Our group is specialized in various aspects of optical microscopy and spectroscopy techniques. It covers both construction of specialized unique multi-functional optical instruments, as well as their utilization to study optical properties and interaction taking place in nanoscale.
In our labs several home-built microscopic setups is running, specialized towards different techniques, operating in UV-Vis-NIR spectral ranges, includind also ns-ms range time-resolved experiments and single molecule studies. We develop our customized solutions dedicated to nanoscale experiments, including plasmonics, energy transfers, nano heating, sensorics, photonics and super-resolution imaging techniques.
Related papers:
M. Biały, M. Jankowska, K. Sulowska, M. Szalkowski, J. Niedziółka-Jonsson, S. Maćkowski
“Controlled encapsulation of colloidal semiconductor quantum dots in a microdroplet”
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 27, 1 (2025), 346-354.
DOI: 10.1039/D4CP03419H
A. Jakimińska, K. Sulowska, M. Biały, M. Jankowska, K. Wiwatowski, W. Macyk, S. Maćkowski, J. Niedziółka-Jönsson
“Remote Photocatalysis─The Photocatalytic Activity of TiO2 Excited Via Surface Plasmon Polariton Propagation in a Single Silver Nanowire”
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 128, 50 (2024), 21343-21348.
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.4c04907
K. Wiwatowski, K. Sulowska, S. Maćkowski
“Single-Molecule Fluorescence Probes Interactions between Photoactive Protein—Silver Nanowire Conjugate and Monolayer Graphene”
Internationaj Journal of Molecular Sciences, 25, 9 (2024), 4843.
DOI: 10.3390/ijms25094873
K. Sulowska, E. Roźniecka, J. Niedziółka-Jönsson, S. Maćkowski
“Aligned silver nanowires for plasmonically-enhanced fluorescence detection of photoactive proteins in wet and dry environment”
Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 289 (2023), 122225.
DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2022.122225
M. Szalkowski, A. Surrente, K. Wiwatowski, Z. Yang, N. Zhang, J. D. Janna Olmos, J. Kargul, P. Płochocka, S. Maćkowski
“Spectral dependence of the energy transfer from photosynthetic complexes to monolayer graphene”
International Journal of Molecular Sciences 23 (2022), 3494.
DOI: DOI:10.3390/ijms23073493
M. Szalkowski, D. Kowalska, J. D. Janna Olmos, J. Kargul, S. Maćkowski
“Improving photostability of photosystem I-based nanodevice by plasmonic interactions with planar silver nanostructures”
International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 23 (2022), 2976.
DOI: 10.3390/ijms23062976
M. Jankowska, K. Sulowska, K. Wiwatowski, J. Niedziółka-Jönsson, S. Maćkowski
“Real-time fluorescence imaging of His-tag-driven conjugation of mCherry proteins to silver nanowires”
Chemosensors, 10 (2022), 149.
DOI: 10.3390/chemosensors10040149