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Andrei N. Khlobystov is a Professor of [[Nanomaterials]] at the [[University of Nottingham|University of Nottingham, UK]]. He serves as Director for Research for the [[University of Nottingham#Organisation|School of Chemistry in the Faculty of Science]] and has been achieved many prestigious grants and awards during his career, including [[Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry]], the [[EURYI|European Young Investigator award]], and the [[Corday–Morgan Prize|Corday-Morgan]] prize in 2015.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-02-20 |title=Royal Society of Chemistry Prizes and Awards 2015 |url=http://www.rsc.org/news-events/rsc-news/articles/2015/may/awards-and-prizes-2015/ |access-date=2023-10-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160220161827/http://www.rsc.org/news-events/rsc-news/articles/2015/may/awards-and-prizes-2015/ |archive-date=20 February 2016 }}</ref>, and currently is the Director and [[Principal investigator|Principal Investigator]] of the [http://www.masi.ac.uk Metal Atoms on Surfaces and Interfaces EPSRC Programme Grant].
Andrei N. Khlobystov is a Professor of [[Nanomaterials]] at the [[University of Nottingham|University of Nottingham, UK]]. He serves as Director for Research for the [[University of Nottingham#Organisation|School of Chemistry in the Faculty of Science]] and has been achieved many prestigious grants and awards during his career, including the [[EURYI|European Young Investigator award]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=2005 : European Science Foundation |url=http://archives.esf.org/coordinating-research/euryi/awards/2005.html |access-date=2023-10-31 |website=archives.esf.org}}</ref>, and the [[Corday–Morgan Prize|Corday-Morgan]] prize in 2015.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-02-20 |title=Royal Society of Chemistry Prizes and Awards 2015 |url=http://www.rsc.org/news-events/rsc-news/articles/2015/may/awards-and-prizes-2015/ |access-date=2023-10-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160220161827/http://www.rsc.org/news-events/rsc-news/articles/2015/may/awards-and-prizes-2015/ |archive-date=20 February 2016 }}</ref>, and currently is the Director and [[Principal investigator|Principal Investigator]] of the [http://www.masi.ac.uk Metal Atoms on Surfaces and Interfaces EPSRC Programme Grant].


== Early life and education ==
== Early life and education ==

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Andrei N. Khlobystov
Alma materMoscow State University University of Nottingham

Andrei N. Khlobystov is a Professor of Nanomaterials at the University of Nottingham, UK. He serves as Director for Research for the School of Chemistry in the Faculty of Science and has been achieved many prestigious grants and awards during his career, including the European Young Investigator award[1], and the Corday-Morgan prize in 2015.[2], and currently is the Director and Principal Investigator of the Metal Atoms on Surfaces and Interfaces EPSRC Programme Grant.

Early life and education

Andrei Nikolaevich Khlobystov (Russian: Андрей Николаевич Хлобыстов) was born in the Soviet Union (now Russia) in 1974. He obtained a Master of Science - Chemistry degree from Moscow State University in 1997, and was awarded a PhD in 2002 from the University of Nottingham under the supervision of Martin Schröder and Neil Champness.

Career and research

Prof. Khlobystov started his post-doctoral career at the Department of Materials, Oxford University (2002-2004) under Prof. Andrew Briggs, where he began exploring carbon nanotubes as nanoscale containers for molecules. He applied transmission electron microscopy (TEM) for imaging structures of individual molecules and studying their dynamic behaviour in direct space and real time, which shed light on intermolecular interactions, and the translation and rotational motion of molecules at nanoscale. In his time at Oxford he was part of the team that performed a chemical reaction inside carbon nanotubes (Guinness world record for the World's Tiniest Test Tube, 2005[3]).

In 2004 he moved to the University of Nottingham as a Leverhulme Trust research fellow where he built the Nottingham Nanocarbon Group which has, amongst other things, demonstrated that nanoscale confinement can lead to new products inaccessible by other synthetic methods[4]. In 2005 his nascent research group received a significant boost when he was awarded a European Young Investigator award alongside a Royal Society University Research Fellowship[5][6]. Around this time he was featured in Times Higher Education's "one to watch out for" series of emerging exciting researchers in the physical sciences[7]. In 2008 the Nanocarbon group presented at the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition, with a display entitled "Wonder in carbon land: how do you hold a molecule?", showcasing the potential of utilising nanocages and nanotubes to control chemical reactions[8]. His team has discovered important mechanisms of interactions between carbon nanostructures and molecules or nanoparticles which enabled the design of nanoreactor systems with tuneable size and functionality[9]. This research was supported by numerous grants including a European Research Council Starting Grant in 2011[10].

