PhD in Chemistry, Senior Researcher,   Seniour Researcher of the Laboratory of Photonics Oxide Nanosystems   Telephone: +380 44 422-96-98 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.

O.P. Linnikworks at the Chuiko Institute of Surface Chemistry of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine since 1998.

Scientific interests

Heterogeneous photocatalysis; sol-gel synthesis of nanostructured films; titania modification by metal ions, nonmetals, noble metal nanoparticles; creation of semiconductive metal titanate systems doped with nitrogen; investigation of physical and chemical properties of nanosystems; determination of photocatalytic degradation mechanism of anthropogenic pollutants.

Background

1991-1996 - graduated from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, chemical department

2004 – Doctor Degree of Natural Sciences (Dr. rer. nat.), Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlanger-Nurnberg, Germany (PhD thesis “Photocatalytic dinitrogen fixation at metal titanate thin films”) (in English)

2008 – PhD in Chemistry, specialty “physics and chemistry of surface” (nostrofication, candidate dissertation “Photocatalytic dinitrogen fixation at metal titanate thin films”).

2017 – Senior Researcher, specialty “Chemistry”.

Scientific work

Author of 44 scientific works including 3 chapters in a books.

Selected publications

1. O. Linnik, N. Shestopal, N. Smirnova, A. Eremenko, O. Korduban, V. Kandyba, T. Kryshchuk, G. Socol, N. Stefan, G. Popescu-Pelin, C. Ristoscu, I.N. Mihailescu. Correlation between electronic structure and photocatalytic properties of non-metal doped TiO2/ZrO2 thin films obtained by pulsed laser deposition method // Vacuum. - 2015. – V.114. - P.166–171.
2. O.P. Linnik, M.A. Zhukovskiy,G.N. Starukh, N.P. Smirnova, N.V. Gaponenko, A.M. Asharif, L.S. Khoroshko, V.E. Borisenko. Рhotocatalytic destruction of tetracycline hydrochloride on the surface of titanium dioxide films modified by gold nanoparticles // Journal of Applied Spectroscopy. –2015. – V. 81, № 6.– Р. 990–995.
3. O. Linnik, N. Chorna, N. Smirnova Nonporous iron titanate thin films doped with nitrogen: optical, structural and photocatalytic properties // Nanoscale Research Letters. – 2017. – V. 12. – P. 249–258.
4. O. Linnik, O. Nadtoka Polymer dye-containing nanocomposites as photocatalysts / Мolecular crystals and liquid crystals.–2017. – V. 642. – Р. 106–114.
5. N. Chorna, N. Smirnova, V. Vorobets, G. Kolbasov, O. Linnik. Nitrogen doped iron titanate films: photoelectrochemical, electrocatalytic, photocatalytic and structural features // Applied Surface Science. – 2019. – V. 473. – Р. 343–351.