Function:

• 2013 - Coordinator of Laboratory Classes in Inorganic Chemistry

Awards:

• 2022: AMU Rector’s Team Award of 1st Degree for Scientific Achievements
• 2021-2026: Laureate of OPUS 21 program funded by the National Science Centre
• 2021: AMU Rector’s Team Award of 2nd Degree for Scientific Achievements
• 2019: AMU Rector’s incentive remuneration bonus for academic teachers for outstanding performance of the duties in the position held

• homogeneous catalysis of organometallic and especially organosilicon compounds
• synthesis and modification of molecular organosilicon compounds, in particular the so-called silsesquioxanes (POSS), in stoichiometric and catalytic processes
• synthesis of functionalized silsesquioxanes and their application in modification of polymers
• formation of macromolecular, hybrid materials with silsesquioxanes of T₈ and double-decker (DDSQ) type as a linker via Transition Metal (TM) catalyzed processes
• application of silsesquioxanes to obtain advanced functional hybrid materials

Selected publications from 2021:

1. D. Matykiewicz, B. Dudziec, K. Skórczewska, K. Sałasińska
   The Effect of Silanes Treatments on Thermal and Mechanical Properties of Nettle Fibre/Bio Epoxy Composites
   J. Nat. Fibres, 2024, 21:1,2332913
2. A. Mrzygłód, M. Rzonsowska, B. Dudziec
   Exploring Polyol-Functionalized Dendrimers With Silsesquioxane Cores
   Inorg. Chem. 2023, 62, 51, 21343–21352, DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c03427
3. A. Mrzygłód, M. Rzonsowska, M. P. García-Armada, B. Dudziec, M. Nowicki
   Metallodendrimers Unveiled: Investigating the Formation and Unique Features of Double-Decker Silsesquioxane-Based Silylferrocene Dendrimers
   Inorg. Chem. 2023, 62, 41, 16932–16942, DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c02628
4. A. Mrzygłód, R. Januszewski, J. Duszczak, M. Dutkiewicz, M. Kubicki, B. Dudziec
   Tricky but repeatable synthetic approach to branched, multifunctional silsesquioxane dendrimer derivatives
   Inorg. Chem. Front., 2023, 10, 4587-4596  DOI: 10.1039/D3QI00500C
5. J. Duszczak, A. Mrzygłód, K. Mituła, M. Dutkiewicz, R. Januszewski, M. Rzonsowska, B. Dudziec, M. Nowicki, M. Kubicki
   Distinct insight into the use of difunctional double-decker silsesquioxanes as building blocks for alternating A-B type macromolecular frameworks
   Inorg. Chem. Front., 2023, 10, 888-899  DOI: 10.1039/D2QI02161G
6. K. Mituła, R. Januszewski, J. Duszczak, M. Rzonsowska, B. Dudziec High thermally stable polysiloxanes cross-linked with di(alkenyl)functionalized DDSQs exhibiting swelling abilities
   Eur. Polym. J. , 2022, 171, 111191,  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpolymj.2022.111191
7. M. Rzonsowska, K. Mituła, J. Duszczak, M. Kasperkowiak, R. Januszewski, A. Grześkiewicz, M. Kubicki, D. Głowacka, B. Dudziec Unexpected and frustrating transformations of double-decker silsesquioxanes Inorg. Chem. Front. 2022, 9, 379 – 390 DOI: 10.1039/d1qi01363g
8. J. Duszczak, K. Mituła, A. Santiago-Portillo, L. Soumoy, M. Rzonsowska, R. Januszewski, L. Fusaro, C. Aprile, B. Dudziec
   Double-Decker Silsesquioxanes Self-Assembled in One-Dimensional Coordination Polymeric Nanofibers with Emission Properties
   ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2021, 13, 19, 22806–22818
   DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c02510

Selected patents:
EP 2076521 (B1), US 8680310 (B2), US 8344169 (B2), US 9108994 (B2), US 9518069 (B2), US 9150596 (B2), PAT.220987 (B1), PAT.221979 (B1),  PAT.224582 (B1), PAT.218555 (B1), PAT.228312 (B1), PAT.233823 (B1), PAT.233702 (B1), PAT.234668 (B1), PAT.236041 (B1), P.448431, P.448432