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Dr. Karolina Matuszek is a Lecturer in the School of Chemistry at Monash University and has recently been awarded a prestigious Australian Research Council Early Career Industry Fellowship. She has extensive research expertise in renewable energy storage and sustainable catalysis.
Currently Dr. Matuszek is working in the area of thermal energy storage, which includes designing novel phase change materials that can inexpensively store large quantities of energy during a simple phase transition. The reversibility of this transition allows for facile energy release and offers long lifetimes in use. Phase change material-based technologies have the potential to offer solutions that are low cost, have low environmental impact, good reliability and are highly scalable.
Dr. Matuszek has strong collaboration with Industry Partner, currently working with Boron Molecular to deveop sustainable phase change materials and sustainable production methods.
Research interests
1. Phase change materials for renewable energy storage (Review on PCMs).
2. Electrolyes for aluminium batteries.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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Al(iii) and Ga(iii) triflate complexes as solvate ionic liquids: speciation and application as soluble and recyclable Lewis acidic catalysts
Więcławik, J., Brzęczek-Szafran, A., Jurczyk, S., Matuszek, K., Swadźba-Kwaśny, M. & Chrobok, A., 4 Oct 2024, In: Dalton Transactions. 53, 48, p. 19143-19152 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Biomass-derived polyol esters as sustainable phase change materials for renewable energy storage
Gwozdz, M., Markiewicz, M., Stolte, S., Chrobok, A., Turner, D., Matuszek, K. & Brzeczek-Szafran, A., 21 Nov 2024, In: Green Chemistry. 26, 22, p. 11259-11271 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Investigation of the intermolecular origins of high and low heats of fusion in azolium salt phase change materials for thermal energy storage
Saher, S., Piper, S. L., Forsyth, C. M., Kar, M., MacFarlane, D. R., Pringle, J. M. & Matuszek, K., 7 Apr 2024, In: Materials Advances. 5, 7, p. 2991-3000 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Recent Progress and Future Perspectives of Ionic Liquid-Based Carbon Dioxide Capture and Conversion
Zafar, A., Matuszek, K., MacFarlane, D. R. & Zhang, X., 15 Oct 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: Green Energy and Environment. 39 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Spontaneous Liquefaction of Solid Metal–Liquid Metal Interfaces in Colloidal Binary Alloys
Parker, C. J., Zuraiqi, K., Krishnamurthi, V., Mayes, E. L. H., Vaillant, P. H. A., Fatima, S. S., Matuszek, K., Tang, J., Kalantar-Zadeh, K., Meftahi, N., McConville, C. F., Elbourne, A., Russo, S. P., Christofferson, A. J., Chiang, K. & Daeneke, T., 10 Jul 2024, In: Advanced Science. 11, 26, 9 p., 2400147.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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