Assistant ProfessorSzymon Sobczak
- szymon.sobczak@amu.edu.pl
- 61 829 1736
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Dr. Szymon Sobczak, born in 1992, specializes in pressure-induced chemistry. Throughout his career, he has gained experience and developed his skills by working, among others, during a research visit in the group of Prof. Tomislav Friščić and later in Dr. Nicola’s Casati group. His achievements in scientific activities have been recognized by the Minister of Science and Higher Education (2021). He is also a recipient of the Minister of Science and Higher Education Scholarship for outstanding young scientists (2021), the START scholarship, and the Poznań City Scholarship for young researchers.
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2022- presently Gest Editor in Acta Crystallographica Section B
2022 Foundation for Polish Science START 2022 stipend
2021 Scholarship of the Polish Minister of Science and Higher Education for Outstanding Young Researchers
2021 A scholarship for young researchers from the Poznań research community (Stypendium dla młodych badaczy z poznańskiego środowiska naukowego)
2021 Award of the Minister of Science and Higher Education for the Outstanding Scientific Achievements
Dr. Szymon Sobczak's research focuses on understanding the relationship between structure and physicochemical properties of materials, including molecular crystals, MOFs (Metal-Organic Frameworks), and perovskites. Engaged in promoting sustainable synthesis methods, Dr. Sobczak has contributed to the development of an environmentally friendly method of disulfide exchange, eliminating the need for conventional catalysts in favor of using pressure. His work on the high-entropy nucleation process contributes to broader research on the stabilization of kinetic polymorphs. Dr. Sobczak's current interests include the flexible response of coordination polymers, the impact of external stress on the efficiency of organic and hybrid photovoltaics, and reactions occurring under high-pressure conditions.
The most important publications:
Ratajczyk P., Sobczak S., Woźny P., Wcisło A., Poręba T., Katrusiak A. Unlocking the sensing potential of phenyl-substituted perylene diimides under extreme conditions. J. Mater. Chem. C, 2023,11, 11055-11065. https://doi.org/10.1039/D3TC01146A
Mączka, M.; Sobczak, S.; Ratajczyk, P.; Leite, F. F.; Paraguassu, W.; Dybała, F.; Herman, A. P.; Kudrawiec, R.; Katrusiak, A. Pressure-Driven Phase Transition in Two-Dimensional Perovskite MHy2PbBr4. Chem. Mater. 2022. 34(17), 7867-7877. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.2c01533.
Sobczak, S.; Ratajczyk, P.; Katrusiak, A. Squeezing Out the Catalysts: A Sustainable Approach to Disulfide Bond Exchange in Aryl Disulfides. ACS Sustain. Chem. Eng. 2021, 9 (20), 7171–7178. 10.1021/acssuschemeng.1c02240.
Sobczak, S.; Ratajczyk, P.; Katrusiak, A. High‐pressure Nucleation of Low‐Density Polymorphs. Chem. – A Eur. J. 2021, 27 (24), 7069–7073. 10.1002/chem.202005121.
Sobczak, S.; Półrolniczak, A.; Ratajczyk, P.; Cai, W.; Gładysiak, A.; Nikolayenko, V. I.; Castell, D. C.; Barbour, L. J.; Katrusiak, A. Large Negative Linear Compressibility of a Porous Molecular Co-Crystal. Chem. Commun. 2020, 56 (31), 4324–4327. 10.1039/D0CC00461H.