Joint Research Group of Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy

Team head:

Czeslawa Paluszkiewicz, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Staff: 6

Team leaders:

Prof. Miroslaw Handke, Ph.D.

Czeslawa Paluszkiewicz, Ph.D.

Anna Stoch, Ph.D.

The group consists of the IR Division of the Regional Laboratory and the Group of Silicate Chemistry at the Faculty of Materials Science and Ceramics of the Academy of Mining and Metallurgy.

Research topics:

analytical applications of FT-IR spectroscopy in materials science and medicine
structural studies of amorphous and crystalline inorganic compounds, polymers, coatings
impurities content in semiconductor materials
structure and phase composition of thin films and coatings
IR spectroscopy of air pollution

Research equipment:

Infrared spectrometers - FTS-60 FIR, FTS 60V MIR, FTS 6000 step-scan MIR NIR BIO-RAD with a computer system
Closed helium cryocooler
Multipass gas cell
Internal, external, diffuse reflection accessories

Patents:

Polish patents PRL No. 139389 (1987) and PRL No. 233145 (1988) concerning phosphate coatings on steel sheets.

Awards:

Awards of the Minister of Education in 1975, 1980 and 1986.

International collaboration:

BIO-RAD Digilab Division (K. Kirshuan, Ph.D.), 237 Putnam Av., Cambridge, Mass. 02139, USA;
Harrick Scientific Corp. (N. J. Harrick, Ph.D.), 88 Broadway, Ossining, NY 10562, USA;
Technical University Clausthal, Inst. Allgemeine Metall. (Prof. G. Borchardt), Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany;
Uppsala University, Inst. of Chemistry, Dept. of Inorganic Chemistry (Prof. J. Lindgren), S-75121 Uppsala, Sweden;
Queensland University of Technology, Centre for Instrumental and Developmental Chemistry, (Dr. E. Wentrup-Byrne) QLD 4001 Brisbane, Australia.

Contact:

Jagiellonian University, Regional Laboratory, Al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Kraków, Poland;
Dr. Czeslawa Paluszkiewicz,
tel.: (48-12) 617 24 87 fax: (48-12) 633 15 93
Email: ucpalusz@cyf-kr.edu.pl

Selected publications:

M. Handke, M. Sitarz, W. Mozgawa, Vibrational spectra of copmplex ring silicates anions - method of recognition, J. Mol. Structure 404, 1997, 193.
C. Paluszkiewicz, M. Handke, J. Maka, Determination of Hydrocarbons in the Gases from Vehicle Exhausts by FTIR Spectroscopy, Microchimica Acta, 14, 1997, 565.
C. Paluszkiewicz, M. Galka, W. Kwiatek, A. Parczewski, S. Walas, Renal Stone Studies Using Vibrational Spectroscopy and Trace Analysis, Biospectroscopy, 3, 1997, 403.

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