Results
Published articles:
- C. Sandu-Poplăcean, D.-A. Dumitru, F. Nekvapil, G.-L. Lazăr, K. Maškarić, T.-L.Tămaș, L. Barbu-Tudoran, S. Cîntă Pînzaru, Pigment diversity in the blue biogenic shell of the invasive population of Rapana venosa sea snail revealed by multi-laser Raman, SERS, FT-IR, XRD, and SEM-EDX analysis, Dyes and Pigments 2026, 252, 113825, ISSN 0143-7208, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dyepig.2026.113825.
- Maškarić K, Nesterovschi I, Molnár CM, Nekvapil F, Pînzaru SC. In vivo resonance micro-Raman spectroscopy study of Artemia salina (Linnaeus, 1758) carotenoids profile as proxy for variability in hypersaline lakes environmental conditions. Spectrochim Acta A Mol Biomol Spectrosc. 2026 Jun 1;362:128177. doi: 10.1016/j.saa.2026.128177.
Submitted Manuscript:
Ion Nesterovschi, Ioana Cârdan, Karlo Maškarić, Anamaria Couți, Lucian Barbu-Tudoran, Simona Cinta-Pinzaru, „SERS of bottled water: automated PET nanoplastics detection and quantification” Analytical Chemistry
Past Conferences:
Ion Nesterovschi, Ioana Cârdan, Simona Cînta-Pînzaru „Automated detection of nanoplastics in river water using SERS-enhanced Raman mapping” PRIORITY CA Final Conference, Leoben, Austria, 2-5 September 2025.
Ioana Cârdan, Ion Nesterovschi, Anamaria Couți, Serena Ducoli, Stefania Federici, Simona Cîntă Pînazru, Cosmin Farcău “SERS detection of environmental nanoplastics by using customized plasmonic nanostructured substrates” Microplastic Days Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 3-5 February 2026, https://microplasticdays.fkkt.uni-lj.si/
Anamaria Couți, Ion Nesterovschi, Ioana Cârdan, Iuliana-Cornelia Sandu-Poplăcean, Karlo Maškarić, Lucian Barbu-Tudoran, Csilla Molnar, Geza Lazar, Tudor-Liviu Tamas, Luka, Glamuzina, Branko Glamuzina, Vera Slaveykova, Simona Cîntă Pînzaru “The production of environmental micro- and nanoplastics from marine-aged plastics” Microplastic Days Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 3-5 February 2026, https://microplasticdays.fkkt.uni-lj.si/
Ion Nesterovschi, Ioana Cârdan, Csilla Molnar, Lucian Barbu, Maria Suciu, Tudor Tămaș, Karlo Maskaric, Luka Glamuzina, Branko Glamuzina, Vera Slaveykova, Simona Cîntă Pînzaru “Identification of micro- and nanoplastics in Adriatic aquaculture waters using Raman and SERS spectroscopy” Microplastic Days Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 3-5 February 2026, https://microplasticdays.fkkt.uni-lj.si/
I.-C. Sandu-Poplăcean, D.-A. Dumitru, F. Nekvapil, G.-L. Lazăr, T.-L. Tămaș, L. Barbu-Tudoran, S. Cîntă Pînzaru, „Composition, morphology, and bioeconomy potential of the invasive Rapana venosa shells assessed by multi-laser Raman, XRD, and SEM–EDX” Air and Water Components of the Environment, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, March 2026
Karlo Maškarić, Ion Nesterovschi, Ioana Cârdan, Csilla Müller Molnár, Lucian Barbu, Maria Suciu, Tudor Tămaş, Luka Glamuzina, Branko Glamuzina, Vera Slaveykova, Simona Cîntă Pînzaru „Microplastic origin in shellfish farming area and sampling paths to quantify it” Air and Water Components of the Environment, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, March 2026
Planned Conferences
