Vitaly Alexandrov

Contact Information:

City Campus (Lincoln)
OTHM B205D
(402) 472-5323
valexandrov2@unl.edu

Personal Links:

Research Group Website

Richard L. McNeel Associate Professor

Academic Degrees

  • Ph.D., Computational Chemistry, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research/University of Stuttgart, 2009
  • M.S. (with distinction), Quantum Chemistry, St. Petersburg State University, 2006
  • Dipl. (with distinction), Electrochemistry, St. Petersburg State University, 2004

Areas of Research and Professional Interest

  • Computational/theoretical electrochemistry and materials science
  • Electrocatalysis, batteries

Honors and Awards

  • National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2020)
  • ACS PRF Award (2018)
  • Doctoral Fellowship of Max Planck Society (International Max Planck Research School for Advanced Materials), 2006-2009
  • Fellowship to attend the 55th Meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany, 2005
  • Personal Grant of St. Petersburg Government for Young Scientists, 2004

Selected Publications

  • Speck F.D., Zagalskaya A., Alexandrov V. and Cherevko S., "Periodicity in the Electrochemical Dissolution of Transition Metals", Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 60, 13343-13349 (2021).
  • Zagalskaya A., Evazzade I. and Alexandrov V., "Ab Initio Thermodynamics and Kinetics of the Lattice Oxygen Evolution Reaction in Iridium Oxides", ACS Energy Letters 6, 1124-1133 (2021).
  • Zagalskaya A. and Alexandrov V., "Role of Defects in the Interplay between Adsorbate Evolving and Lattice Oxygen Mechanisms of the Oxygen Evolution Reaction in RuO2 and IrO2", ACS Catalysis 10, 3650-3657 (2020).
  • Klyukin K., Tao L. L., Tsymbal E.Y. and Alexandrov V., "Defect-Assisted Tunneling Electroresistance in Ferroelectric Tunnel Junctions", Physical Review Letters 121, 056601 (2018).