Photonics and Microfluidics Laboratory

		Head of Laboraory Natalia A. Ivanova (CV) CSc. (Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences), Docent ORCID ResearcherID Scopus AuthorID  ResearchGate

Contacts

Tel: +7(3452) 59-74-00, ext. 17134
E-mail: n.ivanova@utmn.ru
Address: Lab.407, 25 Lenina St., Tyumen, Russia
Mailing address: 6 Volodarskogo St., Tyumen, Russia, 625003

• Optical microfluidics: manipulation of liquid micro-volumes with laser emission (dosing, transportation, mixing, and separation of liquid micro-droplets)

• Numerical modelling of microflows and heat and mass transfer processes in thin complex-liquid films under localized laser emission

• Development of devices used in the comprehensive study of photoinduced capillary effects

• Laser diagnostics of properties of liquids and solids

• Methods for non-destructive testing for defects in solid materials

• Water-based surfactant spreading processes over hydrophobic surfaces

Current Projects 

• Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) grant No. 19-31-90099 (2019-2021): The effects of thermal exposure and the geometry of the wetting meniscus  on the self-assembly of particles in thin layers of evaporating colloidal solutions. PI: Natalia A. Ivanova, researcher: Al-Muzaiqer Mohammed
  

• RFBR grant No. 19-38-90214 (2019-2021): Photo-induced thermocapillary convection in two-layer liquid systems. PI: Natalia A. Ivanova, researcher: Denis S. Klyuev.

• State research assignment (basic part) of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation (2020-2022): Improving agricultural crop protection with the help of surfactants and 2D aerosol technology. PI: N.A. Ivanova.

Completed Projects 

• Convection and Interfacial Mass Exchange (CIMEX) and European Space Association (ESA) research program ELIPS-4 (2015-2019): Removal of residual micro/nano-particles and droplets of suspensions from solid surfaces for experiments in microgravity. Co-PI: prof. Pierre Colinet, Free University of Brussels, Belgium.

• RFBR grant No. 17-08-00291_A (2017-2019): Non-classical problems of thermocapillary convection in two-layer systems. PI: Olga N. Goncharova, Altai State University
  

• RFBR grant No. 18-31-00231_мол_а (2018-2019): Creating adaptive photonic and optical elements with the help of the Marangoni effect. PI: Nikolay S. Kubochkin 
  

• RFBR and the Royal Society (UK) joint project (2014-2015): The development of methods for removing nanoparticles from the surfaces with arbitrary shapes and textures for the purposes of experimental applications in microgravity conditions. Co-PI: prof. Victor Starov, Loughborough University, UK
  

• German Academic Exchange Service DAAD research scholarship at the Technical University of Darmstadt (2018-2019): Effects of temperature and humidity on the evaporation of droplets from various surfaces. Project curator – prof. Tatiana Gambaryan-Roizman; scholarship awardee – Nikolay S. Kubochkin
  

International Collaborations

• Nano- and Micro- Scale Engineering, Loughborough University, UK
  
• Thermo-Fluids & Interfaces, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
  
• Matériaux Divisés, Interfaces, Réactivité, Electrochimie (UMR 7246 MADIREL), University of Aix-Marseille, France 
  
• Interface Science Laboratory, Ariel University, Israel

Vacancies (Postdocs):

Physical chemistry

Project: Research and development of new non-destructive methods of laser material diagnostics (solid and liquid media, as well as biological tissues), based on laser-induced capillary effects 

Project: Optofluidics