During the visit, the visitors explored further opportunities for cooperation in research. To this end, they participated in meetings held at the Faculty of Material Technologies and Textile Design.
Prof. Dawid Stawski of the Institute of Textile Materials Science and Polymer Composites presented his research group's outputs concerning polymers and copolymers obtained through polymerization and polycondensation and showed the guests around the laboratories that his research group work at.
The meeting with dr inż. Katarzyna Pieklak allowed the visitors to learn the ins and outs of innovative absorptive dressing materials under development. Based on exogenous tropocollagen with the addition of modified nanodiamonds they take the form of gel, lyophilizate, membrane, or non-woven fabric. The meeting ended with a visit to the Laboratory of Knitted Fabric and Knitted Clothing Confection.
In the Faculty of Chemistry, the visitors talked to prof. Beata Kolesińska of the Institute of Organic Chemistry about the design and synthesis of biologically active peptides and their medical applications. A visit to the laboratories gave them the opportunity to see the laboratory apparatus.
The meeting with prof. Grażyna Budryn, Head of the Institute of Food Technology and Analysis at the Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Sciences, concerned ideas developed in the course of the InterHEI project and the field of food and food packaging.
The visitors from Istanbul went on to visit the International Center for Innovative Biomaterials Research, ICRI - BioM. Thanks to dr inż. Piotr Ślęczkowski, they learned how the Center is operated and what research is carried out in the area of the development of functional materials who building blocks are bio-inspired and contain stimuli-responsive groupings. They met with doctoral candidates and postdoctoral researchers and viewed the research facilities of the Center.
Hopefully, the meetings held at Lodz University of Technology inspire new developments, e.g., collaborative grant applications and expansion of research networks.
The visitors found the time for a quick tour of the campus with Paulina Danieluk from TUL Welcome Point as their guide.