Dmitry Bavykin

Biography

Dr Dmitry Bavykin is Associate Professor Energy Technology within Engineering and the Environment at the University of Southampton. Dr. Dmitry Bavykin is a specialist in the area of nanomaterials and photocatalysis with more than 20 years experience of research and problem solving using a variety of scientific techniques. He was awarded a one year Royal Society/NATO Fellowship for posdoctoral studies in 2002 for undertaking research in Bath University. These studies, which were supervised by Professor Frank C. Walsh and Dr Alexei Lapkin, explored the synthesis, characterization and application of nanotubular titanates and TiO2, which have applications in electrochemistry and catalysis. During this time he started to work on the compact reactor systems under supervision of Dr. Pawel Plucinski and Dr Alexei Lapkin.

Research Interest

The studies of preparation, characterization and application of multiwall inorganic nanotubes have been a subject of many investigations in recent years. My primary research interests are focused on the mechanisms of spontaneous (templateless) formation of multilayered inorganic nanostructures (nanotubes, nanowires), an understanding of which would potentially allow significant control over the morphology of known and novel nanostructured materials. This research is also accompanied by the development of technological methods of targeted fictionalization and manipulations of nanostructures, adapting them to various applications. The list of nanostructures includes Titanate and titania nanotubes, nanofibres, nanorods VOx nanotubes Complex silicate such as halloysite (Al2Si2O5(OH)4), nickel silicate (Ni3Si2O5(OH)4) nanotubes Multiscale hierarchical structures.