Our team participated in the 21st European Conference on the Spectroscopy of Biological Molecules (ECSBM 2026), held from August 30 to September 3, 2026, in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

🎤 Simona Cîntă Pînzaru presented:

“Don’t Blame SERS for Lack of Reproducibility, Blame Sample: Environmental Nanoplastics”

Our colleagues also presented the following posters:

🔬 Ioana Cârdan – “Nanostructured SERS Platforms Fabricated by Colloidal Lithography for Trace Detection of Emerging Pollutants”

🔬 Anamaria Couți – “Time-Dependent SERS and DLS of AgNPs Aggregation in Natural Hypersaline Water and its Multisalt Model”

🔬 Iuliana-Cornelia Sandu-Poplăcean – “Raman Spectroscopic Evidence of Convergent Pigmentation in Marine Shells and Avian Feathers”

🔬 Karlo Maškarić – “Insights From Raman Spectroscopy About Environmentally Aged Micro and Nanoplastic; Challenges in Detection, Identification and Quantification”

🔬 Fran Nekvapil – “Confocal Raman Microscopy for Localized Tracking of Developmental Biochemistry in Sea Urchin Larvae”

It was a great opportunity to share our research, exchange ideas and connect with researchers working across different areas of spectroscopy and its applications.

🌐 ECSBM 2026: https://phys.ubbcluj.ro/ecsbm2026/

This research is carried out and financed within the framework of the Second Swiss Contribution MAPS.

Thank you to the organizers for the opportunity to present our work and to be part of ECSBM 2026!