dr Łukasz Baran

Consultation
Sabbatical leave till 1st of September 2026.

Address

ul. Gliniana 33 pok. 215
20-614 Lublin

Personal information

In 2022, I defended my doctoral thesis with honors entitled Computer Simulations of the self-assembly process of various molecules with diverse architecture on solid surfaces.

Currently, I am involved in the study of the interfacial behavior of water in either its liquid or crystalline forms. Another, a pretty similar topic concerns the study of the influence of confinement curvature on the behavior of patchy particles. All such investigations require the use of computer simulations in a broad sense. We exploit molecular dynamics or advanced sampling Monte Carlo methods and, in the future, aim to combine both methods.


Scientific Activity

Grants:

  1. Principal Investigator of „Diamentowy Grant” (2018-2021).
    Project ID: DI2017 001147
    Project title: „Computer Simulations of the self-assembly process of various molecules with diverse architecture on solid surfaces”.
    Funding acquired: 159 442 PLN.
  2. Principal Investigator of PRELUDIUM 20 (2022-2025).
    Project ID: 2021/41/N/ST4/00437
    Project title: Self-assembly of patchy nanoparticles under confinement .
    Funding acquired: 146 400 PLN.

The most recent publications:

  1. Ł. Baran, D. Tarasewicz, D. M. Kamiński, W. Rżysko, Pursuing colloidal diamond ,
    Nanoscale (2023)
  2. Ł. Baran, P. Llombart, W. Rżysko, L. G. MacDowell, Ice friction at the nanoscale,
    PNAS 119, e2209545119 (2022).
  3. Ł. Baran, S. Sokolowski, Effective interactions between a pair of particles modified with tethered chains, Journal of Chemical Physics, 147, 044903 (2017).
  4. Ł. Baran, W. Rżysko, Application of a coarse-grained model for the design of complex supramolecular networks, Molecular Systems Design & Engineering, 5, 484-492 (2020).
  5. Ł. Baran, M. Borówko, W. Rżysko, Self-Assembly of Amphiphilic Janus Particles Confined between Two Solid Surfaces, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 124, 17556-17565 (2020).