Physical Chemistry of Porous Materials

Profile of scientific activity:

• surface physical chemistry of agricultural materials: mineral and organic soils, clay minerals, organic matter, plant roots, etc.    
• gas, vapour and ions adsorption processes; surface areas, surface energetic non-homogeneity (distribution of adsorbing centres, average adsorption energy)   
• surface charge properties, distribution of charge generating surface functional groups, surface charge density   
• geometric heterogeneity of solid surfaces (fractal dimension)   
• porosity (mercury intrusion porosimetry), microporosity, structure formation, stability and improvement (soil conditioners), aggregation, flocculation   
• wettability of solid phase, surface free energy and its components   
• soil degradation processes -acidification, alkalization, salinization, heavy metal and organic pollution, DOC leaching   
• impact of stress conditions on plants and plant roots   
• decontamination of polluted soils, physicochemical melioration of degraded soils