Andrzej Dzienia, Dominik Just, and Dawid Janas will present the results of our research at NT25 conference, which will take place between 15th and 20th of June in Kyoto, Japan.

A paper written by our group has just been accepted by Advanced Optical Materials. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "Synchronous Sorting and Functionalization of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Using Organic Derivatives of Hydrazine".

A paper written by our group has just been accepted by Materials Chemistry Frontiers. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "Robust Doping of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes with Ionic Liquids: Experiment and First-Principles Modeling".

We would like to announce proudly that Lukasz Czapura received a prestigious stipend from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education for outstanding research performance.

The organizers 247th ECS Meeting taking place on May 18-22, 2025 have kindly enabled our group leader to present a talk on SWCNT sorting and modification during the event.

Dawid Janas will co-organize a symposium at the 2025 EMRS Fall Meeting in Warsaw, Poland. The event will take place from 15 to 18 September 2025. Please consider your presence.

We have a pleasure to announce that we secured a €12,000 grant from GZM Metropolis to support the development of students and young scientists by enabling their participation in prestigious conferences and publication of research in frontier Open Access journals.

Andrzej Dzienia and Dominik Just obtained distinctions from the Rector of Silesian University of Technology for high impact publications. Congratulations!

We have recently contributed to an article published in Materials Today. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "Carbon monoxide detection, separation, and conversion into valuable products via smart nanomaterials: Challenges and perspectives".

A paper written by our group has just been accepted by ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "Environmentally Conscious Highly Effective Sorting of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Using Recurrent Conjugated Polymer Extraction".

We have recently contributed to an article published in Journal of Materials Chemistry A. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "Advances in gas sensors using screen printing".

Julia Borda, Alicja Pilecka, Lukasz Czapura, Jakub Cwiertnia, Piotr Haba, Pawel Kubica-Cypek, Nikodem Piekarczyk, and Ryszard Siedlecki participated in a conference organized by the Polish Chemical Society at the the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin. To our delight, the poster prepared by Julia received an award for the best presentation. Congratulations.

A paper written by our group has just been accepted by Chemical Science. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "Unraveling aryl peroxide chemistry to enrich optical properties of single-walled carbon nanotubes".

A paper written in collaboration with Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (India) has just been accepted by Journal of Materials Chemistry A. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "Advancements in biomass-derived cellulose composite electrodes for supercapacitors: a review".

A paper written in collaboration with researchers from Southern University of Science and Technology (China) has just been accepted by Nano Research. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "A universal approach for extraction of single-walled carbon nanotubes of specific chirality using aqueous two-phase extraction".

A paper written in collaboration with other scientists from the Silesian University of Technology has just been accepted by Materials. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "Facile Incorporation of Carbon Nanotubes into the Concrete Matrix Using Lignosulfonate Surfactants".

We had a pleasure of hosting Prof. Ondřej Jankovský (Vice-Dean at the University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, Czech Republic), who presented influential results of his group and participated in our research activities.

A paper written by our group has just been accepted by Nanoscale Horizons. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "Explicating conjugated polymer extraction used for the differentiation of single-walled carbon nanotubes".

Citation metrics based on the Scopus database for the year 2023 were just released. According to the results, Dawid Janas was classified among the Top 2% scientists worldwide in 2022 and across his whole career.

Dominik Just participated in the 11th Torunian Carbon Symposium. To our delight, he received an award for the best oral presentation. Congratulations!.

Andrzej Dzienia went for a one-month placement at Handan University in China.

Our group leader became the Vice-Dean for Science and Cooperation at the Faculty of Chemistry, Silesian University of Technology.

We have a pleasure to share that Dawid Janas was awarded the Title of Professor from the President of Poland! Congratulations!

Dawid Janas gave an invited talk and workshop during NANO WEEK organized in Prague, Czech Republic.

