Aim of the project: The main purpose of the project was to produce filter material that is used to capture airborne dust and pathogenic bacteria and viruses that negatively affect human health, from a renewable resource (lignin) that can be easily degraded in nature. It is to open a new area of use with high added value that can add economic value to forest products found abundantly in the Kastamonu region. At the same time, it is to increase Turkey's competitive power in filter production. For this purpose, organosolv lignin was produced from poplar trees, which are cheap and easily obtained. The produced organosolv lignin was polymerized by itself. Studies on filter paper are currently being carried out.

Aim of the project: The aim of the project was to synthesize new hyper-crosslinked polymers with better properties and more functional, higher CO2 adsorption capacity than their counterparts in the literature. At the same time, the common effects of different polar groups on the formation of hyper-crosslinked polymers, their surface areas, pore structures and CO2 adsorption performances were also revealed in the project in comparison with the literature. The data obtained with the project was published in the Polymer journal in 2025.

Aim of the project: The main purpose of this postdoctoral research project is to learn many polymerization methods (SRP, GTP, ATRP, RAFT, heterogeneous polymerizations, etc.), to ensure the effective usability of devices and systems used in polymer characterization, to synthesize polymers to be used in membrane technology, especially with ATRP and RAFT polymerization methods, from monomers such as MPEG, AAc, DEA and GMA, to modify them (bind functional groups), and then to convert the obtained precursor and derivative polymers into nanofibrous membranes by electrospinning and use them in the removal of VOCs.

Aim of the project: The aim of this project is to synthesize new types of HCPs with high affinity to Eosin Yellowish (EY) dye. For this purpose, new types of HCPs were synthesized with tris(4-hydroxyphenyl)methane triglycidyl ether, (2-Ethyl-2-(hydroxymethyl)-1,3-propanediol (chloromethyl)oxirane or tris(2,3-epoxypropyl) isocyanurate and diethylenetriamine or tetraethylenepentamine. The synthesized HCPs were then used in the adsorption of EY dye. Thus, the high capacities and usability of HCPs were demonstrated.

Aim of the project: Coordination polymers, as inorganic-organic hybrid materials, are excellent next-generation adsorbents for removing dyes via adsorption. Recently, the use of MOFs in dye removal has expanded due to their remarkable properties of cavities of regular size and shape, defined channels, and excellent chemical and solvent stability. Within the scope of the project, it is planned to synthesize MOFs for the selective adsorption of anionic dyes. In obtaining suitable MOFs, the design and synthesis of organic ligands is very important to obtain multifunctional MOFs with different selectivity or adsorption capacity. For this reason, the main ligand 3,3-(thiophene-2,5-diyl)dibenzoic acid (H2L) ligand was preferred to synthesize MOFs. Ligands containing N-donating groups were preferred as auxiliary ligands. Using these ligands, MOFs will be synthesized by hydro(solvo)thermal methods with Mn(II), Co(II), Cu(II), Zn(II) and Cd(II) ions.