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Soft Matter Optics Group – SMOG

Head of the Group – Prof. Jarosław Myśliwiec

Group members:
Prof. Jarosław Myśliwiec
Joanna Cabaj, Ph.D. D.Sc.
Lech Sznitko, Ph.D. D.Sc.
Sylwia Baluta, Ph.D.
Cristina Barboza, Ph.D
Konrad Cyprych, Ph.D.
Adam Szukaski, Ph.D.
Anna Grabarz, Ph.D.
Paweł Karpiński, Ph.D.
Anna Lesiak, Ph.D.
Rafał Szabla, Ph.D.
Alina Szukalska, Ph.D.
Dorota Zając, Ph.D.
Marharyta Hancharova
Martyna Janeczko
Kinga Halicka-Stępień
Kamila Lupinska
Julia Goszyk

Members of the SMOG currently study following topics:

  • Microfabrication by two-photon polymerization
  • Optical tweezers and micromanipulation
  • Lasing and random lasing in dye doped polymers and biopolymers
  • Multicolor, white lasing and white fluorescence in dye-doped polymers and liquid crystals
  • Nonlinear optical phenomena in organic and metaloorganic materials
  • UV/VIS spectroscopy of organic and inorganic compounds
  • Study of photorefraction phenomenon in liquid crystals and dynamic holography
  • Problems of light-induced molecular orientation in polymeric matrices
  • Light amplification and tunability in liquid crystalline systems

Additional experimental systems available at SMOG include:

  • Methods of degenerate two and four-wave mixing
  • Methods of measurements of surface topology using atomic force scanning microscope
  • Polarization microscopy

Equipment:

  • Atomic Force Microscope (Dimension V, Scanning Probe Microscope Veeco)
  • Optical Polarizing Microscope (Olympus with CCD camera) and heating/cooling stage Linkam.
  • UV-VIS spectroscopy (spectrophotometers Shimadzu, Perkin Elmer, fibre spectrometers and fluorometers
  • Laser systems with parametric oscillators for lasing and dynamic holography studies (Nd:YAG 7 ns, Surelite II, Continuum) λ = 355 – 2000 nm, He-Ne laser λ = 632.8 nm, several laser diodes of different wavelengths
  • Nanopositiong systems XYZ (NanoMax, Thorlabs)
  • Potentiostat/galvanostat AUTOLAB PGSTAT128N (serial nr. AUT84866; Utrecht, The Netherlands) with GPES software (version 4.9)
  • Mini photoelectric spectrometer for measurement of photocurrents and OCP caused by light from an LED revolver (current measuring ranges: 10 mA, 1 mA, 100 uA, 10 uA, 1 uA, 100 nA; potential setting range: -5V to 5V; the LED revolver with different wavelengths, Instytut Fotonowy)

Research projects:

