Education

PNU-NanoLab serves as a platform for providing the research component of the Bachelor’s and Master’s degree programmes in Physics and Astronomy at the Department of Materials Science and New Technologies. Concurrently, we are implementing the objectives outlined in the Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University Development Strategy for 2020-2027, which emphasizes the formation of highly qualified professionals through a combination of educational, scientific, and innovative activities grounded in academic integrity. Additionally, the main slogan of the Faculty of Physics and Technology is ‘Learning through Research’.

The programme mandates the use of experimental physical research methods, incorporating modelling techniques for real objects and processes. This includes methods for computer experiments, statistical processing of experimental results, and data analysis. At PNU-NanoLab, master’s courses are offered in ‘Physical Properties of Nanomaterials’, ‘Methods for Studying the Properties of Nanomaterials’, ‘Surface Physics and Chemistry’, ‘Structural Analysis’, and ‘Physics of Colloidal Systems’. One of the key objectives of PNU-NanoLab is to ensure that scientific materials research is conducted by researchers, academic staff, and trainees (students, postgraduates, and doctoral candidates).

The PNU-NanoLab serves as a base for thesis work for obtaining a PhD degree in the speciality 105 Applied Physics and Nanomaterials.

 

Theses completed on the basis of PNU-NanoLab include:

  1. Liliia MOKHNATSKA “Synthesis, structure, and electrochemical properties of nanodispersed oxides and oxide-hydroxides of iron” (2021)
  2. Myroslava HODLEVSKA “Electrode materials of hybrid supercapacitors on the base of nanocomposite materials NiFe2O4/ rGO” (2023)
  3. Mykola HODLEVSKYI “CuFe2O4/reduced graphene oxide nanocomposites: synthesis, structural, morphological and electrochemical properties” (2024)

 

 Student research work on the basis of PNU-NanoLab include:

Andrii MALAKHOV 

Winner of the All-Ukrainian Competition for Student Research Papers in the Specialty of ‘Chemical Technology and Engineering’ – “Obtaining and studying the properties of graphene oxide” (2022)

 

Andrii KHOPTA

Laureate of the All-Ukrainian Competition for Student Research Papers in the Specialty of ‘Chemical Technology and Engineering’ – “Role of surfactants in the synthesis of reduced graphene oxide/nickel ferrite nanocomposites” (2022)