room 123 (F3 building) Phone +48 71 320-62-03 Fax +48 71 320-65-06 karolina.kordek-khalil@pwr.edu.pl

Research interests

• Electrocatalyis in reactions of hydrogen and oxygen evolution from aqueous solutions
• Carbon fibres
• Electrodeposition of electrocatalytic films
• Hydrothermal modification of materials
• Carbon quantum dots

Research projects

• “Influence of thermal modification of carbon fibres on their electrocatalytic activity in oxygen evolution reaction”, NCN Preludium, październik 2019 – październik 2020, kierownik projektu
• Trzy małe projekty na dostęp do aparatury badawczej w Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (Barcelona): „Partially oxidized cobalt nanoparticles deposited on activated carbon cloth for application as bifunctional electrocatalytic electrode”, “Application of pulsed laser deposition for fabrication of free-standing high-performance bifunctional electrodes for water splitting”, “Evaluation of structural changes during electrocatalytic performance of the composite electrodes prepared by pulsed laser deposition”, Nanoscience Foundaries & Fine Analysis (NFFA), czerwiec 2018, listopad 2018, listopad 2019, kierownik projektów
• “Protection, Resilience, Rehabilitation of damaged environment”, European cooperation in science & technology (COST),  marzec 2020 – marzec 2023, wykonawca
• “Coal liquid-based upgraded carbon materials for energy storage”, Komisja Europejska, styczeń 2018 – czerwiec 2018, wykonawca projektu

Sellected publications

• K. Kordek, L. Jiang, K. Fan, Z. Zhu, L. Xu, M. Al-Mamun, Y. Dou, S. Chen, P. Liu, H. Yin, P. Rutkowski, H. Zhao, Two-Step Activated Carbon Cloth with Oxygen-Rich Functional Groups as a High-Performance Additive-Free Air Electrode for Flexible Zinc–Air Batteries, Advaned Energy Materials (2019), 1802936
• K. Kordek-Khalil, A. de Rosset, P. Rutkowski, Influence of pulsed laser ablation temperature on structure, morphology and electrocatalytic properties of cobalt-based films deposited on carbon cloth, Applied Surface Science 509 (2020) 145263
• K. Kordek. E. Lorenc-Grabowska, P. Rutkowski, Tailoring the composition of one-step electrodeposited Co,Ni/Co,Ni(OH)2 composite coating for highly active hydrogen evolution electrode, Sustainable Energy & Fuels, (2020), 4, 369-379
• K. Kordek, H. Yin, P. Rutkowski, H. Zhao, Cobalt-based composite films on electrochemically activated carbon cloth as high performance overall water splitting electrodes, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, (2019), 44, 23-33
• R. Wiglusz, K. Kordek, M. Małecka , A. Ciupa, M. Ptak, R. Pązik, P. Pohl, D. Kaczorowski, A new approach in the synthesis of La1-xGdxFeO3 perovskite nanoparticles – structural and magnetic characterization, Dalton Transactions, (2015), 44, 20067-20074