Research stays of Prof. Ramesh Chandra, Dr. Ravikant Adalati, and Ms. Nitesh Choudhary (IIT Roorkee, India) in our group came to the conclusion. We are grateful for this opportunity and looking forward to future joint work.

Dawid Janas co-organized a two-day conference in Gliwice concluding a project entitled "PartNETships: a network of key collaborations to bring research excellence to the Silesian University of Technology", which was funded by the National Agency for Academic Exchange.

We are extremely pleased that our manuscript has just been accepted for publication in Advanced Science. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "Size Matters in Conjugated Polymer Chirality-Selective SWCNT Extraction".

A paper written to which we contributed has just been accepted by Scientific Reports. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "Bio-based protic salts as precursors for sustainable free-standing film electrodes".

A paper written in collaboration with Poznan University of Technology has just been accepted by Electrochimica Acta. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "Probing iodide/iodonium salt interactions with single-walled carbon nanotubes for resilient electrochemical capacitors".

Dawid Janas gave an invited talk entitled "Differentiation of complex mixtures of single-walled carbon nanotubes" at Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur in India.

Lukasz Czapura, Jakub Cwiertnia, and Ryszard Siedlecki participated in a symposium devoted to chemistry at the University of Warsaw. To our delight, the talk prepared by Lukasz received an award for the best presentation. Congratulations!.

Dawid Janas gave an invited talk entitled "High-resolution sorting and implementation of single-walled carbon nanotubes" at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee in India.

Dawid Janas gave an invited talk entitled "Precise partitioning and chemical modification of single-walled carbon nanotubes" at University of Antwerp in Belgium.

We have a pleasure to congratulate Dr Tomasz Wasiak for successfully defending his thesis.

A paper to which we contributed has just been accepted by the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "Tuning the Structure of Pd@Ni–Co Nanowires and Their Electrochemical Properties".

We have a pleasure to congratulate Dr Grzegorz Stando for successfully defending his thesis.

A paper written by our group has just been accepted by Separation and Purification Technology. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "Partitioning of SWCNT mixtures using amphiphilic carbohydrate-based surfactants".

Dawid Janas conducted a two-week long study visit at the University of Southern Denmark.

A paper written by our group has just been accepted by Scientific Reports. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "PdNPs/NiNWs as a welding tool for the synthesis of polyfluorene derivatives by Suzuki polycondensation under microwave radiation".

We are extremely pleased that our manuscript has just been accepted for publication in Materials Horizons. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "High-Yield and Chirality-Selective Isolation of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Using Conjugated Polymers and Small Molecular Chaperones".

A book edited by Przemyslaw Data and Dawid Janas (written in Polish) entitled "Materials of the Future" documenting research achievements of the Priority Research Area "Materials of the Future" operating in the Silesian University of Technology has been accepted for publication. A preprint of this monograph is available here.

Dawid Janas gave an invited talk entitled "Divide and rule: differentiation of complex mixtures of single-walled carbon nanotubes to facilitate their wide scale implementation" at Ruhr University Bochum in Germany.

Dawid Janas gave an invited talk entitled "From complexity to homogeneity by sorting mixtures of single-walled carbon nanotubes" at CIC nanoGUNE in Spain.

A paper written by our group has just been accepted by Nano-Structures and Nano-Objects. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "Ni nanowires decorated with Pd nanoparticles as an efficient nanocatalytic system for Suzuki coupling of anisole derivatives".

Citation metrics based on the Scopus database for the year 2022 were just released. According to the results, Dawid Janas was classified among the Top 2% scientists worldwide in 2022 and across his whole career.

Dawid Janas co-organizes a symposium at the 2023 EMRS Fall Meeting in Warsaw, Poland. The event will take place from 18 to 21 September 2023. Please consider your presence.

Group leader gave interviews to the Polish TV and Dziennik Zachodni newspaper regarding a recently published article by our group.

A paper written by our group has just been accepted by Electrochimica Acta. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "Synthesis of nanocomposites via electropolymerization of aniline onto hydrophilic films from nanocarbon and investigation of their properties".

