Main Fields and Results of Research Activities

• Fundamental research

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  • Correlation between synthesis conditions, composition, crystal structure, and peculiarities of the defect structure of complex oxides of transition metals;
  
  
  • Thermodynamics of the defect state and mechanisms of conjugate ion-electron transport;
  
  
  • Effect of ion-plasma synthesis conditions on the composition, structure, and properties of variable-composition phases in the form of films and coatings;
  
  
  • Electron and mass transport in processes of electrochemical cyclic pulse interaction;
  
  
  • Determination of the phase composition and thermal properties and plotting of diagrams of states for oxide systems;
  
  
  • Chemistry, kinetics, and thermodynamics of interaction of oxide compounds;
  
  
  • Chemical, thermodynamic, spectral, electric, transport, and other structure-sensitive properties of individual oxygen-containing compounds and their compositions; 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Projects
  
  
  
  

   

  
  

  
  

  1.      CRDF RC-201. High-temperature thermodynamics and transport phenomena in oxides with mixed oxygen ion-electronic conductivity and broad oxygen homogeneous range. 1996-1998.

  
  

  2.      CRDF RC1-215. Mixed oxygen ion-electron conduction in oxides with broad and homogeneous regions of oxygen stoichiometry. 1996-1998.

  
  

  3.      INTAS 00-00728. Hydrogen in mixed-valence perovskites: new approach to the chemical control of physical properties of HTSC and manganites, 2001-2004.

  
  

  4.      INTAS 01-00278. Charge/orbital/spin ordering on the verge of Co3+ spin-state transition in the giant magnetoresistive cobaltites. 2002-2004.

  
  

  5.      NATO Science for Peace Program 978002. Mixed conducting membranes for partial oxidation of natural gas to synthesis gas. 2002-2005.

  
  

  6.      RFBR 94-02-04035-а. Thermoelectrochemical energy generator based on solid-state electrolytes with oxygen conductivity. 1994-1995. Project leader – Kozhevnikov V.L.

  
  

  7.      RFBR 97-03-33358-а. Paramagnetic centers in Li2O-CoO-V2O5 system: nature, effect on electron and lithium conductivity. 1997-1998. Project leader – Slobodin B.V.

  
  

  8.      RFBR 97-03-33438-а. Defect structure and rapid double-charged cation transport in solid-state electrolytes with impurity disordering. 1997-1999. Project leader – Leonidov I.А.

  
  

  9.      RFBR 98-03-32510а. Defect structure and transport phenomena in novel oxygen-electron conductors with a high level of oxygen conductivity. 1998-2000. Project leader - Kozhevnikov V.L.

  
  

  10.  RFBR 01-03-32472-а. Ion and electron transport in new lithium-conducting spinel-type phases of variable composition. 2001-2002. Project leader - Leonidov I.А.

  
  

  11.  RFBR 01-03-96519р2001-Ural. Defect structure and transport properties of new oxides with a high level of oxygen ion and electron conductivity. 2001-2003. Project leader - Kozhevnikov V.L.

  
  

  12.  RFBR 04-03-32948. Nonstoichiometry and electron ordering in REM cobaltites with binary perovskite structure. 2004-2006. Project leader - Kozhevnikov V.L.

  
  

  13.  Project: Targeted synthesis of novel oxygen-conducting oxide compounds of 3d transition elements. RAS Presidium Program for basic research No. 26 “Hydrogen power engineering”. 2004-2006.

  
  

  14.  Synthesis and investigation of new-generation radiopaque agents for bone grafting. Financed by the Institute of Immunology and Physiology UB RAS. 2003-2004. Project leader - Zuev М.G.

  
  

  15.  RFBR 04-03-32347-а. Targeted synthesis of new solid-state electrolytes and ferroelectrics based on complex oxide compounds of vanadium. 2004-2006. Project leader - Leonidov I.А.

  
  

  16.  RFBR 06-03-3099а. Defect structure, ion and electron transport in complex perovskite-like oxides. 2006-2008. Project leader - Patrakeev M.V.

  
  

  17.  RFBR 07-03-01063а. Structural chemical mechanism of negative volume thermal expansion of complex oxides. 2007-2009. Project leader - Krasnenko Т.I.

  
  

  18.  RFBR 10-03-00475-а. Alloying and nonstoichiometry effects and purpose-oriented control of thermoelectric properties of novel materials based in calcium and strontium manganites. 2010-2012. Project leader - Kozhevnikov V.L.

  
  

  19.  RFBR 10-03-01054-а. Examination of new ambipolar proton-electron conductors based on complex oxides with perovskite structure: membranes for hydrogen separation from gas mixtures. 2010-2012. Project leader - Leonidov I.А.

  
  

  20.  RFBR 10-03-96062-Ural. Physicochemical foundations of synthesis of nanosized metal powders having predetermined morphology. 2010-2012. Project leader - Vladimirova Е.V.

  
  

  21.  RFBR 11-03-00779-а. Complex-oxide materials with assigned volume thermal expansion coefficients: crystal chemical designing, quantum chemical modeling, synthesis, functional properties. 2011-2013. Project leader - Krasnenko Т.I.

  
  

  22.  RFBR 11-03-00097-а. Luminescent Rb- and Cs-containing nanocomponents for composite LED materials: production and properties. 2011-2013. Project leader - Samigullina R.F.

  
  

  23.  RFBR 12-03-31217-mol_a. Defect formation and charge transfer in electron-doped manganites with oxygen nonstoichiometry. 2012-2014. Project leader - Goldyreva Е.I.

  
  

  24.  RFBR 12-03-31478-mol_a. New thermoelectric materials based on strontium titanates. 2012-2014. Project leader - Markov А.А.

  
  

  25.  RFBR 12-03-31570-mol_a. Synthesis, structure, and electrophysical properties of new binary perovskites showing promise for fuel cell cathodes. 2012-2014. Project leader - Suntsov А.Yu.

  
  
  
  

   

  
  

   

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