PhD in Chemistry Senior Researcher,  Senior Researcher of the Department of Chemisorption and Hybrid Materials   Telephone: +380 44 422-96-09 Fax: +380 44 424-35-67 E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. , This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

I.V. Melnyk works at the Chuiko Institute of Surface Chemistry of NAS of Ukraine since 2000.

Scientific interests

Sol-gel method, surface chemistry, hybrid materials, sorbents.

Background

1997 - graduated from the Faculty of Natural Sciences of M. Drahomanov National Pedagogical University, specialization "Chemistry and Biology"

1998-2001 – postgraduate student at the Chuiko Institute of Surface Chemistry, NAS of Ukraine

2003 – PhD in Chemistry, specialty "physics and chemistry of surfaces" (candidate dissertation "Synthesis and research of polyorganosiloxanes with bi- and trifunctional surface layer") (in Ukrainian)

2003 - three months training at the University of Parma (Italy) within the NATO SfP 978006

2016 - Senior Researcher, specialty "physics and chemistry of surface"

Awards and Grants

2002 - The stipend of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

2004 A scholarship by the DAAD (Germany, with 3 month internship) at Max -Planck-Institut Fur Kohlenforschung

2005-2006 - INTAS YSF Nr 04-83-2630 grant

2006 - The Diploma of the Kyiv mayor for Gifted Youth

2008-2009 - Project manager of Bilateral collaboration NAS of Ukraine – CNRS of France

2009-2010 - Project manager of research project F 29/379-2009 funded by Basic Research Foundation of Ukraine and Belarus

2010 - The diploma of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine for outstanding achievement of youth in the development of Ukraine

2011 – The diploma on the occasion of 25th anniversary founding of of Chuiko Institute of Surface Chemistry of NAS of Ukraine

2014-2016 - Project manager of Bilateral collaboration between the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and the Slovak Academy of Sciences

2016-2018 - Scientific manager of the project N1298/03/01 funded by the Programme SASPRO 3rd call, co-funded by the European Commission under the scheme COFUND, which is part of the Marie Curie Actions under EU 7th FP, under Grant agreement No. REA 609427: SASPRO/Mobility Programme of Slovak Academy of Sciences: Supportive Fund for Excellent Scientists

2018-2019 - Head of the project of bilateral cooperation between the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and the Ministry of Education and Science of Lithuania

2019-2020 - Co-manager of the project "Multifunctional hybrid adsorbents for water purification" (funded by The Swedish Research Council)

Scientific work

Co-author of more than 70 articles, 5 chapters in monographs.

Selected publications

 1. I.V. Melnyk, M. Fatnassi, T. Cacciaguerra, Y.L. Zub, В. Alonso. Spray-dried porous silica microspheres functionalised by phosphonic acid groups // Micropor. Mesopor. Mat. – 2012. – V.152. – P.172–177.

2. I.V. Melnyk, V.P. Goncharyk, N.V. Stolyarchuk, L.I. Kozhara, А.S. Lunochkina, Yu.L. Zub, B. Alonso. Dy³⁺ sorption from water solutions by mesoporous silicas functionnalized by phosphonic acid groups // J. Porous Mat. – 2012. – V.19. – P.579-585.

3. I.V. Melnyk, Y.L. Zub. Preparation and characterisation of magnetic nanoparticles with bifunctional surface layer ≡Si(CH₂)₃NH₂/≡SiCH₃ (or ≡SiC₃H_7–n) // Micropor. Mesopor. Mat. – 2012. – V.154. – P.196-199.

4. I.V. Melnyk. Aminosilica nano- and submicrospheres: study of influence factors on morphology, structure and properties // Chem. J Moldova. – 2014. - 9(1). – Р.123-127.

5. G.A. Seisenbaeva, I.V. Melnyk, N. Hedin, Y. Chen, P. Eriksson, E. Trzop, Yu.L. Zub, V.G. Kesslerl. Molecular insight into the mode-of-action of phosphonate monolayers as active functions of hybrid metal oxide adsorbents. Case study in sequestration of rare earth elements // RSC Advances. – 2015. – V. 5. – P.24575–24585.

6. R.P. Pogorilyi, I.V. Melnyk, Y.L. Zub, G.A. Seisenbaeva, V.G. Kessler. Enzyme Immobilization on a nanoadsorbent for improved stability against heavy metal poisoning // Colloids Surf. B. – 2016. – V.144. – P.135-142.

7. I.V. Melnyk, K. Gdula, A. Dąbrowski, Y.L. Zub. Magneto-sensitive adsorbents modified by functional nitrogen-containing groups // Nanoscale Res. Lett. – 2016. – V.11 – P.61.