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Research Groups

Veniamin Kondratiev
Kondratiev V. V. Research Group
Veniamin Kondratiev

Doctor of Chemical Sciences, Senior Researcher, Professor

PEDOT–vanadium/manganese oxide composites for aqueous Zn- and Mg-ion batteries

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Oleg Levin
Levin O. V. Research Group
Oleg Levin

Doctor of Chemical Sciences, Professor, Chief Researcher

Redox-conducting polymers, organic batteries and Li-ion battery safety

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Svetlana Eliseeva
Eliseeva S. N. Research Group
Svetlana Eliseeva

PhD in Chemistry, Associate Professor, Researcher

Electrode materials and electrolytes for Li- and aqueous Zn-ion batteries

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Current Projects

RSCF 24-13-00204 Active
Potentioresistive materials
2024–2026
Levin O. V. Research Group
Electrode Materials
RSCF 24-23-00224 Active
Cathode materials for magnesium-ion batteries based on vanadium oxides…
2024–2026
Kondratiev V. V. Research Group
Electrode Materials
RSCF 24-73-10157 Active
Effect of the nature and composition of multifunctional conductive…
2024–2027
Levin O. V. Research Group
Project lead: Anishchenko D. V.
Electrode Materials
SPbU 116897809 Active
Composites based on vanadium oxides and conducting polymers for…

The project develops composite cathode materials that combine layered vanadium oxides with conducting polymers for aqueo...

2025–2027
Eliseeva S. N. Research Group
Electrode Materials
RSCF 25-13-00185 Active
Development of carbon electrodes with functional groups…

The project develops and studies electrode materials for redox-flow batteries that use redox-active polymers as both cat...

2025–2027
Levin O. V. Research Group
Project lead: Alekseeva E. V.
Electrode Materials
RSCF Active
Highly concentrated water-in-salt electrolytes based on zinc and…

The project studies highly concentrated («water-in-salt») electrolytes based on zinc and alkali-metal acetates for aqueo...

2026–2027
Eliseeva S. N. Research Group
Electrolytes
SPbU Active
Polymer layers of variable electrical conductivity for improving the…

The project develops polymer layers of variable electrical conductivity to improve the safety of lithium-ion batteries (...

2026–2028
Levin O. V. Research Group
Project lead: Alekseeva E. V.
Safety & Protection

Past Projects

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Development of superconcentrated electrolytes for organic rechargeable… Details Russian Science Foundation 2024–2026
Study of the properties of cathode materials based on LiNi0.5Mn1.5O4… Details Saint Petersburg State University 2023–2025
Practice-oriented approach to the development of… Website Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation 2023–2025
Electron Spins as Probes for Understanding Energy Storage Materials… Details Russian Science Foundation 2022–2024
Development of the metal-free catalysts for the oxygen electroreduction… Details Russian Science Foundation 2022–2024
Inkjet printing of the battery cathodes based on high energy… Details Russian Science Foundation 2022–2024
Electrochemical properties of the ZnFe2O4 defective structure with… Details Russian Science Foundation 2023–2024
Low-temperature plasma synthesis of transition metal oxides and their composites… Details Russian Foundation for Basic Research – Belarusian Republican Foundation for Fundamental Research 2021–2023
Li-ion batteries safety improvement by means of self-activating… Details Russian Science Foundation 2022–2023
Improvement of the electrochemical properties of Zn-ion aqueous… Details Russian Foundation for Basic Research – National Natural Science Foundation of China 2021–2023
Ecofriendly and low cost gel polymer electrolytes based on natural… Details Russian Foundation for Basic Research 2021–2023
Experimental investigation and modeling of charge transfer processes in… Details Russian Science Foundation 2021–2023
Carbon-based electrocatalysts derived from nitrogen-containing polymers Details Russian Foundation for Basic Research – National Natural Science Foundation of China 2021–2023
Composite electrode materials based on molybdenum disulfide for… Details Russian Foundation for Basic Research 2020–2022
Charge transfer and energy storage properties of polymeric nickel… Details Russian Foundation for Basic Research 2020–2022
Charge transfer processes in hybrid redox-conducting polymers Details Russian Foundation for Basic Research 2020–2022
Sulfonated polycatechols for increasing the charge storage capacity of… Details Russian Science Foundation 2020–2022
Electrode systems for low-temperature fuel cells based on nitroxyl catalyst with molecular redox mediators Details Russian Foundation for Basic Research 2020–2022
Composite energy storage and electrochromic materials based on… Details Russian Foundation for Basic Research 2019–2021
Increasing the safety of lithium-ion batteries Details Russian Science Foundation 2019–2021
Conductive coordination polymers for electrochemical power sources Details Russian Foundation for Basic Research 2019–2021
Investigation of polymer complexes of transition metals with Schiff… Details Russian Foundation for Basic Research 2018–2020
Development of advanced materials for electrochemical power sources Details Saint Petersburg State University 2018–2020
Development of a rational method for the search for stable polymer… Details Russian Foundation for Basic Research 2018–2020
Photoelectrochemical energy conversion devices based on polymer… Details Russian Foundation for Basic Research 2018–2020
Electrode materials for lithium-ion batteries based on organometallic… Details Russian Science Foundation 2016–2018
Nanocomposite Energy Storage Materials Based on Intercalation Transition Metal Oxides and Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) Details Russian Foundation for Basic Research 2016–2018
The effect of Lewis bases on electrochemical properties of polymeric… Details Russian Foundation for Basic Research 2015–2016
Synthesis of nanosized catalysts for fuel cells with polymeric… Details Russian Foundation for Basic Research 2015–2016
Composite Hybrid Materials Based on Transition Metal Compounds and Conducting Polymers for Lithium-Ion Batteries: Role of Binders and Polymer Conductivity in Material Performance Details Russian Foundation for Basic Research 2014–2016
Relationship Between Structure and Electrochemical Properties of Polymers Based on Transition Metal Complexes with Schiff Bases Details Russian Foundation for Basic Research 2013–2015
Synthesis, Structure, and Electrochemical Properties of Hybrid Metal-Polymer Materials Promising for Fuel Cells and Supercapacitors Details Russian Foundation for Basic Research 2013–2015

