Research
The research activities at the Department of Inorganic Chemistry are focused on three multidisciplinary topics involving inorganic chemistry: (i) Coordination Chemistry, (ii) Material Chemistry and (iii) Chemical Physics. The coordination chemistry research direction is targeting the investigation of the chemical and biological properties of bioinorganic compounds that can be potentially used in medicine. The materials chemistry research direction is focused on molecular materials as well as nanomaterials. Molecular materials include molecules displaying optical non-linearities, harvesting light for dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs), and d and f complexes with specific magnetic and photochemical properties. Nanomaterials include 1D, 2D and 3D nanostructures like TiO2 nanotubes, MXene-derived nanosheets or ferrite nanopowders, that are mainly investigated for wastewaters treatment using homogeneous and heterogeneous advanced oxidation processes (AOPs). The chemical physics research direction involve the development of computational methods for small molecules in quantum chemistry and also for polaritonic chemistry in relativistic spectroscopy.
Materials Chemistry:
- M² group (Assoc. Prof. Monfort and Dr. Motola)
- Laboratory of molecular materials (Dr. Hrobárik)
Coordination Chemistry:
Chemical Physics:
- Laboratory of chemical physics