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

  1. S. N. Chvalun, A. N. Yakunin. Structural analysis of self-organizing supramolecular systems of various symmetry, in press.
  2. 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).
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. A. N. Yakunin. Polymer Melt Viscosity, cond-mat/0212408.
  7. 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).
  8. 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).
  9. 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).
  10. 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).
  11. 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).
  12. 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).
  13. 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).
  14. 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).
  15. 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).
  16. 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.
  17. 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).
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. 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).
  22. 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).
  23. 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).
  24. 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).
  25. 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