Born: October 16, 1982, Sofia
Career:
1999-2007 - Bachelor in chemistry, master and PhD in physical chemistry in University of Sofia
2003-2010 - Chemist, assistant, assistant professor in University of Sofia
2008-2009 - Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden Postdoctoral research
Teaching experience:
Lectures, seminars and laboratory practice for the courses Physical chemistry, Statistical thermodynamics, Colloid chemistry, Physicochemical hydrodynamics, Liquid surfaces, Nucleation, Capillary phenomena and wetting.
Area of interest:
- Surface science: surface electorchemistry, adsorption of ionic surfactants and simple salts, surface tension and mechanic moment, Langmuir monolayers, disjoining pressure, surface roughness, surface defects on solid surfaces.
- Capillary phenomena: capillary shapes, capillary flows, capillary waves, wetting, roughness, wetting dynamics.
- Physicochemical hydrodynamics: electrokinetic phenomena, thin liquid films, porous materials, foams.
- Nucleation: nucleus formation, 2D nucleation, electrostatic effects, micellization.
- Chemical thermodynamics (with accent on electrolyte solutions and semiconductors), statistical physics (with accent on surfactant adsorption and surface roughness), chemical kinetics, electrochemistry.
- Applied mathematics, computing software (Maple).
Publication:
2010
1. Quantum Hydrodynamics of Electron Gases
Radomir Slavchov, Roumen Tsekov
Journal of Chemical Physics 132 (2010) art. no. 084505
2. Streaming Potential Effect on the Drainage of Thin Liquid Films Stabilized by Ionic Surfactants
Roumen Tsekov, Dilyana S. Ivanova, Radomir Slavchov, Boryan Radoev, Emil D. Manev, Anh V. Nguyen and Stoyan I. Karakashev
Langmuir 26 (2009) 4703-4708
3. Comparative validation of the analytical models for the Marangoni effect on foam film drainage
Stoyan I. Karakashev, Dilyana S. Ivanova, Zhana K. Angarska, Emil D. Manev, Roumen Tsekov, Borjan P. Radoev, Radomir I. Slavchov, Anh V. Nguyen
Langmuir 26 (2010) 4703-4708
4. Justification of biexponential rate law of spreading over heterogeneous and rough surfaces
Radomir Slavchov, Victoria Dutschk, Gert Heinrich, Boryan Radoev
Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochem. Eng. Aspects 354 (2010) 252–260
2008
1. On the theory of the charged heterogeneous surfaces. Electric interactions in Langmuir monolayers and semiconductor surfaces
Radomir Slavchov
Thesis, Sofia 2008, Department of Physical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry at Sofia University (in Bulgarian)
2007
1. Screened potential of a charged step defect on a semiconductor surface
Radomir Slavchov, Tzanko Ivanov. Boryan Radoev
J.Phys.: Condens. Matter 19 (2007) 226005.
2. Singular distributions approach
Radomir Slavchov
graduation work, Sofia 2007, Department of Physical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry at Sofia University (in Bulgarian)
3. Electrical Charged Heterogeneous Interfaces. Electrostatic Potential Distribution
Radomir Slavchov, Boryan Radoev
Ann Univ Sofia 100 (2008) 193.
2006
1. Effect of the surface polarizability on the electrostatic screening in semiconductors
Radomir Slavchov, Tzanko Ivanov. Boryan Radoev
J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 18 (2006) 5873–5879
2005
1. On the nature of Athabasca Oil Sands
Jan Czarnecki, Boryan Radoev, Laurier L. Schramm, Radomir Slavchev
Advances in Colloid and Interface Science 114–115 (2005) 53– 60
2. Equilibrium profile and rupture of wetting film on heterogeneous substrates
Radomir Slavchov, Boryan Radoev, Klaus Werner Stockelhuber
Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochem. Eng. Aspects 261 (2005) 135–140
3. Surface Electrostatics of Heterogeneous Media. Mathematical Models, Problems and Methods
T. Boev, B. Radoev and R. Slavchev
Proceeding of the 10-th Jubilee National Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ed. by Ya.Ivanov), Sept., 2005, Varna, p 423.
2005-2010
A number of electronic problem books for students, serving the Maple seminars for the theoretical courses in Sofia University (in Bulgarian and few in English).