In 2016, to commemorate the opening of the nano- and micro-Research Centre (nmRC) at the University of Nottingham, Prof. Khlobystov led a team that utilised a Focused Ion Beam Scanning Electron Microscope (FIB-SEM) to etch a birthday message onto a corgi hair to commemorate Queen Elizabeth II 90th birthday[11][12]. In 2020, Prof. Khlobystov led a team that captured a video of the chemical bond between two metal atoms breaking and forming for the first time[13]. This followed previous work which embraced the "observer effect", utilising the electron beam present in an electron microscopy to provide the source of energy to drive chemical reactions and enable them to be directly observed, and was given the moniker ChemTEM[14][15].

Since 2021 Prof. Khlobystov has been PI for the MASI programme grant, which is investigating novel, solvent-free routes to preparing single metal atoms and metal nanoclusters on surfaces for use as catalysts for electrochemical hydrogen production, ammonia synthesis and carbon dioxide reduction.

To date, Prof. Khlobystov has published more than 130 scientific articles which have been references nearly 14,000 times[16][17]. He has received in excess of £25M from UK research bodies alongside charitable research funders[18].

References

  1. ^ "2005 : European Science Foundation". archives.esf.org. Retrieved 31 October 2023.
  2. ^ "Royal Society of Chemistry Prizes and Awards 2015". 20 February 2016. Archived from the original on 20 February 2016. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
  3. ^ "Smallest test tube (open-ended) - Guinness World Records". Retrieved 31 October 2023.
  4. ^ Khlobystov, Andrei N. (27 December 2011). "Carbon Nanotubes: From Nano Test Tube to Nano-Reactor". ACS Nano. 5 (12): 9306–9312. doi:10.1021/nn204596p. ISSN 1936-0851.
  5. ^ "Andrei Khlobystov : European Science Foundation". archives.esf.org. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
  6. ^ "Careers". Chemistry World. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
  7. ^ "Excited by the wonders of our material world". Times Higher Education (THE). 25 August 2006. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
  8. ^ "Wonder in carbon land: how do you hold a molecule? | Royal Society". royalsociety.org. Retrieved 31 October 2023.
  9. ^ Miners, Scott A.; Rance, Graham A.; Khlobystov, Andrei N. (22 August 2016). "Chemical reactions confined within carbon nanotubes". Chemical Society Reviews. 45 (17): 4727–4746. doi:10.1039/C6CS00090H. ISSN 1460-4744.
  10. ^ "ERC Starting Grants 2011 Results Physical Sciences" (PDF). Retrieved 31 October 2023.
  11. ^ "Queen's tiny 90th birthday message etched on corgi hair". BBC News. 21 April 2016. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
  12. ^ "Notts experts etch microscopic Queen's birthday message onto a strand of Corgi hair". NottsTV.
  13. ^ "Watch the first ever video of a chemical bond breaking and forming". New Scientist. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
  14. ^ "Caught on camera -- chemical reactions 'filmed' at the single-molecule level". EurekAlert!. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
  15. ^ Skowron, Stephen T.; Chamberlain, Thomas W.; Biskupek, Johannes; Kaiser, Ute; Besley, Elena; Khlobystov, Andrei N. (15 August 2017). "Chemical Reactions of Molecules Promoted and Simultaneously Imaged by the Electron Beam in Transmission Electron Microscopy". Accounts of Chemical Research. 50 (8): 1797–1807. doi:10.1021/acs.accounts.7b00078. ISSN 1520-4898. PMID 28696097.
  16. ^ "Andrei N. Khlobystov". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
  17. ^ "ORCID". orcid.org. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
  18. ^ "Andrei N. Khlobystov on UKRI Gateway to Research". Retrieved 31 October 2023.

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