Bioactive Nanomaterials research group

Thrilled to see our article "Excellent antimicrobial and photocatalytic performance of C/GO/TiO2/Ag and C/TiO2/Ag hybrid nanocomposite beds against waterborne microorganisms" published in Materials Chemistry and Physics, Elsevier.

Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S025405842300041X

Herein, we designed multifunctional water filtration beds, based on porous carbon, enriched with graphene oxide (GO), nano-TiO2 and nano-Ag. The hybrids were synthesized via facile, zero-waste, one-pot sol-gel approach. They showed superior biocidal properties against model bacteria and waterborne strains as well as photocatalytic action toward organic pollutants (dyes). Obtained nanocomposites were successfully utilized in real filtration system. Finally, they were able to self-clean within 72 hours and were thermally recovered to satisfy the sustainability provisions!

Congratulations to Michał Jakubczak, the first author and my PhD student and the whole team including Dominika Bury and Anita Wojciechowska 👏 Politechnika Warszawska

Also great collaboration with Prof. Ewa Karwowska from Wydział Instalacji Budowlanych, Hydrotechniki i Inżynierii Środowiska Politechniki Warszawskiej 💚

Great news from AZoNano, featuring our recent article on "Understanding the mechanism of Nb-MXene bioremediation with green microalgae", published in Scientific Reports (Nature Portfolio).

Here the link: https://www.azonano.com/news.aspx?newsID=39607

The study was funded by Narodowe Centrum Nauki

Wydział Inżynierii Materiałowej, Politechnika Warszawska
Warsaw University of Technology
Politechnika Warszawska
Badania - Innowacje - Technologie

New exciting perspective article in our team! “2D MBenes: A Novel Member in the Flatland” published in Advanced Materials, Wiley

This work is another outcome of our fantastic collaboration with Prof. dr.-Ing. Andreas Rosenkranz from Universidad de Chile, Department of Chemical Engineering, Biotechnology and Materials Science as well as Dr Magdalena Birowska from University of Warsaw, Faculty of Physics.

Also many thanks to my PhD students Varun G. Nair, Dominika Bury and Michał Jakubczak for their effort.

The research was funded by Opus 18 grant, UMO-2019/35/B/ST5/02538, funded by National Science Centre (NCN), Poland

Have a pleasant reading!
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.202108840?af=R

2D MBenes, early transition metal borides, are a very recent derivative of ternary or quaternary transition metal boride (MAB) phases and represent a new member in the flatland. Although holding great potential toward various applications, mainly theoretical knowledge about their potential properties is available. Theoretical calculations and preliminary experimental attempts demonstrate their rich chemistry, excellent reactivity, mechanical strength/stability, electrical conductivity, transition properties, and energy harvesting possibility. Compared to MXenes, MBenes’ structure appears to be more complex due to multiple crystallographic arrangements, polymorphism, and structural transformations. This makes their synthesis and subsequent delamination into single flakes challenging. Overcoming this bottleneck will enable a rational control over MBenes’ material–structure–property relationship. Innovations in MBenes’ postprocessing approaches will allow for the design of new functional systems and devices with multipurpose functionalities thus opening a promising paradigm for the conscious design of high-performance 2D materials.

Wydział Inżynierii Materiałowej, Politechnika Warszawska
Warsaw University of Technology
Politechnika Warszawska

In the 2022 QS World University Rankings by Subject, Warsaw University of Technology again took the first place in Poland in Materials Sciences!

Many congrats to my research group members and other colleagues at WUT for their hard work and excellence in science! 👏👏👏

Politechnika Warszawska
Wydział Inżynierii Materiałowej, Politechnika Warszawska

We are the first and only research group which transparently and intentionally follows the DEI policy at WUT.

I'm happy to lead this change :-)

New review article in our team “Two-Dimensional Nanostructures in the World of Advanced Oxidation Processes” published in Catalysts, MDPI

Many thanks to my PhD students Dominika Ścieżyńska, Dominika Bury and Michał Jakubczak for their effort.

This work is also an outcome of our excellent collaboration with Dr Janek Bogacki, and Dr Piotr Marcinowski, Faculty of Building Services, Hydro and Environmental Engineering, WUT.

