Professor, Doctor of Sciences (Chemistry)   Leading Researcher of the Laboratory of Photonics Oxide Nanosystems   Telephone.: +380 44 422-96-98 Fax: +380 44 424-35-67 E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

A.M. Eremenkoworks at the Chuiko Institute of Surface Chemistry of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine since 1986. She is a member of Specialized Council D 26.210.01 (Chuiko Institute of Surface Chemistry of NAS of Ukraine), member of Europen Photochemical Association (EPA)

Scientific interests

Environmental photocatalysis and surface photochemistry, investigationof UV light interaction with the surface of adsorbents, a transfer of electron, proton or exciting energy between adsorbed organic compounds and the active sites of solids - silica, titania and binar oxide systems, synthesis and properties of nanosized metal particles, mechanism study of photocatalytic action of nanosized semiconductors.

Background

1955-1960 - graduated from T.G. Shevchenko Kyiv State University, chemical department

1964-1967 - postgraduate student at the L.V. Pysarzhevskii Institute of Physical Chemistry of AS of UkrSSR

1967 – PhD in Chemistry, specialty “physical chemistry” (candidate dissertation “Molecular Adsorption by Metallized Zeolites”) (in Russian)

1978 - Senior Researcher, specialty “physical chemistry”

1989 - Doctor of Chemistry, specialty “physical chemistry” (doctoral dissertation “Photonics of Adsorbed Complexes of Aromatic Hydrocarbon Molecules on Dispersed Silica Surface”) (in Russian)

1994 - Professor, specialty “physical chemistry”

Awards and Grants

2006 – awarded the Pisarzhevskii Prize for a series of scientific works "Development of physical and chemical bases of new highly efficient photocatalytic and photoelectrochemical systems and processes" (with corresponding member of NASU Prof. S.Ya. Kuchmiy and Prof. G. Ya Kolbasov)

1996 – supervisor of project "Silica surface diagnostic and creation of photosensitive materials using exiplexes" (Chemistry Department of Notre Dame University, USA)

1997 – supervisor of project " Synthesis of materials for solar energy utilization in ecological photocatalysis " (Institute of Silicate Chemistry of Wurzburg University, Germany)

1999 – supervisor of project " Photofixation of dinitrogen over titanate film catalysts" (Institute of Inorganic Chemistry of Erlangen-Nurnberg University, Germany)

2000 – Grant of King's Scientific Society of Great Britain "Study of laser induced processes in heterogeneous media based on titania containing photocatalysts"

2001 – supervisor of project " Photoinduced electron transfer in nonostructured TiO₂/SiO₂ colloids " (Institute of Physical Chemistry, Warsaw, Poland)

2007 – supervisor of project from Ukraine "Synthesis and investigation of bimetallic (Ag, Au, Pt, Pd) nanoparticles for photocatalytic and antibacterial application"( Chemistry Department of Bilkent University, Turkey).

2010 - supervisor of STCU project "Thechnology development and manufaction of new nanosized antimicrobial materials based on nanoparticles of silver, gold, copper colloids and suspensions of dispersed silica with broad-spectrum action and conjugated nanobiothechnological anticancer drugs with low toxicity".

Scientific work

250 publications including 5 chapters in books, 10 review articles, 5 patents; supervisor of 14 PhDs.

Selected publications

1. Yu. Mukha, А. Eremenko, G. Korchak, А. Michienkova. Antibacterial Action and physicochemical properties of stabilized silver and gold nanostructures on the surface of disperse silica // Journal of Water Resource and Protection. – 2010. – V. 2, N. 2. – P.131–136.

2. A.M. Eremenko, N.P. Smirnova, Y.P. Mukha, H.R. Jashan. Silver and gold nanoparticles in silica matrices: synthesis, properties and application // Theoretical and Experimental Chemistry – 2010. – V 46, N 2. – С. 67 – 86.

3. A. Eremenko, N. Smirnova, Yu. Gnatiuk, O. Linnik, N. Vityuk, Yu. Mukha, A. Korduban. Silver and gold nanoparticles on sol-gel TiO₂, ZrO₂, SiO₂ surfaces: optical spectra, photocatalytic activity, bactericide properties // Nanocomposites and Polymers with Analytical Methods / InTech, еd. John Cuppoletti. – Croatia, 2011. – P.51–82.

4. A.M. Eremenko, N.P. Smirnova, Yu.P. Mukha, A.P. Naumenko, N.M. Belyi, S. Hayde. Effect of gold nanoparticles on an aerosil surface on the fluorescence and Raman spectra of adsorbed tryptophan // Theoretical and Experimental Chemistry– 2012. – V. 48, N 1. – С.49–55

5. H.I. Korchak, О.V. Surmasheva, А.І. Міkhienkova, A.M. Eremenko, Yu.P. Мukha, N.P. Smirnova Marseev Antimicrobial composition // Patent of Ukraine N 67536 from 27.02.2012.

6. А. Naumenko, Yu. Gnatiuk, N. Smirnova, A. Eremenko. Characterization of sol–gel derived TiO₂/ZrO₂ films and powders by Raman spectroscopy // Thin Solid Films. – 2012 – V. 520, N 14. – P.4541–4546.