Publications

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Optical Interfacing of Plasmonic Waveguides with Colloidal Quantum Dots

The year started with the publication of an article in J. Phys. Chem. C on propagating plasmons in silver nanowires. This work in yet another in the series of articles on silver nanostructures and plasmons run by our neighbours in the Surface Nanoengineering group and the Maćkowski group in Toruń. In this work, it was […]

Bioinorganic Chemistry Meets Microbiology: Copper(II) and Zinc(II) Complexes Doing the Cha-Cha with the C-t-CCL-28 Peptide, Dancing till the End of Microbes

Peptides is Magda’s favourite topic. So far, she has mainly focused on beta-amyloids. However, in cooperation established with the University of Wroclaw she has had the opportunity to study a new group of peptides. In our new article published with Joanna Wątły’s group this is motivated by “[t]he necessity to […]

Spectroelectrochemical studies of TDMQ20: A potential drug against Alzheimer’s disease

Collaboration is extremely important to us. Gaining new knowledge, both practical and theoretical, is also extremely important. For this reason, Magda went on a 6-month internship to Professor Alvaro Colina’s group in Burgos, Spain. The cooperation turned out to be very successful because shortly after her return our first article […]

Photocatalytic oxidation of benzylamines and sulfides using selected organoboron complexes as molecular oxygen activators

Magda once again cooperated with the Warsaw University of Technology (prof. Tomasz Kliś). As part of this cooperation, a new article entitled was published in Dyes and Pigments. The group from WUT obtained 5 boron-containing dyes. These substances were tested as photosensitizers for singlet oxygen activation. Among the studied compounds, […]

Towards a Sustainable Future: Challenges and Opportunities for Early-Career Chemists

Bren recently published, along with fellow younger chemists, an Angewandte Chemie Viewpoint Article entitled: “Towards a Sustainable Future: Challenges and Opportunities for Early-Career Chemists”. This collaboration was a result of his active involvement with the International Younger Chemist Network (IYCN), where he also serves as a board member. The article […]

NFC Smartphone-Based Electrochemical Microfluidic Device Integrated with Nanobody Recognition for C-Reactive Protein

In a follow-up from our previous paper on point-of-care sensors for C-reactive protein (CRP), an article based on the same principle was just published in ACS Sensors. There are two main differences: instead of a peptide as recognition element, we used a nanobody, and we used a new smartphone-based potentionstat. […]

Redox behaviour of Cu-Aβ(4-16) complexes related to Alzheimer’s Disease

The next paper in Magda’s series of articles on the redox behaviour of β-amyloids relevant for Alzheimer’s disease has just hit the press. Here we have been looking at how the presence of a redox-active amino acid, tyrosine (Tyr), affects the oxidation of a Cu(II) attached to the amino terminus […]

Point-of-care testing for C-reactive protein in a sequential microfluidic device

Measuring CRP levels in blood usually requires sending a blood sample to the lab for an ELISA test. This takes time… the results typically come only the next day. It would be so much more convenient if you could get the result directly in your doctor’s office. In our latest […]

Investigation of peptides for molecular recognition of C-reactive protein – theoretical and experimental studies

Some papers just glide through review and get published with seemingly minimal effort. This is not one of those! After more than a year being bumped between different journals and arguments with both editors and reviewers it is finally out. The manuscript is Kasia’s brainchild. Her main line of work […]