ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS OF DR. ZHORRO S. NIKOLOV
(NICKOLOV in
publications)
1. G. Georgiev and J. Nickolov, Spontaneous Parametric Scattering of Light in Ammonium
Bioxalate Monohydrate, Phys. Stat. Sol.(b),
86 (1978), 431-437.
2. G. Georgiev, J. Nickolov, P. Stanoev, Refractive Indices of Ammonium Bioxalate
Monohydrate in the Infrared Region, Solid
State Commun., 26 (1978), 3-5.
3. G. Georgiev, T. Kalkanjiev,
Z. Nickolov, S. Montcheva,
Quantitative Analysis of Phytoplankton Monocultures in vivo by Laser Excited Fluorescence, J. Luminescence, 26
(1981), 151-157.
4. A. Abroskin, G. Georgiev,
A. Devyatov, T. Lapshenkova, Z. Nickolov, K. Stamenov,
V. Fadeev, A. Chekalyuk, V. Chubarov,
Determination of Organic Admixtures in Seawater by Laser Fluorimetry, Bulg. J. Phys., 8 (1981),
267-273. (In Russian).
5. A. Chekalyuk, V. Fadeev,
G. Georgiev, Z. Nickolov, Application of Laser Induced Saturation of Molecular
Fluorescence for Lifetime Measurements,
Optics Commun., 38 (1981),
177-181.
6. G. Georgiev, T. Kalkanjiev,
D. Metchkov, Z. Nickolov, K.Stamenov, Influence of the Shape of the Exciting Laser
Pulse on Fluorescence Saturation in the Quantitative Analysis of Dissolved
Trace Organic Substances, J. Luminescence,
27 (1982), 89-99.
7. G. Georgiev, T. Kalkanjiev,
Z. Nickolov, Influence of the Space Distribution of the
Laser Radiation on Fluorescence Saturation in Organic Molecules, Bulg. J. Phys., 9 (1982), 558-565.
8. A. Chekalyuk, V. Fadeev,
G. Georgiev, T. Kalkanjiev, Z. Nickolov, Determination of Fluorescence Quantum Yields Using a
Spontaneous Raman Scattering Line of the Solvent as Internal Standard, Spectroscopy Lett., 15 (1982), 355-365.
9. G. Georgiev, T. Kalkanjiev,
Z. Nickolov, Shape of the Single-Electron Photomultiplier
Pulse When Accounting for the anode RC-Group, Bulg. J. Phys., 9 (1982),
215 (In Russian).
10. G. Georgiev, P. Georgiev,
T. Gentchev, T. Kalkanjiev, D. Metchkov,
Z. Nickolov, Minicomputer Controlled Laser Fluorimeter, Electroindustry and Instrument Design,
No 10 (1982), 433-436. (In Bulgarian).
11. G. Georgiev, Z. Nickolov, Lasers in Oceanology, Bulletin
of the
12. G. Georgiev, T. Kalkanjiev,
Z. Nickolov, Programmable Controller for Stepping Motor
Control, Electroindustry and Instrument Design, No5 (1983), 6-8. (In Bulgarian).
13. G. Georgiev, T. Kalkanjiev,
V. Petrov, Z. Nickolov, M. Miteva,
Concentration-Dependence Studies of Raman Spectra of Water by the Method of
Self Deconvolution, Chem. Phys. Lett.,
103 (1983), 83-88.
14. T. Kalkanjiev, G. Georgiev,
Z. Nickolov, V. Petrov,
Computerized Laser Raman Spectrometer, J.
Mol. Struct., 115 (1984), 281-284.
15. Z. Nickolov, D. Dimitrov,
G. Georgiev, Z. Mihova, An Algorithm for Optimization of the Conditions for Determination
of the Total Concentration of a Multicomponent Mixture from its Fluorescence, Annuarie de L'Universite de Sofia, 78 (1984), (In Bulgarian).
16. Z. Nickolov, Application of Ultrashort Light Pulses in Holography, Physics (
17. T. Kalkanjiev, V. Petrov, G. Georgiev,
M. Miteva, Z. Nickolov, A New Approach to the Analysis of the Effect of Dissolved
Salts on the Raman Spectrum of Water, J.
Mol. Struct., 115 (1984),
409-412.
18. G. Georgiev, T. Kalkanjiev,
V. Petrov, Z. Nickolov, Determination of Salts in Water Solutions by a Skewing
Parameter of the Water Raman Band, Appl.
Spectrosc., 38 (1984),
593-595.
