About us - Adam Tracz

Adam Tracz, DSc., associate professor, born 23 July 1957 in Lodz, Poland

Affiliation:

Department of Polymer Physics
Tel.: +(48-42)-680-3-228, fax: (+48-42) 6803260
e-mail: atracz@cbmm.lodz.pl

Scientific career:

1981 M.Sc., (Physics), University of Lodz, Poland
1981 Technical Assistant, Centre of Molecular and Macromolecular Studies

1981-1983 Technical Assistant, Polymer Institute, Technical University of Lodz
1983 Centre of Molecular and Macromolecular Studies
1989 Ph.D., (Organic Chemistry), Center of Molecular and Macromolecular Studies
2003 D.Sc., (Habilitation), Center of Molecular and Macromolecular Studies,

2005 Associate Professor at the Center of Molecular and Macromolecular Studies

Foreign Laboratories :

1992-1994 (Post-Doc) Fellowship of Max-Planck Society, Max-Planck-Institute (two years) for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany
1986 (3 months) University Claude Bernard, Lyon 1, France
1997 (1 month) Ecole Superieure de Physik et Chemie Industriele, Paris, France
1997 (2 months) Humboldt Univeristat zu Berlin, Germany
2003 (2 months) Fellowship (21-st Century COE-Kyoto Alliance for Chemistry), Kyoto University, Japan
2004 (2 months) JSPS Fellowship, Kyoto University, Japan
2004 (1 month) Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA
2005 (1 month) Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA
2005 (10 days) Department of Engineering Materials, University of Sheffield, UK

Awards:

1987 Award of the Minister of Science and Education
1990 Award of the Minister of Science and Education
1992 Award of the Minister of Science and Education
1995 Award of Rectors of Universties in Lodz and the President of the Deptartment of Polish Academy od Sciences.

Current research area:

  • electrical properties of organic materials
  • structure and properties of conducting composites (reticulate doping of polymers)
  • crystallization of polymers (role of interfaces)
  • anisotropic crystallization in thin films (zone casting technique)
  • physical-chemistry of nano-materials
  • scanning probe microscopies (AFM, STM)

Selected references (2002-2005):

  1. Influence of Crystallization Conditions on the Morphology of the Contact Layer of Polyethylene Crystallized on Graphite: AFM Studies.
    A. Tracz, J.K. Jeszka, I. Kuciñska, J-P. Chapel, G. Boiteux, M. Kryszewski.
    J. Appl. Polym.Sci. 86, 1329 (2002)

  2. Influence of controlled nanoscale roughness on physisorbed 2D-crystals at graphite-liquid interfaces.
    A. Tracz, A. Stabel, J.P. Rabe
    Langmuir 18, 9319 (2002)

  3. Uniaxial Alignement of the columnar Super-Structure of a Hexa(alkyl) Hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene on untreated glass by simple solution processing. Influence of controlled nanoscale roughness on physisorbed 2D-crystals at graphite-liquid interfaces.
    A. Tracz, J.K. Jeszka, M. Watson, W. Pisula, K. Müllen, T. Pakula
    J. Am. Chem. Soc. 125, 1682-1683 (2003)

  4. Scanning tunneling microscopy study of graphite oxidation in ozone-air mixtures.
    A. Tracz, G. Wegner, J.P. Rabe,
    Langmuir 19, 6807-6812, (2003).

  5. Formation of highly ordered, unusually broad polyethylene lamellae in contact with atomically flat solid surfaces.
    A.Tracz, I. Kucinska, and J.K. Jeszka,
    Macromolecules 36, 10130-10132, (2003)

  6. Thermal switching of the optical anisotropy of a macroscopically aligned film of a discotic liquid crystal.
    J. Piris, W. Pisula , A. Tracz, T. Pakula, K. Mullen, J.M. Warman,
    Liquid Crystals 31, 993-996 (2004)

  7. Interface Structure of Epitaxial Polyethylene Crystal Grown on HOPG and MoS2 Substrates.
    Y. Takenaka, H. Miyaji, A. Hoshino, A. Tracz, J.K. Jeszka, I. Kucinska,
    Macromolecules 37, 9667 (2004)

  8. The Influence of Micro- and Nanoparticles on Model Atomically Flat Surfaces on Crystallization of Polyethylene.
    A. Tracz, I. Kucinska, J.K. Jeszka
    European Polymer Journal 41, 501-509 (2005)

  9. A zone-casting technique for device fabrication of field-effect transistors based on discotic hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene.
    W. Pisula, A. Menon, M. Stepputat, I. Lieberwirth, U. Kolb, A.Tracz, H. Sirringhaus, T.Pakula, K.Müllen,
    Advanced Materials, 17, 684-689 (2005)

  10. Long-Range Ordered Thin Films of Block Copolymers Prepared by Zone-Casting and Their Thermal Conversion into Ordered Nanostructured Carbon.
    C.Tang, A.Tracz, M. Kruk, R. Zhang, D.-M Smilgies, K. Matyjaszewski, T. Kowalewski
    J. Am. Chem. Soc., 127, 6918-6919 (2005)

  11. Structure of zone-cast HBC-C12H25 films.
    D. W.Breiby, O.Bunk, W.Pisula, T. I.Solling, A.Tracz, T.Pakula, K.Mullen, M. M.Nielsen,
    J. Am. Chem. Soc., 127, 11288-11293 (2005)

  12. AFM Study of Lamellar Structure of Melt-Crystallized n-Alkane C390H782.
    A. Tracz , G. Ungar,
    Macromolecules, 38, 4962-4965 (2005)