We are delighted that our manuscript has just been accepted for publication in Small. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "Mixed-Solvent Engineering as a Way around the Trade-Off between Yield and Purity of (7,3) Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Obtained Using Conjugated Polymer Extraction".

We have a pleasure to congratulate Dr Blazej Podlesny for successfully defending his thesis. All the best for your future career!

Dawid Janas co-organizes a symposium at the 2023 EMRS Spring Meeting in Strasbourg, France. The event will take place from 29 May to 2 June 2023. Please consider your presence.

A paper written by our group has just been accepted for publication in Nanoscale. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "Solvatochromism in SWCNTs Suspended by Conjugated Polymers in Organic Solvents".

We are pleased to share that Grzegorz Stando, jointly with Fan Yang of the University of Pittsburgh in the US, were awarded David Pratt Award for a successful collaboration between undergraduate and graduate student.

A paper co-authored by our group has just been accepted for publication in Environmental Pollution Remediation by Green Nanomaterials. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "Green synthesis of silver nanoparticles based on the Raphanus sativus leaf aqueous extract and their toxicological/microbiological activities".

We are delighted that our manuscript has just been accepted for publication in Nanoscale Horizons. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "Understanding the partitioning behavior of single-walled carbon nanotubes using an aqueous two-phase extraction system composed of non-ionic surfactant and polymer ".

We are very happy to share that our manuscript has just been accepted for publication in Advanced Science. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "Highly-Selective Harvesting of (6,4) SWCNTs Using the Aqueous Two-Phase Extraction Method and Non-Ionic Surfactants".

Several members from our group participated in the "Closer to Chemistry" conference organized by the Jagiellonian University in Cracow on 7 and 8th of January this year. We would like to congratulate Ms. Magdalena Radwan for receiving an award for the best poster presented in the international section.

Grzegorz Stando, Pawel Stando, Lukasz Czapura, Jakub Cwiertnia, and Magdalena Radwan participated in the Winter Seminar of the Polish Chemical Society (Section of Young Researchers) held in University in Opole on 10 December 2022. To our delight, the contribution prepared by Lukasz received an award for the best poster presented by first degree student. Congratulations!.

A paper co-authored by our group has just been accepted for publication in International Journal of Molecular Sciences. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "Surprising solid-state ESIPT emission from apparently ordinary salicyliden glycinates Schiff bases".

A paper co-authored by our group has just been accepted for publication in Nanotheranostics. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "Natural and synthetic nanovectors for cancer therapy".

A paper co-authored by our group, written in collaboration with Tabriz University of Medical Sciences in Iran, has just been accepted for publication in Nanotheranostics. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "Nanofiber scaffolds based on extracellular matrix for articular cartilage engineering: A perspective".

Polish Press Agency published an article regarding our work, which highlights how fluorescent carbon nanotubes will help fighting cancer and cardio-vascular diseases.

Citation metrics based on the Scopus database for the year 2021 were just released. According to the results, Dawid Janas was classified among the Top 2% scientists worldwide.

A paper co-authored by our group, written in collaboration with Kyushu University in Japan, has just been accepted for publication in Chemical Communications. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "Azide modification forming luminescent sp2 defects on single-walled carbon nanotubes for near-infrared defect photoluminescence".

Our paper has just been accepted for publication in Materials Chemistry Frontiers. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "Emergent pseudocapacitive behavior of single-walled carbon nanotube hybrids: a materials perspective".

The head of the group currently serves as a Guest Editor in a Special Issue run by Results in Chemistry journal entitled "Recent Advances in Carbon Nanostructures". Please consider submitting your work here.

We have a pleasure to announce that we have been awarded funding from the National Agency for Academic Exchange, Poland under the Staregic PartnershipS program. The funded project is entitled "PartNETships: a network of key collaborations to bring research excellence to the Silesian University of Technology".

