Institute of Macromolecular Compounds of NRC «Kurchatov Institute»

Scientific and Educational Laboratory of Physico-chemical methods for the Study of polymer nanosystems and Biotechnological products

Colloidal chemistry Physical Chemistry Materials Science

Head of Laboratory

Garkushina, Irina Sergeevna

PhD in Engineering

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Development of new biotechnological sorbents and biomedical materials based on synthetic and natural polymers. The study of equilibrium, kinetic and dynamic patterns of interaction of crosslinked and soluble hydrophilic polymers with biologically active substances. Development of biotechnological processes for the production of highly purified substances of medicinal substances, methods of binding biologically active substances with highly selective soluble and crosslinked polymers, methods of enzyme immobilization. Investigation of flocculation of biological fluids with soluble polyelectrolytes. Synthesis of biomedical nanocomposites based on water-soluble polymers and nanoparticles of biogenic elements. The study of the formation processes and morphological characteristics of nanostructures by methods of molecular optics and hydrodynamics.

Viscosimetry
Low pressure preparative chromatography
Investigation of the rigidity of polymer matrices
Sorption studies
Investigation of the topological and molecular structure of three-dimensional polymer systems
Extraction
Investigation of the size distribution of micro- and nanoparticles
Methods for determining catalytic, diffusion, and sorption characteristics
Investigation of the structural stability of polymer meshes
Potentiometry
Investigation of the physico-chemical properties of three-dimensional polymer matrices
Dynamic light scattering (DLS)

Irina Garkushina 🥼 🤝

Head of Laboratory

Research directions

Biomedical nanocomposites

Development of synthesis methods and research of nanocomposites based on biogenic elements in order to create drugs of prolonged action

Sorption processes of isolation and purification of biologically active substances from liquid media

Development of sorption methods for the extraction of BAS, including medicinal substances of pharmacopoeial purity. Investigation of intermolecular interactions in the "polymer sorbent - target object" system, as well as the regularities of mass transfer of target object molecules in static and dynamic modes. Development of laboratory schemes for obtaining BAS. Scaling of processes is possible.

Molecular imprinted polymer sorbents

Synthesis of polymer sorbents by non-covalent molecular imprinting using free radical block, suspension, emulsion polymerization, as well as polymerization in solvent and emulsion polymerization in Pickering emulsion. Investigation of their topological and molecular structure, physico-chemical and sorption properties.