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 — Docent of the Department of Organic Chemistry.

Professional activity

Ananiy Kohut has been engaged in research and teaching since 1996.

• 1996 – Research Assistant of the Department of Organic Chemistry;
• 1998 – Post-Graduate Student of the Department of Organic Chemistry;
• 2001 – Junior Research Associate of the Department of Organic Chemistry;
• 2011 – Doctoral Study for a Sc. D. degree at the Department of Organic Chemistry;
• 2014 – Docent (Associate Professor) of the Department of Organic Chemistry;
• 2018 – Professor of 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 in 2015-2018.

Teaching

Ananiy Kohut is a co-author of:

• Food Toxicology, a textbook;
• Laboratory Manual on Food Toxicology, a training manual;
• Polymers for Food and Cosmetics, lecture notes;
• Polymers for Food and Cosmetics, 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 Food and Cosmetics for Master students majoring in Chemical Engineering.

Research

Ananiy Kohut published 80 articles in peer reviewed scholarly journals, 5 chapters in books, and filed 4 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;
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Research Interests:

• polymer synthesis and characterization;
• nanostructured polymer materials;
• responsive polymer materials;
• polymeric drug delivery systems;
• colloids;
• synthesis and characterization of metal and semiconductor nanoparticles;
• smart polymer coatings; polymer composites.

Selected publications

1. Voronov, S.; Kohut, A.; Tarnavchyk, I.; Voronov, A. Advances in reactive polymeric surfactants for interface modification // Curr. Opin. Colloid Interface Sci. 2014, 19 (2), 95–121.
2. Kudina, O.; Kohut, A.; Tarnavchyk, I.; Hevus, I.; Voronov, A. Solvent-responsive self-assembly of amphiphilic invertible polymers determined with SANS // Langmuir 2014, 30 (12), 3310–3318.
3. Hevus, I.; Modgil, A.; Daniels, J.; Kohut, A.; Sun, C.; Stafslien, S.; Voronov, A. Invertible micellar polymer assemblies for delivery of poorly water-soluble drugs // Biomacromolecules 2012, 13 (8), 2537–2545.
4. Hevus, I.; Kohut, A.; Voronov, A. Micellar assemblies from amphiphilic polyurethanes for size-controlled synthesis of silver nanoparticles dispersible both in polar and nonpolar media // J. Nanopart. Res. 2012, 14(4), 820/1–820/11.
5. Hevus, I.; Kohut, A.; Voronov, A. Interfacial micellar phase transfer using amphiphilic invertible polymers // Polym. Chem. 2011, 2 (12), 2767–2770.
6. Kohut, A.; Kudina, O.; Dai, X.; Schulz, D. L.; Voronov, A. "Host–guest" interactions between non-micellized amphiphilic invertible polymer and insoluble cyclohexasilane in acetonitrile // Langmuir 2011, 27 (17), 10356–10359.
7. Kohut, A.; Dai, X.; Pinnick, D.; Schulz, D. L.; Voronov, A. "Host–guest" interaction between cyclohexasilane and amphiphilic invertible macromolecules // Soft Matter 2011, 7 (8), 3717–3720.
8. Hevus, I.; Kohut, A.; Voronov, A. Amphiphilic invertible polyurethanes: Synthesis and properties // Macromolecules 2010, 43 (18), 7488–7494.
9. Sieburg, L.; Kohut, A.; Kislenko, V.; Voronov, A. Amphiphilic invertible polymers for adsolubilization on hydrophilic and hydrophobized silica nanoparticles // J. Colloid Interface Sci. 2010, 351 (1), 116–121.
10. Tarnavchyk, I.; Voronov, A.; Kohut, A.; Nosova, N.; Varvarenko, S.; Samaryk, V.; Voronov, S. Reactive hydrogel networks for the fabrication of metal-polymer nanocomposites // Macromol. Rapid Commun. 2009, 30 (18), 1564–1569.
11. Shafranska, O.; Voronov, A.; Kohut, A.; Wu, X.-F. Akhatov, I. S. Polymer–metal complexes as a catalyst for the growth of carbon nanostructures // Carbon 2009, 47 (13), 3137–3139.
12. Kohut, A.; Voronov, A. Hierarchical micellar structures from amphiphilic invertible polyesters: 1H NMR spectroscopic study // Langmuir 2009, 25 (8), 4356–4360.
13. Samaryk, V.; Tarnavchyk, I.; Voronov, A.; Varvarenko, S.; Nosova, N.; Kohut, A.; Voronov, S. A new acrylamide-based peroxide monomer: synthesis and copolymerization with octyl methacrylate // Macromolecules 2009, 42 (17), 6495–6500.
14. Voronov, A.; Kohut, A.; Vasylyev, S.; Peukert, W. Mechanism of silver ion reduction in concentrated solutions amphiphilic invertible polyesters in nonpolar solvent at room temperature // Langmuir 2008, 24 (21), 12587–12594.
15. Voronov, A.; Vasylyev, S.; Kohut, A.; Peukert, W. Surface activity of new invertible amphiphilic polyesters based on poly(ethylene glycol) and aliphatic dicarboxylic acids // J. Colloid Interface Sci. 2008, 323 (2), 379–385.
16. Martinez Tomalino, L.; Voronov, A.; Kohut, A.; Peukert, W. Study of amphiphilic polyester micelles by hyper-Rayleigh scattering: invertibility and phase transfer // J. Phys. Chem. B 2008, 112 (20), 6338–6343.
17. Kohut, A.; Voronov, A.; Samaryk, V.; Peukert, W. Amphiphilic invertible polyesters as reducing and stabilizing agents in the formation of metal nanoparticles // Macromol. Rapid Commun. 2007, 28 (13), 1410–1414.
18. Kohut, A.; Voronov, A.; Peukert, W. An effective way to stabilize colloidal particles dispersed in polar and nonpolar media // Langmuir 2007, 23 (2), 504–508.
19. Voronov, A.; Kohut, A.; Peukert, W. Synthesis of amphiphilic silver nanoparticles in nanoreactors from invertible polyester // Langmuir 2007, 23 (2), 360–363.
20. Kohut, A. M.; Hevus, O. I.; Voronov, S. A. Synthesis and properties of 4-(-meth-oxyoligodimethylsiloxanyl)butyl maleate: A new surfmer // J. Appl. Pol. Sci. 2004, 93 (1), 310–313.

Contacts

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

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