Our paper has just been accepted for publication in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "Doping Engineering of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes by Nitrogen Compounds Using Basicity and Alignment".

A paper co-authored by our group has just been accepted for publication in Chemosphere. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "Application of carbon nanotubes in sensing/monitoring of pancreas and liver cancer".

A paper co-authored by our group has just been accepted for publication in Journal of Alloys and Compounds. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "Phase formation, microhardness and magnetic properties of FeNiCrV-TiNb, (NiCoFeCuMn)3(AlTi) and (FeNiCoCrMn)(MoCr) high entropy intermetallic compounds".

Our paper has just been accepted for publication in Scientific Reports. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "Doping of carbon nanotubes by halogenated solvents".

Our paper has just been accepted for publication in Journal of Materials Chemistry C. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "Seamless design of thermoelectric modules from single-walled carbon nanotubes".

We have a pleasure to announce that we have been awarded funding from the National Science Center, Poland under the PRELUDIUM BIS program. The funded project is entitled "Polymer nanotweezers as a multitool for understanding interactions at the nanoscale".

Our paper has just been accepted for publication in Materials. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "Carbon nanotube-based thermoelectric modules enhanced by ZnO nanowires".

Our paper has just been accepted for publication in Scientific Reports. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "Tuning wettability and electrical conductivity of single-walled carbon nanotubes by the modified Hummers method".

Dawid Janas gave an interview to Elsevier regarding a recently published article by our group.

An editorial article, summarizing recently completed Special Issue in Materials, has just been accepted for publication.

1st Central and Eastern European Congress on Physical Chemistry and Materials Science will be held in Split, Croatia from 26 to 30 July 2022. Dawid Janas, who is one of the chairpersons of the Scientific Committee for this meeting, would like to invite you to attend this meeting.

The head of the group currently serves as a Guest Editor in two Special Issues. Please consider submitting your work to Applied Surface Science Advances and Frontiers in Materials

The European Materials Research Society has kindly accepted a symposium proposal co-authored by Dawid Janas to be organized at the 2022 EMRS Fall Meeting in Warsaw, Poland. The event will take place from 19 to 22 September 2022. Please consider your presence at this conference.

Our paper has just been accepted for publication in Materials & Design. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "Effective doping of single-walled carbon nanotube films with bromine under ultrasounds".

Dawid Janas gave an interview to Radio eM regarding new forms of carbon.

Our paper has just been accepted for publication in the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "Pd decorated Co-Ni nanowires as a highly efficient catalyst for direct ethanol fuel cells".

Our paper has just been accepted for publication in Chemosphere. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "Bentonite-Based Sodium Alginate/Dextrin Cross-Linked Poly (Acrylic Acid) Hydrogel Nanohybrids for Facile Removal of Paraquat Herbicide from Aqueous Solutions".

We have a pleasure to announce that Dr Binaya Kumar Sahu has been awarded funding from the National Agency for Academic Exchange, Poland under the Ulam program. He will join the group next year for 24 months.

Our paper has just been accepted for publication in Sustainable Materials and Technologies. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "Essential oil derived biosynthesis of metallic nano-particles: Implementations above essence".

Our paper has just been accepted for publication in Journal of Alloys and Compounds. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "Nanowires as a versatile catalytic platform for facilitating chemical transformations".

Our paper written in collaboration with Wroclaw University of Science and Technology has just been accepted for publication in Scientific Reports. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "Revealing the effect of electrocatalytic performance boost during hydrogen evolution reaction on free-standing SWCNT film electrode".

2022 IEEE 12th International Conference Nanomaterials: Applications & Properties conference co-organized by Dawid Janas will take place in Krakow, Poland from 11 to 16 September 2022. Please consider your presence at this meeting.

Our paper has just been accepted for publication in Sensors. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "Carbon nanotube wearable sensors for health diagnostics".

