Faculty of Chemistry and High Technologies

Profiles:

• Inorganic and coordination chemistry;
• Analytical chemistry;
• Organic Chemistry;
• Physical chemistry;
• Chemical competence and environmental safety;
• Problem solving requiring the application of fundamental knowledge of chemistry and the real economy.
• Research and teaching, process optimisation, quality control of raw materials and finished products.

Main subjects studied:

• Inorganic chemistry;
• Analytical chemistry;
• Organic Chemistry;
• Physical Chemistry;
• Crystallography;
• Chemical ecology.

Types of professional activity:

Education and science; Health; Agriculture; Mining and mineral processing; Oil and gas extraction; Electricity; Light industry; Textile industry; Food industry; Wood, pulp and paper industry; Nuclear industry; Aerospace industry; Chemical and metallurgical industry; Aircraft industry; General industrial activities.

Profile: Chemistry Education.

The educational programme harmoniously combines chemistry education and new technologies of education and training in the educational system in order to apply its knowledge in general education, professional education, vocational education, supplementary education.

Main subjects studied:

• Psychology;
• Pedagogy;
• Organisational behaviour;
• Teaching methods in chemistry;
• Modern means of assessing learning outcomes;
• Inorganic chemistry;
• Analytical chemistry;
• Organic chemistry;
• Physical chemistry;
• Crystallography.

Types of professional activity:

Performing the duties of a chemistry teacher in terms of project, pedagogical (teaching and educational, including chemistry teaching) and research activities. Educational institutions of general education (basic secondary schools, grammar schools, lyceums); educational institutions of secondary special education: colleges, technical colleges, schools; educational institutions of supplementary education.

Profiles:

• Occupational health and safety;
• Environmental safety.

The study programme provides the formation of systemic understanding of environmental safety, modern structure of occupational safety and health; ensuring the reduction of occupational risks in the technosphere.

Main subjects studied:

• Medical and biological bases of safety;
• Life safety;
• Environmental monitoring;
• Combustion and explosion theory;
• Safety supervision and control;
• Occupational health and safety;
• Reliability of Engineering Systems and Technogenic Risk;
• Environmental assessment and certification.

Types of professional activity:

Construction and housing and communal services (in the field of waste management). Horizontal activities in industry (in the fields of: occupational safety; environmental safety; waste management; emergency protection); in research centres, design institutes, expert and supervisory organisations, inspection and audit companies.

Profiles:

• Metrology, Standardisation & Certification;
• Standardisation and Certification.

The study programme provides formation of systemic ideas about modern structure of metrology and standardisation, research of existing and development of new methods and technologies of analysis, justification and evaluation of decisions in the field of standardisation and metrology.

Main subjects studied:

• Physical foundations of measurement and measurement standards;
• Certification and foreign trade;
• Fundamentals of analysis and analytical control;
• Methods and instruments of measurement and control;
• Testing Organisation and Technology;
• Quality management;
• Economics of quality, standardisation and certification.

Types of professional activity:

Transversal types of professional activity in industry in the sphere of manufacture of chemical products for various purposes, in the sphere of metrology, certification and technical quality control of products, system of quality assurance of the organisation, development of documentation, methods and means, system of quality assurance of metrological safety of processes, documents in the sphere of standardisation, technical documentation.

Profiles:

• Analytical chemistry;
• Inorganic chemistry;
• Organic Chemistry;
• Electrochemistry;
• Advanced compounds and materials based on them.

The program provides formation of system knowledge of modern structure of chemistry, development of new methods and technologies of analysis of chemical compounds in various states of aggregation resulting from chemical synthesis; modern fundamental electrochemistry and development of new electrochemical methods and technologies.

Main subjects studied:

• Modern chromatographic methods;
• Selected chapters on coordination chemistry;
• Structural inorganic chemistry;
• Theoretical Organic Chemistry;
• Electron and vibrational spectroscopy;
• Selected topics in coordination chemistry;
• Membrane electrochemistry and new generation membrane materials;

Types of professional activity:

Chemical-technological production and development of new technologies, methods and techniques of production and analysis of products; interdisciplinary types of professional activity in industry in the sphere of scientific-technical and developmental developments, in the sphere of metrology, certification and technical control of product quality.

Profile: Environmental and industrial safety

The programme provides the formation of systematic ideas about the modern structure of measures ensuring environmental and industrial safety; provides the development of new methods and technologies of labour safety, environmental safety.

Main subjects studied:

• System analysis and decision making (in techno-sphere safety);
• Safety monitoring;
• Risk management in safety of technosphere;
• Stability of technosphere objects;
• Safety expertise;
• Safety of work;
• Calculation and design of safety systems.

Types of professional activity:

Construction and housing and communal services (in the field of waste management). Horizontal activities in industry (health and safety at work, environmental safety, waste management, emergency protection); in research centres, design institutes, expert and supervisory organisations, inspection and audit companies.

