Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics

The Laboratory of Applied Nuclear Physics is a group with a staff of 20 researchers, 6 PhD students and 6 technicians. The Laboratory runs a dedicated accelerator with a microprobe beam line, a scanning force microscope (SFM) equipped with a liquid cell, hyperfine spectrometer (TDPAC), two Mssbauer-Effect (ME) spectrometers, positron annihilation spectrometer. The institute runs an isochronous cyclotron that will be used in the project to produce radioisotopes for radiolabelling TiO2. Main research fields of the laboratory are nuclear analytical methods applied to the biomedical research. Current biomedical studies are:
Investigation of the metabolism of normal and cancerous tissue by X-ray spectroscopy (PIXE, SRIXE, -SRIXE, XANES), studies of renal stone formation by PIXE and -SRIXE, studies of living cell elasticity by SFM to explain the cytoskeleton changes induced by cancerous transformations, correlation studies between glycolic activity and cell elasticity for normal and cancerous cells treated with chitosan of different deacetylation degree, SFM studies of non-specific biological adhesion, determination with SFM of the strength of single ionic bonds in electrolytic environments, investigation of photosystem II by ME spectroscopy.

Subcontractor:

Rydiger State Hospital (details)
Kraków, Poland

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