Dr Tommy Horozov

Dr Tommy Horozov

Senior lecturer

+44 (0)1482 465220 | T.S.Horozov@hull.ac.uk

Faculty and Department

  • Faculty of Science and Engineering
  • Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Related groups

  • Chemistry

Summary

Tommy Horozov is a recipient of the EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship Award (2006-2011), a senior lecturer at the University of Hull (2015- ) and visiting Professor at the Department of Materials Chemistry, University of Vienna (2017-).

He holds a PhD degree in Physical Chemistry from the University of Sofia and has been conducting fundamental and applied research on various aspects of material science.

These include the adsorption of surfactants on surfaces, the behaviour of solid particles in thin liquid films, emulsions and foams, solid wetting and open microfluidics, hydrogels, porous polymers and composite materials.

Recent outputs

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Journal Article

Surface-Modified Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles for Antialgal and Antiyeast Applications

Halbus, A. F., Horozov, T. S., & Paunov, V. N. (2020). Surface-Modified Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles for Antialgal and Antiyeast Applications. ACS Applied Nano Materials, 3(1), 440-451. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.9b02045

"Ghost" silica nanoparticles of "host"-inherited antibacterial action

Halbus, A. F., Horozov, T. S., & Paunov, V. N. (2019). "Ghost" silica nanoparticles of "host"-inherited antibacterial action. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 11(42), 38519-38530. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.9b14403

Controlling the antimicrobial action of surface modified magnesium hydroxide nanoparticles

Halbus, A. F., Horozov, T. S., & Paunov, V. N. (2019). Controlling the antimicrobial action of surface modified magnesium hydroxide nanoparticles. Biomimetics, 4(2), https://doi.org/10.3390/biomimetics4020041

Efficient preparation of macroporous poly(methyl methacrylate) materials from high internal phase emulsion templates

Althubeiti, K., & Horozov, T. (2019). Efficient preparation of macroporous poly(methyl methacrylate) materials from high internal phase emulsion templates. Reactive and functional polymers, 142, 207–212. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.reactfunctpolym.2019.06.015

Self-grafting copper oxide nanoparticles show a strong enhancement of their anti-algal and anti-yeast action

Halbus, A. F., Horozov, T. S., & Paunov, V. N. (2019). Self-grafting copper oxide nanoparticles show a strong enhancement of their anti-algal and anti-yeast action. Nanoscale advances, 1(6), 2323-2336. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9na00099b

Research interests

Colloidal particles

• behaviour at liquid interfaces and in thin liquid films

• particle-stabilised foams and emulsions

• non-spherical and Janus particles

Wetting and capillarity

• contact angles of solid particles and surfaces

• ‘smart’ porous coatings for anti-biofouling

• open microfluidics

Advanced materials

• porous and composite materials (incl. graphene containing composites)

• self-assembled nano-particle structures for nano-photonics & metamerials

• super-stretchable hydrogels

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