Our paper written in collaboration with Aalto University (Finland) has just been accepted for publication in Sensors. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "Sensing organophosphorus compounds with SWCNT films".

Our paper written in collaboration with Aalto University (Finland) has just been accepted for publication in Water Resources and Industry. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "Copper recovery from industrial wastewater - synergistic electrodeposition onto nanocarbon materials".

Grzegorz Stando participated in a symposium organized by student section of the Polish Chemical Society from May 27 to 29. To our delight, his talk received an award for the best presentation of the Materials Chemistry panel.

We have a pleasure to announce that we have been awarded funding from the National Science Center, Poland under the SONATA program. The project entitled "ENIGMA: dEciphering Nanochemistry by usInG cheMical modification of cArbon nanotubes for modern medicine" will enable us to explore how the optical properties of carbon nanotubes can be enhanced by chemical functionalization.

Dawid Janas co-organizes a symposium at the 2021 EMRS Fall Meeting in Warsaw, Poland. The online event will take place from 20 to 23 September 2021. Please consider your presence.

Our paper written in collaboration with Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (USA) has just been accepted for publication in Scientific Reports. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "En route to single-step, two-phase purification of carbon nanotubes facilitated by high-throughput spectroscopy".

Dawid Janas gave an invited talk at the InterNanoPoland conference, which took place between 14th and 15th April in Katowice.

Our paper has just been accepted for publication in Materials. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "A straightforward approach to create Ag/SWCNT composites".

Our paper written in collaboration with Monash University (Australia), University of Cambridge (UK) and University of Warsaw (Poland) has just been accepted for publication in Scientific Reports. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "Enhancing thermoelectric properties of single-walled carbon nanotubes using halide compounds at room temperature and above".

Our paper has just been accepted for publication in Energies. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "Carbon nanotube films for energy applications".

Organizers of the NT21: International Conference on the Science and Application of Nanotubes and Low-Dimensional Materials have kindly invited Dawid Janas to give a talk, which will be entitled "Is nanocarbon black, green, or both? Towards sustainable energy with carbon nanotubes". The conference will be hosted virtually, and participation is free of charge this year, which gives an excellent opportunity to learn about the recent advances in the field of nanocarbon. Do not hesitate to join! More information: Link.

Our paper written in collaboration with Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee has just been accepted for publication in Carbon. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "Self-standing MoS2/CNT and MnO2/CNT one dimensional core shell heterostructures for asymmetric supercapacitor application".

The Polymers Editorial Board and Editorial Team selected 5 referees who provided particularly quick and high-quality reviews in 2020. We are happy to announce that Dawid Janas was one of them.

Our paper has just been accepted for publication in Materials. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "Effective doping of single-walled carbon nanotubes with polyethyleneimine".

Our paper has just been accepted for publication in Materials. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "Enhancing electrical conductivity of composites of single-walled carbon nanotubes and ethyl cellulose with water vapor".

Our paper written in collaboration with Kyushu University has just been accepted for publication in Scientific Reports. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "Enhancing near-infrared photoluminescence from single-walled carbon nanotubes by defect-engineering using benzoyl peroxide".

Our paper written in collaboration with Aalto University has just been accepted for publication in Scientific Reports. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "Transformation of industrial wastewater into copper-nickel nanowire composites: straightforward recycling of heavy metals to obtain products of high added value".

The Nanomaterials Editorial Board and Editorial Team selected 3 referees who provided particularly quick and high-quality reviews in 2019. Recently announced results showed that Dawid Janas was one of them.

Citation metrics based on the Scopus database for the year 2019 were just released. According to the results, Dawid Janas was classified among the Top 2% scientists worldwide.

Our paper written in collaboration with Kyushu University has just been accepted for publication in Materials. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "Thermoelectric properties of thin films from sorted single-walled carbon nanotubes".

Our paper written in collaboration with Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee has just been accepted for publication in MRS Advances. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "Ultrahigh Rate Supercapacitor based on Self-Standing Carbon Nanotubes Supported Vertically Aligned MoS2 Sheets".

