Research interests:

• Physical chemistry of surfaces, Dispersions, colloids and foams, Langmuir and Langmuir-Blodgett monolayers and multilayers
• Materials chemistry, Soft matter, Polymer materials and coatings, Biodegradable materials, Biocompatible polymers, Hybrid polymer-based coatings, Nano materials, Drug delivery
• Biophysics, Biomembranes, Model membranes, Membrane proteins, Self-assembly of proteins

Technical Skills and Competences:

Methods for surface modification:

• Langmuir layers (on liquid support) and Langmuir-Blodgett layers (on solid support)
• Layer-by-Layer (LbL) technique for deposition of Polyelectrolyte Multilayers (PEM) on solid surfaces.

Methods for surface characterization:

Many optical, X-ray and spectroscopic techniques for characterization of surfaces and interfaces e.g.:

• Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM)
• Brewster Angle Microscopy (BAM)
• Grazing Incidence X-Ray Diffraction (GIXD)
• Polarization Modulated Infrared Reflection-Absorption Spectroscopy (PM-IRRAS)
• Fluorescent microscopy
• Ellipsometry
• Quartz-crystal microbalance (QCM)
• Rame-Hart CA Goniometer
• Microinterpherometric measurement of the foam films thickness