At work: understanding the atomic arrangement of the materials. Involved in developing methodologies to better characterize materials by X-ray diffraction methods (WAXS, SAXS) various physicochemical techniques, and improving the chemical methods used in synthesizing new materials. The research profile applies physical chemistry and crystallography. Privately, happy wife, although I am not a fanatical housewife. I am looking for free time, and when I find it a little, I grab for paints (oil and watercolor). My favorite color is the color of my life - my kids.

Research Highlights: 

• Crystallography, Materials Science.
• Synthesis and characterization of high ordered mesoporous materials, porous materials, solid supports.
• Surface modification, adsorption of metal ions and complexes on mesoporous supports, activated carbons and others.
• Colloidal solutions of silver nanoparticles and interactions with bioactive materials
• Application of noble metal nanoparticles (platinum, palladium, and silver).
• Novel biopolymeric materials and nanocomposites, mixed materials, new properties.

Research projects:

Head of Project Nr. 2017/01/X/ST5/00229 “Chitosan-silver biocomposites as new membrane systems in adsorption of biologically active compounds”, National Science Centre, Poland.

Project Nr. FP7-612484, “Nanostructured Biocompatible/Bioactive Materials” The 7th Framework Programme of EU, Maria Curie Action, People, International Research Staff Exchange Schem. Performer.

Head of: Targeted subsidy for conducting scientific research or development works and related tasks, serving the development of young scientists and participants of doctoral studies at the Faculty of Chemistry UMCS as part of a departmental competition on the subject of: 

2018 -  „Biostaticity of composite nanomaterials as a practical determinant of application potential"

2017 – „The selective adsorption processes of bioactive compounds on carbon and silica-chitosan composites”

2016 – „Adsorption processes of bioactive compounds on modified carbon adsorbents”

2015 – „Adsorption of nitrogenous bases in the presence of the colloidal silver on microporous activated carbon.”

2014 – „Synthesis and physico-chemical characterization of silver-carbon nanocomposites”.

• Team Rector's award for a high-score scientific article:

 02/01/2022 “Mesoporous Carbons of Well-Organized Structure in the Removal of Dyes from Aqueous Solutions. Blachnio M, Derylo-Marczewska A, Winter S, Zienkiewicz-Strzalka M. " Molecules 2021; 26 (8): 2159.

• Team Rector's award for a high-score scientific article:

01.02.2022 "Physicochemical and Adsorption Characteristics of Divinylbenzene-co-Triethoxyvinylsilane Microspheres as Materials for the Removal of Organic Compounds" Bosacka A, Zienkiewicz-Strzalka M, Wasilewska M, Derylo-Marczewska A, Podkościelna B. Molecules. 2021; 26 (8): 2396

• Team Rector's award for a high-score scientific article:

 3.07.05.2021 "Small AgNP in the Biopolymer Nanocomposite System". Małgorzata Zienkiewicz-Strzałka, Anna Deryło-Marczewska. International Journal Of Molecular Sciences 21 (24) 9388 (2020)

• Team Rector's award for a high-score scientific article: Article: 10.04.2020 "Silver Nanoparticles on Chitosan / Silica Nanofibers: Characterization and Antibacterial Activity". Małgorzata Zienkiewicz-Strzałka, Anna Deryło-Marczewska, Adam Choma, Iwona Komaniecka et al. International Journal Of Molecular Sciences "21 (1) 166 (2020).

• Team Rector's award. Third Degree, 23.10.2014

Secondment:          

October 1, 2015– December 31, 2015, O.O. Chuiko Institute of Surface Chemistry of NAS of  Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine. (Studies of the preparation of specific functionalized materials based on pyrogenic silica materials and noble metal nanoparticles).

June 1 2016 – July 1 2016, Institute of Macromolecular Compounds of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation. (Preparation of new chitosan/silica and chitosan/carbon composites in the form of nanofibers by electrospinning fabrication of polymer nanofibers).

