Development of new and improvement of existing electrochemical, spectroscopic and flow injection (FIA) methods on environmental quality monitoring

Major goal of this project is development and application of new kinetic spectrophotometric, direct and indirect AA methods for element determination in environmental samples, biological samples, and pigments in paintings. Also investigation of the organic pollutants transport in the soil by using spectroscopic and electro-chemical methods. Investigation of monocrystals of sulfide minerals (pyrite, chalcopyrite, covelline, bornite, enargite, halkozine, galena), metals (Ga, Mo, Rh, Ir, Nb and Al), oxides of some metals and metalloids (As, Bi), hydrogen-palladium and deuterium-palladium electrodes as new sensors for potentiometric acid-base, precipitating, complexometric and redox titrations in water and non-aqueous solvents. Effects of pharmaceutical preparations and metals on enzyme inhibition for application of enzymatic sensors will also be investigated Coulometric-potentiometric methods will be used for determination of protolytic constants in aqueous and non-aqueous media. The development of the method of FI analysis with amperometric detection for the determination on modified and unmodified working electrode (Pt, Ag, Au, Cu, Ni, vitreous carbon and carbon paste). The investigation of the mechanism of electrochemical processes on working electrodes using cyclic voltammetry will be carried out. The results of these investigations will be reported on conferences and published in international journals. Four doctoral theses will be results of these investigations.