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RESEARCH PROFILE

We are a research group with long experience in polymer and biopolymer research, polymer-based materials, polymer composites, functional polymeric materials, hydrogels and coatings. The BIOMATERIALS AND COSMETICS RESEARCH GROUP has been supported by the programme “Excellence Initiative – Research University”. The programme aims to select and support the best Polish universities and the best research groups. Two researchers of the BIOMATERIALS AND COSMETICS RESEARCH GROUP, prof. dr hab. Alina Sionkowska (group  leader) and dr habil. Katarzyna Lewandowska, NCU prof. are listed within the annual World’s Top 2% Scientists lists prepared by Stanford University in cooperation with Elsevier, which include single-year impact (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023) and career-long impact. Our group is highly interdisciplinary and extremely motivated. We create innovative biomaterials and cosmetics, based on biomimetic routes. Materials fabricated by us are dedicated to tissue engineering, drug delivery, wound healing and cosmetology. We are deeply focused on the elaboration of biomaterials and cosmetics for problematic skin. Personalized cosmetology and medicine are the main aims of our research. The group members have been working with collagen-based materials and chitosan-based materials for more than 20 years. For the members of our team, nature is an inspiration, and the team members are the inspiration for young people, PhD students and students over the world. Every year we host scientists from several countries. We participated in almost 10 COST actions within the last ten years. We collaborate with several research groups over the world and are always open to  further and new collaboration.

Our team always shows that chemistry is doing its best for the beauty and health of human population.

GROUP MEMBERS

Prof. dr hab. Alina Sionkowska (group  leader) H-index 51
phone: +48 (56) 611 45 47; e-mail: alinas@umk.pl

dr hab. Katarzyna Lewandowska, university professor (vice-leader) H-index 23
phone: +48 (56) 611 45 51; e-mail: reol@umk.pl

prof. Ketul Popat (Visiting Professor)

dr Mahesh B. (Visiting Professor)

Dr Ajay Kumar Sahi (PostDoc)

PhD students:

Katarzyna Adamiak

Patrycja Brudzyńska

Karolina Kulka

Marta Szulc

Anna Tuwalska

Muhammad Tahir

Our research group is well equipped with several techniques, e.g. FTIR, microscopes (optical, SEM, AFM), rheology testers, and apparatus for measurement of mechanical properties. We use several techniques for the separation of biopolymers from natural sources and further purification (homogenization, dialysis).  The lyophilization apparatus allows us to get freeze-dried samples of high quality. For testing the properties of the skin before and after treatment with cosmetics we use ARAMO TS with several camera systems and probes for measurements of skin elasticity, moisture and sebum content.  ARAMO TS is also useful for examination of the hair and scalp for basic trichology assessment.

Selected publications from the last 2 years

  1. Hau Trung Nguyen, Alina Sionkowska, Katarzyna Lewandowska,
    Patrycja Brudzyńska, Marta Szulc, Nabanita Saha, Tomas Saha, Petr Saha.. Chitosan modified by kombucha-derived bacterial cellulose: rheological behavior and properties of convened biopolymer films. Polymers 2022; 14, 4572. https://doi.org/10.3390/polym14214572
  2. Tuwalska, S. Grabska-Zielińska, A. Sionkowska: Chitosan/Silk Fibroin Materials for Biomedical Applications—A Review. Polymers 2022, 14,1343. https://doi.org/10.3390/polym14071343
  3. Mahesh, D. Kathyayani, D. Channe Gowda, A.Sionkowska, S. Ramakrishna. Miscibility and thermal stability of synthetic Glutamic acid comprising polypeptide with Polyvinyl alcohol: Fabrication of nanofibrous electrospun membranes. Materials Chemistry and Physics 2022; 281; 125847.
  4. Grabska-Zielińska, A. Sionkowska. Modification of the surface properties of hyaluronic acid and collagen. Polysaccharides 2022, 1020677. https://doi.org/10.3390/polysaccharides3010008
  5. Bełdowski, M. Przybyłek, A. Sionkowska, P. Cysewski, M. Gadomska, K. Musiał, A. Gadomski. Effect of chitosan deacetylation on its affinity to type III
    collagen: molecular dynamics study. Materials 2022, 15, 463. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma15020463
  6. K. Anupama Devi, Sarbajit Ray, Udita Arora, Sunrito Mitra, A. Sionkowaska, Amit Kumar Jaiswal. A. Dual Drug Delivery Platforms for Bone Tissue Engineering. Frontiers Bioengineering and Biotechnology 2022; 10:969843. doi: 10.3389/fbioe.2022.969843.
  7. Tuwalska, A. Sionkowska, A. Bryła, G. Tylko, A.M. Osyczka, M. Laus, L.Vojtova. A Biological Study of Composites Based on the Blends of Nanohydroxyapatite, Silk Fibroin and  Chitosan. Materials 2022, 15, 5444. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma15155444
  8. Gadomska, K. Musiał, P. Bełdowski, A. Sionkowska, New Materials Based on Molecular Interaction between Hyaluronic Acid and Bovine Albumin. Molecules 2022, 27,15.
  9. Sionkowska, K. Musiał, M. Gadomska, K. Adamiak. Fish collagen  and chitosan mixtures as an promising biomaterial for potential use in the medicine and the cosmetic industry. Engineering of Biomaterials 2022.
  10. Adamiak, A.Sionkowska. The influence of UV irradiation on fish skin collagen films in the presence of xanthohumol and propanediol. Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy 2022; 282: 121652
  11. Brudzyńska, M. Kurzawa, A. Sionkowska, M. Grisel, Antioxidant activity of plant-derived colorants for potential cosmetic application. Cosmetics 2022; 9(4):8110.3390/cosmetics9040081
  12. Brudzyńska, A. Sionkowska, M. Grisel, Leather dyeing by plant-derived colorants in the presence of natural additives. Materials 2022 15, 3326. /1-15/ https://
    doi.org/10.3390/ma15093326
  13. Lewandowska, M. Szulc, Rheological and film-forming of chitosan composites, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2022, 23, 8763,1-13.
  14. Adamiak, K. Lewandowska, A. Sionkowska. The infuence of salicin on rheological and film-forming properties of collagen. Molecules 2021; 26(6)
  15. Dodero, S. Scarfi, S. Mirata, A. Sionkowska, S. Vicini, M. Alloisio, M. Castellano. Effect of crosslinking type on the physical-chemical properties and biocompatibility of chitosan-based electrospun membranes. Polymers 2021; 13(5), 831.
  16. Grabska-Zielińska, A. Sionkowska .How to improve physico‐chemical properties of silk fibroin materials for biomedical applications?—blending and cross‐linking of silk fibroin—a review. Materials 2021; 14(6),1510.
  17. Grabska-Zielińska, A. Sionkowska, A. Carvalho, F.J. Monteiro. Biomaterials with potential use in bone tissue regeneration-collagen/chitosan/silk fibroin scaffolds cross-linked by EDC/NHS. Materials 2021; 14(5),1105, pp. 1-21
  18. Adamowicz, T. Kloskowski, M. Stopek, M. Gniadek, M. Rasmus, M. Balcerzyk, M. Buhl, M. Gagat, P. Antosik, D. Grzanka, A. Sionkowska, T. Drewa, M. Pokrywczyńska. The development of marin ebiomateria derived from decellularized squid mantle for potential application as tissue engineered urinary conduit. Materials Science & Engineering C 2021; art. No 111579.