Supervisor’s research

• Wastewater treatment using different type of sorbents
• Nanotoxicology
• Survey of atmospheric heavy metal deposition using moss as biomonitor
• Assessment of food, medicinal plants quality

Research highlights

Unique facility with possibility of determination of more than 45 elements in samples

Wide network of national and international collaboration

Possibility of performing analysis on the atomic-absorption spectrometer, complementary to neutron activation analysis

Main publications

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• I. Zinicovscaia, D. Grozdov, N. Yushin, D. Abdusamadzoda1, S.F. Gundorina, E. Rodlovskaya, O. Kristavchuk. Metal removal from chromium containing effluents by Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Desalination and Water Treatment, 2020, 178:254-270
• I. Zinicovscaia, A. Safonov, K. Boldyrev, S. Gundorina, N. Yushin, O. Petuhov, N. Popova. Selective metal removal from chromium-containing synthetic effluents using Shewanella xiamenensis biofilm supported on zeolite. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2020; 27:10495–10505 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-020-07690-y
• L. Cepoi, I. Zinicovscaia, L. Rudi, T. Chiriac, V. Miscu, S. Djur, L. Strelkova, K. Vergel, P. Nekhoroshkov. Growth and heavy metals accumulation by Spirulina platensis biomass from multicomponent copper containing synthetic effluents during repeated cultivation cycles. Ecological Engineering, 142 (2020) 105637, DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2019.105637
• M. Shammas, I. Zinicovscaia, D. Humelnicu, L. Cepoi, V. Nirwan, Š. Demčák, A. Fahmi. Bioinspired elelctrospun hybrid nanofibers based on biomass templated within polymeric matrix for metal removal from wastewater. Polymer Bulletin, 2020, 77:3207–3222, DOI: 10.1007/s00289-019-02916-7
• I. Zinicovscaia, D. Grozdov, N. Yushin, A.Ivlieva, E. Petritskaya, D. Rogatkin. Neutron activation analysis as a tool for tracing the accumulation of silver nanoparticles in tissues of female mice and their offspring. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, 2019, 322, 1079–1083, DOI :10.1007/s10967-019-06746-9
• K. Vergel, I. Zinicovscaia, N. Yushin, M. V. Frontasyeva. Heavy metal atmospheric deposition study in Moscow region, Russia. Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 2019, 103(3), 435-440 DOI: 10.1007/s00128-019-02672-4
• I. Zinicovscaia, A. Ciocarlan, L. Lupascu, A. Aricu, I. Dragalin, N. Ciocarlan, N. Yushin. Investigation of elemental content and antimicrobial activity of Tanacetum corymbosum (L.) Sch. Bip. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry 2019, 321(1), 349-354, DOI: 10.1007/s10967-019-06590-x
• I. Zinicovscaia, R. Sturza, I. Gurmeza, K. Vergel, S. Gundorina, Gh. Duca. Metal bioaccumulation in the soil-leaf-fruit system determined by neutron activation analysis. Journal of Food Measurement and Characterization, 2019, 13(1): 592-601, doi: 10.1007/s11694-018-9972-4