Initiation and Flame Propagation in Combustion of Gases and Pyrophoric Metal Nanostructures

Gas-dynamic factors in combustion processes.- Ignition and combustion of the mixtures of hydrogen and hydrocarbons with air and oxygen over noble metals.- Ignition and passivation of nanopowders and compact samples made of nanopowders.

Rubtsov Nickolai obtained his Dr.Sci (Chemistry) in Moscow State University in 1997. He is a Main researcher at the Merzhanov Institute of Structural Macrokinetics and Materials Science (Russian Academy of Sciences) and his work areas include experimental chemical kinetics; branching chain processes; detonation; vibronically excited particles as intermediates of complicated chain reactions; numerical simulation of combustion processes, protecting of metallization layers in VLSI; tautomeric equilibriums; solid combustion; and nanoparticles combustion.

Seplyarskii Boris S. has a Ph.D. in Physics, Merzhanov Institute of Structural Macrokinetics and Materials Science (Russian Academy of Sciences) (1978). He is a Senior Researcher and Head of the Laboratory of Combustion of Heterogeneous Systems, Institute of Structural Macrokinetics, Russian Academy of Sciences since 2004. His expertise comprises theory and mathematical modeling of solid-solid and filtration combustion, including combustion synthesis of materials; theory of ignition of condensed and two-phase media and the theory of ignition of gas suspensions; theory of combustion and passivation of pyrophoric nanoparticles.

Alymov Michail I. is the Director of the Merzhanov Institute of Structural Macrokinetics and Materials Science Russian Academy of Sciences, (ISMAN), and Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He obtained his Dr. Sci. (Solid State Physics) at the Institute of Metallurgy and Material Science RAS, 1997, and Ph.D. in Solid State Physics at Moscow Institute of Physics Engineering, USSR, 1987. His research interests are in the field of material science, powder metallurgy and nanomaterials.