Prof. Agata Blacha-Grzechnik is a specialist in a covalent modification of solid surfaces by means of electrochemical and chemical methods for application in photochemical process and organic electronics.

Research interests:

• Formation of organic layers on the surface of materials by processes: (electro)chemical grafting of surface and electrochemical polymerization
• Characterization of photochemical properties of new organic photosensitizers
• Formation of photoactive organic layers and their application in photocatalytic processes (synthesis of so-called “fine chemicals” and antimicrobial layers)
• Production of electroactive organic layers and their application in (opto)electronics

Projects (Principal Investigator)

1. Light-Activated AntiMicrobial (LAAM) coatings: future application of modern energy transfer organic materials, National Science Center (NCN), SONATA-BIS, 2021/42/E/ST5/00110, 2022-2026
2. New approach in the photogeneration of singlet oxygen: carbon-based nanomaterials, National Science Center (NCN), SONATA, 2016/21/D/ST5/01641, 2017 – 2020
3. Conjugated systems covalently bound to the surface as the reactive polymer brushes, National Science Center (NCN), PRELUDIUM, 2011/01/N/ST5/03252, 2011 – 2014