what to consider when making your first forays into the jungle of paper-based […]