Valery N. Khabashesku

Valery N. Khabashesku received his Ph.D. degree in 1980 and his professorial B.S. degree in chemistry in 1998 from the Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. He was a Visiting Scientist or a Visiting Professor with the US National Academy of Science at Texas, Colorado, Los Angeles, Berkley and Rice universities, and an Invited Lecturer at various international symposia, workshops, and industry meetings. In 2001, he became a Laureate of State Prize of Russian Federation in science and engineering, the highest nation's civilian honor awarded by the President of Russia. During 2001–2008, he held a Faculty Fellow position at the Chemistry Department and Rice Quantum Institute Fellow and a Faculty Member of Richard E. Smalley Institute of Nanoscale Science and Technology at Rice University. Currenly, he is a Research Professor at the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, the University of Houston. His research interests include materials chemistry and nanoscience, physical organic chemistry of group 14 reactive intermediates, chemical modification and characterization of carbon nanotubes, fullerenes, nanodiamonds, and other carbon and heterocarbon nanostructures for biomedical and engineering applications, design and processing of polymer nanocomposites, fibers, coatings and lubricants, and high-pressure synthesis of new materials.

Biography Updated on 30 September 2008

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Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. Processing a glass fiber reinforced vinyl ester composite with nanotube enhancement of interlaminar shear strength
    Composites Science and Technology, vol. 67, no. 7-8, pp. 1509–1517, 2007
  2. Functionalization of Carbon Nano-onions by Direct Fluorination
    Chemistry of Materials, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 778–786, 2007
  3. Benzoyl Peroxide Initiated In Situ Functionalization, Processing, and Mechanical Properties of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube-Polypropylene Composite Fibers
    Journal of Physical Chemistry C, vol. 111, no. 4, pp. 1592–1600, 2007
  4. Size-Dependent Phase Transition of Diamond to Graphite at High Pressures
    Journal of Physical Chemistry C, vol. 111, no. 35, pp. 12918–12925, 2007
  5. Mendeleev Communications, vol. 16, no. 2, p. 61, 2006
  6. Fluorination of Crystalline Polymerized Phases of C 60 Fullerene
    Fullerenes, Nanotubes, and Carbon Nanostructures, vol. 14, no. 2-3, pp. 303–306, 2006
  7. Chemistry of Materials, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 906–913, 2006
  8. Chemistry of Materials, vol. 18, no. 19, pp. 4561–4569, 2006
  9. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 127, no. 11, pp. 3712–3713, 2005
  10. Functionalized carbon nanotubes and nanodiamonds for engineering and biomedical applications
    Diamond and Related Materials, vol. 14, no. 3-7, pp. 859–866, 2005
  11. Friction properties of surface-fluorinated carbon nanotubes
    Wear, vol. 259, no. 1-6, pp. 738–743, 2005
  12. Fluorination of pressure-polymerized C phases
    Carbon, vol. 43, no. 14, pp. 2989–3001, 2005
  13. Diels–Alder addition to fluorinated single walled carbon nanotubes
    Chemical Communications, no. 26, p. 3265, 2005
  14. AFM and STM characterization of thiol and thiophene functionalized SWNTs: pitfalls in the use of chemical markers to determine the extent of sidewall functionalization in SWNTs
    Chemical Communications, no. 43, p. 5429, 2005
  15. Reinforcing Epoxy Polymer Composites Through Covalent Integration of Functionalized Nanotubes
    Advanced Functional Materials, vol. 14, no. 7, pp. 643–648, 2004
  16. Analytical Chemistry, vol. 76, no. 22, pp. 6734–6742, 2004
  17. Chemistry of Materials, vol. 16, no. 11, pp. 2055–2061, 2004
  18. Chemistry of Materials, vol. 16, no. 20, pp. 3924–3930, 2004
  19. Sidewall functionalization of single-walled carbon nanotubes with organic peroxidesElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: Fig. S1: Raman spectra of pristine and functionalized SWNTs. Fig. S2: UV-Vis-NIR spectra of pristine and functionalized SWNTs. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/cc/b2/b209456h/
    Chemical Communications, no. 3, pp. 362–363, 2003
  20. Oxidative Properties and Chemical Stability of Fluoronanotubes in Matrixes of Binary Inorganic Compounds
    Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 87–92, 2003
  21. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 125, no. 49, pp. 15174–15182, 2003
  22. Nano Letters, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 331–336, 2003
  23. Nano Letters, vol. 3, no. 8, pp. 1107–1113, 2003
  24. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 106, no. 43, pp. 11155–11162, 2002
  25. Accounts of Chemical Research, vol. 35, no. 12, pp. 1087–1095, 2002
  26. Carbonitride Nanomaterials, Thin Films, and Solids
    Advanced Engineering Materials, vol. 4, no. 9, pp. 671–675, 2002
