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KUZIN Nikolay Alekseevich, candidate of chemical sciences (1982)
Nikolay A. Kuzin designs metal based catalysts, studies microkinetics of chemical
reactions with phase transformations and develops chemical technologies related.
He is an expert in catalysis, especially in the design of catalysts for highly
exothermal processes, and in macrokinetics theory and chemical technology. He
obtained key results when designing metal based catalysts for the liquid-phase
decomposition of The field of his research activities unites the engineering of
chemical, mechanical and thermal hydrogen peroxide and hydrazine. These
catalysts are mechanically stable in the gasogeneration. Dr. Kuzin also studies
macrokinetic regulations of such processes on the catalyst grain. His studies
allowed him to elucidate the essence of physical chemical phenomena proceeding in
the gas-phase catalytic decomposition of hydrogen peroxide and hydrazine and to
give a mathematical description of these processes in a reactor. Nikolay A. Kuzin
has designed the methods to obtain catalytically active armoured metal membrane
materials. These methods in turn allowed him to develop three ways of catalytic gas
fuel combustion to produce heat. Such materials are used in catalytic devices (or
heaters) allowing to burn the stoichiometric fuel-air mixtures at 800-850oC
producing no nitrogen oxides. Moreover, the heaters act as heat exchangers.
KUZNETSOV Vladimir L'vovich, candidate of chemical sciences (1978)
Head of the Group of Synthesis of Surface Compounds
Director of BIC Information Center
Vladimir L. Kuznetsov is the expert in synthesing and studying highly dispersed
compounds. His scientific interests are focussed on the research and design of
supported catalysts immobilizing metal complexes and clusters on the supports of
different origin (oxides, carbon). He has also developed the method for
transforming disperse diamond to curved graphitic structures (onion-like carbon,
surface carbon nanotubes), methods for preparing ultra-disperse magnetic
materials. Vladimir L. Kuznetsov is the organizer and decision maker of the BIC
Information Center, responsible for supporting the databank on catalysis.
LIKHOLOBOV Vladimir Aleksandrovich, doctor of chemical sciences (1983)
Professor (1985)
Head of the Laboratory of Catalysis by Metal Complexes
Head of the Chair "Catalysis and Adsorption" at the Novisibirsk State
University.
Prof. Vladimir A. Likholobov is a well known specialist in the synthesis of heterogenized
complexes of metals and application of these new materials for preparing catalysts,
sorbents and compozites. He has developed fundamental and methodological
approaches to the synthesis of anchored chemicals by the "tailor- made" method
providing a wide spectra of chemical compositions and structures of the catalyst
active sites and improving the "chemical accuracy" of the synthesis. He contributed
magnificently to the research of processes for activating dihydrogen, carbon
monoxide, dioxygen, olefin molecules by transition metal ions, as well as of ligand
rearrangements yielding the products of hydrogenation, oxidation and carbonylation
of various organics. Now he is desgning methods for synthesing the surfacefunctionalized
carbon materials which are catalysts and sorbents of a new
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