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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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SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy -
SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Molecular-scale engineering of locally concentrated ionic liquid electrolytes
Zhou, A. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)) & Matuszek, K. (Supervisor)
1/07/26 → 30/06/27
Project: Research
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Molecular Engineering of Locally Concentrated Ionic Liquid Electrolytes
Atkin, R. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)), Warr, G. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Silvester, D. S. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Matuszek, K. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Espinosa-Marzal, R. M. (Partner Investigator (PI)) & Salanne, M. (Partner Investigator (PI))
7/05/25 → 6/05/28
Project: Research
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Trimodal Materials to Unlock Synergistic Thermal Energy Storage Mechanisms
Matuszek, K. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)), Macfarlane, D. (Partner Investigator (PI)) & Tabor, R. (Chief Investigator (CI))
ARC - Australian Research Council, Monash University – Internal School Contribution
2/04/25 → 1/04/28
Project: Research
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Phase Change Materials for Renewable Energy Storage
Matuszek, K. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI))
1/04/24 → 23/06/28
Project: Research
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ANSTO Travel Support - Nanostructure in Locally Concentrated Ionic Liquid Electrolytes
Warr, G. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)), Matuszek, K. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Zhou, A. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Zheng, L. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Atkin, R. (Chief Investigator (CI)) & Nisar, S. (Chief Investigator (CI))
1/07/26 → 5/07/26
Project: Research
Research output
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Graphene Oxide−Silica Microcapsules Containing Phase Change Materials for Thermal Energy Storage
Wong, J., Stamper, C., Peach, E. K., Majumder, M., Tabor, R. F. & Matuszek, K., 8 Jun 2026, In: ACS Applied Energy Materials. 9, 11, p. 6811-6822 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Incorporation of azolate-based ionic liquids into MCM-41 silica for direct air capture of CO2
Karandagaspitiya, C. O., Matuszek, K., Webley, P. A. & Guo, Y., 15 Apr 2026, In: Chemical Engineering Journal. 534, 17 p., 174849.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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A Roadmap for Biomass-Driven Development of Sustainable Phase Change Materials
Brzęczek-Szafran, A., Gwóźdź, M., Brun, N., Wysokowski, M. & Matuszek, K., 2 Jun 2025, In: ChemSusChem. 18, 11, 27 p., 2500288.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review Article › Research › peer-review
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Direct Transformation of Biomass into Levulinic Acid Using Acidic Ionic Liquids: An Example of Sustainable and Efficient Waste Valorization
Przypis, M., Wawoczny, A., Matuszek, K., Chrobok, A., Swadźba-Kwaśny, M. & Gillner, D., 1 Sept 2025, In: ChemSusChem. 18, 17, 11 p., e202500951.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Machine learning-based predictions of melting temperature and enthalpy of fusion for protic organic salt phase change materials
Saher, S., Le, T. C., Greaves, T. L., Pringle, J. M., MacFarlane, D. R. & Matuszek, K., 7 Sept 2025, In: Materials Advances. 6, 17, p. 6140-6151 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access4 Link opens in a new tab Citations (Scopus)