  27. Cryogenic deposition of carbon nitride films using a neutralized atomic nitrogen beam
    Thin Solid Films, vol. 381, no. 1, pp. 62–68, 2001
  28. Russian Chemical Bulletin, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 20–28, 2001
  29. Russian Chemical Bulletin, vol. 50, no. 11, pp. 2020–2027, 2001
  30. Nano Letters, vol. 1, no. 12, pp. 731–734, 2001
  31. Matrix isolation infrared and density functional theoretical studies of cryogenic reactions of silicon atoms with dimethyl ether and methanol: new route to generation and stabilization of transient silanones
    Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, vol. 595, no. 2, pp. 248–260, 2000
  32. Chemistry of Materials, vol. 12, no. 11, pp. 3264–3270, 2000
  33. Interconversions of the silylene-to-silene and germylene-to-germene types: direct spectroscopic studies and calculations
    Russian Chemical Bulletin, vol. 48, no. 11, pp. 2003–2015, 1999
  34. Vibrational analysis of infrared spectra of matrix-isolated transient silenes on basis of density functional theory calculations
    Journal of Molecular Structure, vol. 443, no. 1-3, pp. 175–189, 1998
  35. Matrix isolation infrared and density functional theoretical studies of organic silanones, (CH3O)2Si=O and (C6H5)2Si=O
    Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, vol. 566, no. 1-2, pp. 45–59, 1998
  36. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 120, no. 20, pp. 5005–5016, 1998
  37. Organometallics, vol. 17, no. 23, pp. 5041–5051, 1998
  38. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 102, no. 4, pp. 744–753, 1998
  39. Matrix isolation Fourier transform infrared spectroscopic study of energetic nitrogen fluxes applied to fabrication of nitride thin films. Observation ofN[sub 3] radical and quantitative estimation of matrix-isolated N atoms
    Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 82, no. 4, p. 1921, 1997
  40. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 116, no. 1, pp. 320–329, 1994
  41. Electrochemical studies and syntheses of fulleride-derived materials
    Applied Superconductivity, vol. 1, no. 7-9, pp. 913–923, 1993
  42. Generation and IR spectroscopic study of benzyl radical
    Russian Chemical Bulletin, vol. 42, no. 8, pp. 1438–1440, 1993
  43. Studies of vacuum pyrolysis of 3-sila- and 3-germa-3,3?-spirobi(6-oxabicyclo[3.1.0]hexanes) and low-temperature matrix stabilization of monomeric silicon dioxide from the gas phase
    Russian Chemical Bulletin, vol. 42, no. 4, pp. 663–671, 1993
  44. The low-temperature matrix stabilization and IR spectrum of dimethylgermanone, Me2Ge=O
    Bulletin of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR Division of Chemical Science, vol. 39, no. 5, pp. 1079–1080, 1990
  45. IR spectral study of the vacuum pyrolysis of 2,3-dimethyl-and 2,3,7,8-tetramethyl-5-germaspiro[4.4]nona-2,7-dienes as possible sources of 3,4-dimethylcyclopentene-3-germylene
    Bulletin of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR Division of Chemical Science, vol. 38, no. 6, pp. 1308–1312, 1989
  46. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 111, no. 8, pp. 2845–2849, 1989
  47. Matrix IR spectra of new organic silanones, (MeO)2Si=O and Ph2Si=O
    Bulletin of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR Division of Chemical Science, vol. 37, no. 9, pp. 1968–1968, 1988
  48. Vacuum pyrolysis of CCl3COCl: Matrix-IR and mass spectrometric studies of the intermediates
    Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis, vol. 13, no. 1-2, pp. 135–140, 1988
  49. Low-temperature stabilization of dimethylsilanone Me2Si=0 from the gas phase
    Bulletin of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR Division of Chemical Science, vol. 35, no. 5, pp. 1108–1109, 1986
  50. Mass spectrometric study of thermal decomposition of oxalyl chloride at low pressures
    Bulletin of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR Division of Chemical Science, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 722–725, 1983
  51. IR spectra of matrix isolated silaethylenes R2Si=CD2
    Bulletin of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR Division of Chemical Science, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 214–214, 1983
  52. IR spectra of silacyclobutanes in Ar matrix at 10?K
    Bulletin of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR Division of Chemical Science, vol. 29, no. 4, pp. 591–597, 1980
  53. New infrared spectroscopic observation of 1,1-dimethyl-1-silaethylene in an argon matrix
    Bulletin of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR Division of Chemical Science, vol. 28, no. 9, pp. 1980–1981, 1979
  54. Stabilization and direct spectroscopic observation of molecules with an unsaturated carbon-silicon bond
    Bulletin of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR Division of Chemical Science, vol. 25, no. 5, pp. 1165–1165, 1976