19. G. Georgiev, Z. Nickolov, Laser Instruments for Remote Sensing of the Ocean Surface
Layer, Oceanology (
20. G. Georgiev, T. Kalkanjiev,
Z. Nickolov, V. Fadeev,
T. Lapshenkova, A. Bekkiev, A. Chekalyuk,
V. Chubarov, Investigation of Laser-Induced Sea
Water Fluorescence Using Normalization by the Water Raman Signal, Annuarie de L'Universite de Sofia, 79 (1986), 64-78. (In Bulgarian).
21. I. Ivanov, G. Georgiev,
Z. Nickolov, Influence of the Fluctuations of Laser Power
on Fluorescence Saturation, Rev. Roum.
Phys., 32 (1987), 141-145.
22. V. Zhelyaskov, G. Georgiev,
Z. Nickolov, Temperature Study of Intra- and
Inter-Molecular Coupling and Fermi Resonance Constants in the Raman Spectra of
Liquid Water Using Fourier Deconvolution, J.
Raman Spectrosc., 19 (1988), 405-412.
23. V. Zhelyaskov, G. Georgiev,
Z. Nickolov, M. Miteva,
Concentration Raman Study of Intramolecular, Intermolecular and Fermi Resonance
Interactions in the OH Stretching Spectra of Dilute Solutions of HDO in D2O Using Fourier Deconvolution Technique, Mol. Phys., 64 (1988), 1133-1144.
24. V. Zhelyaskov, G. Georgiev,
Z. Nickolov, M. Miteva,
Concentration (D2O in H2O) and Temperature Raman Study
of the Molecular Interactions in the OD Stretching Spectra of D2O and D2O/H2O
Mixtures Using the Fourier Deconvolution Technique, J. Raman Spectrosc., 20 (1989), 67-75.
25. V. Zhelyaskov, G. Georgiev,
Z. Nickolov, M. Miteva, Raman Study
of 12-Crown-4, 15-Crown-5, 18-Crown-6 and Their Complexation with Metal Cations
Using Fourier Deconvolution of CH Stretching Spectra, Spectrochim. Acta, 45A
(1989), 625-633.
26. V. Zhelyaskov, G. Georgiev,
Z. Nickolov, M. Miteva, Raman
Temperature Study of 12-Crown-4 Using Fourier Deconvolution of CH Stretching
Spectra, Spectroscopy Lett., 22
(1989), 15-29.
27. P. Yankov, Z. Nickolov, V. Zhelyaskov, I. Petkov,
Fluorescence of the Benzophenone Ketyl Radical: Solvent Effects, J. Photochem. Photobiol. A: Chemistry, 47 (1989),
155-165.
28. V. Zhelyaskov, G. Georgiev,
Z. Nickolov, M. Miteva, Temperature
Dependencies of Intra- and Inter-Molecular Interactions in Water and 12-Crown-4
- a Comparison, J. Mol. Liq., 45
(1990), 115-119.
29. V. Zhelyaskov, G. Georgiev,
Z. Nickolov, On the Behaviour of the
High-Frequency Component of the OH Stretching Raman Band of Water in H2O2/H2O
Mixtures, J. Raman Spectr., 21 (1990), 203-205.
30. G. Georgiev, J. Nikolov, Z. Nickolov, V. Zhelyaskov, Temperature
Study of the Intramolecular Interactions in 15-Crown-5 and 18-Crown-6, Spectrochim. Acta, 47A, (1991), 749-757.
31. M. Stoev, V. Astinov, J.
Maria, Z. Nickolov and G. Georgiev,
Raman and IR Study on the H2O-CH3OH
Mixed Solvent at 25 °C Using Fourier Deconvolution Technique, J. Mol. Struct., 293 (1993), 231.
32. Z. S. Nickolov, J. C. Earnshaw and J. J. McGarvey, Water
Structure at Interfaces Studied by Total Internal Reflection Raman
Spectroscopy, Colloids and Surfaces A, 76
(1993), 41-49.
33. Z. S. Nickolov, J. C. Earnshaw and J. J. McGarvey, Total
Internal Reflection Raman Spectroscopy as a Method to Study Water Structure
Near Langmuir-Blodgett Films, J. Raman
Spectrosc., 24 (1993), 411-416.
34. Z. S. Nickolov, J. C.
Earnshaw, J.
J. McGarvey and G. M. Georgiev, Raman Study of Dioxane/D2O
Mixtures by Analysis of the O-D Band Structure, J. Raman Spectrosc., 25
(1994), 837-844.
35. Z. S. Nickolov and J. C. Earnshaw, Phase Transitions in C10E5/water
System Studied by Raman Spectroscopy of the O-H Band, J. Mol. Struct., 348
(1995), 273-276.
36. Z. S. Nickolov, G. Georgiev, I. Ivanov and D. Stoilova, Raman and
IR Study of Cobalt Acetate Dihydrate, J.
