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Mateusz distinguished by the Rector

Dr Mateusz Wlazło, postdoc from the group, was among the researchers from the University of Warsaw that were honored with the Rector's Distinction for the year 2024. The awards ceremony ...

Featured Angewandte Chemie paper

Silvio Osella contributed to the paper "Surface-State–Regulated Product Distribution in Photothermal CO2 Hydrogenation Over MXene-Based S-Scheme Catalyst", published in Angewandte Chemie. It has been selected for inclusion in two Wiley ...

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Recent publications

Y. Yin, F. Xu, M. Wlazlo, Y. Chen, G. Wen, G. Velpula, S. Bockmann, M. R. Hansen, S. De Feyter, K. S. Mali, W. Liu, S. Osella, M. Bonn, H. I. Wang, K. Mullen, X. Feng and Y. Mai, Porphyrin-Functionalized Graphene Nanoribbons in Solution Phase, J Am Chem Soc 148 (5), 5012 (2026), https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5c15646.
M. Wlazlo, W. A. Goddard, 3rd and S. Osella, A practical computational protocol for photocatalytic reactions beyond ground-state approximations, Chem Commun (Camb) 62 (16), 4828 (2026), https://doi.org/10.1039/d5cc06211j.
M. Langer, L. Zdrazil, A. L. Rogach, S. Osella and M. Otyepka, Photoexcited species localize on solvent-accessible fluorophore-rich domains inside carbon dots, Carbon 249, 121228 (2026), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carbon.2026.121228.
D. D. Kruger, F. J. Recio, M. Wlazło, S. Osella, A. Primo and H. Garcia, Facile molten salt synthesis of bimetallic NiFe-Ti3C2Tx MXene nano-hybrid as an efficient oxygen evolution electrocatalyst, npj 2D Materials and Applications 10 (1) (2026), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41699-026-00660-x.
D. D. Kruger, M. Cabrero-Antonino, S. Osella, F. Y. Xu, J. G. Yu, A. Primo and H. Garcia, Surface-State-Regulated Product Distribution in Photothermal CO2 Hydrogenation Over MXene-Based S-Scheme Catalyst, Angewandte Chemie-International Edition, e8425918 (2026), https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.8425918.
Q. Chen, M. Guizzardi, F. Mendez, C. Ju, H. R. Keller, G. Cerullo, S. Osella, F. Scotognella, G. M. Paterno, K. Mullen and A. Narita, Diels-Alder reaction affords circumpyrene tetracarboxydiimide with excited state intramolecular charge transfer character, Commun Chem 9 (1) (2026), https://doi.org/10.1038/s42004-026-01946-3.

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