Lecture:Functional properties of Rare Earth and Rare metal nanomaterials

Lecturer:Dr. Rustem Zairov (Professor, Ph.D Supervisor)

Time:10: 00 – 11: 30, Nov. 15^th(Friday)

Venue:E911, Mingbianlou Building

Bio.:Dr. R. Zairov received his undergraduate training at the KFU Laboratory of inorganic supramolecular systems, Russia, working on the study, modification and structural characterization of lanthanide(III) complexes with water-soluble calixarenes in micellar systems. He was awarded his doctoral degree in 2009 by defending a thesis on lanthanide(III) mixed ligand complexes formation and their cloud-point extraction, which is prospective topic from the point of view of rare-earth metals recovery from nuclear industry waste. Dr. R. Zairov was involved in several research and industrial projects in the field of materials science in which his competence in coordination chemistry, chemistry of materials, materials science, and nanotechnology was applied to interdisciplinary problems. He is a Chemist working on the development of new multifunctional colloidal systems for advanced applications in Biochemistry, Biology, Medicine and Oil industry. His main research interests rely with the fundamental understanding of the processes taking place during the synthesis of new rare-earth based and carbon-based colloidal systems and their applications derived from magnetic and optical properties. Recently, his scope enlarged to a topic of biocompatible polymers and functional materials for sustainable release as well as energy related direction. Since 2022, he is the head of“Functional materials” lab in KFU.

Abstract:What unites BYD or NIO electric vehicles, medical MRI scanners, Huawei phones, satellites, nuclear reactors and audio speakers? Their production would be impossible without the use of rare earth metals (REM) or rare earth elements (REE). Thanks to new materials based on REM, the speed and volume of information transmitted on the Internet is constantly increasing, the strength of the spacecraft coating is growing, the battery capacity is increasing, etc. Thus, REM are the real engines of progress. REM have unique functional properties. The report by Zairov Rustem, Associate Professor of the Department of Physical Chemistry at Kazan Federal University, entitled“Functional properties of Rare Earth and rare metal nanomaterials”will discuss the possibilities of effective binding of REM into coordination complexes at molecular level and building nanoparticles based on them. Such nanoparticles exhibit unique optical and magneto-relaxometric properties, which plays a key role for biomedical and bioanalytical diagnostics. The report will present luminescent thermo- and chemosensors obtained in the group of Prof. Zairov. Also, cluster complexes of such rare elements as rhenium, tantalum, niobium, and others will be briefly discussed in terms of their potential use as catalysts for new energy.

Organizer and sponsor:

School of New Energy and Materials, SWPU

Sichuan Nanotechnology Association