Dr. Celer recently joined the Department of Applied Science at Quantachrome's Headquarters (Boynton Beach, Florida, USA) as Manager, Application Support. As a researcher in the area of synthesis and characterization of ordered mesoporous materials, Dr.Celer brings to Quantachrome and our customers a great deal of specialized, state-of-the-art knowledge regarding modern porous materials.

Prior to joining Quantachrome, Dr. Celer was a member of Prof. Mietek Jaroniec's research group at Kent State University (Ohio, USA) and recently graduated with her Doctorate in Physical Chemistry (2007).

Before her time at KSU, Dr. Celer studied at Szczecin University of Technology (Szczecin, Poland) where she earned not only an MS&E in Inorganic Technology (2001) but also a BS&E in Administration and Marketing (2002).

Research Interests

• Novel nanomaterials including ordered mesoporous molecular sieves, ordered and disordered carbons, and structural characterization of these materials by various experimental techniques.
• Analysis of structural/surface properties of nanoporous materials, their stability and advanced applications (e.g. separation, catalysis) .

Professional Affiliations

• American Chemical Society
• Materials Research Society

Selected Research Papers

• Kruk,M.; Kohlhaas,K.M.; Dufour,B.; Celer,E.B.; Jaroniec,M.; Matyjaszewski,K.; Ruoff,R.S. and Kowalewski,T. "Partially Graphitic, High-surface-area Mesoporous Carbons from Polyacrylonitrile Templated by Ordered and Disordered Mesoporous Silicas" Microp. Mesop. Mater., 102 (2007) 178-187.


• Kruk,M.; Dufour,B.; Celer,E.B.; Kowalewski,T.; Jaroniec,M. and Matyjaszewski,K. "Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization Initiated from Surfaces of Ordered Mesoporous Silicas" Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering Division Preprints, American Chemical Society, 97 (2007) 274-275.


• Celer,E.B. and Jaroniec,M. "Temperature Programmed Microwave-Assisted Synthesis of SBA-15 Ordered Mesoporous Silica" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 128 (2006) 14408-14414.


• Celer,E.B., Kruk,M., Zuzeek,Y. and Jaroniec,M. "Hydrothermal Stability of SBA-15 and Related Plugged Ordered Mesoporous Silicas" J. Mater. Chem., 16 (2006) 2824-2833.


• Kruk,M.; Dufour,B.; Celer,E.B.; Kowalewski,T.; Jaroniec,M. and Matyjaszewski,K. "Well-defined Poly(ethylene oxide)-Polyacrylonitrile Diblock Copolymers as Templates for Mesoporous Silicas and Precursors for Mesoporous Carbons" Chem. Mater., 18 (2006) 1417-1424.


• Kruk,M.; Dufour,B.; Celer,E.B.; Kowalewski,T.; Jaroniec,M. and Matyjaszewski,K. "Synthesis of Mesoporous Carbons Using Ordered and Disordered Mesoporous Silica Templates and Polyacrylonitrile as Carbon Precursor" J. Phys. Chem. B, 109 (2005) 9216-9225.


• Kruk,M.; Celer,E.B.; Matos,R.; Pikus,S. and Jaroniec,M. "Synthesis of FDU-1 Silica with Narrow Pore Size Distribution and Tailorable Pore Entrance Size in the Presence of Sodium Chloride" J. Phys. Chem. B, 109 (2005) 3838-3843.


• Celer,E.B.; Kruk,M. and Jaroniec,M. "Adsorption Monitoring of Hydrothermal and Thermal Stability of Polymer-Templated Mesoporous Materials" Adsorption, 11 (2005) 745-750.


• Fantini,M.C.A.; Matos,J.R.; Cides da Silva, L.C.; Mercuri,L.P.; Chiereci,G.O.; Celer,E.B. and Jaroniec,M. "Ordered mesoporous silica: microwave synthesis" Mater. Sci. Eng. B, 112 (2004) 106-110.


• Kruk,M.; Celer,E.B. and Jaroniec,M. "Exceptionally High Stability of Copolymer-Templated Ordered Silica with Large Cage-Like Mesopores" Chem. Mater., 16 (2004) 698-707.

Contact

Dr Celer can be reached by email at ewa.celer@quantachrome.com