Position: Senior researcher
Field of knowledge, speciality: Chemistry and technology of polymers.
The main object is the synthesis and investigation of molecular and nanosized composites obtained by radical polymerization of vinyl monomers (methyl methacrylate, styrene, N-vinylpirrolidone etc.) in the presence of different compounds (polyheteroarylenes [polyimides, polyamides, polyarylenes etc.], nanoparticles [silica, in particular] etc.)
Research topics
1. Radical thermo- and photopolymerization
2. Molecular composites and nanocomposites
3. Copolymers obtained by polymerization of unsaturated monomers in the presence of polyheteroarylenes
4. Kinetics of monomers polymerization (Calorimetry, Real-Time FTIR and ESR)
5. Hybrid composites containing silica
6. Characterization of molecular and nanocomposites (SEM, Thermal Analysis [DSC, TGA and TMA], NMR, FTIR, GPC (SEC), Mechanical properties)
7. High performance polymers, polycondensation
Dr. Dmitriy A. Sapozhnikov is an author of 18 papers, 4 patents, 32 posters and oral lectures on Russian and International conferences.
Education:
1994 — 1996 - Tyumen State Oil and Gas University, Tobol’sk (Fuel and power faculty)
1996 — 2000 - D.I. Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia, Moscow
Chemical engineer, awarded diploma with a distinction
Profession: chemical technology of high molecular weight compounds
Speciality: organoelement and inorganic polymer technology
Supervisor: Professor Yakov S. Vygodskii
Thesis: “Synthesis and investigation of polymers obtained by (co)polymerization of methyl methacrylate in the presence of fluorinated polyheteroaryene”
2000 — 2001 - A.N. Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoelement Compounds Russian Academy of Sciences (INEOS RAS)
Engineer
2001 — 2006 - PhD student at INEOS RAS
2003 — 2006 - PhD student at University 2 of Montpellier (UM2), France
PhD degree by “cotutelle” from INEOS RAS and UM2.
Chemistry of macromolecular compounds
Supervisors: Professor Yakov S. Vygodskii ()
PhD thesis: “Synthesis and investigation of copolymers based on
Polyheteroarylenes and vinyl monomers”
2007 — 2009 - scientific researcher at INEOS RAS
2009 — till present - senior researcher at INEOS RAS
