Valentina Shmatko
Research interests:
Experimental and theoretical investigation of local atomic geometry and electronic structure and morphology of condensed materials (nanopartical, nanoclasters, nanotubes, nanocomposites). Methods: X-ray Absorption Near Edge Structure (XANES), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), Scanning electron microscopy (SEM)
Research projects:
- Russian Foundation for Basic Research, project N 12-02-31616 « Change of a chemical bond of carbon in single-wall carbon tubes (H-SWNT) at hydrogenation» (2012-2013)
- Ministry of education and science of the Russian Federation, grant N 11.2432.2014/K «Диагностика состава, структуры, морфологии металлоорганических газсорбирующих нанокомпозитов на основе металлических наночастиц и физико-химические механизмы взаимодействия их с газовой средой » (2014-2016)
- Southern Federal University, project NVnGr-07/2017-30 «Исследование атомной и электронной структуры новых гибридных нанокомпозитных углеродных материалов методами теоретического моделирования и рентгеновской спектроскопии на синхротронном излучении» (2016-2019)
- The Ministry of Education and Science of Russian Federation, Grant of the President of the Russian Federation for the young scientists. The topic of the project is «Mechanisms of electrical conductivity in hybrid nanocomposites for supercapacitors: X-ray studies», N MK-4933.2018.2 (2018-2019)
Experimental work
2010 – BESSY II proposal no. 2010_1_91221 « Study of hydrogenated single-wall carbon nanotubes by photoelectron and absorption spectroscopy»
2013 – ESRF experience CH-3813
2014– BESSY II proposal no. 1410057-ST «The investigation of Zn, Ni, Cu and Fe ions localization in human kidney stones»
2016 – Elettra proposal N20160448 «Effect heat treatment on the conduction mechanisms in the nanocomposite Me(Co, Cu)/PAN»