Resume:
Dr. Andrei N. Yakunin
Laboratory of Polymer Structure
Department of Polymer Materials
Karpov Institute of Physical Chemistry
ul.Vorontsovo Pole 10, Moscow 105064, Russia
Tel:+7 (495) 917-4330, Fax:+7 (495) 917-2490
E-mail: yakunin@cc.nifhi.ac.ru
Home Address: Mikhalevicha ul. 24 #6, Ramenskoye, Moscow
Region 140108, Russia
Tel:+7 (496) 461-1098
SUMMARY of QUALIFICATION:
i) Ph.D. with more than 20 years
of research experience in nanomaterial and macromolecule science.
ii) Over forty publications on experimental and
theoretical studies of nanostructures in connection with physical and chemical
properties in linear polymers and copolymers with flexible chains, also, in
polyelectrolyte gels and their complexes with surfactants in comparison with
thermotropic dendron systems.
iii) Solid background in wide- and small-angle X-ray
diffraction, thermodynamics and statistical physics.
EDUCATION:
1995 - Ph.D. in Polymer Science, Karpov Institute of Physical
Chemistry, Moscow. Thesis: "Study of drawing process in copolymers
of ethylene with polar vinyl comonomers". Advisors: Prof. A.N.Ozerin and
Prof. N.F.Bakeev
1983 - Diploma and MS. in Chemical Physics. Department of Chemical
Physics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
EXPERIENCE
2000-present: Senior Research Fellow, Department of Polymer
Materials, Karpov Institute of Physical Chemistry
- Self-assembling and
supramolecular structures in new thermotropic materials
based on benzene sulfonic acid and polymethacrylates
with volume side groups of different chemical nature
in comparison with lyotropic systems such as complexes of
a network or linear polyelectrolyte with oppositely
charged surfactants, especially studying 2D-3D transitions
- New nanostructure materials as
perspective smart systems with controlled properties
- Critical phenomena and
phase transitions in similar systems
1997 - 2000: Senior Research Associate, Department of
Polymer Compounds, Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoelement Compounds, Russian
Academy of Sciences, Moscow
- Investigation of self-assembling and supramolecular structures in colloid
complexes of polyelectrolyte gels with surfactants
- New composites based on the complexes of polyelectrolyte gels with
nanoparticles of different metals as perspective sensor materials with unique
catalytic properties
- Creation and development of a new approach estimating critical exponents
1995 - 1997: Research Fellow, Department of Polymer
Compounds, Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoelement Compounds, Russian Academy of
Sciences, Moscow
- X-ray investigation of self-assembling and supramolecular structures in
colloid complexes of polyelectrolyte and neutral gels with surfactants
1983-1994: Research Associate, Department of Polymer
Materials, Karpov Institute of Physical Chemistry
- Investigated transition from isotropic to oriented states in linear
PE and in copolymers of ethylene with acrylic acids
- Research on structure/property relationships for deformation properties of
linear flexible semicrystalline polymers
- Study on structure and properties of high oriented high-strength fibers for
melt-crystallized PE and copolymers mentioned above
-Structural investigations in perfluorinated ion-exchanger membranes
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
- Supervised one post-graduate student in Polymer Science
- Heading the science group consisting of 8 researchers (2 have postdoctoral
positions) and one post-graduate student.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
- Small and wide-angle X-ray diffraction methods
- X-ray analysis at low and high temperature
- DSC, deformation calorimetry, physical chemistry of deformation curves
- Programming for analyses of line profile
- Computer simulation of structures and scattering from them
WRITING AND REVIEWING
Published over 15 papers in international journals. Writing research
proposals and technical reports.
COMPUTER EXPERIENCE
Programming languages: C++, TURBO PASCAL, FORTRAN, BASIC
Operating systems: MS-DOS, UNIX, MS Windows 3.x, NT, 9x, ME, 2000, XP
RESEARCH PROFILE:
Supramolecular structure of crystalline and amorphous polymers, mechanical
and other physical and chemical properties
Critical phenomena and phase transitions in both polymer and other systems
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Investigated mechanism of transition of flexible polymers from isotropic to
oriented state by using X-ray method, deformation calorimetry, infrared
spectroscopy, radiothermoluminescence
Developed applications of fluctuation statistical theory of phase transitions
and critical phenomena to explanation of dynamic and structural properties of
linear semicrystalline polymers
Established the reason of yielding and necking
Developed unique techniques including a combination of experimental X-ray
analysis methods, fluctuation theory of phase transitions, computer modeling
with reconstruction of electron density maps for study of new thermotropic
materials based on polymethacrylates (and their monomer precursors) with volume side groups of different
chemical nature in comparison with lyotropic systems such as the complexes of
linear and network polyelectrolytes with oppositely charged surfactants
LANGUAGES: English (good), Russian (native)
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATION LIST
- A. N. Yakunin. New phase transitions by changing the even number of components of ordering field near the Lifshitz point in melt-crystallized polymers,
arXiv:cond-mat/0902.1514.
