CONE Centre for Organic and Nanohybrid Electronics

Malgorzata Czichy is an expert in the (electro)synthesis and characterization of organic semiconductors and conductors, in particular n-type conducting materials, and a lecturer in the  fields of catalysis and organic electronics.

Research interests:

• narrow-bandgap polymers,
• poly(hetero)arenes,
• fullerenes,
• spectroelectrochemistry.

Projects:

1. OPUS-21 consortium project, National Science Center (01/06/2022-31/05/2025) - "Towards a zero energy gap and superconducting conjugated multidimensional polymers" (UMO-2021/41/B/ST5/03221) (project manager on the partner's side).

2. SONATA-1 project, National Science Center (01/12/2011 - 30/04/2015) - "Application of electrochemical methods for the obtaining of photoactive donor-acceptor polymers" (UMO-2011/01/D/ST4/04630) (project manager).

3. HORYZONT 2020 ( (01/09/2020 – 31/08/2025) "Creation and development of an ERA Chair and Centre of Excellence in Organic Electronics as a strategic point of development for science and innovation in the Silesian region and Poland" (ExCEED, nr 952008) (investigator).

4. HORYZONT 2020 (01/01/2018 – 31/12/2021) – "Organic Charge Transfer Applications" (OCTA, nr 778158) (investigator).

5. HORYZONT 2020 (01/09/2015 – 31/08/2019) – Maria Curie Initial Training Network (ITN), "Donor-Acceptor Light Emitting EXCIplexes as Materials for Easy-to-Tailor Ultra-efficient OLED LIGHTing" – co-supervisor; developing a modern interdisciplinary system for training PhD students (EXCILIGHT, nr 674990) (investigator).

6. HORYZONT 2015 (09/09/2015 – 08/09/2018) – "Boosting the scientific excellence and innovation capacity in organic electronics of the Silesian University of Technology" (H2020-TWINN-2015 ORZEL, nr 691684) (investigator).