Associate Professor
Physical Chemistry
University of Kwazulu-Natal
South Africa
Professor Nikolayenko is an authority on solution thermodynamics of ligands and metal complexes. He holds MSc degree from Kiev State University and PhD degree from Institute of Material Science. He taught Physical Chemistry in five universities in four countries for the last 37 years. He has been in Pietermaritzburg since 1998, where he built a laboratory fully equipped for the equilibrium studies in solution, the only one of its kind in SA. His techniques of choice are potentiometric, spectroscopic, nmr, and calorimetric titrations, as well as quantum-mechanical modelling.
Physical Chemistry