RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS: 

Synthesis of active carbons and biocomposites, analysis of the synthesis parameters on physicochemical properties of materials.

Studies of herbicides, dyes and aromatic compounds removing process from aqueous solutions on carbon materials and biocomposites.

Studies of equilibrium processes, adsorption kinetics and effect of temperature in single- and multicomponent systems.

Optimization of experimental data on the basis of the adsorption theory on energetically heterogeneous solids.

RESEARCH PROJECTS:

Personal exchange project for 2018-2019 within the Polish-Ukrainian competition. Title: Synthesis of hybrid carbon-mineral sorbents for adsorption of toxic compounds”, performer.

Research project for realization of the scientific action No 2017/01/X/ST5/01369. Title: Activated carbons from agricultural wastes for adsorption of environmental pollutions. Project realised in the framework of MINIATURE 1 of the National Science Center of Poland (NCN), supervisor.

Research project No FP7-612484. Title: Nanostructured Biocompatible/Bioactive Materials The 7th Framework Programme of EU, Maria Curie Action, People, International Research Staff Exchange Schem, performer.

Research project No 230790. Title: Hybrid nanocomposites and their applications. The 7th Framework Programme of EU, Maria Curie Action, People, International Research Staff Exchange Schem, performer.

SCIENTIFIC INTERNSHIPS:

28.01-27.02.2018 - O.O. Chuiko Institute of Surface Chemistry of NAS of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine.

(Active carbons from agricultural wastes for adsorption of environmental pollutions)

1-31.07.2016 – O.O. Chuiko Institute of Surface Chemistry of NAS of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine.

(Modification of porous and non-porous silicas with chitosan from gas phase)

1-31.10.2015 – O.O. Chuiko Institute of Surface Chemistry of NAS of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine.

(Preparation of chitosan-silica composites by sol-gel and impregnation from solution methods).

RESEARCH PAPERS:

1. M. Błachnio, T.M. Budnyak, A. Deryło-Marczewska, A.W. Marczewski, V.A. Tertykh, Chitosan-silica hybrid composites and their application for removal of sulfonated azo dyes from aqueous solutions, Langmuir 34 (2018) 2258–2273.

2. Derylo-Marczewska, A., Blachnio, M., Marczewski, A.W., Seczkowska, M., Tarasiuk, B., Phenoxyacid pesticide adsorption on activated carbon - equilibrium and kinetics, Chemosphere, 214 (2019) 349–360.

3. T.M. Budnyak, M. Błachnio, A. Slabon, A. Deryło-Marczewska, A.W. Marczewski, Chitosan deposited onto fumed silica surface as sustainable hybrid biosorbent for acid orange 8 dye capture: Effect of temperature in adsorption equilibrium and kinetics, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 124 (2020) 15312–15323.

4. M. Blachnio, A. Derylo-Marczewska, B. Charmas,…V Bogatyrov, M. Galaburda, Activated carbon from agricultural wastes for adsorption of organic pollutants, Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 25 (2020) 5105.

5. M. Blachnio, A. Derylo-Marczewska, S. Winter, M. Zienkiewicz-Strzalka, Mesoporous carbons of well-organized structure in the removal of dyes from aqueous solutions, Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 26 (2021) 2159.