Svetlana Lyubchik Assistant Researcher REQUIMTE/CQFB Departamento de Química, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal Phone: + 351 212948385 Fax: + 351 212948385 e-mail: sveta@dq.fct.unl.pt
Research Interests
The domain of specialization is Carbon Chemistry. The research is mainly focused on - Organic solid and liquid wastes re-use. Highly efficient adsorbents production from co-mingled wastes for selective sorption of heavy and toxic metals from potable and waste water - Environmental application of the activated carbons on the base of natural carbon-containing materials. - Applications of the natural carbonaceous materials as a catalytic supports. Pd supported catalysts for liquid phase hydrogenation and hydroformylation. - Intercalation as a new approach for production of novel activated carbons. Controlled modification of the carbon materials toward desirable pore size distribution - Novel high sensitive sorption/catalytic analytical methods for the direct determination of supported metal quantity and the palladium oxidation states
Main publications
S. B. Lyubchik, I. M. Fonseca, L.P. Tikhonova, M. A. Khodorkovskij, T. L. Makarova, P. B. Mota Waste recovery into activated carbon for water purification from heavy metals Book Chapter, NATO ARW Series “Recent advanced for the adsorption processes for the environmental protection and security”, NATO Publishing Unit of Springer. The Netherlands, Ed. S. Lyubchik, 2007, 25 pp., in press S. B. Lyubchik, L. P. Tikhonova, Yu. A. Tarasenko, O. L. Galushko, L. Ya. Galushko, I. M. Fonseca Catalytic supports on the base of activated anthracites and synthetic carbons  Applied Surface Science 2006, 252, № 17, 6084-6088. Lyubchik, S.B., Perepichka, I.I., Galushko, O.L., Lyubchik, A.I., Lygina, E.S., Fonseca, I.M. Optimization of the conditions for the Cr (III) adsorption on activated carbon  Adsorption 2005, 11, № 5-6, 581-593. S.B. Lyubchik, L.Ya. Galushko, A.M. Rego, Yu.V. Tamarkina, O.L. Galushko, I.M. Fonseca Intercalation as an approach to the activated carbon preparation from Ukrainian anthracites J. Phys. Chem. Solid , 2004, 65, 127-132 S. I. Lyubchik, A. I. Lyubchik, O. L. Galushko, L. P. Tikhonova, J. Vital, I. M. Fonseca, S. B. Lyubchik, Kinetics and thermodynamics of the Cr (III) adsorption on the activated carbon from co-mingled wastes Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochem. Eng. Aspects. 2004, 242, № 1-3, 151-158.