• Environmental impacts of nanoparticles
• Radiolabelling techniques for environmental research
• Carbon nanoparticle/liquid crystal composites

Ongoing Projects:

• Helmholtz European Partnering CROSSING:⁽⁶⁾ Nanoparticles in Soil
• SurfBio:⁽⁷⁾ Innovation Hub for Surface and Colloid Biology Research

Finished Projects:

• Nanosuppe:⁽⁸⁾ "Verhalten von synthetischen Nanopartikeln im Wirkungspfad Abwasser - Klärschlamm – Pflanze am Beispiel TiO2, CeO2, MWCNT und Quantum dots"
• BioMOre:⁽⁹⁾ "An Alternative Mining Project"
• NanoTrack:⁽¹⁰⁾ "Investigation of the life cycle of nanoparticles be means of [⁴⁵Ti]TiO₂ and [¹⁰⁵Ag]Ag⁰“
• CNTtrack:⁽¹¹⁾ "Transport of engineered carbon nanoparticles in geomatrices"
• Qnano-Projects⁽¹²⁾: "Radiolabelling of TiO2 and Ag nanoparticles and multi-wall carbon nanotubes using cyclotron techniques

• Stricker, A.; Hilpmann, S.; Mansel, A.; Franke, K.; Schymura, S.: "Radiolabeling of Micro-/Nanoplastics via In-Diffusion"⁽¹³⁾, Nanomaterials. 13., 2687, 2023.
• Demnitz, M.; Schymura, S.; Neumann, J.; Schmidt, M.; Schäfer, T.; Stumpf, T.; Müller, K: "Mechanistic understanding of Curium(III) sorption on natural K feldspar surfaces"⁽¹⁴⁾, Science of the Total Environment 843, 156920, 2022.
• Schymura, S., Rybkin, I., Uygan, S.S.S., Drev, S., Podlipec, R., Rijavec, T., Mansel, A., Lapanje, A., Franke, K., Strok, M.: "Dissolution-based uptake of CeO2 nanoparticles by freshwater shrimp – A dual-radiolabelling study of the fate of anthropogenic cerium in water organisms"⁽¹⁵⁾ Environ. Sci. Nano, 2021.
• Demnitz, M.; Molodtsov, K.; Schymura, S.; Schierz, A.; Müller, K.; Jankovsky, F.; Havlova, V.; Stumpf, T.; Schmidt, M.: "Effects of surface roughness and mineralogy on the sorption of Cm(III) on crystalline rock"⁽¹⁶⁾, Journal of Hazardous Materials, 423, 127006, 2021.
• Molodtsov, K., Demnitz, M., Schymura, S., Jankovský, F., Zuna, M., Havlová, V., Schmidt, M.: "Molecular-Level Speciation of Eu(III) Adsorbed on a Migmatized Gneiss As Determined Using μTRLFS"⁽¹⁷⁾, ES&T. 55(3), 2021
  
• Lange, T., Schneider, P., Schymura, S., Franke, K.: "The Fate of Anthropogenic Nanoparticles, nTiO 2 and nCeO 2 , in Waste Water Treatment"⁽¹⁸⁾, Water 12(9):2509, 2020
• Hildebrand, H., Schymura, S., Franke, K., Fischer, C.: "Analysis of studies regarding the detectionof nanomaterials in different environmental compartments"⁽¹⁹⁾, UBA Texte, 133, 2019

• Molodtsov, K., Schymura, S., Rothe, J., Dardenne, K., Schmidt, M.: "Sorption of Eu(III) on Eibenstock granite studied by µTRLFS: A novel spatially-resolved luminescence-spectroscopic technique"⁽²⁰⁾, Scientific Reports, 9(1), 2019

