About Us
This site briefly summarizes the techniques and instrumentation used in the scientific research and developments of analytical photothermal spectroscopy in Moscow State University.
The Background
The group was founded at the Chemistry Department of M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1986 under the supervision of Prof. Yuri Ya. Kuzyakov, the dean of the Department and Prof. Ivan P. Alimarin, the full Member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and the head of the Analytical Chemistry Division of the University and the head on the Council of the Analytical Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. From 1991 it is headed by Dr. Mikhail A. Proskurnin.
The group was created as a workgroup dealing with various problems of thermooptical (photothermal) laser spectrometry (initially, thermal lensing only) in various aspects of analytical chemistry, analytical instrumentation, and chemical analysis. With time, the mainstream of group scientific interests remained the same, although it became more diverse covering the problems of hyphenated techniques, the analysis of solids and surfaces, microscopic variants of photothermal spectroscopy, and micro-Total Analysis Systems or (mTAS).
Achievements
| Post-graduate students graduated | 7 |
| Students graduated | 35 |
| Foreign students involved | 2 |
| Total students involved | 150 |
| Awards won | 23 |
| Long-term grants participated | 25 |
Grants
2001-2003
Investigation of thermodynamics and kinetics
of analytical reactions in solution and at the surface at the nanogram level
by thermal lens spectrometry Russian Foundation
For Basic Research (Grant number: 01-03-33149)
1998-2000
Investigation of thermodynamic and kinetic
properties of analytical reactions of several transition metals in batch
and flow conditions by laser-induced thermo-optical spectroscopy. Russian
Foundation For Basic Research (Grant number: 98-03-32827)
1994-1995
Thermal Lens Spectrometry in Ion Chromatography:
The Development of Theoretical Principles and Generic Experiment G.
Soros International Science Foundation (Grant number: MZ009)
1992-1995
Development of a chromato-thermal-lens spectrometer. Priority
Direction 08 of the State Scientific and Technological Program of the Russian
Federation
1991-1993
Development of the method of thermal-lens
detection in the flow for a high-sensitive liquifd analyzer. State
Scientific and Technological Program of the USSR «Priority Direction of
the Development of Chemical Science and Technology #29, «Analysis»»
1990-1992
Development of the method of chromato-thermal-lens
spectrometry of trace organic and inorganic substances. State
Scientific and Technological Program of the USSR «Priority Directions of
the Chemical Science»
1990-1992
Development of the methof of thermal lensing
of of trace organic and inorganic substances. State
Committee of Education of the USSR