„Pigment Diversity and Unusual Blue Biogenic Shell in the Invasive Population of Rapana venosa Sea Snail Revealed by Multi-Laser Raman, SERS, FT-IR, XRD, and SEM-EDX Analysis” 29st International Conference on Raman Spectroscopy, Istanbul, Turkey, August 2026, I.-C. Sandu-Poplăcean, D.-A. Dumitru, F. Nekvapil, G.-L. Lazăr, K. Maškarić, T.-L.Tămaș, L. Barbu-Tudoran, S. Cîntă Pînzaru
„SERS-Based Assessment of Salinity in Hypersaline Solutions Supported by Dynamic Light Scattering” 29st International Conference on Raman Spectroscopy, Istanbul, Turkey, August 2026, A. Couți, E. Vlaico, S. Pînzaru
“Nanostructured SERS Substrates Engineered via Colloidal Lithography for Environmental Nanoplastics Detection” 29st International Conference on Raman Spectroscopy, Istanbul, Turkey, August 2026, I. Cardan, Ana Maria Mihaela Gherman, Lucian Barbu-Tudoran, Septimiu Tripon, Denisa Cuibus, Serena Ducoli, Stefania Federici, Simona Cîntă Pînzaru, C. Farcău
“Raman characterization of blue microplastic ingestion and carotenoid responses in zooplankton” 29st International Conference on Raman Spectroscopy, Istanbul, Turkey, August 2026, Ion Nesterovschi, Matea Marelja, Inés Segovia Campos, Karlo Maškarić, Maria Suciu, Simona Cîntă Pînzaru, Bastiaan W. Ibelings, Vera I. Slaveykova
“Silver nanoparticles-environmentally aged blue polypropylene composite, detection and tracking of micro- and nano- sized plastic particles by SERS” 29st International Conference on Raman Spectroscopy, Istanbul, Turkey, August 2026, Karlo Maškarić, Ioana Cârdan, Matea Marelja, Ion Nesterovschi, Lucian Barbu-Tudoran, Tudor Tămaş, Codrut Costinas, Petra Tomurad, Anamaria Couţi, Iuliana-Cornelia Sandu Poplăcean, Vera Slaveykova, Simona Cı̂ntă Pı̂nzaru
„Insights from Raman spectroscopy about environmentally aged micro and nanoplastic; challenges in detection, identification and quantification” 21st European Conference on the Spectroscopy of Biological Molecules, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, August 2026, Karlo Maškarić, Ioana Cârdan, Ion Nesterovschi, Tudor Tămaş, Simona Cı̂ntă Pı̂nzaru
„Raman Spectroscopic Evidence of Convergent Pigmentation in Marine Shells and Avian Feathers” I.-C. Sandu-Poplăcean, S. Cîntă Pînzaru, 21st European Conference on the Spectroscopy of Biological Molecules, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, August 2026.
„Time-dependent SERS and DLS of AgNPs aggregation in natural hypersaline water and its multisalt model” A. Couți, E. Vlaico, S. Pînzaru, 21st European Conference on the Spectroscopy of Biological Molecules, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, August 2026
“Nanostructured SERS platforms fabricated by colloidal lithography for trace detection of emerging pollutants” I. Cardan, Denisa Cuibus, Alexandra Falamas, Simona Cîntă Pînzaru, C. Farcău, 21st European Conference on the Spectroscopy of Biological Molecules, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, August 2026
„Preparation-Dependent Size Distributions of Micro- and Nanoplastic Suspensions Derived from Naturally Weathered Marine Plastics” MICRO 2026 – Plastic Pollution from Macro to Nano, Cádiz, Spain, 12-16 October 2026., A. Couți, K. Maškarić, I. Cârdan, I. Nesterovschi, T.-L. Tămaș, L. Barbu-Tudoran, L. Glamuzina, B. Glamuzina, V. Slaveykova, S. Pînzaru
“Addressing Nanoplastic Detection and Quantification with Customized Nanostructured SERS Substrates” MICRO 2026 – Plastic Pollution from Macro to Nano, Cádiz, Spain, 12-16 October 2026., I. Cardan, Simona Cîntă Pînzaru, C. Farcău