On 11/15/2023, the department's Scientific and pedagogical staff joined the Kharkiv Chemical Seminar lecture.

Lecturer: Prof. Vladimir Tsukruk (Prof. Vladimir Tsukruk), director of the Center for Microanalysis, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA. He obtained his higher education and the degrees of candidate and doctor of chemical sciences in Ukraine. In postdoctoral studies, he conducted research at Darmstadt and Marburg universities and the University of Akron. Co-author of more than 550 articles, cited about 40,000 times, with an H-index of more than 100, trained 120 graduate and doctoral students.
The topic of the report: "Bio-enabled Functional Nanomaterials: from Actuating Flexible Magnets to Photonically-Assisted Logic".

In the report, the lecturer presented the results of creating functional hybrid nanomaterials from chiral nematic polysaccharides in combination with graphene oxides, magnetic nanoparticles, and quantum dots for adaptive materials, magnetic photonic materials, and thin-film electronics.

He spoke about stable photonic nanomaterials from cellulose nanocrystals and nanofibers decorated with highly photoluminescent organic dyes or carbon quantum dots. He shared the results regarding the magnetically controlled homogeneous photonic organization of bacterial cellulose nanocrystals decorated with superparamagnetic nanoparticles. It was also about field effect transistors with multi-value logic, which significantly increase the ability to encrypt with the help of a light pulse.
Details at the link: https://www.isc.kh.ua/en/seminar