• Schymura, S., Fricke, T., Hildebrand, H., Franke, K.: "Elucidating the Role of Dissolution in CeO₂ Nanoparticle Plant Uptake by Smart Radiolabeling"⁽²¹⁾, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 10.1002/anie.201702421, 2017
• Hildebrand, H. Schymura, S., Holzwarth, U., Gibson, N., Dalmiglio, M., Franke, K.: "Strategies for radiolabeling of commercial TiO2 nanopowder as a tool for sensitive nanoparticle detection in complex matrices"⁽²²⁾, J. Nanopart. Res. 17:278, 2015
• Schymura, S., Scalia, G.: "On the effect of carbon nanotubes on the properties of liquid crystals"⁽²³⁾, Phil Trans R Soc A 371: 20120261, 2013
• Schymura, S., Dölle, S., Yamamoto, J., Lagerwall, J.,: "Filament formation in carbon nanotube-doped lyotropic liquid crystals"⁽²⁴⁾, Soft Matter, 7, 2663, 2011
• Schymura, S., Kühnast, M., Lutz, V., Jagiella, S., Detlaff-Weglikowska, U.,Roth, S., Giesselmann, F., Tschierske, C., Scalia, G., Lagerwall, J.: "Towards Efficient Dispersion of Carbon Nanotubes in Thermotropic Liquid Crystals"⁽²⁵⁾, Adv Funct Mater, 20(19). 3350-3357, 2010
• Schymura, S., Enz, E., Roth, S., Scalia, S., Lagerwall, J.: "Macroscopic-scale carbon nanotube alignment via self-assembly in lyotropic liquid crystals"⁽²⁶⁾, Synthetic Met, 159(21-22), 2177-2179, 2009
• Dölle, S., Lechner, B.-D., Park, J.H., Schymura, S., Lagerwall, J., Scalia, G.: "Utilizing the krafft phenomenon to generate ideal micelle-free surfactant-stabilized nanoparticle suspensions."⁽²⁷⁾, Angew Chem Int Ed Engl, 51(13), 3254-7, 2012
• Liang, H.-L., Schymura, S., Rudquist, P., Lagerwall, J.: "Nematic-Smectic Transition under Confinement in Liquid Crystalline Shells"⁽²⁸⁾, Phys Rev Lett, 106(24), 247801, 2011
• Ocak, H., Bilgin-Eran, B., Prehm, M., Schymura, S., Lagerwall, J., Tschierske, C.: "Effects of chain branching and chirality on liquid crystalline phases of bent-core molecules: blue phases, de Vries transitions and switching of diastereomeric states⁽²⁹⁾", Soft Matter, 7, 8266-8280, 2011
• Scalia, G., Lagerwall, J., Schymura, S., Haluska, M., Giesselmann, F., Roth, S.: "Carbon nanotubes in liquid crystals as versatile functional materials"⁽³⁰⁾, Phys Status Solidi B, 244(11), 4212-4217, 2007
• Hashmi, A.S.K., Rudolph, M.. Schymura, S., Visus, J., Fry, W.: "Gold catalysis: Alkylideneoxazolines and -oxazoles from intramolecular hydroamination of an alkyne by a trichloroacetimidate"⁽³¹⁾, Eur J Org Chem, (21), 4905-4909, 2006

Book chapters:

• Schymura, S., Park, J.H., Dierking, I., Scalia, G.: "Carbon nanotubes in thermotropic low molar mass liquid crystals"⁽³²⁾, In: Lagerwall, J., Scalia, G.:"Liquid Crystals with Nano and Microparticles (In 2 Volumes)", World Scientific, 2016
• Dölle, S., Park, J.H., Schymura, S., Jo, HR., Scalia, G., Lagerwall, J.: "Nanoparticle guests in lyotropic liquid crystals"⁽³³⁾, In: Lagerwall, J., Scalia, G.:"Liquid Crystals with Nano and Microparticles (In 2 Volumes)", World Scientific, 2016

Dissertation:

• "Liquid Crystalline Carbon Nanotube Suspensions - From Unique Challenges to Unique Properties"⁽³⁴⁾, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, 2013