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Egon Matijević Chaired Professor
Chemistry
241 Science Center
Clarkson University
PO Box 5810
Potsdam, NY 13699-5810

Phone: 315-268-3807
Fax: 315-268-6610
E-mail: sminko@clarkson.edu
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Educational Background:
Dr.Sci., Macromolecular Chemistry, Institute of Physical Chemistry, National Academy of Sciences, Ukraine, 1993.
Ph.D., Organic Chemistry, Lviv National Polytechnic University 1983,
M. Tech., Chemical Engineering, Lviv National Polytechnic University, 1979

Research Interests:

  • Smart/responsive polymer materials
  • Formation of nanowires and nanoparticles
  • Smart colloids n Adhesion, wetting, adsorption regulation
  • Nanostructured thin polymer films
  • Single molecule devices n Nanotemplates and nanomembranes
  • Combinatorial methods in material science

Related Facilities:

  • Scanning Probe Microscopy
  • Ellipsometry/Imaging Ellipsometry
  • Surface Plasmon Spectroscopy
  • Brewster Angle Microscopy
  • Contact Angle Goniometer
  • Spin/Dip Coating Deposition systems
  • Polymerization Chemical Laboratory

Conducted Research:

  • Smart/responsive materials
  • Thin polymer films
  • Grafting of polymers
  • Polyelectrolytes, adsorption, stabilization of colloids
  • Polymer composites, fillers, interfaces, adhesion, debonding
  • Nanostructured materials, block-copolymers
  • Biocompatible materials, textiles
  • Nanowires, nanoparticles, metallization of single molecules
  • Visualization of PE single molecules of various architectures
  • Nanotemplates, nanomembranes, ordered arrays of nanoparticles
  • Microprinting

Memberships:
American Chemical Society – ACS

Publications