Dr. Szczepan Zapotoczny
Professor
Cheimstry
Jagiellonian University
Poland
Biography
Dr. Szczepan Zapotoczny is the Professor of Chemistry in Jagillonian University. He is the head of Nano engineering of Functional Materials team in Nanotechnology of Polymers and Bio materials group and also chair of Atomic Force Microscopy Laboratory. His current research interests focus on nano structural polymeric materials (fi lms, brushes) for photo chemical and biomedical applications as well as hybrid systems containing superparamagnetic and noble metal nano particles. The main techniques he develops is layer-by-layer (LbL) self-assembly of charged nano objects (polyelectrolytes, nanoparticles) and polymer brush synthesis using controlled radical polymerizations. The studied phenomena include photoinduced electron and energy transfer, stimuli-responsive behavior of “smart” polymers, controlled release of molecules from microparticles, and ligand-receptor interaction in biological systems.His studies of soft matter are interdisciplinary and involve expertise from nanotechnology, materials science, biology and medicine. He cooperates with many national and foreign groups working on e.g. functional polymeric coatings for biological objects, stimuli responsive brushes or biological synthesis of silver nano particles.
Research Interest
Physical Chemistry
Publications
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Zapotoczny S., Golonka M., Nowakowska M., Nanostructured micellar fi lms formed via layer-by-layer deposition of photoactive polymer, Langmuir 24, 5868–5876, 2008.
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de Klerk J., Bader A., Zapotoczny S., Sterzel M., Pilch M., Danel A., Gooijer C., Ariese F., Excited-state double proton transfer in 1H-pyrazolo[3,4-b]quinoline dimers, J. Phys. Chem. A, 113, 5273–5279, 2009.
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Bulwan M., Zapotoczny S., Nowakowska M., Robust one-component chitosan-based ultrathin fi lms fabricated using layer-by-layer technique, Soft Matter, 5, 4726–4732, 2009.
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Benetti E.M., Sui X., Zapotoczny S., Vancso G.J., Surface-grafted gel-brush/metal nanoparticle hybrids, Adv. Funct. Mat., 20, 939–944, 2010.
