Vladimir B. Nalbandyan

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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

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.

Igor N. Shcherbakov
Doctor 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).