October 1 2017 – November 1 2017, Institute of Macromolecular Compounds of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation

Analytical techniques:

• Spectroscopic techniques: IR, XPS, XRF, UV-VIS, Mass spectroscopy
• Diffraction techniques: XRD, SAXS.
• Chromatography (HPLC)
• Transmission electron microscopy techniques: TEM, SEM, EDX/TEM, HRTEM
• Thermal analysis (TG, DTG, DSC).
• Nitrogen sorption analysis, Total Organic Carbon Analysis (TOC).

Education:

2013 Ph.D. Degree, Doctor of Science, Chemistry,  Maria Curie Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland

2009-2013 Ph.D. studies. Chemistry, Department of Crystallography M. Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin (Structure and properties of new systems of metal/mesoporous ordered support).

2007-2009 MSc in Chemistry, M. Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland (Periodic Mesoporous organosilica containing zirconium and titanium species).

2004-2007 BSc in Chemistry, M. Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland (Synthesis and structure of nanowires on mesoporous ordered materials as the template).

Some research papers:

1. Zienkiewicz-Strzałka, M., Deryło-Marczewska, A. & Pikus, S. The synthesis and nanostructure investigation of noble metal-based nanocomposite materials. J Mater Sci 56, 13128–13145 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-021-06127-2 (IF-4.22, 100pkt MNiSW)
2. Bosacka A, Zienkiewicz-Strzalka M, Wasilewska M, Derylo-Marczewska A, Podkościelna B. Physicochemical and Adsorption Characteristics of Divinylbenzene-co-Triethoxyvinylsilane Microspheres as Materials for the Removal of Organic Compounds. Molecules. 2021; 26(8):2396. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules26082396 (IF-4.411, 140pkt MNiSW)
3. Blachnio M, Derylo-Marczewska A, Winter S, Zienkiewicz-Strzalka M. Mesoporous Carbons of Well-Organized Structure in the Removal of Dyes from Aqueous Solutions. Molecules. 2021; 26(8):2159. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules26082159 (IF-4.411, 140pkt MNiSW)
4. Zienkiewicz-Strzałka M, Deryło-Marczewska A. Small AgNP in the Biopolymer Nanocomposite System. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 2020; 21(24):9388. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms21249388 (IF-5.923, 140pkt MNiSW)
5. Blachnio M, Derylo-Marczewska A, Charmas B, Zienkiewicz-Strzalka M, Bogatyrov V, Galaburda M., Activated Carbon from Agricultural Wastes for Adsorption of Organic Pollutants. Molecules. 2020; 25(21):5105. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules25215105 (IF-4.411, 100pkt MNiSW)
6. Zienkiewicz-Strzałka M, Deryło-Marczewska A,  Skorik YA, Petrova VA, Choma A, Komaniecka I, Silver Nanoparticles on Chitosan/Silica Nanofibers: Characterization and Antibacterial Activity, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2020, 21(1), 166 (IF-5.923, 140pkt MNiSW).
7. R.B. Kozakevych, A.V. Korobeinyk, Y.M. Bolbukh, V.A. Tertykh, L.I. Mikhalovska, M. Zienkiewicz-Strzałka, A. Deryło-Marczewska, Preparation and characterization of nanocomposite polyvinyl chloride films with NO-generating activity, Appl Nanosci 2019, 9(5), pp. 801-808 https://doi.org/10.1007/s13204-018-0693-0 (IF 2.88, 100pkt MNiSW)
8. A. Sterczyńska, M. Śliwińska-Bartkowiak, M. Zienkiewicz-Strzałka, A. Deryło-MarczewskaSurface, Properties of Synthesized Nanoporous Carbon and Silica Matrices, Journal of Visualized Experiments, (145), e58395, doi:10.3791/58395 (2019), https://www.jove.com/video/58395/ (IF 1.33)
