Lyuben Mihaylov Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" Department of Applied Inorganic Chemistry; room: 304 1, James Bouchier blvd., 1164, Sofia, Bulgaria Tel: +359 888 960 858 e-mail: nhtlm@chem.uni-sofia.bg

Education and academic degrees

2016 - PhD thesis 4.2. chemical sciences (Inorganic Chemistry - Electrochemistry), Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"

2009 - Master thesis of Material science, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"

2006 - Bachelor degree of Mineral technology, MGU "St. Ivan Rilski"

Professional experience

2015 - Specialist in Chemical Sciences

Fellowships and research visits abroad

2008/2009 - IMEC-Belgium

Short-term research visits abroad

2014 - Max Plank Institute, Germany

2019 - Cambridge, UK

Related publications

1. L. Mihailov, T. Spassov, M. Bojinov “Effect of microstructure on the electrocatalytic activity for hydrogen evolution of amorphous and nanocrystalline Zr2Ni alloys ”, International journal of hydrogen energy, 37, 10499 - 10506, 2012.

2. L. Mihailov, Murad Redzheb, T Spassov “Selective dissolution of amorphous and nanocrystalline Zr2Ni ”, Corrosion Science, 74, 308 - 313, 2013.

3. L. Mihaylov, L. Lyubenova, Ts. Gerdjikov, D. Nihtianova, T. Spassov “Selective dissolution of amorphous Zr-Cu-Ni-Al alloys”, Corrosion Science, 94, 350 - 358, 2015.

4. Paschalidou, E.M., Celegato, F., Scaglione, F., Rizzi, P., Battezzati, L., Gebert, A., Oswald, S., Wolff, U., Mihaylov, L., Spassov, T. "The mechanism of generating nanoporous Au by de-alloying amorphous alloys", Acta Materialia, Volume 119, Pages 177-183, 2016.

5. Svetlana Ivanova, Ekaterina Zhecheva, Rositsa Kukeva, Diana Nihtianova, Lyuben Mihaylov, Genoveva Atanasova, and Radostina Stoyanova. "Layered P3-NaxCo1/3Ni1/3Mn1/3O2 versus Spinel Li4Ti5O12 as a Positive and a Negative Electrode in a Full Sodium-Lithium Cell", ACS Applied Materials and interfaces, Volume 8, Pages 17321-17333, 2016.

Research interests

Electrochemistry, Transmission electron microscopy, Scanning electron microscopy, Energy- dispersive spectroscopy, X-Ray diffraction.

Teaching

Lectures:

Applied Electrochemistry - Bachelor programme Chemical Engineering and Contemporary Materials, РО, 15h.; Master programme - Functional Materials, 15h.

Practicums:

Applied Electrochemistry - Bachelor programme Chemical Engineering and Contemporary Materials, РО, 30h.; Master programme - Functional Materials, 30h.