Research goals:

NONA lab conducts all stages of the research, from the rational design and synthesis, through basic characterization of optical properties, morphology and structure of materials, up to advanced spectroscopy and microscopy performed on home-made optical set-ups.

Current research:

• Autofluorescence and other properties of amyloid fibrils

• Nanoclusters design, synthesis and functionalization

• Chiral gold nanostructures: new materials & new characterisation methods

• New fluorescent markers for amyloids imaging

Scientific projects:

• "Nonlinear Optics, Nanoparticles & Amyloids" project carried out within the First Team program of the Foundation for Polish Science and cofinanced by the European Union under the European Regional Development Fund (2018-2022) (Site)

• "Atomically precise gold nanoclusters as new probes in single photon and multiphoton imaging" Sonata Bis 9 project financed by National Science Centre in Poland. (2020-2025) (Summary) 

• „Peptide-functionalized gold nanoparticles PeGoNa” Polonium financed by NAWA (2022)

• “New two-photon absorbers with dipolar and quadrupolar architecture: from synthesis to applications” Opus project, financed by National Science Centre in Poland (2022-2026)

• "Gold nanoclusters in chiral nano-assemblies - nonlinear optical properties" Polonium financed by NAWA (2023-2024)