(now Institute of Fundamental Problems in Biology),
Pushchino
Pushchino on the Oka river |
In 1976, after graduation of D.I. Mendeleyev Chemical University, I got a junior-scientist staff position at the Institute of Photosynthesis of Russian Academy of Sciences in Pushchino. Simultaneously I started my Ph.D. study that was conducted in the Institute of Photosynthesis and A.N. Frumkin Institute of Electrochemistry (Moscow). |
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I studied electrochemical transformation of light energy into electricity and formation of energy-rich products in photochemical reactions induced by natural chlorophyll - type pigments in multi-component artificial systems. This subject was a part of a big academic project: "Artificial Photosynthesis". Development of photogalvanic cells, hydrogen evolution and water oxidation photosensitized by chlorophyll and pheophytin, respectively, were the main achievements of this study. Evgeny Katz, Yuri N. Kozlov
& Dr. Boris A. Kiselev (clockwise)
performing an electrochemical
experiment (1977)
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Russian Academy of Science, Pushcino |
As a result of this study in 1983 I got a doctoral degree (Ph.D. in Chemistry). Then I moved to another group in the Institute and started a new scientific project: "Photosynthetic Reaction Centers Electrically Contacted with Chemically Modified Electrodes". In the course of this project I developed novel methods of electrode modifications and photosynthetic protein reconstitution and immobilization. The main achievements of this study include:
silanization
of noble metals (Au and Pt) (#22, #23 in the publication
list),
chemisorption
of thiols and disulfides on Au and Pt electrodes (#24,
#28, #40 in the publication
list),
preparation
of quinonoid modified electrodes (#10, #11, #22, #23, #26, #27,
#40
in the publication list),
selective
protein immobilization resulting in alignment of the biomolecules (#21,
#29, #35 in the publication list),
development
of photobioelectrodes based on photosynthetic reaction centers (#21,
#29, #35, #39 in the publication
list).
My research was awarded by the Institute authorities (Institute
Recognition Awards: 1980, 1983, and 1989) and in 1983 I got a senior scientist
staff position in the Institute.
Then the door in the USSR border
has been open......
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People that I have been working together:
pictures taken 20 years later, in 2000. Click here to enlarge. |
