Ananiy Kohut

Ananiy Kohut
Sc. D., Professor
Alma mater	Lviv Polytechnic State University
Graduated	1996
Research areas	Plant oil-based monomers and polymers. Amphiphilic polymers
Degree	Doctor of Chemical Sciences
Supervisor	Sc. D., Prof. Stanislav Voronov
Degree awarding	2015
Academic status	Docent
Academic status awarding	2018
Current position	Professor of the Department of Organic Chemistry

Ananiy Kohut is a Doctor of Chemical Sciences, Docent, Professor of the Department of Organic Chemistry at the Institute of Chemistry and Chemical Technologies of Lviv Polytechnic National University.

General information

Education

1996 — M. Eng. (with Honor), Polymer Engineering, Lviv Polytechnic State University, Faculty of Chemical Engineering;
2006 — Ph. D. (dissertation ‘Synthesis and properties of surface active peroxides and monomers’), Organic Chemistry;
2015 — Sc. D. (dissertation ‘Synthesis of invertible and reactive amphiphilic polymers and development of micellar structures based on them’), Polymer Chemistry;
2018 — academic status of Docent at the Department of Organic Chemistry.

Professional activity

Ananiy Kohut has been engaged in research and teaching since 1996 and occupied the following positions:

• 1996 – Research Assistant at the Department of Organic Chemistry;
• 1998 – Post-Graduate Student at the Department of Organic Chemistry;
• 2001 – Junior Research Associate at the Department of Organic Chemistry;
• 2011 – Doctoral Study for a Sc. D. degree at the Department of Organic Chemistry;
• 2014 – Docent (Associate Professor) at the Department of Organic Chemistry;
• 2018 – Professor at the Department of Organic Chemistry.

Ananiy Kohut worked as a Research Associate at the Institute of Particle Technology of Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany) in 2004-2007.
He was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Coatings and Polymeric Materials of North Dakota State University (Fargo, ND, United States) in 2007-2011 and a Visiting Researcher at the same department in 2015-2018.

Teaching

Ananiy Kohut is a co-author of:

• Organic Chemistry, a textbook (2021);
• Food Toxicology, a textbook (2014 – first edition, 2020 – second edition, 2021 – third edition);
• Laboratory Manual on Food Toxicology, a training manual (2018);
• Polymers for Production of Food and Cosmetics, lecture notes;
• Organic Chemistry, Part 2, lecture notes;
• Polymers for Production of Food and Cosmetics, an electronic training module;
• Organic Chemistry, Part 2, an electronic training module;
• over 20 student’s manuals.

Courses of Lectures:

• Organic Chemistry, Part 2 (in English) for undergraduate students majoring in Chemical Engineering;
• Polymers for Production of Food and Cosmetics for Master students majoring in Chemical Engineering.

Research

Ananiy Kohut published 80 articles in peer reviewed scholarly journals, 7 chapters in books, and filed 5 patents.

He has been actively involved in research work at the Department and worked on following projects:

• Development of the methods of the synthesis of surface active peroxides and monomers for the formation of compatibilizing systems for composites;
• Synthesis of new of surface active monomers and macromers – initiators with a controlled reactivity for polymer modification, study of their properties and the development of the methods of their synthesis based on available raw materials;
• Synthesis of new peroxide-containing heterofunctional reactants for the interface modification in colloid polymer systems;
• Polymeric hydrogel biomaterials for the design of dispersed and planar drug delivery systems and tissue engineering.;
• Design of theranostics based on pseudo-poly(amino acid) macromolecules for monitoring delivery and release of therapeutic drugs;
• Scientific principles of synthesis of novel polymeric hydrogel (nano)composites of special applications.

Research Interests:

• plant oil-based monomers and polymers;
• polymer synthesis and characterization;
• nanostructured polymer materials;
• responsive polymer materials;
• polymeric drug delivery systems;
• synthesis and characterization of metal and semiconductor nanoparticles;
• smart polymer coatings;
• polymer composites.

Selected publications

1. Kohut, A.; Voronov, S.; Demchuk, Z.; Kirianchuk, V.; Kingsley, K.; Shevchuk, O.; Caillol, S.; Voronov, A. Non-conventional features of plant oil-based acrylic monomers in emulsion polymerization // Molecules 2020, 25 (13), 2990.
2. Kingsley, K.; Shevchuk, O.; Kirianchuk, V.; Kohut, A.; Voronov, S.; Voronov, A. Emulsion copolymerization of vinyl monomers from soybean and olive oil: Effect of counterpart aqueous solubility // Eur. Polym. J. 2019, 119, 239–246.
3. Ramadurai, S.; Kohut, A.; Sarangi, N.K.; Zholobko, O.; Baulin, V.A.; Voronov, A.; Keyes, T.E. Macromolecular inversion-driven polymer insertion into model lipid bilayer membranes // J. Colloid Interface Sci. 2019, 542, 483–494.
4. Price, P.M.; Dittmar, J.W.; Carlson, K.; Lawson, B.P.; Reilly, A.K.; Stein, B.D.; Cheng, H.; Zholobko, O.; Kohut, A.; Voronov, A.; Bronstein, L.M. Clustering of Iron Oxide Nanoparticles with Amphiphilic Invertible Polymer Enhances Uptake and Release of Drugs and MRI Properties // Part. Part. Syst. Charact. 2019, 36 (7), 1900112.
5. Kohut, A.; Demchuk, Z.; Kingsley, K.; Voronov, S.; Voronov, A. Dual role of methyl-β-cyclodextrin in the emulsion polymerization of highly hydrophobic plant oil-based monomers with various unsaturations // Eur. Polym. J. 2018, 108, 322–328.
6. Demchuk, Z.; Kohut, A.; Voronov, S.; Voronov, A. Versatile Platform for Controlling Properties of Plant Oil-Based Latex Polymer Networks // ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng. 2018, 6 (2), 2780–2786.
7. Kohut, A.; Zholobko, O.; Hevus, I.; Voronov, A. ¹H NMR Study of “Host–Guest” Interactions of Micellar Assemblies from Amphiphilic Invertible Polymers and Peptides // Macromol. Chem. Phys. 2017, 218 (21), 1700344.
8. Demchuk, Z.; Shevchuk, O.; Tarnavchyk, I.; Kirianchuk, V.; Kohut, A.; Voronov, S.; Voronov, A. Free Radical Polymerization Behavior of the Vinyl Monomers from Plant Oil Triglycerides // ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng. 2016, 4 (12), 6974–6980.
9. Demchuk, Z.; Shevchuk, O.; Tarnavchyk, I.; Kirianchuk, V.; Lorenson, M.; Kohut, A.; Voronov, S.; Voronov, A. Free-Radical Copolymerization Behavior of Plant-Oil-Based Vinyl Monomers and Their Feasibility in Latex Synthesis // ACS Omega 2016, 1 (6), 1374–1382.
10. Maran, A.; Yaszemski, M.J.; Kohut, A.; Voronov, A. Curcumin and Osteosarcoma: Can Invertible Polymeric Micelles Help? // Materials 2016, 9 (7), 520.

Contacts

pl. Sv. Yura, 3/4, Lviv, 79013; academic building 8, room 124

Phones: +38 (032) 258-25-50; +38 (032) 258-27-71