International Workshop on Multifunctional Polymer Composite Materials for Advanced Applications
Date: March 26, 2026 (Thursday)
Venue: Centre of Polymer and Carbon Materials, Polish Academy of Sciences (CMPW PAN)
The workshop is organized within the framework of the NAWA “Welcome to Poland” project, supported by the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (Project No. BNP/WTP/2023/1/00015).
We invite PhD students to participate in an international seminar dedicated to the role of multifunctional polymer composites for advanced applications. This scientific event will connect the latest knowledge in the field of polymer chemistry dedicated to composites, i.e. their structure, processing and applications.
The aim of the workshop is to create an international platform for the exchange of knowledge and experience in the field of modern polymer based composite materials and their versatile, tailor-made functionalities and applications. It is addressed to PhD students and young researchers conducting studies both on the new functional polymers, new functional addivitives, primarily active fillers of different structure and chemical nature, leading to modern composite materials for constructing, electronic, sensing, medical and other innovative systems.
During oral presentations and the poster session, participants will have the opportunity to exchange knowledge and experiences with experts, promoting interdisciplinary collaboration and the joint research for future-oriented solutions.
Based on submitted abstracts, the Scientific Committee will select 10 participants for oral presentations. All other accepted participants will have oppurtunity to present their research during the poster session.
Participation is free of charge.
All participants will receive conference materials and enjoy coffee and lunch.
Registration:
Due to the limited number of participants, we encourage early registration.
Please register and check the detailed agenda on our website www.cmpw-pan.pl
Register now!
Important Dates
- Registration deadline: March 6, 2026
- Abstract submission deadline: March 9, 2026
- Oral presentation selection by: March 11, 2026
General Information
PLEASE SEND YOUR ABSTRACT TO: polymertalent@cmpw-pan.pl
Files to download:
PLEASE NOTE THAT WE ACCEPT ONE POSTER PER PERSON
Contact
Secretary of the conference:
Dr. Viktoriia Talaniuk
tel. +48 32 271 60 77 ext. 131
e-mail: polymertalent@cmpw-pan.pl
Workshop Agenda
🗓 March 26, 2026 (Thursday)
📍 International Workshop on Multifunctional Polymer Composites for Advanced Applications
08:30 – 09:00 Registration
09:00 – 09:10 Welcome
Session I (Chair: Urszula Szeluga)
09:10 – 09:50 “DIELECTRIC SPECTROSCOPY IN POLYMERS AND COMPOSITES: MOLECULAR MOBILITY AND CHARACTERIZATION OF INTERFACES”
Prof. Sébastien Pruvost and Aurélien Roggero, Université de Lyon, CNRS, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, INSA Lyon, Université Jean Monnet, UMR 5223, Ingénierie des Matériaux Polymères
09:50 – 10:00 “CARBON-BASED ELECTROCHEMICAL PLATFORMS FORSENSITIVE DETECTION OF WARFARIN”
Victória Žužičová, Institute Of Physics Czech Academy Of Sciences Prague, Czech Republic
10:00 – 10:10 “SURFACE TERMINATION–DRIVEN MODULATION OF HMSCS OSTEOGENIC DIFFERENTIATION ON NANOCRYSTALLINE DIAMOND COATINGS”
Shanaya Phal Desai, Institute of Physiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences,Second Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
10:10 – 10:20 “INFLUENCE OF BLOCK COPOLYMERS STRUCTURE AND COMPOSITION ON PROPERIES OF MULTIBLOCK ESTER-AMIDE COPOLYMERS”
Emilia Adamczyk, West Pomeranian University of Technology Faculty of Chemical Technology and Engineering Department of Organic Chemical Technology and Polymer Materials, Szczecin, Poland
