Optical Senosrs Group

Research Areas

Development of new operation concepts for polymeric optical sensors

Theoretical formalization and prediction of optical response

Development of optical sensor-based devices

Advancing methods of digital color analysis and quantitative digital colorimetry

Electrochemical studies on sensing membranes

Modification of polymeric sensors with organic electrolytes

Ionic liquids in optical sensors

Development of calibration-free sensor arrays

Tailoring digital color analysis towards investigation of written artifacts

Current and recent projects

• RSF 22-23-00577, «Development of a method for the analysis and classification of ink compositions on paper substrates using selective extraction and digital color analysis» (A. Kalinichev, 2022–2023)
• RSF 20-73-10033, «Development and experimental validation of calibration-free optical sensors potentially applicable for early express-diagnostics of cystic fibrosis» (M. Peshkova, 2020–2023)
• RF President stipend, «Development of calibration-free analyzers based on optical sensors for multianalyte in situ analysis of human sweat electrolytes and pH» (A. Kalinichev, 2021–2023)
• Grant for young scientists at universities located in of St. Petersburg, Committee on Science and Higher Education of SPb Government (A.V. Kalinichev, 2021)
• RFBR 19-33-90279, «Generalization of the theory of polymeric optochemical sensor response involving electrical boundary potential as a universal instrument for controlling sensor characteristics» (A. Kalinichev, 2019–2021)
• RSF 18-73-00109 «Miniaturized multianalyte optochemical platform for autonomous in situ monitoring of hydroponic nutrient solutions» (M. Peshkova, 2018–2020)

Participation in scientific and educational events

• сonducting a project-oriented educational session for schoolchildren in chemistry at the Sirius educational center (Sochi) (2018–2021)
• participation in the methodical committee of the St. Petersburg Olympiad in Chemistry, 2018–2022 (A. V. Kalinichev)
• 4^th International Caparica Conference on Chromogenic and Emissive Materials (Portugal, 2020)
• International Meeting on Chemical Sensors “Matrafured” (Visegrad, Hungary, 2017, 2019, 2022)
• All-Russian Conference on Electrochemical Methods of Analysis “EMA” (2008, 2012, 2016)
• Meetings of the International Society of Electrochemistry (2012, 2014)
• 4^th International Conference on Biosensor Technologies (Lisbon, Portugal, 2015)
• International Conference for Young Scientists in Chemistry “Mendeleev” (SPb, Russia, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2019, 2021)
• 14^th International Conference on Electronic and Optical Sensors (Gdansk, Poland, 2016)
• International Scientific Conference for Undergraduate and Graduate Students and Young Scientists "Lomonosov" (Moscow, Russia, 2016, 2017, 2019)
• XXXII European Conference on chemical sensors “Eurosensors” (Graz, Austria, 2018)
• XXI Mendeleev Congress on General and Applied Chemistry (SPb, Russia, 2019)

Awards

• Prize of the Government of St. Petersburg in the field of scientific and pedagogical activity (M.A. Peshkova, 2017, 2020, 2022)
• Grant for students of universities located on the territory of St. Petersburg, Committee on Science and Higher Education of SPb Government (A.V. Kalinichev, 2018, 2020; N.V. Pokhvishcheva, 2020, 2022)
• Analit-Shimadzu Scholarship for Master's Students (N.V. Pokhvishcheva, 2020)
• V. Potanin Scholarship (N.Yu. Tyuftyakov, 2020)
• Grant from the Academy of Finland (A.V. Kalinichev, 2019)
• 1^st degree Diploma at "Mendeleev 2019" (A.V. Kalinichev, 2019)
• 1^st and 2^nd degree Diplomas at the International Scientific Conference for Undergraduate and Graduate Students and Young Scientists "Lomonosov" (A.V. Kalinichev, 2017; N.V. Pokhvishcheva, 2017, 2019; I.S. Prozherin, 2022)
• Diploma at III competition of business-cases «Changellenge >> Danone One-Day Lab» (A.V. Kalinichev, 2017)
• Diplomas of the SPbU start-up competition (1^st degree, A.V. Kalinichev, 2015; 2^nd degree, D.I. Dekina, 2017; finalist diploma, A.V. Kalinichev, 2018)
• Grant of the start-up competition “UMNIK” (A.V. Kalinichev, 2015–2016)
• 1^st degree Diploma in the tournament of innovative projects in the field of chemistry and materials science "Mendeleev 2015" (A.V. Kalinichev, 2015)