- A. N. Yakunin. Two Lifshitz points in melt-crystallized polymers: nanostructure, necking, energy dissipation,
arXiv:cond-mat/0812.4445.
- S. N. Chvalun, A. N. Yakunin. Structural analysis of self-organizing supramolecular systems of various symmetry, in press.
- S. N. Chvalun, M. A. Shcherbina, A. N. Yakunin, J. Blackwell, V. Percec. Structure of Gyroid Mesophase Formed by Monodendrons with Fluorinated Alkyl Tails, Polymer Science, Ser. A, 49(2), 158-167(2007).
- A. N. Yakunin. A bicontinuous structure in some systems with cubic mesophases, Central European J. Phys., 2, 535-555(2004).
A. N. Yakunin. A bicontinuous structure in some systems with cubic mesophases, cond-mat/0312157.
- A. N. Yakunin. Gauge fields in dissipation processes, cond-mat/0308008.
A. N. Yakunin. Nanostructures and dissipative processes, XIXth Symposium “Modern chemical physics”, September 22 – October 3, 2007. Tuapse, Russia, p.122.
- A. N. Yakunin. Nematic ordering problem as the polymer problem of the excluded volume, Central European J. Phys., 1, 355-362(2003).
A. N. Yakunin. Nematic Ordering Problem as Polymer Excluded Volume One, cond-mat/0212462.
- A. N. Yakunin. Polymer Melt Viscosity, cond-mat/0212408.
- D. I. Svergun, E. V. Shtykova, M. B. Kozin, V. V. Volkov, P. V. Konarev, A. T. Dembo, E. V. Shtykova, L. M. Bronshtein, D. M. Chernyshov, O. A. Platonova, A. N. Yakunin, P. M. Valetskii, A. R. Khokhlov. Small-angle x-ray scattering study of the structure of self-assembling polymer matrices and formation of metal nanoparticles, Kristallografiya, 46, 651-660(2001).
- D. I. Svergun, E. V. Shtykova, M. B. Kozin, V. V. Volkov, P. V. Konarev, A. T. Dembo, E. V. Shtykova, L. M. Bronshtein, D. M. Chernyshov, O. A. Platonova, A. N. Yakunin, P. M. Valetskii, A. R. Khokhlov. Small-angle x-ray scattering study of the structure of self-assembling polymer matrices and formation of metal nanoparticles, Kristallografiya, 46, 651-660(2001).
- D. I. Svergun, E. V. Shtykova, M. B. Kozin, V. V. Volkov, A. T. Dembo,
E. V. Shtykova, Jr., L. M. Bronstein, O. A. Platonova, A. N. Yakunin, P.M.
Valetsky, A. R. Khokhlov. Small-Angle X-ray Scattering Study of
Platinum-Containing Hydrogel/Surfactant Complexes, J. Phys. Chem. B, 104,
5242-5250(2000).
- L. M. Bronstein, O. A. Platonova, A. N. Yakunin, I. M. Yanovskaya, P.
M. Valetsky, A. T. Dembo, E. S. Obolonkova, E. E. Makhaeva, A. V. Mironov,
A. R. Khokhlov. Metal Colloid Formation in the Complexes of
Polyelectrolyte Gels with Oppositely Charged Surfactants, Colloids and
Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, 147,
221-231(1999).
- A. V. Mironov, S. G. Starodoubtsev, A. R. Khokhlov, A. T. Dembo, A. N.
Yakunin. Structural Study of Surfactant Aggregates in Polyelectrolyte
Gel, Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects,
147, 213-220(1999).
- L. M. Bronstein, O. A. Platonova, A. N. Yakunin, I. M. Yanovskaya, P.
M. Valetsky, A. T. Dembo, E. E. Makhaeva, A. V. Mironov, A. R. Khokhlov. Complexes
of Polyelectrolyte Gels with Oppositely Charged Surfactants: Interaction
with Metal Ions and Metal Nanoparticles Formation, Langmuir, 14(2),
252-259(1998).
- A. V. Mironov, S. G. Starodoubtsev, A. R. Khokhlov, A. T. Dembo, A. N.
Yakunin. Ordered Nonstoichiometric Polymer Gel-Surfactant Complexes in
Aqueous Medium With High Ionic Strength, Macromolecules, 31,
7698-7705(1998).
- D. I. Svergun, E. V. Stykova, A. T. Dembo, L. M. Bronstein, O. A.
Platonova, A. N. Yakunin, P.M. Valetsky, A. R. Khokhlov. Size
Distribution of Metal Nanoparticles in Polyelectrolyte Gels, J.
