Research Interests

Research in the Mozharivskyj's Group focuses on the chemistry of thermoelectric and phosphor materials, that may have a potential for current and future applications.
We prepare new phases, explore their structure and properties and try to rationalyze their behavior through electronic structure calculations.

Research Tools

Being solid-state chemists, we use the following methods and techniques:

1. Synthesis: arc-melting, sintering, single crystal growth, mechanical alloying, spark-plasma sintering

2. Structural analysis: X-ray powder and single crystal diffraction, neutron powder diffraction at room and non-ambient temperatures

3. Physical property measurements: charge transport properties, thermal conductivity, absorption and emission

4. Manipulation of structure and properties: through doping, chemical subsitution, valence electron control, band engineering, microstructure

5. Electronic structure analysis: caculations of Densities of States, band structure and bonding character