Maksym Kovalenko

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Maksym V. Kovalenko ( Ukrainian Максим Коваленко Maksym Kowalenko ; * 1982 ) is associate professor for inorganic chemistry at the ETH Zurich . His research group develops ligands for quantum dots and inorganic nanocrystals .

education

Maksym Kovalenko was born in 1982 in western Ukraine and grew up in Bukovina in the Ukrainian SSR . He studied chemistry at the National University of Chernivtsi in Ukraine. After studying at the Johannes Kepler University Linz in Austria, he received his doctorate in 2007 in the field of technical sciences (nanosciences and nanotechnology) with Wolfgang Heiss ( summa cum laude ). His dissertation dealt with the synthesis and application of colloidal nanocrystals in infrared optical devices. He examined in particular quantum dots with a narrow band gap (s: band gap) and published results on HgTe-, SnTe- and iron oxide nanocrystals.

Academic research and career

After completing his doctorate in Linz, Kovalenko went to the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois as a research assistant to Dmitri Talapin. There he researched inorganic ligands on colloidal nanocrystals and published results in the journal Science in 2009 .

In 2011, Kovalenko accepted a job offer as assistant professor for inorganic functional materials at the Laboratory for Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, at ETH Zurich. His research team initially developed new synthetic nanocrystals for applications in batteries and photodetectors. There was also work on nanocrystals with a perovskite structure . His team published the corresponding results in 2015. This work has since been quoted very often in the relevant specialist press.

Kovalenko was promoted to associate professor in 2016. In addition to the ETH, he also works at the EMPA . Above all, application aspects of new materials are examined there. One example is the development of novel color sensors based on three superimposed layers of perovskite nanocrystals with spectrally different absorption of the incident light.

Kovalenko and his team research aspects of chemical synthesis, surface functionalization and self-organization processes of colloidal nanostructures. The aim is to develop novel functional materials.

More functions

Kovalenko is co-editor of the journal Chemistry of Materials . From 2018 to 2019 he was head of the Institute for Inorganic Chemistry at ETH.

Awards

  • 2012: ERC Starting Grant
  • 2013: Ruzicka Prize
  • 2016: Werner Prize
  • 2018: ERC Consolidator Grant
  • 2018: Much-cited researcher
  • 2019: Rössler Prize

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prof. Dr. Maksym Kovalenko. ethz.ch, accessed on August 15, 2019
  2. ↑ a b Prof. Dr. Maksym Kovalenko. kovalenkolab.ethz.ch, accessed on August 15, 2019
  3. ↑ Maksym V. Kovalenko: Colloidal HgTe Nanocrystals with Widely Tunable Narrow Band Gap Energies: From Telecommunications to Molecular Vibrations . In: Journal of the American Chemical Society . 128, No. 11, September, pp. 3516-3517. doi : 10.1021 / ja058440j .
  4. ↑ Maksym V. Kovalenko: SnTe Nanocrystals: A New Example of Narrow Gap Semiconductor Quantum Dots . In: Journal of the American Chemical Society . 129, No. 37, September, pp. 11354-11355. doi : 10.1021 / ja074481z .
  5. ↑ Maksym V. Kovalenko: Fatty Acid Salts as Stabilizers in Size- and Shape-Controlled Nanocrystal Synthesis: The Case of Inverse Spinel Iron Oxide . In: Journal of the American Chemical Society . 129, No. 20, September, pp. 6352-6353. doi : 10.1021 / ja0692478 .
  6. ↑ Dmitri V. Talapin: Colloidal Nanocrystals with Molecular Metal Chalcogenide Surface Ligands . In: Science . 324, No. 5933, September, pp. 1417-1420. doi : 10.1126 / science.1170524 . PMID 19520953 .
  7. ↑ Loredana Protesescu: Nanocrystals of Cesium Lead Halide Perovskites (CsPbX3, X = Cl, Br, and I): Novel Optoelectronic Materials Showing Bright Emission with Wide Color Gamut . In: Nano Letters . 15, No. 6, September, pp. 3692-3696. doi : 10.1021 / nl5048779 . PMID 25633588 .
  8. ↑ Karin Weinmann: The stacked color sensor. empa.ch, November 16, 2017, accessed on August 20, 2019.
  9. ↑ ERC Starting Grants ( en )
  10. ↑ Ruzicka Prize .
  11. ^ Werner Prize .
  12. ↑ ERC FUNDED PROJECTS ( en )
  13. ↑ Highly Cited Researchers - The Most Influential Scientific Minds .
  14. ↑ Prof. Kovalenko and Prof. Leroux among the Highly Cited Researchers 2018 .
  15. ^ Joachim Laukenmann: His research goal: Splendor of colors . In: Tages-Anzeiger , 6 July 2019. 
  16. ↑ Maksym Kovalenko receives the Rössler Prize .
personal data
SURNAME Kovalenko, Maksym
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kovalenko, Maksym V .; Коваленко, Максим (Ukrainian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian chemist, professor of inorganic chemistry at the ETH Zurich
DATE OF BIRTH 1982