Chem. Phys., 109(24), 11109-11116(1998).
- A. T. Dembo, A. N. Yakunin, V. S. Zaitsev, A. V. Mironov, S. G.
Starodubtsev, A. R. Khokhlov, and B.Chu. Regular Microstructures in
Gel-Surfactant Complexes: Influence of Water Content and Comparison with the
Surfactant Structure in Water, J. Polym. Sci.; Part B; Polym.Phys.,
34, 2893-2898, (1996).
- A. N. Yakunin. Some restrictions to Flory theorem application in
concentrated polymer systems, Abstracts of the 3-rd Russian Symposium with
international attendance on Liquid Crystalline Polymers, Chernogolovka
(Russia), 20-23 February 1995, p. 48.
- A. N. Yakunin. A globule in a stretching field. The role of partial
melting during drawing of crystalline polymers, Intern. J. Polymeric
Mater., 22, 57-65 (1993).
- A. N. Yakunin. Dynamic scaling and entanglement concept, Abstracts
of the 10-th European Symposium on Polymer Spectroscopy, St. Petersburg
(Russia), 29 September - 2 October 1992, p-C15.
- A. N. Yakunin. A globule in a stretching field. Thermodynamic
criterion of polymer fracture, Abstracts of the 25-th Europhysics Conference
on Macromolecular Physics “Orientational Phenomena in Polymers”,
St. Petersburg (Russia), 6-10 July 1992, pp. 49-50.
- A. N. Yakunin. On the role of partial melting during drawing of
crystalline polymers, Abstracts of the 25-th Europhysics Conference on
Macromolecular Physics “Orientational Phenomena in Polymers”, St.
Petersburg (Russia), 6-10 July 1992, pp. 103-104.
- A. N. Yakunin, A. N. Ozerin, S. G. Prutchenko, V. A. Aulov, N. I.
Ivantscheva, O. V. Smolyanova, L. L. Spevak, N. F. Bakeev. Some
peculiarities of amorphous regions structure in ethylene-ethylacrylic acid
copolymer, Vysokomolek. soed., B32, 533-537 (1990).
- A. N. Yakunin, A. N. Ozerin, N. I. Ivantscheva, O. V. Smolyanova, A. V.
Rebrov, L. L. Spevak, S.S. Ivantschev, V. S. Schirets, N. F. Bakeev.
Uniaxial orientational stretching of copolymer of ethylene with acrylic acid
for various temperatures of deformation, Vysokomolek. soed., A30,
839-843 (1988).
- A. V. Rebrov, A. N. Ozerin, A. N. Yakunin, N. A. Dreiman, S. V.
Timopheev, Y. M. Popkov, N.F.Bakeev. Study of phase state of water in
perfluorinated ion-exchanger membranes by SAXS, Vysokomolek. soed., A29,
1453-1457 (1987).
- A. N. Ozerin, A. V. Rebrov, A. N. Yakunin, N. P. Bessonova, N. A.
Dreiman, L. F. Sokolov, N.F.Bakeev. Influence of low-molecular weight
fractions on structure of perfluorinated sulfocation-exchanger membranes, Vysokomolek.
soed., A28, 2303-2307 (1986).
- A. N. Ozerin, A. V. Rebrov, A. N. Yakunin, L. P. Bogovtseva, S. F.
Timashev, N. F. Bakeev. Structural changes in perfluorinated membranes
during saponification and orientational stretching, Vysokomolek. soed.,
A28, 254-259 (1986).
The following references are available:
1. Professor Sergei N. Chvalun
Head of Polymer Structure Laboratory
Karpov Institute of Physical Chemistry
Vorontsovo Pole 10, Moscow, Russia
Phone: +7 (495) 917-4330 Fax:+7 (495) 917-2490
E-mail: chvalun@cc.nifhi.ac.ru
Head of Functional Polymers Laboratory
Institute of Synthetic Polymeric Materials
Russian Academy of Science
Profsoyuznaya, 70, Moscow, 117393
Phone: +7 (495) 332-5820 Fax: +7 (495) 420-2229
E-mail: serge@ispm.ru
2. Professor Igor Ya. Erukhimovich
Moscow State University, Physics Department
Leninskye Gory, Moscow 117234, Russia
Phone: +7 (495) 939-2988 Fax: +7 (495) 939-2988
E-mail: ierukhs@polly.phys.msu.ru
3. Assistant Professor
Igor K. Lednev
Department of Chemistry
University at Albany, SUNY
1400 Washington Ave
Albany, NY 12222
Phone: (518) 442-4487 Fax: (518) 442-3462 (Chemistry)
E-mail: lednev@albany.edu
www.albany.edu/chemistry/lednev.html