Olena Zenkina
PhD
Pronouns: She/Her
Associate Professor
Chemistry and MaterialsFaculty of Science
Dr. Zenkina's research group is a chemistry materials group focused on the creation of a wide range of stimuli-responsive smart nanomaterials that were so far applied for the development of electrochromic devices, devices for energy storage, molecular- and metal ion sensors, and protein receptors as biosensors.
Areas of expertise
- Electrochromatic terpyridine monolayers
- Energy storage materials
- Hybrid smart functional materials
- Metal-organic coordination assemblies
- Molecular materials for electrocatalytic applications and sensors
- Nanostructured conductive surfaces
- Nitrogenous ligands transition metal complexes
- Redox-Active surface confined monolayers
- Self-Assembled Monolayers
- Thermochromic and sensing materials
- PhD - Chemistry Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
- MEng - Master of Chemical Engineering National Technical University “Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute”, Faculty of Technology of Organic Substances, Kharkiv, Ukraine
