Mechanical Processes in Solid-Phase Transformations

Stanislav Chizhik is Senior Researcher at the Theoretical and Computational Chemistry at the Institute of Solid State Chemistry and Mechanochemistry, Novosibirsk, Russia. He received a specialist diploma from Faculty of Physics of Novosibirsk State University in 1993, and PhD in Solid State Chemistry in 2001. His research interests are reactivity of solids, kinetics and mechanisms of solid-state reactions, theoretical modeling and computer simulation of solid state transformations. His main research directions are feedback phenomena in solid state reactions related to the chemomechanical effects; phenomena of spatially ordered coupled reaction-fracture fronts in topochemical reactions; kinetics and mechanism of oxygen exchange and transport in non-stoichiometric oxides, oxygen permeable membranes, catalytic membrane reactors; kinetics of photochemical reactions in crystals, accompanied by mechanical responses, reversible bending of crystals induced by photochemical reactions.

Alexander A. Matvienko is a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Solid State Chemistry and Mechanochemistry, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation. He graduated from Novosibirsk State University in 1991 and received his PhD in Solid State Chemistry in 1998. His main interests focus on the relation between structural transformation and mechanical phenomena during solid state reactions, synthesis of oxide and metal materials with controlled microstructure (porosity, crystallite size, and shape), porous materials for fuel cells and Li-ion batteries, heterogeneous catalysis: CO2 hydrogenation to higher hydrocarbons.

Anatoly Sidelnikov is a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Solid State Chemistry and Mechanochemistry Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation. He graduated from Novosibirsk State University in 1979 and received his PhD in Physical Chemistry in 1988 and his Dr. Sci. in Solid State Chemistry in 2011. His research interests are the reactivity of solids, kinetics and mechanisms of solid-state reactions, and the study of the influence of mechanical phenomena on chemical reactions. He is an experienced teacher and master experimentalist, and the author of the concept of feedback between solid-phase transformations and the mechanical phenomena caused by them.