Chair, Department of Technology in Cosmetics

Professor, Department of Physical and Colloid Chemistry

Dr.Sc. in Chemistry

phone: +7 (843) 231-43-89

e-mail: knjazev2001@mail.ru

EDUCATION

2009 - 2011 Dr.Sc. in Chemistry, Thesis «Polyfunctional lanthanide containing liquid crystals», Kazan National Research Technological University, Institute of Polymers, Faculty of Rubber and Elastomer Technology and Processing, Department of Physical and Colloid Chemistry.

2001 - 2005 Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry, Thesis «Synthesis and luminescence properties of liquid crystalline adducts of lanthanides», Kazan National Research Technological University, Institute of Polymers, Faculty of Rubber and Elastomer Technology and Processing, Department of Physical and Colloid Chemistry.

1995 - 2001 Specialist Degree, Diploma of Engineer, Kazan State Technological University, Institute of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Engineering Ecology Department, Kazan, Russian Federation.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2013 - present Professor, Kazan National Research Technological University, Institute of Polymers, Faculty of Polyfunctional Materials Technology, Department of Physical and Colloid Chemistry.

2007 - 2013 Associate Professor, Kazan National Research Technological University, Institute of Polymers, Faculty of Rubber and Elastomer Technology and Processing, Department of Physical and Colloid Chemistry.

2006 - 2007 Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Chemistry, Prof. Koen Binnemans, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Theme: "Liquid-crystalline ternary rare-earth complexes".

2004 - 2006 Assistant Professor, Kazan National Research Technological University, Institute of Polymers, Faculty of Rubber and Elastomer Technology and Processing, Department of Physical and Colloid Chemistry.

MAIN ACHIEVEMENTS

Andrey A. Knyazev is an international researcher in the area of magnetic and luminescent properties in lanthanide containing compounds including liquid crystal.

He studies lanthanide-containing liquid crystals, conjugated polymers and hybrid functional materials formed on their base for further application in optoelectronics and optics.

He took part in more than 20 grants and scientific projects, including as the head of grants from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (2016-2018), the grant of the President of the Russian Federation (2015-2016), the grant of the Government of the Republic of Tatarstan "Algarysh" (2014, 2017, 2018) for scientific internships, the grant of Carl Zeiss company (2012, 2013, 2014), etc. The winner of the young scientists competition for the Arbuzov Prize (2012) for outstanding research in the field of organic and organoelement chemistry.

He authored over 90 papers in peer-refereed academic journals and has 4 patents. His Hirsch index is 17.

Scientific and educational internships: 2003, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012 – Darmstadt Technical University (Germany); 2005, 2006-2007 – Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium); 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 – Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Prague (Czech Republic); 2012, 2018 – University of Strasbourg (France).

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Physical Chemistry
• Lanthanide complexes
• Liquid crystals
• Optical materials
• Functional materials