Our paper has just been accepted for publication in Materials Horizons. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "Perfectly imperfect: A review of chemical tools for exciton engineering in single-walled carbon nanotubes".

Grzegorz Stando has been awarded Iwanowska Fellowship from the National Agency for Academic Exchange, Poland. He will conduct research for 12 months in the U.S.

Our paper written in collaboration with Kyushu University has just been accepted for publication in Scientific Reports. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "One-step sorting of single-walled carbon nanotubes using aqueous two-phase extraction in the presence of basic salts"

Our paper has just been accepted for publication in Sustainability. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "From Bio to Nano: A Review of Sustainable Methods of Synthesis of Carbon Nanotubes".

Our paper written in collaboration with University of Silesia has just been accepted for publication in Catalysts. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "Nano-Ru supported on Ni nanowires for low-temperature carbon dioxidemethanation"

Out of over 155,000 scholars who reviewed for MDPI in 2019, the publisher selected 20 referees who expressed particular dedication, high quality, and timely performance. Recently announced results showed to our delight that Dawid Janas was one of them.

Nature Nanotechnology has just published a paper entitled "Banning carbon nanotubes would be scientifically unjustified and damaging to innovation". We are honored to be a part of this important message.

Daniel A. Heller, Prakrit V. Jena, Matteo Pasquali, Kostas Kostarelos, Lucia G. Delogu, Rachel E. Meidl, Slava V. Rotkin, David A. Scheinberg, Robert E. Schwartz, Mauricio Terrones, YuHuang Wang, Alberto Bianco, Ardemis A. Boghossian, Sofie Cambré, Laurent Cognet, Simon R. Corrie, Philip Demokritou, Silvia Giordani, Tobias Hertel, Tetyana Ignatova, Mohammad F. Islam, Nicole M. Iverson, Anand Jagota, Dawid Janas, Junichiro Kono, Sebastian Kruss, Markita P. Landry, Yan Li, Richard Martel, Shigeo Maruyama, Anton V. Naumov, Maurizio Prato, Susan J. Quinn, Daniel Roxbury, Michael S. Strano, James M. Tour, R. Bruce Weisman, Wim Wenseleers & Masako Yudasaka

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We are honored that our earlier contribution entitled "Single-step isolation of carbon nanotubes with narrow-band light emission characteristics" has been recognized as one of the TOP100 articles in Materials Science in Scientifc Reports in 2019. Three more papers in this area are currently in the pipeline, which we hope to share with you soon.

Dawid Janas has been given Silesian Scientific Award, which distinguishes researchers who significantly contribute to the development of Polish, European and global science.

The European Materials Research Society has kindly accepted a symposium proposal of Yogendra Mishra, Dawid Janas, Adam Jost, Rosaria Puglisi and Lakshminarayana Polavarapu to be organized at the 2020 EMRS Fall Meeting in Warsaw, Poland. The event will take place from 14 to 17 September 2020. Please consider your presence at this conference.

Our paper has just been accepted for publication in Materials. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "The effect of the gaseous environment on the electrical conductivity of multi-walled carbon nanotube films over a wide temperature range"

Dawid Janas has been awarded Bekker Fellowship from the National Agency for Academic Exchange, Poland. He will conduct research for 3 months in the group of Dr. Tomohiro Shiraki located at Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Japan.

We have a pleasure to announce that we have been awarded funding from the National Science Center, Poland under the OPUS program. The project entitled "Synthesis of new biphasic systems for isolation of monochiral carbon nanotubes" will enable us to make further progress on the front of carbon nanotube sorting during the next 36 months.

Our paper has just been accepted for publication in Materials. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "Impact of synthesis parameters of multi-walled carbon nanotubes on their thermoelectric properties"

Grzegorz Stando participated in the 3rd International Conference on Innovations in Chemical Industry held in Gliwice from October 29 to 30. To our delight the contribution prepared by him et al. obtained the third place in the poster competition.

