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School of Physical and Chemical Sciences

Dr Andrei Sapelkin

Andrei

Senior Lecturer

Email: a.sapelkin@qmul.ac.uk
Telephone: 020 7882 3414
Room Number: G.O. Jones Building, Room 124

Research

Research Interests:

My research interests are in the atomic structure, interatomic interactions, optical and electronic properties of non-periodic materials with particular focus on ultra-small nanoparticles and quantum dots (QDs). A part of my work includes investigating materials under a variety of in situ perturbations including high pressure, high and low temperatures and laser excitation. My research activities include both experimental and computational components.

On the experimental side I extensively use x-ray absorption spectroscopy and scattering, hence my long-standing involvement with large scale facilities such as synchrotron radiation and neutron sources. I have also been utilising and developing a selection of Raman scattering, photoluminescence and spectral imaging methods for materials characterisation.

On the computational side I utilise a selection of specialised codes (e.g. FEFF, FDMES, Excurve) for electronic structure, x-ray scattering and absorption calculations using ab initio and DFT codes for modelling x-ray and electron spectroscopies and materials properties.

Another long-standing interest of mine is in the bio-applications of nanoscale system and to sustain this activity I maintain extensive collaborations with chemist, biologists and materials scientists.

 

Examples of research funding:

2021-2024: Diamond/QMUL PhD studentship, £77K, PI

2019-2022: Royal Society, "Local correlations across length scales in systems with large disorder” £11K, PI

2019: British Council, Collective dynamics and pair correlations in atomic and colloidal systems” £50K, PI

2016-2017: QMUL SFIF, High Resolution Raman System”, £200K, PI

2012-2015: BBSRC, "Targeted drug delivery to neurons and glia using light-and field-sensitive microcapsules", £442K, Co-PI

2010-2013: SEPnet, “Multimodal approach to structural effects in ferromagnetic Nanomaterials”, SEPnet, £49K, PI

2009-2011: EPSRC, “Tunable Raman spectroscopy of carbon nanotubes under high pressure”, £231K, Co-I

2004-2006: EPSRC, “Bi-directional interfacing of electronics and cultured neurons”, £208K, PI

 

Publications

Supervision

Research Group

Current members

Ying Liu, Atomic structure of low-dimensional materials

Past Members

Nikolaos Papaioannou, now with Unilever UK. 

Kemal Keseroglu, now a Research Fellow at Cincinnati Children's, USA.

Zhang Yuanpeng, now at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA. 

Ali Karatutlu, now an Assistant Professor at Bursa Orhangazi University, Turkey.

Mingying Song, now a Research Fellow at The State Key Laboratory of Laser Interaction with Matter, China.

Osman Ersoy, Semiconductor quantum dots

William Little, Structure and optical properties of semiconductor quantum dots.

Performance

My Talks

Quantum Dots for imaging Talk [PDF 3,298KB] at a British Council Sponsored Workshop, Saratov, Russia

Quantum Dots Raman and PL Talk [PDF 2,757KB] at Renishaw Inside Raman workshop, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

Interaction of nanostructures with living cells Talk [PDF 2,091KB] at Royal Holloway, University of London

Nanostructures under pressure Talk [PDF 1,028KB] at a CSEC, Edinburgh and at CEMES-CNRS Toulouse, France

In the Media

"Molecular "dances" determine how liquids take up heat"

Wikipedia (search Sapelkin)

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