- Professor of Chemistry, Lehman College
- Affiliate Faculty, Nanoscience
Andrei Jitanu, Ph.D.
Affiliation
Lehman College (Profile)
Research Interests
My research goals are to develop new materials or composite materials for hermetic barriers for electronic industry, anticorrosive materials for airspace and automotive industry and hydroxyapatite based nanocomposite for biomedical bone regeneration and prosthetic applications. The sol-gel process is a versatile method that has the ability to combine inorganic with organic phases producing hybrid organic-inorganic materials. These materials are not simply the sum of the individual contributions of each phase, but unique hybrid materials due to synergistic combinations of properties of both components. My studies range from the elucidation of early stages of formation of the hybrid materials by sol-gel process to the design of hybrid nanocomposite materials with magnetic, gas-sensing, electric and optical properties. My research fulfilled during my years at Lehman-CUNY was mainly focused to developing a new class of materials called Hybrid Melting Gels for hermetic barriers, anticorrosive and optical applications. However, a wide range of studies on nanoparticles or nanocomposites in different systems have been carried out using the sol-gel method. Beside the melting gels and hybrid glasses my group study: the formation of stable silver nanoparticles sols for medical diagnostic and drug delivery; the preparation of core/shell nanoparticles for hydrogen peroxide biosensors, study of Layer Double Hydroxides for fuel cell applications and the novel approaches in preparation of LaCoO3 for battery applications.
Job History
- 2018 – Current: Chair of Department of Chemistry, Lehman College, CUNY
- 2017 – Current: Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Lehman College, CUNY
- 2016 – Current: Chair of the Inorganic Subdiscipline, Department of Chemistry, The Graduate Center, CUNY
- 2009 – Current: Faculty Member of the Ph.D. Program in Biochemistry, The Graduate Center, CUNY
- 2008 – Current: Faculty Member of the Ph.D. Program in Chemistry, The Graduate Center, CUNY
- 2013 – 2017: Associate Professor, Lehman College, CUNY
- 2012 – 2014: Deputy Chair of the Department of Chemistry, Lehman College, CUNY
- 2008 – 2013: Assistant Professor, Lehman College, CUNY
- 2005 – 2008: Research Associate, Rutgers University
- 2003 – 2005: Research Associate, Clarkson University
- 2002 – 2003: ‘Marie Curie’ Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Orleans, France
- 1996 – 2001: Ph.D., University of Bucharest, Romania
Publications
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Applications of melting gels |
Deriving Efficient Porous Heteroatom‐Doped Carbon Electrocatalysts for Hydrazine Oxidation from Transition Metal Ions‐Coordinated Casein |
Consolidated Melting-Gel Coatings on AZ31 Magnesium Alloy with Excellent Corrosion Resistance in NaCl solutions–An Interface study |
Dextran hydrogels by crosslinking with amino acid diamines and their viscoelastic properties |
Obtaining Thickness-Limited Electrospray Deposition for 3D Coating |
Self‐degradable curcumin polymer with anti‐cancer activity |
Thickness-properties synergy in organic–inorganic consolidated melting-gel coatings for protection of 304 stainless steel in NaCl solutions |
29 Si NMR and SAXS investigation of the hybrid organic–inorganic glasses obtained by consolidation of the melting gels |
Phase separation in melting gels |