Dawid Janas has been awarded prestigious STEM Impact Award from the Fulbright Commission. He will conduct research for 6 weeks in the group of Dr. Daniel Heller located at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, USA.

Bogumila Kumanek will be visiting Monash University in Australia for 4 weeks to study the surface properties of nanocarbon materials.

Our paper has just been accepted for publication in Synthetic Metals. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "Thermoelectric properties of composite films from multi-walled carbon nanotubes and ethyl cellulose doped with heteroatoms"

Blazej Podlesny will be visiting Kyushu University in Japan for 6 weeks to study optical properties of nanocarbon materials.

Dawid Janas gave an invited talk at the EMRS Fall Meeting in Warsaw, Poland. The event took place from 16 to 19 September 2019.

Dawid Janas visited Kyushu University in Japan to study optical properties of nanocarbon materials.

Our paper has just been accepted for publication in Applied Nanoscience. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "Convenient but powerful method to dope single-walled carbon nanotube films with iodonium salts"

Dawid Janas, Grzegorz Stando and Tomasz Wasiak joined Aalto University in Finland for 4 weeks to work on development of novel low-dimensional structures.

Our paper has just been accepted for publication in Nanomaterials. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "Simple method to improve electrical conductivity of films made from single-walled carbon nanotubes"

Dawid Janas participated in the NT19: International Conference on the Science and Application of Nanotubes and Low-Dimensional Materials which took place from 21 to 26 July 2019 in Wurzburg, Germany.

We have a pleasure to announce that a project proposal of Grzegorz Stando has been awarded funding from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Poland under the Diamond Grant program.

Our paper has just been accepted for publication in Batteries. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "Copper-Decorated CNTs as a Possible Electrode Material in Supercapacitors"

We had a pleasure of hosting Prof. Ramesh Chandra and Prof. Davinder Kaur of the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee for 3 weeks to elaborate a new type of supercapacitors.

Blazej Podlesny participated in the NanoTech Poland 2019 which took place from 5 to 8 June 2019 in Poznan, Poland.

Our paper written in collaboration with Aalto University (Finland) and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium) has just been accepted for publication in Surface and Coatings Technology. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "Controlling the deposition of silver and bimetallic silver/copper particles onto a carbon nanotube film by electrodeposition-redox replacement"

Dr Bogumila Kumanek joined Kyushu University in Japan for 2 weeks this month to work on development of thermoelectric materials.

Grzegorz Stando and Tomasz Wasiak participated in the EMRS Spring Meeting held in Nice, France from May 26 to 31.

We have a pleasure to announce that a project proposal of Grzegorz Stando has been awarded funding from the National Science Centre, Poland under the Preludium program. The project entitled "New neat carbon nanostructures of hydrophilic character and their potential application in composite materials" will enable him to study this phenomenon for the next 36 months in the course of doctoral studies. Since first announcement of Preludium program in 2011, almost 2200 young scientists were awarded funding in this scheme. Only 15 of them qualified before completing a MSc course and Grzegorz is one of them.

Our paper has just been accepted for publication in Nanomaterials. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "Manufacture of networks from large diameter single-walled carbon of particular electrical character"

Dawid Janas participated in the 12th International Conference on Carbon Materials and Polymer Composites held in Ustron from April 2 to 5. To our delight the contribution prepared by Bogumila Kumanek et al. obtained the third place in the poster competition.

The first channel of the Polish National Radio invited the head of the group to speak about nanotechnology. Link to the accompanying article and the recording itself.

We would like to cordially welcome five new members of the group: Szymon Gos, Barbara Olszewska, Marta Stachura, Monika Stanek and Anna Szymczyk.

We would like to invite you to submit your work to the special issue of Materials entitled "Electrical, Thermal and Optical Properties of Nanocarbon Materials" guest-edited by the head of our group. More information can be found here.

