Email:    rostyslav.lesyuk(at)uni-rostock.de            

Phone: 0381 498 6865

Research interests

• Synthesis and preparation of semiconductor nanostructures (ZnS, CuS, CuInS₂, PbS, SnS, SnTe, perovskites etc.)
• Optoelectronic properties of colloidal quasi-2D-nanomaterials: steady-state and time-resolved photoluminescence, electronic transport through individual nanostructures, exciton migration
• Solar cells and solar windows

Methods and instruments

• Chemical wet synthesis by Schlenk-line technique
• UV-Vis-NIR, FTIR, time-resolved PL spectroscopy, AFM, SEM, PXRD
• E-beam-lithography
• Monte-Carlo simulations

Selected publications

Liwei Dai, Abderrezak Torche, Christian Strelow, Tobias Kipp, Thanh Huyen Vuong, Jabor Rabeah, Kevin Oldenburg, Gabriel Bester, Alf Mews, Christian Klinke, Rostyslav Lesyuk Role of magnetic coupling in photoluminescence kinetics of Mn2+-doped ZnS nanoplatelets ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 14 (2022) 18806.

Ziyi Hu, Ryan O'Neill, Rostyslav Lesyuk, Christian Klinke Colloidal two-dimensional metal chalcogenides: Realization and application of the structural anisotropy. Acc. Chem. Res. 54 (2021) 3792.

Christoph Bauer, Rostyslav Lesyuk, Mahdi Samadi Khoshkhoo, Christian Klinke, Vladimir Lesnyak, Alexander Eychmüller: Surface defines the properties: Colloidal Bi2Se3 nanosheets with high electrical conductivity. J. Phys. Chem. C 125 (2021) 6442.

Liwei Dai, Christian Strelow, Tobias Kipp, Alf Mews, Iris Benkenstein, Dirk Eifler, Thanh Huyen Vuong, Jabor Rabeah, James McGettrick, Rostyslav Lesyuk, Christian Klinke: Colloidal manganese doped ZnS nanoplatelets and their optical properties. Chem. Mater. 33 (2021) 275.

Mohammad Mehdi Ramin Moayed, Sascha Kull, Angelique Rieckmann, Philip Beck, Michael Wagstaffe, Heshmat Noei, Andreas Kornowski, Ana B. Hungria, Rostyslav Lesyuk, Andreas Stierle, Christian Klinke Function follows form: From semiconducting to metallic towards superconducting PbS nanowires by faceting the crystal. Adv. Func. Mater. 30 (2020) 1910503.

Liwei Dai, Rostyslav Lesyuk, Anastasia Karpulevich, Abderrezak Torche, Gabriel Bester, Christian Klinke From wurtzite nanoplatelets to zinc blende nanorods: Simultaneous control of shape and phase in ultrathin ZnS nanocrystals. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 10 (2019) 3828.

Eugen Klein, Andres Black, Öznur Tokmak, Christian Strelow, Rostyslav Lesyuk, Christian Klinke Micron-size two-dimensional methylammonium lead halide perovskites. ACS Nano 13 (2019) 6955.

Eugen Klein, Leonard Heymann, Ana B. Hungria, Rostyslav Lesyuk, Christian Klinke Colloidal lead iodide nanorings Nanoscale 10 (2018) 21197.

Rostyslav Lesyuk, Eugen Klein, Iryna Yaremchuk, Christian Klinke Copper sulfide nanosheets with shape-tunable plasmonic properties in the NIR Nanoscale 10 (2018) 20640.

Rostyslav Lesyuk, Vladimir Lesnyak, Axel Herguth, Dmytro Popovych, Yaroslav Bobitski, Christian Klinke, Nikolai Gaponik Simulation study of environment friendly quantum dot based photovoltaic windows J. Mater. Chem. C 5 (2017) 11790.

Lesyuk, R., Marinov, V., Hobbie, E. K., Elbaradei, A., Tarnavchyk, I., & Bobitski, Y. (2016). Toward cadmium-free spectral down-shifting converters for photovoltaic applications. Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 151, 52-59.