Publications

Selected Publications

1. A.V. Kalinichev, A.V. Kravchenko, I.P. Gryazev, A.A. Kechin, O.R. Karpukhin, E.M. Khairullina, L.A. Kartsova, A.G. Golovkina, V.A. Kozynchenko, M.A. Peshkova, I.I. Tumkin, Classification of ballpoint pen inks based on selective extraction and subsequent digital color and cluster analyses, Analyst 147 (2022) 3055–3064; IF 5.227 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1039/D2AN00482H
2. N.V. Pokhvishcheva, E.K. Gigiadze, A.V. Kalinichev, A.V. Ievlev, K.V. Tyutyukin, M.A. Peshkova, Chronopotentiometric Evaluation of Ionization Degree and Dissociation Constant of Imidazolium‐Based Ionic Liquid [C₆Meim][NTf₂] in Polymeric Plasticized Membranes, Membranes (MDPI) 12(2) (2022) 130; IF 4.562 (2021) https://doi.org/10.3390/membranes12020130
3. N.Y. Tiuftiakov, A. V. Kalinichev, N. V. Pokhvishcheva, M.A. Peshkova, Digital color analysis for colorimetric signal processing: Towards an analytically justified choice of acquisition technique and color space, Sensors and Actuators B 344 (2021) 130274; IF 7.460 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.snb.2021.130274
4. N.Y. Tiuftiakov, A. V. Kalinichev, E. Khairullina, E.K. Gigiadze, M.A. Peshkova, I.I. Tumkin, Simple and Cost-Efficient Classification of Ballpoint Pen Inks Using Digital Color Analysis, Anal. Chem. 93 (2021) 5015–5019; IF 6.986 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.0c05334
5. A. V. Kalinichev, N. V. Pokhvishcheva, M.A. Peshkova, Influence of Electrolyte Coextraction on the Response of Indicator-Based Cation-Selective Optodes, ACS Sensors. 5 (2020) 3558–3567; IF 7.711 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1021/acssensors.0c01747
6. N.Y. Tiuftiakov, A. V. Kalinichev, I. V. Rudenko, E.A. Bessonova, L.A. Kartsova, M.A. Peshkova, pH-dependent distribution of the indicator dye tetrabromophenolphthalein ethyl ester between aqueous solution and plasticized polymeric phase: Predicting the lifetime of ion-selective optical sensors, Colloid Interface Sci. Commun. 37 (2020) 100295; IF 4.914 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.colcom.2020.100295
7. Pokhvishcheva, N. V., Peshkova, M. A. Ionic Liquids as Plasticizers for Optodes, Moscow Univ. Chem. Bull. (2020) 75(2) 115-120 https://doi.org/10.3103/S002713142002011X
8. Polikarpova D., Makeeva D., Kolotilina N., Dolgonosov A., Peshkova M., Kartsova L. Nanosized cation exchanger for the electrophoretic separation and preconcentration of catecholamines and amino acids, Electrophoresis (2020) 41 (12) 1031-1038; IF 3.535 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1002/elps.201900416
9. Kartsova, L.; Moskvichev, D.; Bessonova, E.; Peshkova, M. Imidazolium Ionic Liquids in Microemulsion Electrokinetic Chromatography for Separation of Polyphenol Antioxidants, Chromatographia (2020) 83(8) 1001-1008; IF 2.044 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1007/s10337-020-03921-z
10. A. V. Kalinichev, N. V. Pokhvishcheva, M.A. Peshkova, Novel color standards for digital color analysis of optochemical sensor arrays, Talanta. 197 (2019) 638–644; IF 6.057 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.talanta.2019.01.063
11. A. V. Kalinichev, N. V. Pokhvishcheva, M.A. Peshkova, Significant Reduction of Analysis Time with Bulk Sensors Operating in Nonequilibrium Mode, Anal. Chem. 91 (2019) 5362–5370; IF 6.986 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.9b00459
12. Galiullin, T. M., Pokhvishcheva, N. V., Kalinichev, A. V., Peshkova, M. A. Evaluation of Ionic Liquids Based on Amino Acid Anions for Use in Liquid‐junction Free Reference Electrodes, Electroanalysis 31 (2019), 1708-1718; IF 3.223 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1002/elan.201900125
13. Dekina, D.I., Kalinichev, A.V., Pokhvishcheva, N.V., Peshkova, M.A., Mikhelson, K.N. Effects of quantitative composition of the sensing phase in the response of ionophore-based optical sensors, Sensors and Actuators B 277 (2018) 535-543; IF 7.460 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.snb.2018.09.018
14. Kalinichev A.V., Peshkova M.A., Pokhvishcheva N.V., Mikhelson K.N. Ion-selective optical sensors: a new look at well-established techniques of signal acquisition, Proceedings MDPI, 2 (2018) 825, https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings2130825
15. Andrey V. Kalinichev, Ana Frosinyuk, Maria A. Peshkova, Konstantin N. Mikhelson, The Impact of Ion Association in the Optode Phase to the Dynamic Range and the Sensitivity of the Response of Ion-Selective Bulk Optodes, Sensors and Actuators B 249 (2017) 123-130; IF 7.460 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.snb.2017.03.088

Teaching

Elective courses

• Chemical Sensors (in Russian, Chemistry, undergraduate, 5^th semester)
• Chemical Sensors (in Russian, Chemistry, master program, 2^nd semester)
• Chemical Sensors (in English, Chemistry, master program, 3^rd semester)
• Biomedical Applications of Optical Sensors (in English, Chemistry, master program, 3^rd semester)

Topics of coursework projects

physical chemistry, 2^nd year

• Influence of organic electrolytes in the composition of optical sensors on the colorimetric response
• Investigation of an interplay between the external potential and the colorimetric response of ion-selective optical sensors
• In situ electrochemical study of the electrolytic properties of organic salts in the composition of polymeric sensor membranes
• Organic electrolytes in the composition of polymeric membranes of potentiometric sensors
• Evaluation of partition coefficients of electrolytes between the plasticized polymeric membrane and the aqueous phase

analytical chemistry, 2^nd year

• Optimization of the optode-based sensor platform for in situ analysis of sweat
• Exploring the possibilities of chromoionophore-based optical sensors for creating calibration-free sensor arrays
• Classification and aging dynamics of ball-pen inks by means of digital color analysis
• Comparison of changes in chemical nature and color of coloring components in ballpoint pen inks under UV radiation