Profile: Total Quality Management.

The programme provides the ability to apply and develop the methodological foundations of quality management, to design processes of quality management systems, to identify and analyse problems, to plan a strategy for their solution.

Main subjects studied:

• Modern problems of standardisation, metrology;
• Self-assessment of the organisation;
• Modern problems of ensuring competitiveness;
• Quality systems;
• Risk management systems;

Types of professional activity:

Transversal types of professional activity in industry in the sphere of scientific-technical, experimental development and implementation of chemical products of various purposes, in the sphere of metrology, certification and technical quality control of products, systems of quality assurance of products in the organisation, documentation of technical control of product quality, methods and means of technical control, quality assurance of metrological support of processes, documents in the sphere of standardisation, technical documentation.

Scientific and educational activity is provided by 2 Doctors of Science, Professors, 14 Associate Professors, Candidates of Science, 2 Senior Lecturers and 2 Lecturers without a scientific degree.
The main scientific directions of the Department are
— Study of complexation processes of d- and f-elements in multicomponent systems by physical and chemical methods, as well as the application of mathematical modelling methods to the study of these systems. Particular attention will be paid to the development of the theory of radiospectroscopy and quantum chemical methods.
— Synthesis of coordination compounds and study of their properties and structure. The new chemicals obtained are used in agriculture and animal husbandry, in industry and engineering, and in the aerospace industry. Light-transforming, radiation-resistant coatings developed in the department are used in Rosaviakosmos companies.
— Development of advanced functional protective materials for protection against environmental impacts of various technospheric systems based on composite materials.
The Department has co-organised a number of conferences, including the International Conference «Spectroscopy of Coordination Compounds», which has been held since 1976.

Scientific and educational work is provided by 7 Doctors of Science, professors, 5 senior scientific employees, 14 associate professors, candidates of science, 4 senior lecturers and teachers.
Main directions of scientific and research work
— Basic and applied research in analytical chemistry and chemical analysis of environmental objects;
— Problems of eco-analytical monitoring and identification of environmental objects;
— Basic and applied research in the field of conformity assessment of products and services;
— Qualimetric methods of quality assessment of objects and processes of quality management.
Employees of the department are co-organisers of the largest conferences:
All-Russian Symposium «Separation and Concentration in Analytical Chemistry» with international participation,
All-Russian Conference «Analytical Chromatography and Capillary Electrophoresis» with international participation,
All-Russian Conference «Analytical Spectroscopy» with international participation, held every three years.

The scientific and educational activity is provided by 2 Doctors of Science, 7 Associate Professors and Candidates of Science.
The main directions of scientific research are
— Chemistry of S,N-containing heterocyclic compounds; the main objects of research are various derivatives of malononitrile, cyanothioacetamide and related compounds;
— Chemistry of organic derivatives of Group IV elements (Si, Ge, Sn) and acetylene compounds; the reactivity of organic stannans and silylated acetylene derivatives are studied;
— Chemistry of composite materials and stabilised nanosystems; development of energy-saving coatings and methods for their application, obtaining composite membrane materials with nano-sized inclusions of silver and other metals, synthesis of polymer modifiers for industrial ion exchange membranes;
— Development of methods for the preparation of antidotes to herbicides and compounds with rostroregulatory activity. Compounds prepared in the Department are tested under laboratory and field conditions as antidotes to the herbicide 2,4-D and as growth regulators for agricultural crops;
— Investigation of reactivity and properties of compounds by computational methods.
Among the best alumni of the Department we should mention the 1978 graduate Vladimir Gevorgyan — organic chemist of world reputation, author of more than 230 scientific publications in the field of transition metal catalysis (cited 18689 times, Hirsch index according to Web of Science is 74). At present he is Professor, Head of the Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA, Head of the Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center, University of Texas, USA.

Scientific and educational activities are carried out by 7 Doctors of Science, Professors, 10 Associate Professors, Candidates of Science, 2 Lecturers.
The main scientific directions of the Department are
— Synthesis and modification of polymeric films and membrane materials;
— Creation of synthetic polymeric materials based on conductive membranes with electronic and ionic conduction mechanisms;
— Development of sandwich electrode systems with polymer films, membrane electrode units for fuel cells, biosensors, electrochromic displays and transducers;
— Fundamental problems in membrane materials science: study of interconnection of polymeric nanostructures, physico-chemical and electrochemical properties of charged membranes;
— Mathematical modelling of transport phenomena in membrane systems. Modelling of electromembrane processes and devices;
— Development of new technologies for electro-membrane synthesis and hybrid technologies for purification, separation and concentration of substances;
— Development of physical and chemical methods for the study of membranes and electro-membrane systems. The staff of the department is the organiser of the annual international conference «Ion transport in organic and inorganic membranes» (https://www.iontransportconf.ru/).