Dr. Eng. Katarzyna Szcześniak
Degree:
Ph.D. in Physics, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland, 2015
k.szczesniak@amu.edu.pl
Research interests:
- Polymeric nanoparticles in bio-applications: synthesis using ATRP methods and their physicochemical characterization
- Drug and nucleic acids delivery systems using polymeric nanoparticles
- Synthesis of gold nanoparticles and their surface modification, bio-functionalization and physicochemical characterization
- Methods of control of process efficiency, product quality and kinetic of photopolymerization
- Preparation and modification of polymer blends – interpenetrating polymers network
Selected publications:
- Makrocka-Rydzyk M., Wegner K., Szutkowski K., Kozak M., Jurga S., Gao H., Matyjaszewski K., Morphology and NMR self-diffusion in PBA/PEO miktoarm star copolymers, Zeitschrift fur Physikalische Chemie 2012, 226 (11-12), pp. 1271-1291
- Cho H. Y., Averick S. E., Paredes E., Wegner K., Averick A., Jurga S., Das S. R., Matyjaszewski K., Star Polymers with a Cationic Core Prepared by ATRP for Cellular Nucleic Acids Delivery, Biomacromolecules, 2013, 14 (5), pp. 1262-1267
- Andrzejewska E., Marcinkowska A., Wegner K.; Nanocomposites obtained by photopolymerization of (methacrylate monomer)/(methacrylate functionalized polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane) system, Polimery, 2010, 55, pp. 11-12
- Park S., Cho H.Y., Wegner K., Burdynska J., Magenau A.J.D., Jurga S., Matyjaszewski K., Star Synthesis Using Macroinitiators via Electrochemically Mediated Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization, Macromolecules, 2013, 46, pp. 5856-5860