Have a nice reading!

https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4344/12/4/358/htm

Politechnika Warszawska Wydział Inżynierii Materiałowej, Politechnika Warszawska

Two-Dimensional Nanostructures in the World of Advanced Oxidation Processes Two-dimensional compounds with nanostructural features are attracting attention from researchers worldwide. Their multitude of applications in various fields and vast potential for future technology advancements are successively increasing the research progress. Wastewater treatment and preventing d...

I’m so glad to share our recent article “Tunable Antibacterial Activity of a Polypropylene Fabric Coated with Bristling Ti3C2Tx MXene Flakes Coupling the Nanoblade Effect with ROS Generation” published in ACS Applied Nano Materials!

Many thanks to my dream team for their hard work and engagement. Special thanks go to the first author Muhammad Abiyyu Kenichi Purbayanto, and also Michał Jakubczak and Dominika Bury

This work is also an outcome of our excellent collaboration with Dr Magdalena Birowska, University of Warsaw, Faculty of Physics.

Based on the ACS CC-BY license, the paper is free to read without any paywall.

Have a pleasant reading!
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsanm.2c00365

Politechnika Warszawska Wydział Inżynierii Materiałowej, Politechnika Warszawska Uniwersytet Warszawski

So proud to see our recent review paper

"The 10th anniversary of MXenes: Challenges and prospects for their surface modification toward future biotechnological applications"

published in Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169409X21004920?dgcid=author

So proud CEO to announce that our company ADJ Nanotechnology is favorably placed in the group of Radar4.0 companies - the most promising Polish start-ups that have completed the KPT ScaleUp acceleration program with an innovative offer for the industry.

The Radar 4.0 catalog was developed by hub4industry - DIH Krakow Technology Park and Business Finland and includes approx. 90 young companies from Poland and Finland, which received recommendations from over 20 representatives of the innovation ecosystem of the industrial sector. These are battle-tested companies that have carried out demanding pilot implementations, tests, or commercial implementations. Radar 4.0 directs the spotlight on local talent and know-how and companies still at the beginning of the road but already experienced. Radar 4.0 was implemented as part of the National program ‘Industry 4.0’.

https://katalog.hub4industry.pl/startup/adj-nanotechnology/
https://katalog.hub4industry.pl/o-radarze/

The Research Group Bioactive nanomaterials is inviting
2nd semester students from M.Sc. Biomaterials specialization to carry out their Research Projects ‘Biomaterials’ course with our group members. Check the topics!

BEST PAPER AWARD in a competition organized by the Research University, Excellence Initiative (IDUB). Our paper “Future Applications of MXenes in Biotechnology, Nanomedicine, and Sensors” published in Trends in Biotechnology scored 7th place from 44 awarded papers.

https://www.excellence.pw.edu.pl/excellence/News/Best-Paper-programme-results

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167779919302136

Wydział Inżynierii Materiałowej, Politechnika Warszawska
Politechnika Warszawska

So proud of my PhD student Varun Gopalakrishnan Nair for his best poster presentation award at funMAX workshop! Many thanks to the organizers for recognizing Varun effort.

Wydział Inżynierii Materiałowej, Politechnika Warszawska
Politechnika Warszawska

So happy to announce this year’s success of my young scientists in grant and scholarship competitions. Double winners of Dean’s grant+scientific scholarship are Anita Rozmysłowska-Wojciechowska and Michał Jakubczak. The scholarship was also awarded to Dominika Bury. Congratulations from the PI! I keep my fingers crossed for your MXenes-based projects!

Wydział Inżynierii Materiałowej, Politechnika Warszawska
Politechnika Warszawska

We are having a busy week. Stay tunned to my on-line talk at funMAX workshop!💙 I woud like to thank organizers from Kirensky Institute of Physics for inviting me to this wonderful event.

