EMPLOYMENT

2000 - Research Fellow - Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials.

1993 - 1994 VITO/MOL (Vlaamse Instelling voor Technologisch Onderzoek), Mol, Belgium. Post-doctoral position - study on HTSC Y-Ba-Cu-O and Bi-Pb-Sr-Ca-Cu-O materials.

1992 - 1993 CNRS, CECM (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - Centre D'Etude de Chimie Metallurgique), Paris, France. Post-doctoral position - study on synthesis of 110K High Temperature Superconducting (HTSC) materials via metallurgical route.

Chemical deposition of nano-structured coatings for energy and electronic applications Synthesis and study of nano-structured bulk materials Supercapacitors and battery materials Application of the spray pyrolysis method for coating processes and production of spherical particles Synthesis and study of materials and composites with highly developed specific surface area Advanced characterisation methods Superconducting materials

Ng, S., Wang, J., Wexler, D., Konstantinov, K. K., Guo, Z. & Liu, H. K. (2006). Highly reversible lithium storage in spheroidal carbon-coated silicon nanocomposites as anodes for lithium-ion batteries. Angewandte Chemie (International Edition), 45 (41), 6896-6899. Konstantinov, K., Bewlay, S., Wang, G., Lindsay, M., Wang, J., Liu, H. K. & Dou, S. Xue. (2004). New approach for synthesis of carbon-mixed LiFePO4 cathode materials. Electrochimica Acta, 50 (2-3), 421-426. Bewlay, S., Konstantinov, K. K., Wang, G., Dou, S. Xue. & Liu, H. K. (2004). Conductivity improvements to spray-produced LiFePO4 by addition of a carbon source. Materials Letters, 58 1788-1791. Lao, Z., Konstantinov, K. K., Tournaire, Y., Ng, S., Wang, G. & Liu, H. K. (2006). Synthesis of vanadium pentoxide powders with enhanced surface-area for electrochemical capacitors. Journal of Power Sources, 162 (2), 1451-1454.