10:20 – 10:30 “SPEEK/PRASEODIMYUM DOPED ZINC FERRITE COMPOSITE MEMBRANES FOR FUEL CELL APPLICATION”
Laurentiu Baltag, Petru Poni” Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry Iasi, Romania
10:30 – 10:40 “RING-OPENING POLYMERIZATION OF RENEWABLE MACROLACTONES FOR BIODEGRADABLE POLYESTER NANOPARTICLES”
Andrei-Alexandru IVU, Petru Poni” Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry Iasi, Romania
10:40 – 11:30 “THERMAL ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES (DSC, TGA, STA) AS A TOOL FOR CHARACTERIZATION OF POLYMER AND COMPOSITE MATERIALS”
Róża Tomikowska, Haas, Poznań
11:30 – 12.40 PRACTICAL WORKOSHOP ON USING OF THERMAL ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES AND DATA ANALYSIS – PRACTICAL WORKSHOPS
(2 GROUPS × 30 MIN) & COFFEE BREAK
Róża Tomikowska, Haas, Poznań
Session II (Chair: Marcin Godzierz)
12:40 – 13:10 “NANOMATERIALS AS A BUILDING BLOCK OF MODERN COMPOSITES AND HYBRID SYSTEMS: SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION”
Dr. Paweł Wróbel, Centre of Polymer and Carbon Materials, Polish Academy of Sciences
13:10 – 13:20 “MAXWELL-WAGNER-SILLARS POLARIZATION: AN INDICATOR OF INTERFACE EVOLUTION IN COMPOSITES”
Ewa Laureys, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, INSA Lyon, Université Jean Monnet, CNRS UMR 5223, Ingénierie des Matériaux Polymères, Université de Lyon, Lyon,France
13:20 – 13:30 “REDUCED FRICTION PROPERTIES OF GRAPHENE-BASEDMATERIALS MODIFIED WITH FLUORINATED POLYMERS”
Nikolaos Konios, Polymer institute slovak Academy of sciences Bratislava, Slovakia
13:30 – 13:40 “DISORDER‑DRIVEN VIBRATIONAL AND TRANSPOR PHENOMENA IN ABS POLYMERS ENHANCED WITH GRAPHENE OXIDE”
Daria Szewczyk, Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
13:40 – 13:50 “ABSORPTION KINETICS AND MECHANISMS OF FURCELLARAN–Β-CYCLODEXTRIN COMPOSITE AEROGELS ENRICHED WITH CURCUMIN FOR BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS”
Agnieszka Kłapcia, AGH University of Krakow Academic Centre for Materials and Nanotechnology, Poland
14:10 – 15:15 Lunch Break
15:15 – 16:15 Poster Session
16:15 Closing Remarks
Poster Session
- Dara Vasileva, CARBON NANOTUBE REINFORCED PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANES FOR HYDROGEN FUEL CELLS, UNIVERSITY OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY AND METALLURGY, SOFIA, BULGARIA
- Zdeněk Doležal*, K. Aubrechtová Dragounová, G. Vanko, A. Kromka, PHOTOLUMINESCENCE OF SI-V CENTERS IN DIAMOND MEMS STRUCTURES FOR OPTICAL THERMOMETRY, INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS, CZECH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ,PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC
- Sylwia Rzepa*, Szczepan Zapotoczny, Magdalena Wytrwał, DRUG CARRIER-EMBEDDING HYDROGEL NANOCOMPOSITE FOR LOCAL DELIVERY OF KARTOGENIN, AGH UNIVERSITY OF KRAKOW, ACADEMIC CENTRE FOR MATERIALS AND NANOTECHNOLOGY, KRAKÓW, POLAND
- Kaja Fołta*, Joanna Jaworska, BIODEGRADABLE POLYMER COMPOSITES FOR CONTROLLED DRUG RELEASE IN MEDICAL IMPLANTS, CENTRE OF POLYMER AND CARBON MATERIALS POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, ZABRZE, POLAND
- Simona Furgoł *, M. Greif, R. Gaida, N. Biernat, D. Kiełkiewicz, E. Sabura, A.J. Dolata, TECHNOLOGY FOR OBTAINING EPOXY VITRIMERS CATALYZED BY IONIC LIQUIDS, ŁUKASIEWICZ RESEARCH NETWORK INSTITUTE FOR RENEWABLE RESOURCES CHEMISTRY, WROCŁAW, POLAND
- Aleksandra Tomaszowska*, P. Powroźnik and Maciej Krzywiecki, FABRICATION OF A PHTHALOCYANINE-BASED ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC CELL WITH DEFECT ENGINEERED SnOₓ, SILESIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, POLAND
