Laboratory for ultra-fast calorimetry

Based on the fast scanning calorimetry method, new approaches were developed allowing studying melting of a wide range of materials (polyfunctional organic compounds, including drugs and biomolecules, polymers and biopolymers); reactivity and kinetics of solid-state reactions of oligopeptides; conditions for the formation and the stability of the amorphous forms of drugs; kinetics of nucleation and crystallization of fast crystallizing polymers. New methods for determining the phase transition thermodynamics of organic non-electrolytes were developed, allowing determination of the fusion enthalpies and vapor pressures of low-volatile compounds, heat capacities of the supercooled liquids, adjustment of fusion enthalpy to the standard temperature.

Education and career development:

A new lecture course “Theory and practice of fast scanning calorimetry” was developed and is now taught to the magisters of the A.M.Butlerov Chemical Institute.

2 PhD and 2 Doc.sci. theses were successfully defended.

Other results:

We have conducted the «International Seminar on Advanced Calorimetry (ISAC) in 2017, 2018, 2019.

Collaborations:

Joint research and publications with the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (Germany), University of Latvia, Riga (Latvia), Kazan National Research Kazan National Research Technological University (Russia), Institute of Organic and Physical Chemistry and Kazan Physical-Technical Institute of Kazan scientific center of Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia).