Beyond the fading autumn light, a hidden garden of scientific wonder blossoms at the nanoscale. Nanoflowers are not only visually pleasing, but thanks to their large surface area and unique physicochemical properties, they are used in catalysis, sensors, medicine, energy, and environmental cleanup.
Below are SEM images of nanoflowers composed of copper phosphate and laccase; manganese phosphate and laccase; zinc phosphate and glucose oxidase, and copper phosphate and urease.

The 16th International Conference on Surfaces, Coatings and Nanostructured Materials, held in Naples, Italy, from July 6–10, 2025, was a valuable opportunity to present my research funded by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. I gave a talk titled "Hybrid Nanoflowers for Local Antibiotic Delivery," where I presented recent results from the project NdS-II/SP/0335/2023/01 

I had a great pleasure to present a part of my research as a talk titled "Zinc Phosphate-Protein Hybrid Nanoflowers as New Local Drug Delivery Systems" delivered during the Joint 20th Nordic-Baltic Conference on Biomedical Engineering and the 24th Polish Conference on Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering (NBC 2025 & PCBBE 2025) in Warsaw, Poland. In SEM images, zinc phosphate-albumin nanoflowers at different magnifications (A-C), below is a photo of allium giganteum – giant garlic (D).

The project's assumptions were presented during the sixth edition of the Congress “Zdrowie Polaków”, which took place on November 25-27, 2024. The main motto of the Congress was "Science for the health of society". You can read the material recorded during the 6th edition of the congress here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4cRiELOM5pMJcH-p541Qi_xDegOWfd6Q

I had a pleasure to give an invited talk about novel drug delivery systems based on nanoflowers during the 8th edition of the International Conference on Functional Nanomaterials and Nanodevices 2024 (NANOMAT2024) in Vienna. The protein and hydroxyapatite based nanoflowers mimic bones and can be used as a support for anibiotics. Such systems are promising local drug delivery systems for osteomyelitis, that is an infection in a bone. 

During the 6th interdisciplinary conference Nano(&)BioMaterials - from theory to applications 2024, we had the opportunity to share the results of our research. Poster entitled "Nanoflowers made of hydroxyapatite and bovine serum albumin as potential systems for local delivery of ciprofloxacin" was presented by Kornelia Bobrowska, a participant of the TIB PAN Doctoral School and a contractor in the project.