- Maciej Świątek*, A. Kmita, K.Sokołowski, P.Jabłoński, J.Stępień, K.Berent, M.Gajewska, D.Lachowicz, A.Gilarska, MAGNETIC COMPOSITE NANOFIBERS BASED ON CARBON NANOFIBERS (CNFs) AND IRON SULPHIDE NANOPARTICLES OBTAINED BY ELECTROSPINNING AND CARBONIZATION PROSESS, AGH UNIVERSITY OF KRAKOW ACADEMIC CENTRE FOR MATERIALS AND NANOTECHNOLOGY, KRAKÓW, POLAND
- Karolina Olszowska, Ruslana Mazurenko, Anastasiia Kobyliukh*, Marcin Godzierz, Sławomira Pusz, Stanislav Makhno, Urszula Szeluga, EFFECT OF MODIFICATION BY GRAPHENE NANOPLATELETS OR OXIDATION PROCESS OF CARBON FOAMS ON THEIR MORPHOLOGY, STRUCTURE AND ELECTROPHYSICAL PROPERTIES, CENTRE OF POLYMER AND CARBON MATERIALS POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, ZABRZE, POLAND
- Klaudia Kurtyka, Anna Gawron*, Marcin Godzierz, Barbara Trzebicka, Mark H. Rümmeli, POST- MORTEM ANALYSIS OF LITHIUM-ION BATTERY ELECTRODES BASED ON HOLLOW 3D GRAPHITIC STRUCTURES, CENTRE OF POLYMER AND CARBON MATERIALS POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, ZABRZE, POLAND
- Yevheniia Buinova*, Urszula Szeluga, Marcin Godzierz, Anastasiia Kobyliukh, DEVELOPMENT OF SEGREGATED POLYETHYLENE/CARBON BLACK COMPOSITES FOR EMBEDDED HEATING AND STRAIN SENSING ELEMENTS IN ELECTROFUSION WELDED JOINTS, CENTRE OF POLYMER AND CARBON MATERIALS, POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, M. CURIE-SKŁODOWSKIEJ 34, ZABRZE
- Anastasiia Kobyliukh*, Yevgen Mamunya, Andrii Misiura, Karolina Olszowska, Marcin Godzierz, Sławomira Pusz, Urszula Szeluga, EPOXY COMPOSITES WITH IRON OXIDE/REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDE HYBRID FILLERS: STRUCTURAL AND ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES UNDER MAGNETIC FIELD, CENTRE OF POLYMER AND CARBON MATERIALS, POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, M. CURIE-SKŁODOWSKIEJ 34, ZABRZE
- Anna Gawron*, Marcin Godzierz, Krystian Mistewicz, Klaudia Kurtyka, Urszula Szeluga, LOW-THERMAL-CONDUCTIVITY POLYMER COMPOSITE OF POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE AND CARBON NANOTUBES: A PROMISING MATERIAL FOR FLEXIBLE THERMOELECTRIC GENERATOR FABRICATION, CENTRE OF POLYMER AND CARBON MATERIALS, POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, M. CURIE-SKLODOWSKA 34, 41-819 ZABRZE, POLAND
- Sonia Gorawska*, Sugato Hajra, Premkumar Bhosale, Hoe Joon Kim, Krystian Mistewicz, Marcin Godzierz, HIGH-PERFORMANCE PDMS-BFO TRIBOELECTRIC NANOGENERATOR FOR ENERGY HARVESTING AND MACHINE LEARNING-ASSISTED OBJECT RECOGNITION, CENTRE OF POLYMER AND CARBON MATERIALS, POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, M. CURIE-SKLODOWSKA 34, 41-819 ZABRZE, POLAND
- Aleksander Foryś*, Sławomira Pusz, Karolina Olszowska, Andrzej Marcinkowski, RESEARCH CONDUCTED BY INDEPENDENT MICROSCOPY TEAM, CENTRE OF POLYMER AND CARBON MATERIALS, POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, M. CURIE- SKŁODOWSKIEJ 34, 41-819 ZABRZE, POLANDND CARBON MATERIALS, POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, M. CURIE-SKLODOWSKA 34, 41-819 ZABRZE, POLAND
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
dr hab. inż. Urszula Szeluga, prof. CMPW PAN
prof. Sébastien Pruvost
dr hab. Sławomira Pusz
dr inż. Marcin Godzierz
dr inż. Paweł Wróbel
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
dr Viktoriia Talaniuk
dr Ruslana Mazurenko
dr inż. Karolina Olszowska
dr inż. Aleksander Foryś
mgr Anna Gawron
mgr Ewa Matkowska
International Workshop on Polymer Structures for Medical Applications
ORGANIZED BY:
Centre of Polymer and Carbon Materials
Polish Academy of Science
ul. M. Curie-Skłodowskiej 34
41-819 Zabrze
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