9. M. Skibińska, M. Zienkiewicz-Strzałka, S. Pikus, The synthesis of new mesostructured cellular foams (MCFs) with NaY zeolite and their application to sorption the thorium ions, Materials Science-Poland (2019), .
10. Anna Deryło-Marczewska, Katarzyna Skrzypczyńska, Krzysztof Kuśmierek, Andrzej Świątkowski
    Malgorzata Zienkiewicz-Strzałka, The adsorptive properties of oxidized activated carbons and their applications as carbon paste electrode modifiers. Adsorption (2019), DOI: 10.1007/s10450-019-00016-6
11. M. Zienkiewicz-Strzałka, A. Deryło-Marczewska, R.B. Kozakevych, Silica nanocomposites based on silver nanoparticles-functionalization and pH effect, Applied Nanoscience (2018) 8(7):1649–1668, DOI: 10.1007/s13204-018-0837-2 (IF 2.88, 100pkt MNiSW)
12. Angelina Sterczyńska, Anna Deryło-Marczewska, Małgorzata Zienkiewicz-Strzałka, Małgorzata Śliwińska-Bartkowiak, Kamila Domin, Surface Properties of Al-Functionalized Mesoporous MCM-41 and the Melting Behavior of Water in Al-MCM-41 Nanopores, Langmuir, 2017, 33 (42), pp 11203–11216. DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b02172
13. M. Zienkiewicz-Strzałka, M. Błachnio, R.B. Kozakevych, Y.M. Bolbukh, A. Deryło-Marczewska, V.A. Tertykh, Silver nanoparticles deposited on pyrogenic silica solids, Adsorption Science and Technology (2017), DOI: 10.1177/0263617417707599 
14. M. Zienkiewicz-Strzałka, Small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) studies of the structure of mesoporous silicas. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms · (2017). DOI: 10.1016/j.nimb.2017.03.028
15. M. Zienkiewicz-Strzałka, S. Pikus, Microstructure Characterization of Noble Metal–Silica Nanocomposites, Acta Physica Polonica Series A, 130 (2016) 972. DOI: 10.12693/APhysPolA.130.972
16. M. Zienkiewicz-Strzałka, A. Deryło-Marczewska, S. Pikus. Bimetallic systems of mesoporous ordered silica supports and noble metals nanoparticles Microporous and Mesoporous Materials 227 (2016) 228-241. DOI: 10.1016/j.micromeso.2016.03.013
17. A. Deryło-Marczewska, M. Zienkiewicz-Strzałka, K. Skrzypczynska, A. Światkowski, Krzysztof Kusmierek, Evaluation of the SBA-15 materials ability to accumulation of 4-chlorophenol on carbon paste electrode, 2016, Adsorption, 1-12. DOI: 10.1007/s10450-016-9779-8
18. M. Zienkiewicz-Strzałka, S. Pikus, Preparation and Structural Properties of Bimetallic Noble Metals Nanoparticles in SBA-15 Systems” Adsorption, Science & Technology Vol. 33 No. 6–8 2015, 722-729. DOI: 10.1260/0263-6174.33.6-8.723
19. M. Zienkiewicz-Strzałka, M. Rotko, S.Pikus, “Synthesis and characterization of new bifunctional Pt,Ag/SBA-15 materials” Solid State Phenomena 203-204 (2013) 81-85. DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/SSP.203-204.81
20. M. Zienkiewicz-Strzałka, S. Pasieczna-Patkowska, M. Kozak, S. Pikus  "Silver nanoparticles incorporated onto ordered mesoporous silica from Tollen’s reagent” Applied Surface Science 266 (2013) 337-343. DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2012.12.021
21. M. Zienkiewicz-Strzałka, S. Pikus “Synthesis of photoactive AgCl/SBA-15 by conversion of silver nanoparticles into stable AgCl nanoparticles” Applied Surface Science 265 (2013) 904-911. DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2012.11.145
22. M. Zienkiewicz-Strzałka, S. Pikus „The study of palladium ions incorporation into the mesoporous ordered silicates” Applied Surface Science 261 (2012) 616-622 DOI:10.1016/ j.apsusc.2012.08.065.
23. M. Zienkiewicz, S. Pikus, E. Olszewska, M. Barczak „Mesoporous ordered organosilicas containing Zr and Ti species” Solid State Phenomena 163 (2010) 55-58. DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/SSP.163.55