It is my great pleasure to take part in on-line "Graphene and other 2D materials" conference. There are so many fantastic presentations and I also contributed as an invited speaker with presentation about "Biotechnological potential of MXenes materials - opportinities and challenges" https://grafen2d.pwr.edu.pl/

🥳 Our new perspective paper on "Novel 2D MBenes - Synthesis, Structure, and Biotechnological Potential" 😀 published in Advanced Functional Materials, IF(2020)=18.808 , in collaboration with Prof. Andreas Rosenkranz from University of Chile, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/adfm.202103048 On this occasion, I would like to thank my PhD students for their great effort within this work 👏 You are truly a dream team 🤩👍

Watch the Poland In, Future Insights episode, in which I discuss our recent findings in bioactivity of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbCyrLL8e-8

Thrilled to see our paper on efficient water filtration with superior multifunctional hybrid nanomaterials published in RSC Advances😄 https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2021/ra/d1ra02315b #!divAbstract

For our recent study, we used a 3D microtissue culture model to prove that HeLa cells are stronger in a form of tissue and highly viable after even 15 days of culturing with Ti2C . The nontoxic concentration limit for MXene/tissue model is 50 μg/mL We are grateful to Dr Soon Chin Fhong and Dr Gim Pao Lim from Faculty of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Mint-SRC Research Center, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, Batu Pahat, Johor, Malaysia, for a fantastic collaboration https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272884221013249?dgcid=coauthor ❤️

Synthesis, characterization and biophysical evaluation of the 2D Ti2CTx MXene using 3D spheroid-type cultures MXenes are novel 2-D materials which have been extensively investigated for use in advanced biocomposites, water purification, biosensors, bioimaging …

I am delighted that our work is discussed in terms of toxicity. It is worth noting that our MXene has had a slight impact on normal cells' viability and ROS-related toxic effects were strikingly specific toward cancerous cells. That means good https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0304389417304247

In vitro studies on cytotoxicity of delaminated Ti3C2 MXene MXenes are a novel family of 2D materials, the biological activity of which has been largely unexplored. The present study, for the first time, shows …

Filtration Materials Modified with 2D Nanocomposites—A New Perspective for Point-of-Use Water Treatment on the COVER of Materials 😀 https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1944/14/1/182 https://www.mdpi.com/journal/materials

Congratulations to my Master student Joanna Mitrzak, for being a laureate of the WUT scholarship for scientific achievements!👏 The scholarship is being awarded each year by Rector of the Warsaw University of Technology to our best students https://www.bss.pw.edu.pl/Stypendia/Stypendia-z-Funduszu-Stypendialnego/Stypendium-rektora

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Our recently published paper 'Filtration Materials Modified with 2D Nanocomposites - A New Perspective for Point-of-Use Water Treatment' highlighted as an Editor's Choice in MATERIALS https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1944/14/1/182, Check also our Special Issue: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/materials/special_issues/mxenes

New Findings of MXenes: Preparation, Properties and Applications in Biotechnology and Catalysis Special Issue in journal Materials: New Findings of MXenes: Preparation, Properties and Applications in Biotechnology and Catalysis

Smart and Sustainable Nanotechnological Solutions in a Battle against COVID-19 and Beyond: A Critical Review, recently published in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acssuschemeng.0c06565 This paper is made available via the ACS COVID-19 subset for unrestricted RESEARCH re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.

Smart and Sustainable Nanotechnological Solutions in a Battle against COVID-19 and Beyond: A Critical Review The variety of available biocidal features make nanomaterials promising for fighting infections. To effectively battle COVID-19, categorized as a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO), materials scientists and biotechnologists need to combine their knowledge to develop efficient antiviral....

📢 We are hiring! The open POST-DOC POSITION in the field of MXenes and MBenes in our research group. The offer expires 12.04.2021. Check here for details:https://www.fuw.edu.pl/tl_files/praca/2020/2020-12-01_praca_adiunkt_badawczy_ncn_ift_wf_1210_117_2020_en_do_12_04_2021.pdf

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Check also Twitter account for Research group Leader Prof. Agnieszka Jastrzębska and related posts! 😃 https://twitter.com/Agniesz56098389

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The scientific activity of the research group is organized at the Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology, in the Department of Ceramic Materials and Polymers. The group is concentrated at studying bioactive properties of nanomaterials with various nanocomposite-type structures, nano-hybrid and two-dimensional nanomaterials, development of synthesis and modification methods, studying the mechanisms of influence on biological systems in relation to chemical composition, morphology, structure and physicochemical properties. The team also develops potential industrial applications for the obtained nano-structures.

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