Our paper has just been accepted for publication in the Journal of Materials Science. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "Thermal conductivity of carbon nanotube networks – review"

We have a pleasure to announce that Grzegorz Stando and Tomasz Wasiak have been awarded scholarships from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education for outstanding scientific activity.

Our paper written in collaboration with Kyushu University, Japan has just been accepted for publication in the Scientific Reports journal. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "Single-step isolation of carbon nanotubes with narrow-band light emission characteristics"

This year, four delegates from our group (Bogumila Kumanek, Grzegorz Stando, Tomasz Wasiak and Dawid Janas) attended the 2018 Fall Meeting and Exhibit in Boston, USA.

Our paper written in collaboration with Prof. Walczak's group (also Silesian University of Technology) has just been accepted for publication in the Catalysts journal. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "Nickel Nanowires: Synthesis, Characterization and Application as Effective Catalysts for the Reduction of Nitroarenes"

Our paper written in collaboration with the Institute of Non-Ferrous Metals, the Institute for Chemical Processing of Coal and AGH University of Science and Technology has just been accepted for publication in the Journal of Electronic Materials. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "Review of the selected carbon-based materials for symmetric supercapacitor application"

We have a pleasure to announce that a project proposal coordinated by Dr Dawid Janas have been awarded funding from the National Agency for Academic Exchange, Poland under the Academic International Partnerships program. The project entitled "SYNERGY: Strengthening scientific potential by establishing keY international partNERships with leadinG universities to reach the level of high competencY and research excellence" will enable the Silesian University of Technology to establish key international partnerships and carry out frontier research with selected universities all around the world during the next 24 months.

Our paper written in collaboration with University of Ireland, Galway has just been accepted for publication in the Electrochimica Acta journal. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "Self-supporting carbon nanotube films as flexible neural interfaces."

Our paper written in collaboration with Aalto University has just been accepted for publication in the Journal of Cleaner Production. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "Energy efficient copper electrowinning and direct deposition on carbon nanotube film from industrial wastewaters."

New Academic Year has just begun. This year, we start with three Master students (Bartosz Rduch, Grzegorz Stando and Tomasz Wasiak) and one PhD student, Blazej Podlesny, who continues in the group as a PhD student after his recent graduation. Moreover, we welcome Pawel Stando, who has recently joined us.

Grzegorz Stando and Tomasz Wasiak presented their poster contributions during E-MRS Fall Meeting and Exhibit held in Warsaw University of Technology from September 17 to 19.

Congratulations to Blazej Podlesny, who passed his viva and obtained a MSc degree.

Our paper written in collaboration with Poznan University of Technology and Polish Academy of Sciences has just been accepted for publication in the Applied Surface Science journal. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "Intrinsic hydrophilic character of carbon nanotube networks."

We have a pleasure to announce that we have been awarded funding from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Poland under the Best of the Best 3.0 program. The project entitled "Leaders of tomorrow: Development of the most talented student of the Faculty of Chemistry (Silesian University of Technology) by participation in the most prestigious international conferences" will enable participation of Grzegorz Stando and Tomasz Wasiak in three events of this sort during the next 12 months.

Our paper has just been accepted for publication in the Nanotechnology journal. Please visit the portfolio section to read this work entitled "Probing the mechanics of aqueous two-phase extraction using large diameter single-walled carbon nanotubes."

Dr Dawid Janas has been awarded a DSc degree (habilitation).

Dr Kumanek joined our group as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate. Bogumila graduated from Centre of Polymer and Carbon Materials Polish Academy of Sciences with a PhD in Chemistry. She is an expert focused on composites and carbon-based materials.

We have just started the project "Nanohybr1Ds: Hybrids of carbon nanotubes and metallic nanowires for energy recovery" funded by the National Centre for Research and Development under the Leader program. The project will enable us to develop and construct hybrid materials, which will be used to recover waste heat and turn it into useful electrical energy.