Equipment

Techniques

Cyclic Voltammetry
CV

A fundamental electrochemical technique for studying redox processes, electrode ...

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Galvanostatic Charge-Discharge
GCD

A method for evaluating battery and supercapacitor performance by applying const...

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Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy
EIS

A frequency-domain technique for probing charge transfer, diffusion, and interfa...

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Conductance Measurement
Conductance

Measurement of ionic or electronic conductivity using specialized cell setups, o...

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UV-Vis Spectroelectrochemistry
UV-Vis

Combines UV-Vis spectroscopy with electrochemical control to monitor redox proce...

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Electrochemical Quartz Crystal Microbalance
EQCM

A technique for simultaneous measurement of mass and charge transfer during elec...

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Spectroelectrochemistry

A technique combining spectroscopic and electrochemical measurements for in situ...

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Potentiodynamic Polymerization

Electrochemical synthesis of polymers using dynamic potential sweeps, often perf...

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IDE Setup for Conductance
IDE

Use of interdigitated electrodes (IDE) for precise conductance measurements in t...

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Collaborations

Academic Partners

Prof. Dr. Peixia Yang

Harbin Institute of Technology, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Harbin, China 🇨🇳

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Prof. Dr. Jan Behrends

Freie Universität Berlin, Department of Physics

Berlin, Germany 🇩🇪

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Gyözö G. Láng

Laboratory of Electrochemistry and Electroanalytical Chemistry, Eotvos Lorand University

Budapest, Hungary 🇭🇺

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Antipov E. V.

Department of Electrochemistry, Moscow State University

Moscow, Russia 🇷🇺

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Timonov A. M.

Ioffe Institute

St. Petersburg, Russia 🇷🇺

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Sapurina I. Yu.

Laboratory of Anisotropic and Structured Polymer Systems, Institute of Macromolecular Compounds, Russian Academy of Sciences

St. Petersburg, Russia 🇷🇺

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Agafonov D. V.

Department of Electrochemical Production Technology, Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology (Technical University)

St. Petersburg, Russia 🇷🇺

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Aleshin A. N.

Division of Solid State Electronics, Ioffe Institute

St. Petersburg, Russia 🇷🇺

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Li Niu

Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry

Changchun, China 🇨🇳

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Anthony J. Killard

University of the West of England (UWE Bristol)

Bristol, United Kingdom 🇬🇧

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Rudolf Holze

Electrochemistry Group, Institut für Chemie, Technische Universität Chemnitz

Chemnitz, Germany 🇩🇪

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Osmolovskaya O. M.

Department of General and Inorganic Chemistry, Research Group “Synthesis and Research of Nanoparticles and Nanostructured Materials”, SPbSU

St. Petersburg, Russia 🇷🇺

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Glumov O. V.

Department of Solid State Chemistry, Research Group “Design of nanostructured materials for alternative energy and biomedical applications”, SPbSU

St. Petersburg, Russia 🇷🇺

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Pestova O. N.

Department of General and Inorganic Chemistry, Research Group “Inorganic Chemistry of Electrolyte Solutions”, SPbSU

St. Petersburg, Russia 🇷🇺

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Mehdi Salami-Kalajahi

Sahand University of Technology

Tabriz, Iran 🇮🇷

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Industry Partners

JSC TVEL
JSC TVEL

Moscow, Russia 🇷🇺

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JSC Giricond Research Institute
JSC Giricond Research Institute

St. Petersburg, Russia 🇷🇺

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