Dr Dmitriy Kuvshinov
Process Fluidics Group
Post-doctoral Research Associate
Tel: +44 (0)114 222 7520
Fax: +44 (0)114 222 7501
email : d.kuvshinov@sheffield.ac.uk
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
The University of Sheffield
Sir Robert Hadfield Building
Mappin Street
Sheffield
S1 3JD
Research Interests
- Research and Development of Microfluidics systems.
- Research and Development of new low energy consumption methods for micro/nano droplets/bubbles generation.
- Research and Development of Lab-on-a-Chip systems for liquids physical properties investigation.
- Research and Development of novel Patch Clamp Techniques via integration of Nanofabrication and Microfluidics.
- Engineering of Carbon materials: Carbon Nano Tubes and Carbon Nano Fibres. Carbon materials synthesis, modification and application in fields of chemistry, biology and electronics.
Biography
Education
2000
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering. Boreskov Institute of Catalysis, Novosibirsk city, Russia/Ufa State Nafta Technical University, Ufa city, Boshkortostan, Russia.
Dissertation entitled “Development of the industrial catalytic process of hydrocarbon-contained gases utilization with Granulated Carbon Nano-Fibrous (GCNF) synthesis and methane-hydrogen mixture generation”.
1993 – 1997
Ph.D. Student. Chemical Engineering. Novosibirsk State Technical University/Boreskov Institute of Catalysis, Novosibirsk city, Russia.
1993
M.S. Engineering. Novosibirsk State Technical University, Novosibirskcity, Russia.
Appointments
2007 – Present
Research Associate. Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
2006 - 2007
Research Fellow. CenTACat, School of Chemistry, Queen's University Belfast, NI, UK.
2004 – 2006
Postdoctoral Fellow. Group for molecular design of heterogeneous catalysts. Institute of Catalysis and Petrochemistry (ICP). Campus de Cantoblanco. Madrid. Spain.
2004 - 2004
Visiting researcher. Nano Materials and Devices Lab., Dept. of Materials Engineering, Center for Nanotubes and Nanostructured Composites, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea.
2002 – 2004
Head of the group “Catalytic technologies for carbon materials synthesis”, Boreskov Institute of Catalysis (BIC), Novosibirsk city, Russia.
1997 – 2002
Researcher, Boreskov Institute of Catalysis, Novosibirsk city, Russia.
Key Papers
D. Kuvshinov, M. R. B., J. M. MacInnes, R. W. K. Allen, R. Ge, L. Aldous, C. Hardacre, N. Doy, M. I. Newton and G. McHale. Thermal Conductivity Measurement of Liquids in a Microfluidic Device. // Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, 2011, 10(1), 123-132.
V.V. Shinkarev, A.M. Glushenkov, D.G. Kuvshinov and G.G. Kuvshinov. Nanofibrous carbon with herringbone structure as an effective catalyst of the H2S selective oxidation. // Carbon, 2010, V.48(7), 2004-2012.
E. Asedegbega-Nieto, B. Bachiller-Baeza, D.G. Kuvshinov, F.R. García-García, E. Chukanov, G.G. Kuvshinov, A. Guerrero-Ruiz, I. Rodríguez-Ramos. Effect of the carbon support nano-structures on the performance of Ru catalysts in the hydrogenation of paracetamol. // Carbon, Volume 46, Issue 7, June 2008, Pages 1046-1052.
Jae Hong Park, Jong Hyung Choi, Jin-San Moon, D.G. Kushinov, Ji-Beom Yoo, Chong Yun Park, Joong-Woo Nam, Chun Kyu Lee, Jong Hwan Park, D.H.Choe. Simple approach for the fabrication of carbon nanotube field emitter using conducting paste. // Carbon 43, 2005, p. 698.
Kuvshinov G.G., Mogilnykh Yu.I., Kuvshinov D.G. et al. Peculiarities of filamentous carbon formation in methane decomposition on Ni - containing catalysts. // Carbon. 1998. V. 36. No. 1-2, p. 87.