  • “Anti-Stokes Cooling for Fluidics” 2020/39/I/ST3/01827 – NCN project Opus LAP in cooperation with prof. Frank Cichos from Leipzig University
  • “Optical tweezers based translational and rotational active microrheology of soft materials” 2019/35/D/ST3/02272 – NCN project Sonata
  • “Luminescent electrospun micro-and nano-fibers for applications in photonics” 2021/41/B/ST5/01797 – NCN project, https://projekty.ncn.gov.pl/index.php?projekt_id=521413
  • “Small furan-based donor-acceptor molecules and their photonic properties” 2020/39/O/ST5/01865 – NCN project, https://projekty.ncn.gov.pl/index.php?projekt_id=498551
  • “Molecular switching under the spotlight” APVV-20-0127 – Slovak Research and Development Agency project,
  • “Liquid crystalline systems as sources of electrically tunable laser white light”, 2018/31/B/ST8/02832 – NCN project Opus,
  •  “Microscopic imaging of the light amplification phenomenon”, 2021/41/N/ST4/03677 – NCN  project Preludium
Recent publications:
  1. Martyna Durko‐Maciag, Anna Popczyk, Maxime Rémond, Zheng Zheng, Yann Bretonniere, Chantal Andraud, Jaroslaw Mysliwiec, “Real-Time Tunable Red/Near-Infrared Solid-State Emitters in the First Biological Window: 9,9-Diethyl-2-diphenylaminofluorene-Based Push-Pull Fluorophores for Distributed Feedback and Random Lasing Applications”, ChemPhotoChem, (2022), e202200008
  2. Adam Szukalski, Przemysław Krawczyk, Bouchta Sahraoui, Faustyna Rosińska, Beata Jędrzejewska, A modified oxazolone dye dedicated to spectroscopy and optoelectronics, Journal of Organic Chemistry 2022, 87(11), 7319-7332.
  3. Martyna Durko‐Maciag, Denis Jacquemin, Gilles Ulrich, Julien Massue, Jaroslaw Mysliwiec, Color‐Tunable Multifunctional Excited‐State Intramolecular Proton Transfer Emitter: Stimulated Emission of a Single Dye, Chemistry–A European Journal, (2022) 28, 44
  4. A. Szukalska, A. Szukalski, J. Stachera, D. Zając, E. Chrzumnicka, T. Martynski, J. Myśliwiec, “Perylene-based chromophore as a versatile dye for light amplification”. Materials. 2022, vol. 15, nr 3, art. 980, s. 1-17.
  5. Cyprych, K., Karpinski, P., Sznitko, L., Miniewicz, A., & Mysliwiec, J. (2022). Fourier transform analysis of multi-cavity random laser spectra: Applicability and limits. Optical Materials, 128, 112322.
  6. Baluta S., Meloni F., Halicka K., Szyszka A., Zucca A., Pilo M.I., Cabaj J., Differential pulse voltammetry and chronoamperometry as analytical tools for epinephrine detection using a tyrosinase-based electrochemical biosensor. RSC Advances., 2022, 12 (39), 25342-25353.
  7. Halicka K., Meloni F., Czok M., Spychalska K., Baluta S., Malecha K., Pilo M.I., Cabaj J., New trends in fluorescent nanomaterials-based bio/chemical sensors for neurohormones detection – a review. ACS Omega, 2022, 7(38), 33749-33768
  8. A. Adamski, G. Zatryb, M. Chrzanowski, A. Lesiak, A.Podhorodecki, Optical stability of thick-shell CdSe@ZnS/ZnS quantum dots dissolved in n-octane in wide range of mass concentration: photoluminescence decay study, Physica Status Solidi. B, Basic Solid State Physics, 2022, 259 (2), 2100483, 1-5.
  9. Hancharova M., Mazur K., Halicka K., Zając D., Derivatives of diphenylamine and benzothiadiazole in optoelectronic applications: a review. Journal of Polymer Research, 2022, 29:417
  10. P Karpinski, Rotation and Revolution of Optically Trapped Gold Nanorods Induced by the Spin and Orbital Angular Momentum of a Laguerre–Gaussian Vortex Beam, Adv. Optical Mater. 2101592 (2021).  
  11. L. Sznitko, T. Chtouki, B. Sahraoui, J. Mysliwiec, “Bichromatic Laser Dye As a Photonic Random Number Generator”. ACS Photonics 8 (2021) 1630–1638.
  12. A. Szukalski, A. Kabański, J. Goszyk, M. Adaszyński, M. Kaczmarska, R. Gaida, M. Wyskiel, J. Mysliwiec, Triboluminescence phenomenon based on the metal complex compounds-a short Review, Materials 2021, 14(23), 7142.
