Ongoing projects
Project PED: White and green elemental methods using microplasma-based optical emission spectrometry for food and environmental control (WHIGREEN)
Code: PN-IV-P7-7.1-PED-2024-0091
Project duration: 2025 - 2026
Director: Prof. Dr. Tiberiu Frențiu
Members of the ANALYTICA center: Lect. Dr. Eniko Covaci
Project description: Project goal White and green elemental methods using microplasma-based optical emission spectrometry for Food and Environmental Control (WHIGREEN) is the development and validation of ex-situ/on-site microanalytical methods with degree high green and white at TRL4 level for food and environmental quality control by determining elements such as Hg, Cd, Pb, As, Se, Cu and Zn. The methods will be implemented on a fully miniaturized microtorch optical emission microspectrometer of capacitively coupled plasma with electrothermal vaporization (SSETV-µCCP-OES) as an experimental demonstrator at TRL3 level. It is in view the improvement of analytical performance by coupling with combustion-assisted digestion with and without phase extraction microsolid (μ-SPE) using C18 silica cartridges or functionalized silica adsorbents for single elemental analysis and multielemental.
Webpage: https://www.chem.ubbcluj.ro/~ecovaci/PED_2025/index_ro.html
Projects carried out in the past
Proiect PED: Simultaneous elemental microanalytical method for environment and food control using passive sampling coupled with miniaturized instrumentation based on plasma microtorch optical emission spectrometry(MULTIPASS)
Code: PN-III-P2-2.1-PED2021-0151
Project duration: 2022 - 2024
Director: CS I Dr. Senila Marin (INCDO-INOE 2000 subsidiary Research Institute for Analytical Instrumentation ICIA)
Responsible member from UBB: Prof. Dr. Frentiu Tiberiu
Members of the ANALYTICA center: Lect. Dr. Eniko Covaci
Project description: The main objective of the MULTIPASS project is the development of new microanalytical methods at the level TRL4 for simultaneous determination of priority hazardous elements (Pb, Cd, Hg) and other elements (As, Sb, Se, Cu, Zn) in environmental and food microsamples using a microsampling-based fully miniaturized laboratory experimental model direct liquid SSETV-μCCP-OES in tandem with the DGT device for in-situ and ex-situ preconcentration and separation matrix analytes.
Webpage: https://icia.ro/en/multipass/
Project PED: Development of a new chromatographic protocol for rapid evaluation of the antioxidant potential and characterization of the medicinal plants extracts
Code: PN-III-P2-2.1-PED-2021-1116
Project duration: 2022 - 2024
Director: Conf. Dr. Casoni Dorina
Members of the ANALYTICA center: Prof. Dr. Claudia Cimpoiu, Conf. Dr. Anamaria Hosu, Lector dr. Simona Coderuta Cobzac, Lect. Dr. Eniko Covaci
Project description: The project aimed to develop and validate at laboratory level a new protocol for in vitro evaluation of antioxidant potential and characterization of medicinal plant extracts under physiological conditions simulated using an innovative approach in image analysis assisted thin layer chromatography (HPTLC-IA method).
Project TE: New chromatographic approaches for evaluation of the antioxidant/prooxidant profile of redox-active drugs
Code: PN-III-P1-1.1-TE-2021-0655
Project duration: 2022 - 2024
Director: Lect. Dr. Casoni Dorina
Members of the ANALYTICA center: Conf. Dr. Anamaria Hosu, Drd. Melinda Carmen Drutas (Szasz)
Project description: The project aimed to develop a new chromatographic method for potential evaluation antioxidant/prooxidant of redox-active drugs using DPPH• and ABTS•+ radicals and chromatographic techniques micro-HPTLC and classic HPTLC coupled with advanced image processing and analysis methods. Within this project, stationary phases of different polarities (RP-8, RP-18, CN and Diol) were used for the first time as substrates of binding to simulate physiological drug-environment interactions and to estimate variation in antioxidant activity of some drugs after their interaction with constituents in the physiological environment.
Project TE: Antidiabetic potential of new bionanostructures: Perspectives as therapeutic agents
Code: PN-III-P1-1.1-TE-2021-0511
Project duration: 2022 - 2024
Director: Lect. Dr. Bianca Moldovan
Members of the ANALYTICA center: Conf. Dr. Anamaria Hosu, Drd. Valentina Morosanu
Project description: The project aims to obtain new biomaterials with therapeutic action through exploitation the synergistic effects of natural compounds from goji berries and nanoparticles of some noble metals, useful in the treatment of diabetes. The main objectives of the project focus on development sustainable hybrid bionanostructures obtained by the phytoreduction of gold and silver ions using compds bioactives from goji berries as reducing agents and stabilizers of nanoparticles obtained and on the study their antidiabetic activity. Thus, our goal is to develop a simple, reproducible and scalable process for the synthesis of advanced biomaterials and to conduct a comparative study of the therapeutic efficacy of silver, gold and bimetallic silver-gold/gold-silver nanoparticles functionalized with natural compounds, in order to establishing the most effective antidiabetic agent.
Project PED: Decontamination of heavy metal polluted soils by exploiting plant rhizosphere interactions
Code: PN-III-P2-2.1-PED-2019-5254
Project duration: 2020 - 2022
Director: Conf. Dr. Podar Dorina (Facultatea de Biologie și Geologie)
Members of the ANALYTICA center: Lect. Dr. Eniko Covaci
Project description: The project aims to decontaminate soils polluted with heavy metals, especially Hg, through the study interactions in the rhizosphere of plants.
