Vladimir E. Guterman
Dr. of Chemical Sciences, Professor, Dean of Chemistry Faculty
Electrochemistry
Chair of Electrochemistry, Laboratory of New Materials for Electrochemical Power Sources
Materials (objects): nanostructured platinum and Pt-M electrocatalysts supported on carbon and non-carbon carriers
Methods: different kinds of voltammetry on stationary and rotating disk electrode, other electrochemical methods
Problems: synthesis and study of Pt-contained electrocatalysts for low temperature fuel cells; relationship between multilevel structures of Pt/C (Pt-M/C) and properties; synthesis of two-component Pt-M nanoparticles with core-shell architecture and the development of methods for its attestation. Electrochemistry of lithium and lithium secondary batteries.
Mikhail E. Kletskiy
Candidate of Chemical Sciences, Associate Professor
Physical Organic Chemistry
Natural and High Molecular Compounds Chemistry Chair
Materials (objects): non-classical structures, stereochemically non-rigid structures, superelectrophilic systems.
Methods: Quantum chemical modeling of organic compounds structure and reactivity.
Problems: theoretical aspects of molecular structure of non-classical and superelectrophilic substances, structure-properties relationship, mechanisms of photochemical reactions. Potential energy surfaces of pericyclic and pseudo-pericyclic reactions. Mechanisms of stereochemical non-ridgity.
Vladimir V.Lukov
Doctor of Chemical Sciences, Professor
Physical Chemistry
Physical and Colloid Chemistry Chair
The area of primary scientific interest is electronic and structural properties of inorganic transition-metal polynuclear complexes and supramolecular structures as well as directed synthesis of novel magneto-active materials. Magnetic studies to 4°K, single crystal anisotropy, electron spin resonance spectroscopy, optical and EXAFS spectroscopy, paramagnetic NMR studies. These techniques are generally employed to elucidate chemical, structural and bonding features of mononuclear and polynuclear compounds including spin-crossover, zero-field splitting effects and magneto-structural correlations in exchange-coupled systems.
Boris S. Medvedev
Candidate of Sciences (Russian equivalent to PhD) in Inorganic Chemistry
Associate Professor, Department of General and Inorganic Chemistry, Southern Federal University
Hirsh index (Scopus): 6 (6 excluding self-citations)
Materials: Piezoelectric ceramics, battery electrode materials.
Methods: High-temperature solid-state synthesis; dielectric measurements; galvanostatic chronopotentiometry; cyclic voltammetry; dilatometry; differential thermal analysis.
Problems: Development of new preparation methods for mixed metal oxides; ceramic technology; search for and studies of electrode materials for lithium-ion batteries.
Possible Master’s thesis:
Synthesis and electrochemical characterization of layered phases in the LiCoO2 – LiFeO2 – LiCrO2 system.
Candidate of Chemical Sciences, Associate Professor
Physical Chemistry
Physical and Colloid Chemistry Chair
Materials (objects): hydrazones; coordination compounds of transition metals; coordination compounds with polydentate organic ligands; mono- & bis-substituted ferrocene’s & metallocenes’ based ligands and complexes; spiropyranes, containing ferrocene’s moiety.
Methods: Molecular spectroscopy (IR, UV-Vis), NMR spectroscopy, EXAFS & XANES
Problems: study and establishment of the coordination compounds’ structure, structure-properties relationship; photochemistry of coordination compounds with photochemically active ligands; the structural behavior of metallocene’s moiety in cyclic metal-chelates.
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Candidate of Sciences (Russian equivalent to PhD) in Physical Chemistry (Rostov State University, 1982)
Associate Professor, Department of General and Inorganic Chemistry, Southern Federal University
Member, International Centre for Diffraction Data (www.icdd.com)
Consulting Editor, Powder Diffraction File
Hirsh index (Scopus): 11 (8 excluding self-citations)
Materials: mixed metal oxides with special attention to those comprising monovalent cations, as solid electrolytes, battery electrode materials, ferroelectrics and/or antiferromagnets.
Methods: High-temperature solid-state synthesis and crystal growth; soft-chemistry routes (e.g., low-temperature ion exchange, ion extraction and ion substitution); X-ray diffraction; immittance spectroscopy; thermal and chemical analyzes.
Problems:general principles of inorganic crystal chemistry with special attention to morphotropic series and principles governing cation mobility; search for and studies of solid-state alkali ion or proton conductors, electrode materials for lithium-ion and sodium-ion batteries; morphotropic phenomena in ferroelectric solid solutions.
Collaborations:Faculty of Physics, Moscow State University (magnetism); Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute and Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (neutron diffraction); Saratov State University (battery materials), Kazan E. K. Zavoisky Physical-Technical Institute (solid-state NMR).
Possible Master’s theses:
1) Mixed lithium 3d metal orthosilicates as prospective battery electrode materials
2) Combined aliovalent doping of the olivine-type electrode materials
3) Influence of fluorine impurity on symmetry and phase transitions of the piezoelectric sodium lithium niobate solid solutions
4) Volume relations in morphotropic series of mixed metal fluorides and oxyfluorides
Candidate of Chemical Sciences, Associate Professor
Physical Chemistry
Physical and Colloid Chemistry Chair
Methods: High-level quantum-chemical modeling of the structure and physico-chemical properties of d- and f-block metals coordination compounds with polydentate organic ligands.
Problems: theoretical aspects of the coordination compounds structure, structure-properties relationship, magnetochemistry of polynuclear coordination compounds, exchange interactions, molecular magnetism. Photochemistry of coordination compounds with photochemically active ligands. Earth-abandoned metal coordination compounds as photosensitizes in photoelectrochemical solar cells (DSSC). Utilization of coordination compounds as molecular spacers in nanomaterials for energy storage devices (supercapasitors).
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