IChF PAN is a leading scientific institution in Poland as reflected in the recent rankings published by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education and SCImago Institutions Rankings (SIR), which evaluates the IChF PAN as the number one in Poland in the prestigious Q1 classification.

The current scientific profile of IChF PAN is strongly related to the global trends in the development of physical chemistry and chemical physics. The research at IChF PAN is conducted in nine scientific departments using the state-of-the-art equipment to cover the broad spectrum of physical chemistry of solids, surfaces, fluids and soft matter, quantum theory of solids and molecules, catalysis on metals, electrochemistry, corrosion, electrode processes, photochemistry, spectroscopy, complex systems and chemical information processing. The IChF PAN maintains collaborations with more than 40 universities and scientific institutions worldwide and takes part in the numerous national and international research projects, including the prestigious EU grants such as NOBLESSE within the 7th EU Framework Programme and microCODE awarded under ERC Starting Grants.

The research of the Lewinski Group is centered at the interface between design and synthesis of molecular precursors, self-assembly processes and macroscopic properties of the materials. Basing on the strong background from fundamental inorganic and organometallic chemistry, we rationally design the suitable precursors for the bottom-up synthesis of functional materials. e.g. compounds of high luminescence, non-covalent porous materials (NPMs) and porous metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) for hydrogen storage, semiconducting nanoparticles and discrete nanoparticulate aerogels for biomedical and solar cell applications. The group also specializes in mechanochemical synthesis, which we succeeded in applying to various types of materials ranging from molecular complexes to MOFs and semiconductor nanoparticles.

Person in charge of the project: Prof. Janusz Lewiński

More info: http://lewin.ch.pw.edu.pl

Contact: [email protected]