  13. A.M. Grabarz, B. Ośmiałowski; “Benchmarking density functional approximations for excited-state properties of fluorescent dyes”; Molecules 2021, 26, 7434.
  14. J. Myśliwiec, A. Szukalska, A. Szukalski, L. Sznitko; ”Liquid crystal lasers: the last decade and the future”. Nanophotonics. 2021, vol. 10, nr 9, s. 2309-2346.
  15. D. Zając, D.Honisz, M. Łapkowski, J. Sołoducho,  2,1,3‐Benzothiadiazole Small Donor Molecules: A DFT Study, Synthesis, and Optoelectronic Properties, Molecules 2021, 26, 1216
  16. Lesiak A., Bański M., Halicka K., Cabaj J., Podhorodecki A., CdS nanoplates modification as a platform for synthesis of blue-emitting nanoparticles. Inter. J. Mol. Sci. 2021, 22(12), 1-10
  17. Meloni F., Spychalska K., Zając D., Pilo M.I., Zucca A., Cabaj J., Application of a thiadiazole-derivative in a tyrosinase-based amperometric biosensor for epinephrine detection. Electroanalysis, 2021, 1-4
  18. Halicka K., Cabaj J., Electrospun nanofibers for sensing and biosensing applications – a review. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2021, 22, 1-24
  19. Lesiak A., Bański M., Halicka K.,  Cabaj J.,  Żak A.,  Podhorodecki A.,
  20. pH-dependent fluorescence of thiol-coated CdSe/CdS quantum dots in an aqueous phase. Nanotechnology, 2021, 32 (7), 1-10
  21. P Karpinski, S Jones, H Šípová-Jungová, R Verre, M Käll, Optical rotation and thermometry of laser tweezed silicon nanorods, Nano letters 20(9), 6494-6501 (2020).
  22. P. Karpinski, V. Shvedov, W. Krolikowski, C. Hnatovsky, Engineering optical anisotropy in nonlinear crystals with ultrafast light, J. Appl. Phys 127(15), 153104 (2020).
  23. A. Szukalski, A. Korbut, E. Ortyl, Structural and light driven molecular engineering in photochromic polymers, Polymer 2020, 192, 122311.
  24. A. Adamow, A. Szukalski, L. Sznitko, L. Persano, D. Pisignano, A. Camposeo, J. Mysliwiec, “Electrically controlled white laser emission through liquid crystal/polymer multiphases”. Light: Science and Applications 9 (2020) 19.
  25. A.M. Grabarz, M. Michalczyk, W. Zierkiewicz, S. Scheiner; “Noncovalent bonds between tetrel atoms”; ChemPhysChem 21 (17), 1934-1944.
  26. A. Adamow, A. Szukalski, A. Justyniarski, L. Sznitko, J. Myśliwiec, “Light amplification in tunable multicolor liquid crystalline system”. Journal of Luminescence. 2020, vol. 220, art. 116903, s. 1-7.
  27. S. Baluta, D. Zając, A. Szyszka, K. Malecha, J. Cabaj, Enzymatic Platforms for Sensitive Neurotransmitter Detection, Sensors, 2020, 20, 423
  28. Lesiak A., Halicka K., Chrzanowski M., Bański M., Cabaj J., Podhorodecki A., Surface modification of cadmium-based nanoparticles with ᴅ-penicillamine – study of pH influence on ligand exchange reaction, Journal of Nanoparticle Research, 2020, 22(238),1-9
  29. Baluta S., Lesiak A., Cabaj J., Simple and cost-effective electrochemical method for norepinephrine determination based on carbon dots and tyrosinase. Sensors, 2020, 20(16), 1-13
  30. Spychalska K., Zając D., Baluta S., Halicka K., Cabaj J. Functional Polymer Structures for (Bio)Sensing Application – A Review. Polymers. 2020, 15, 1154-1158
  31. Spychalska, K., Zając, D., Wiatrowska, A., Cabaj, J., Electrochemical biosensor for detection of 17ß-estradiol using semi-conducting polymer and horseradish peroxidase. RSC Advances, 2020, 10, 9079 – 9087
  32. Baluta, S., Malecha, K., Świst, A., Cabaj, J., Fluorescence sensing platform for epinephrine detection based on low temperature co-fired ceramics. Sensors, 2020, 20(5), 1-18
  33. Baluta, S., Zając, D., Szyszka, A., Malecha, K., Cabaj J., Enzymatic platforms for sensitive neurotransmitter detection. Sensors, 2020, 20, 1-25