Webpage: https://biiophyt.wordpress.com/
Project PNIII: Innovative technologies for the advanced recovery of materials from IT equipment waste and telecommunications (TRADE-IT)
Nr. Project: PN-III-P1-1.2-PCCDI-2017-0652
Project duration: 01/03/2018 - 30/04/2021
Director: Prof. Dr. Marius Ioan Purcar (UTCN)
Partner 1: Efficient and environmentally friendly electrochemical and chemical technologies for the advanced recovery of materials from waste of printed circuit boards (PCBs) from IT and telecommunications equipment.
Responsible of the project: Prof. Dr. Ing. Ilea Petru
Members of the ANALYTICA center: Prof. Dr. Tiberiu Frențiu; Drd. Covaci Eniko
Project description: The project proposes the creation of a complex of installations and their chaining in a technological process for the full recovery of components and materials from IT and telecommunications equipment waste
Webpage: Proiect TRADE-IT
Project PD: Fuzzy set theory-based robust data analysis models and methods in spectral pathology.
Nr. Project: PN-III-P1-1.1-PD-2016-0475
Project duration: 2020 - 2021
Director: Dina Nicoleta Elena (National Research-Development Institute for Isotopic and Molecular Technologies, Cluj-Napoca)
Mentor: Prof. Dr. Habil. Costel Sârbu
Project PD: AGRICHEM - Advanced chemometric methods applied for the authentication and traceability of agricultural products from Transylvania.
Nr. Project: PN-III-P1-1.1-PD-2019-0352
Project duration: 01/09/2020 - 31/08/2022
Director: Feher Ioana (National Research-Development Institute for Isotopic and Molecular Technologies, Cluj-Napoca)
Mentor: Prof. Dr. Habil. Costel Sârbu
Project PED: Eco-scale analytical methods for the determination and speciation of Hg by photoinduced UV derivatization and detection with a system fully miniaturized experimental spectrometer (ECOSPEC)
Nr. Project: PN-III-P2-2.1-PED-2016-0135
Project duration: 03/01/2017 - 02/08/2018
Director: Prof. Dr. Frențiu Tiberiu
Members of the ANALYTICA center: Conf. Dr. Ponta Michaela, Conf. Dr. Darvasi Eugen, Drd. Covaci Eniko
Project description: The project aims to develop and validate highly sensitive laboratory analytical methods excellent greens used in the determination and speciation of inorganic and organic Hg using a miniaturized spectral instrumentation. The methods for the determination and speciation of Hg in the form of Hg2+ and CH3Hg+ are based on ultrasound extraction in formic acid medium, photoinduced derivatization and detection by optical emission on an existing experimental model with capacitively coupled plasma microtorch and low-resolution microspectrometer.
Webpage: ECOSPEC
Project PED: Miniaturized equipment with capacitively coupled plasma microtorch and analytical technologies for elemental determination simultaneously used in environmental and food control (MICROCCP)
Nr. Project: PCCA 176/02.07.2012
Project duration: 02/07/2012 - 31/03/2016
Director: Prof. Dr. Frențiu Tiberiu
Members of the ANALYTICA center: Conf. Dr. Ponta Michaela, Conf. Dr. Darvasi Eugen
Webpage: MICROCCP
Project: Dermatological products based on hybrid biomaterials obtained from anthocyanins and metal nanoparticles
Nr. Project: PN-II-PT-PCCA-2011-3.1-0914, 147/2012
Project duration: 02/07/2012-31/12/2016
Director: Dr. Liliana Olenic (National Research-Development Institute for Isotopic and Molecular Technologies, Cluj-Napoca)
Members of the ANALYTICA center: Prof. Dr. Luminița David, Prof. Dr. Habil. Cimpoiu Claudia, Lect. Dr. Hosu Anamaria, Lect. Dr. Bianca Moldovan
Significant results: new dermatological anti-inflammatory products, based on functionalized silver and gold nanoparticles with biologically active compounds isolated from the fruits of some plants from the Cornaceae and Adoxaceae families.
Webpage: https://www.itim-cj.ro/PNCDI/natnanomed/pag%201.html
Project PNCDI: Optoelectronic equipment and innovative method of high accuracy and sensitivity based on spectrometry of non-conventional fluorescence intended for the testing and control of some environmental factors (FLUOROSCPEC)
Nr. Project: 71019/18.09.2007
Project duration: 2007-2010
Director: Prof. Dr. Emil CordoÈ™
Responsible of the project: Prof. Dr. Frențiu Tiberiu
Members of the ANALYTICA center: Conf. Dr. Ponta Michaela, Conf. Dr. Darvasi Eugen
Partner: INCDO INOE 2000 Research Institute for Analytical Instrumentation, Cluj-Napoca.
Objectives: the development of a highly accurate and sensitive method for the characterization and testing of environmental parameters, based on an innovative equipment that includes capacitively coupled plasma with the role of atomization cell in atomic fluorescence. Specific objectives: Designing and making the necessary assemblies and components for the analysis system based on fluorescence atomic force in capacitively coupled plasma (µCCP-AFS). Performance evaluation of the µCCP-AFS analysis system. Development of technologies laboratory for environmental analysis.
Results: Integration, for the first time, of the original µCCP sources of low and medium power in a modular optoelectronic detection system by atomic fluorescence. Realization for the first time at national and international level of an experimental µCCP-AFS spectrometric model. Improvement of technologies used in environmental testing and control and comparisons with classical atomization and excitation methods.
Webpage: http://icia.ro/
Project: Comprehensive evaluation of redox activitity and lipophilicity for biogenic amines and related compounds
Nr. Project: PN-II-ID-PCE-2011-3-0366, Contract nr. 262/5.10.2011
Project duration: 2011 - 2016
Director: Prof. dr. Habil. Costel Sârbu
Members of the ANALYTICA center: Lect. Dr. Simona Aurora Cobzac, Lect. Dr. Casoni Dorina
Webpage: http://www.chem.ubbcluj.ro/romana/cercetare/idei/0366/index_en.html