Electrochemistry & Corrosion Laboratory

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NEWS

13-09-2025 Our team member Dzmitry Kharytonau participated in this year's edition of the Eurocorr2025 conference in Stavanger, Norway. He has presented the research we do in our Lab on the impedance spectroscopy of modified chitosan coatings, which is Sonatina 5 project from NCN National Science Centre. Thanks to the EFC - European Federation of Corrosion and the Norwegian Corrosion Society for organizing this great event.

01-08-2025 We are happy to share that our lab has obtained an infrastructure grant for the development of the equipment base! Thanks to the funding support of the program "Fundusze Europejskie dla Małopolski 2021-2027", we will be able to buy and install new unique equipment for nanoscale analysis and characterization of the surfaces. More updates are coming soon.  This project is coordinated by our team member, Dzmitry Kharytonau. 

22-05-2025 Our team member,  dr. inz. Viktoryia Chaprasava, has been awarded a research grant, Miniatura 9, from the National Science Center of Poland. In this 1-year project, she will study the effect of parameters of LDH coatings' growth and modification on the corrosion resistance of Zn alloys.

 More details are available here  https://ncn.gov.pl/konkursy/wyniki/miniatura9

 31-03-2025    We are happy to announce that on March 14, 2025, Jerzy Haber Institute of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry has signed a long-term cooperation agreement with Institute of Corrosion Science and Technology from Guangzhou, China. Our Institutes plan to cooperate in joint research and development activities, contributing to a better understanding of surfaces, interfaces, nanostructures, and their applications, with a special focus on surface science and corrosion. The Electrochemistry & Corrosion Laboratory will be a key collaborator with a special focus in the corrosion of Mg alloys. We look forward to fruitful collaboration! 

18-04-2024   Our team member, Dzmitry Kharytonau, explored a real Northern Swedish winter during 6-months research stay as a guest researcher in the group of Experimental Physics at the Department of Engineering Sciences and Mathematics at Luleå Tekniska Universitet. During this stay, he learned advanced scanning probe microscopy techniques under the supervision of Prof. Nils Almqvist. The focus was paid to utilizing Intermodulation Atomic force Microscopy (ImAFM) and Intermodulation Electrostatic Force Microscopy (ImEFM) to understand nanomechanical and electrical properties of chitosan-based coatings on Mg alloys. Financial support for this stay was provided by the National Science Center of Poland under the Sonatina 5 grant "Multifunctional chitosan-based composite coatings for biodegradable Mg alloys". We hope it will be the beginning of the cooperation between our groups.

05-10-2023   On September 18-22, 2023, our team member Dzmitry Kharytonau participated in the SMT 35 conference in Hamburg, Germany, organized by Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon and Helmut-Schmidt-Universität. It was so exciting to meet many new people fascinated by science and give a talk on chitosan coatings he works on in the grant Sonatina 5 from NCN National Science Centre. Thanks a lot to all the organizers!

28-09-2023 Two members of our team, dr. Dzmitry Kharytonau and dr. inz. Konrad Skowron, visited the Institute of Surface Science at Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon in terms of Erasmus+ program. They visited the labs of the Electrochemistry and Big Data department, gave a seminar on the corrosion of Al and Mg alloys, and discussed the possible collaboration perspectives. We look forward the cooperation between our groups!

15-05-2023 One of our team members,  dr. inz. Konrad Skowron, has been awarded a research grant Miniatura 7 from the National Science Center of Poland. In this 1-year project, he will study the effect of Mg nanocrystallization on corrosion resistance of phosphate conversion coatings for biomedical applications.

 More details are available here  https://ncn.gov.pl/konkursy/wyniki/miniatura7

27-04-2023 One of our team members,  dr. Dzmitry Kharytonau, has been recognised as one of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s 2022 Outstanding Reviewers.  He was selected by RSC Advances Journal. More details are available here  https://www.rsc.org/journals-books-databases/author-and-reviewer-hub/reviewer-information/outstanding-peer-reviewers/2022/rsc-advances/