MAIN PUBLICATIONS

1. Yu. G. Galyametdinov, O. A. Turanova, Ven Van, A. A. Knyazev, and W. Haase, Synthesis of Liquid-Crystalline Adducts of Lanthanide-Diketonates with Some Lewis Bases. Doklady Chemistry. 2002 V. 384, No. 1-3, p.144-147.
2. Knyazev A. A., Lobkov V. S., Galyametdinov Y. G. Liquid-crystalline complex of Eu III β-diketonate with 5, 5"-di (heptadecyl)-2, 2"-bipyridine //Russian chemical bulletin. – 2004. – V. 53. – I. 4. – P. 942-943.
3. Lapaev, D. V., Safiullin, G. M., Lobkov, V. S., Salikhov, K. M., Knyazev, A. A., Galyametdinov, Y. G. Spectroscopic study of a composite (polymer: europium complex) film //RUSSIAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C – 2005. – V. 79. – P. S33.
4. Dzhabarov V. I., Knyazev A. A., Galyametdinov Y. G. Lanthanide tris (β-diketonates) as ionophores for chloride ion-selective electrodes //Russian journal of applied chemistry. – 2006. – V. 79. – I. 11. – p. 1816-1819.
5. Novikova, N. N., Zheludeva, S. I., Stepina, N. D., Tolstikhina, A. L., Gaynutdinov, R. V., Haase, W., Knyazev A. A., Galyametdinov, Y. G. Arrangement of trace metal contaminations in thin films of liquid crystals studied by X-ray standing wave technique //Spectrochimica Acta Part B: Atomic Spectroscopy. – 2006. – V. 61. – №. 10-11. – p. 1229-1235.
6. Galyametdinov, Y. G., Knyazev, A. A., Dzhabarov, V. I., Cardinaels, T., Driesen, K., Görller‐Walrand, C., Binnemans, K. Polarized luminescence from aligned samples of nematogenic lanthanide complexes // Advanced materials. – 2008. – V. 20. – №. 2. – P. 252-257.
7. Knyazev, A. A., Galyametdinov, Y. G., Goderis, B., Driesen, K., Goossens, K., Görller‐Walrand, C., Cardinaels, T. Liquid‐Crystalline Ternary Rare‐Earth Complexes. - 2008, European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, I. 5, P. 756-761.
8. Lapaev, D. V., Nikiforov, V. G., Knyazev, A. A., Dzhabarov, V. I., Lobkov, V. S., Salikhov, K. M., Galyametdinov, Y. G. (2008). Intramolecular energy transfer in mesogenic europium (III) adduct. Optics and Spectroscopy, 104(6), 851-857.
9. Strelkov, M. V., Zaripov, R. B., Dzhabarov, V. I., Knyazev, A. A., Salikhov, K. M., Voronkova, V. K., & Galyametdinov, Y. G. (2008). Structure of the Ln III tris (β-diketonate) adduct with substituted bipyridine determined by the ESR and computer simulation data. Russian Chemical Bulletin, 57(7), 1564-1567.
10. Novikova, N. N., Zheludeva, S. I., Stepina, N. D., Tolstikhina, A. L., Gaynutdinov, R. V., Haase, W., Kmnyazev, A. A., Galyametdinov, Y. G. (2009). X-ray standing wave studies of metal ions incorporation in Langmuir–Blodgett films. Applied Physics A, 94(3), 461-466.
11. Lapaev, D. V., Nikiforov, V. G., Safiullin, G. M., Galyaviev, I. G., Dzabarov, V. I., Knyazev, A. A., Galyametdinov, Y. G. (2009). Interligand energy transfer in europium (III) mesogenic adducts. Journal of Structural Chemistry, 50(4), 775-781.
12. Dzhabarov, V. I., Knyazev, A. A., Strelkov, M. V., Molostova, E. Y., Schustov, V. A., Haase, W., & Galyametdinov, Y. G. (2010). Tris (β-diketonates) lanthanum nematic adducts. Liquid Crystals, 37(3), 285-291.
13. Knyazev, A. A., Dzhabarov, V. I., Lapaev, D. V., Lobkov, V. S., Haase, W., & Galyametdinov, Y. G. (2010). New nematogenic β-diketones for synthesis of lanthanidomesogens. Russian Journal of General Chemistry, 80(4), 756-760.
14. Knyazev, A. A., Dzhabarov, V. I., Molostova, E. Y., Lapaev, D. V., Lobkov, V. S., & Galyametdinov, Y. G. (2011). Luminescence of nematic lanthanide-containing mixtures. Russian Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 85(7), 1270-1273.
15. Dzhabarov, V. I., Knyazev, A. A., Nikolaev, V. F., & Galyametdinov, Y. G. (2011). Anisotropy of the magnetic susceptibility of mesogeneous lanthanide complexes. Russian Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 85(8), 1450-1453.
16. Knyazev, A. A., Molostova, E. Y., Krupin, A. S., Heinrich, B., Donnio, B., Haase, W., & Galyametdinov, Y. G. (2013). Mesomorphic behaviour and luminescent properties of mesogenic-diketonate lanthanide adducts with 5, 5′-di (heptadecyl)-2, 2′-bipyridine. Liquid Crystals, 40(7), 857-863.
17. Dobrun, L. A., Sakhatskii, A. S., Kovshik, A. P., Ryumtsev, E. I., Knyazev, A. A., & Galyametdinov, Y. G. (2014). Dielectric properties of an ytterbium-based nematic liquid-crystal complex. JETP letters, 99(3), 133-135.
18. Kovshik, A. P., Krainyukov, E. S., Kovshik, S. A., Knyazev, A. A., Galyametdinov, Y. G., & Ryumtsev, E. I. (2014). Optical anisotropy of liquid-crystal lanthanide complexes. Optics and spectroscopy, 116(1), 56-61.
19. Lapaev, D.V. Laser control and temperature switching of luminescence intensity in photostable transparent film based on terbium (III) β-diketonate complex / D.V. Lapaev, V.G. Nikiforov, G.M. Safiullin, V.S. Lobkov, K.M. Salikhov, A.A. Knyazev, Yu.G. Galyametdinov, // Optical materials, 2014, 37, P. 593-597.
20. A. A. Knyazev, A. S. Krupin, E. Yu. Molostova, K. A. Romanova and Yu. G. Galyametdinov / Influence of Structural Anisotropy on Mesogenity of Eu(III) Adducts and Optical Properties of Vitrified Films Formed on their Base // Inorganic chemistry, 2015, 54 (18), pp 8987–8993.
21. Dobrun, L. A., Sakhatskii, A. S., Kovshik, A. P., Ryumtsev, E. I., Kolomiets, I. P., Knyazev, A. A., & Galyametdinov, Y. G. (2015). Dielectric and magnetic anisotropy of a nematic ytterbium complex. Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics, 120(5), 922-924.
22. Knyazev, A. A., Karyakin, M. E., Krupin, A. S., & Galyametdinov, Y. G. (2015). Synthesis and luminescence properties of hybrid systems based on liquid crystal terbium (ІІІ) and europium (ІІІ) complexes. Russian Journal of General Chemistry, 85(12), 2806-2812.
23. D. Lapaev, V. Nikiforov , G. Safiullin, V. Lobkov, A. Knyazev, A. Krupin, Yu. Galyametdinov / Changes in luminescent properties of vitrified films of terbium(III) β-diketonate complex upon UV laser irradiation / Journal of Luminescence, 2016, 175, pp 106-112.
24. Dobrun, L. A., Kovshik, A. P., Ryumtsev, E. I., Knyazev, A. A., & Galyametdinov, Y. G. (2016). Mechanisms of dielectric polarization in thermotropic liquid-crystalline complexes based on lanthanides. Physics of the Solid State, 58(6), 1272-1277.
25. A. A. Knyazev, A. S. Krupin, K. A. Romanova and Yu. G. Galyametdinov / Luminescence and energy transfer in poly(N-vinylcarbazole) blends doped by a highly anisometric Eu(III) complex / Journal of Coordination Chemistry, 2016, V.69, I.9, pp. 1473-1483.

COURSES TAUGHT

• Physical Chemistry
• Polymers and liquid crystals in molecular electronics
• Physico-chemical methods for the study of organic substances

LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY

Russian: native
English: fluent