room 13, 25 (building C-6) Phone +48 71 320-34-37 daria.podstawczyk@pwr.edu.pl

Scientific interests

• 3D printing/bioprinting/4D printing

• antimicrobial 3D-printed structures

• hydrogels and their precursors

• immobilization of biomass in hydrogels

• green synthesis of nanoparticles

• membrane processes for wastewater treatment  

Current research projects

• R&D supervisor in the project No. POIR.04.01.04-00-0047/18 “Towards the circular economy - technologies of water and nutrients recovery from the secondary effluent” co-financed by the National Centre for Research and Development and the European Union under the Smart Growth Operational Programme 2014-2020 ( 02.2019-; company partner: Municipal Water and Sewage Company S.A. in Wroclaw).

The project aims at developing an integrated system of water and nutrients reclamation from secondary effluents at the Wrocław “Janówek” Wastewater Treatment Plant (WOŚ), in accordance with the assumptions of the circular economy. The project includes the recycling of secondary effluents with the simultaneous production of purified water and the recovery of valuable nutrients (organic compounds and magnesium) in the form of concentrated retentates from individual membrane unit operations.

• Supervisor in the project No. UMO-2016/23/D/ST8/01267 “Synthesis and physicochemical and mechanical characterization of three-dimensional composite structures laden with antimicrobial agents” funded by the National Science Centre (from 2017-09).

• Contractor in the project “Synthesis and physicochemical characteristics of novel hybrid polyelectrolyte microcapsules with entrapped unicellular algae” funded by the National Science Centre (from 2017- 03), supervised by dr. Anna Dawiec-Liśniewska

• Contractor in the project No. POIR.04.01.04-00-0109/17 “Use of nitric acid to improve wastewater treatment efficiency and plant energy balance” co-financed by the National Centre for Research and Development and the European Union under the Smart Growth Operational Programme 2014-2020 R&D supervised by dr. Stanisław Miodoński (company partner: Municipal Water and Sewage Company S.A. in Wroclaw)

Completed projects

• Project LIDER “Towards better quality of effluent - two step deammonification with bioagumentation of activated sludge with ammonia oxidizing bacteria” funded by the National Centre for Research and Development (from 2017-10), contractor

• Project Study on the properties of iron and copper nanoparticles synthesized by means of catechin and gallic acid funded by the National Science Centre (from 2016-10), supervisor

• Project Antimicrobial properties of polymer structures with Ag nanoparticles produced by 3D printing funded by the Leading National Research Center (from 2017-03), supervisor

• Project Experimental research and modelling of aroma separation in pervaporation process funded by the National Science Centre (from 2011 to 2014), contractor

• Project Membrane contactor-based removal of ammonia from water and waste heat integrated boiler water make-up production by means of pervaporation commissioned by the Swiss company ALSTOM Ltd. (from 2013-05 to 2014-04), contractor

• Project Long term tests of membrane contactor-based removal of ammonia from water commissioned by the Swiss company ALSTOM Ltd. (from 2014-10 to 2015-04), contractor

Selected publications

• Podstawczyk, D., Nizioł, M., Szymczyk, P., Wiśniewski, P., Guiseppi-Elie, A., 3D printed stimuli-responsive magnetic nanoparticle embedded alginate-methylcellulose hydrogel actuators, Additive Manufacturing 34 (2020), 101275. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addma.2020.101275

• Abasi, S., Davis Jr., Podstawczyk, D., R., Guiseppi-Elie, A., Distribution of water states within Poly(HEMA-co-HPMA)-based hydrogels, Polymer 185 (2019), 121978. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polymer.2019.121978

• Podstawczyk, D., Pawłowska, A., Bastrzyk A., Oszmiański, J., Reactivity of (+)-catechin with copper(II) ions: an insight into mechanism of green synthesis of size-controlled copper nanoparticles, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 7 (2019), 17535-17543. https://doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.9b05078

• Abasi, S., Podstawczyk, D., Sherback, A., Guiseppi-Elie, A., Biotechnical properties of poly(HEMA-co-HPMA) hydrogels are governed by distribution among water states, ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering 5 (2019), 4994-5004. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsbiomaterials.9b00705

• Skrzypczak, D., Witek-Krowiak, A., Dawiec-Liśniewska, A., Podstawczyk, D., Mikula, K., Chojnacka, K., Immobilization of biosorbent in sodium alginate /carboxymethylcellulose: biocomposite as a new environmentally friendly fertilizer for micronutrients delivery, Journal of Cleaner Production 241 (2019), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.118387

• Podstawczyk, D., Mitkowski, T., Dawiec-Liśniewska, A., Witek-Krowiak, A., Concentration of natural aroma compounds from fruit juice hydrolates by pervaporation in laboratory and semi-technical scale. Part 2. Economic analysis, Journal of Cleaner Production 165 (2017), 509-519. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.07.118

• Podstawczyk, D., Witek-Krowiak, A., Dawiec-Liśniewska, A., Chrobot, P., Skrzypczak, D., Removal of ammonium and orthophosphates from reject water generated during dewatering of digested sewage sludge in municipal wastewater treatment plant using adsorption and membrane contactor system, Journal of Cleaner Production 161 (2017), 277-287. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.05.105