About us - Ryszard Szymanski D.Sc.

Ryszard SZYMANSKI, D.Sc., associate professor

Affiliation:

Department of Polymer Chemistry
Tel.: +(48-42)-680-3-219, fax: (+48-42) 6847126
e-mail: rszymans@bilbo.cbmm.lodz.pl

Scientific career:

1972 Master of Science in Chemistry degree, Technical University of Lodz
1972 Research trainee
1973 Assistant
1975 Senior Assistant
1980 PhD degree
1981 (one year) Postdoctoral research associate at the University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
1982 Adjunct research associate
1990 Habilitation degree
1994 Associate professor (docent)

Current research area:

Polymer chemistry, computer simulations of polymerization processes

Selected references:

  1. R. Szymanski
    Copolymerization at equilibrium. General treatment
    Makromol. Chem., 188, 2605-2619 (1987)

  2. R. Szymanski
    The macrocycle - copolymer equilibrium in equilibrium copolymerization
    Makromol. Chem., 190, 2903-2908 (1989)

  3. T. Biela, R. Szymanski, P. Kubisa
    Oligomerization of oxiranes in the presence of phosphorus acids.
    II. Kinetics of addition of ethylene oxide to phosphoric and phosphorous acid
    Makromol. Chem., 193, 285-301 (1992)

  4. N. Manolova, J. Libiszowski, R. Szymanski, S. Penczek
    Polymerization of Ethylene Oxide by the Activated Monomer Mechanism
    Polymer Intern., 36, 23-28 (1995)

  5. K. Matyjaszewski, R. Szymanski, M. Teodorescu
    Bimodal Molecular Weight Distribution in Carbocationic Systems with Free Ions and Ion Pairs of Equal Reactivities but Different Lifetimes
    Macromolecules, 27, 7565-7574 (1994)

  6. S. Penczek, R. Szymanski
    On the Contribution of Covalent and Ionic Species to the Chain Growth
    Macromol. Chem. Phys., 196, 957-961 (1995)

  7. J. Pretula, K. Kaluzynski, R. Szymanski, S. Penczek
    Preparation of Poly(alkylene H-Phosphonate)s and Their Derivatives by Polycondensation of Diphenyl H-Phosphonate with Diols and Subsequent Transformations
    Macromolecules, 30, 8172-8176 (1997)

  8. R. Szymanski
    Molecular weight distribution in living polymerization proceeding with reshuffling of polymer segments due to chain scission,
    1. Determination of kp/ktr ratio from DPw/DPn data. Ideal reproduction of polymer chain activities
    Macromol. Theory Simul., 7, 27-39 (1998)

  9. S. Penczek, A. Duda, R. Szymanski, T. Biela
    What we have learned in general from cyclic esters polymerization
    Macromol. Symp., 153, 1-15 (2000)