Candidate of chemical sciences, Senior Research Scientist

тел.: 38 (044) 525 58 58
e-mail: shvalagin@inphyschem-nas.kiev.ua, vitaliy.shvalagin@gmail.com

Area of scientific interests:

The development of methods for the synthesis of spatially organized semiconductor nanostructures, the study of photochemical and photocatalytic processes based on nanosize semiconductors and composites, the photoluminescent properties of semiconductor nanoparticles.

Professional experience

Education

Uzhhorod national university, Chemical Faculty: Bachelor – 2001, Master – 2002.

The author of 56 papers and 8 patents

Awards

Award of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine for young scientists

List of selected publications:

• • 1. Vitaliy Shvalagin, Stepan Kuchmiy, Mykola Skoryk, Marina Bondarenko, Oleg Khyzhun Acid treated crystalline graphitic carbon nitride with improved efficiency in photocatalytic ethanol oxidation under visible light // Materials Science and Engineering: B, Volume 271, 2021, 115304.
  • 2. Vitaliy V. Shvalagin, Ganna V. Korzhak, Stepan Ya. Kuchmiy, Mykola A. Skoryk, Oleksandr V. Selyshchev, Dietrich R.T. Zahn Facile preparation and high photocatalytic activity of crystalline graphitic carbon nitride in hydrogen evolution from electron donor solutions under visible light // J. Photochem. Photobiol. A: Chem. – Volume 390, 2020, 112295.
  • 3. Shvalagin V., Ermokhina N., Romanovska N., Barakov R., Manorik P., Sapsay V., Shcherbakov S., Poddubnaya O., Puziy A. Mesoporous TiO2 microspheres with improved efficiency for photooxidation of volatile organic compounds // Res. Chem. Intermed. – 2019. – 48, N 8. – P. 4133-4148.
  • 4. Andryushina N., Shvalagin V., Korzhak G., Grodzyuk G., Kuchmiy S., Skoryk M. Photocatalytic evolution of H2 from aqueous solutions of two-component electron-donor substrates in the presence of g-C3N4 activated by heat treatment in the KCl+LiCl melt // Appl. Surf. Sci. – 2019. – 475. – P. 348–354.
  • 5. D.V. Bavykin, A.N. Kulak, V.V. Shvalagin, N.S. Andryushina, O.L. Stroyuk Photocatalytic properties of rutile nanoparticles obtained via low temperature route from titanate nanotubes // J. Photochem. Photobiol. A. – 2011. – Vol. 218. – P. 231-238.
  • 6. O.L. Stroyuk, V.M. Dzhagan, V.V. Shvalagin, S.Ya. Kuchmiy. Size-Dependent Optical Properties of Colloidal ZnO Nanoparticles Charged by Photoexcitation // J. Phys. Chem. C  2010.  114, № 1.  Р. 220–225.
  • 7. V.V.Shvalagin, A.L.Stroyuk, S.Ya.Kuchmii Photochemical synthesis of ZnO/Ag nanocomposites // J. Nanoparticle Research. – 2007.- V. 9, № 3. – Р. 427-440.

• 8. Stroyuk A.L., Shvalagin V.V., Kuchmii S.Ya. Photochemical synthesis and optical properties of binary and ternary metal-semiconductor composites based on zinc oxide nanoparticles // J. Photochem. Photobiol. A: Chem. – 2005. – Vol. 173, № 2. – P. 185-194.