Mol. Struct., 354 (1995),
119-125.
37. Z. S. Nickolov, J. C. Earnshaw, F. Mallamace, N. Micali and C.
Vasi, A Light Scattering Study of Phase Transitions in Aqueous Solutions of
Nonionic Amphiphiles, Physical Review E,
52 (1995), 5241-5249.
38. Z. S. Nickolov, I. Ivanov, G. Georgiev and D. Stoilova, Raman Study
of Complexation in Aqueous Solutions of Magnesium Acetate, J. Mol. Struct., 377
(1996), 13-17.
39. N. Goutev and Z. S. Nickolov, Raman Studies of Three-Dimensional Foam, Physical Review E, 54 (1996), 1725-1733.
40. N. Goutev, Z. S. Nickolov and J. J. Ramsden, Waveguide Raman Spectroscopy of Si(Ti)O2 Thin Films with Grating Coupling, J. Raman Spectrosc., 27 (1996), 897-900.
41. N. Goutev, Z. S. Nickolov, G. Georgiev and H.
Matsuura, Hydration of a Short Chain Poly(Oxyethylene) (C1E2C1)
Studied by Analysis of the O-H Raman Band, J.
Chem. Soc. Faraday Trans., 93,
(1997), 3167-3171.
42. N. Goutev, Z. S. Nickolov and H. Matsuura,
Hydration Structure of 1,2Dimethoxyethane (C1E1C1):
O-H Raman Band Studies, J. Mol. Liq.,
76 (1998), 117-126.
43. G. Stanev, N. Goutev and Z. S.
Nickolov, Coupled Waveguides for Raman Studies of Thin Liquid Films, J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys., 31 (1998),
1782-1786.
44. Z. S.
Nickolov, G. M.
Georgiev, Measurement Errors with Micro-Laser Particle Spectrometer mLPS-16, Bulg. J. Phys., 25 (1998), 104-111.
45. M. Georgiev, N. Goutev, Z. Nickolov, G. Georgiev, and J. J. Ramsden, FTIR Studies of the Structure of Water in
Salt Solutions, Proceedings
of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, 3571 (1999), 234-239.
46. Z. S.
Nickolov, K. Ohno, and H. Matsuura,
FTIR-ATR Studies of the Hydration of
15-Crown-5 and 18-Crown-6 in Aqueous Solutions, J. Phys. Chem. A, 103, (1999), 7544-7551.
47. V. S. Marinov, Z. S. Nickolov, and H. Matsuura, Raman Spectroscopic Study of Hydration Behavior in Aqueous Nonionic
Amphiphile Solutions, J. Phys. Chem. B, 105, (2001), 9953-9959.
48. Z. S. Nickolov,
49. M. Georgiev, N. Goutev, Z. Nickolov,
and G. Georgiev, Raman Spectroscopy of Aqueous Salt Solutions, Proceedings of SPIE - The International
Society for Optical Engineering, 4397,
(2001) 241-245.
50. M. Georgiev, N. Goutev, Z. S. Nickolov, J. J. Ramsden, and G. Georgiev, Thermodynamic
Parameters of Water Calculated from its Infrared OH Stretching Spectrum, Phil. Mag. B, 82 (2002), 1795-1807.
51. M. Georgiev, T. Popova, N. Goutev, Z. Nickolov and G. Georgiev, Raman
Spectroscopic Studies of the OH Stretching Band of Short Polyoxyethylene Chains
(C1EnC1,
n=1-4): Concentrational And
Temperature Dependences, Proceedings of
SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, 5226, (2003) 174-178.
52. Z. S.
Nickolov, O. Ozcan, and J. D.
Miller, FTIR
Analysis of Water Structure and Its Significance in the Flotation of Sodium
Carbonate and Sodium Bicarbonate Salts, Colloids
and Surfaces A, 224, (2003), 231-239.
53. Ö. Özcan,
M. S. Çelik, Z.
S. Nickolov, and J. D. Miller. Effect
of Thermal Stability on the Flotation Response of Sodium Carbonate Salts, Minerals Engineering, 16, (2003), 353-358.
54. Z. S.
Nickolov, O. Ozcan, and J. D.
Miller, FTIR
Analysis of Water Structure and its Significance in the Flotation of Sodium
Carbonate and Sodium Bicarbonate Salts, 2003
SME Annual Meeting Preprints, SME Annual Meeting, February 22-24, 2003, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
55. Z. S. Nickolov, V. Parachuri, D. O. Shah, and J. D. Miller, FTIR-ATR Studies of Water Structure in Reverse Micelles
Used as Microreactors for the Synthesis of YBa2Cu3O7-x
Nanoparticles, Colloids
and Surfaces A, 232(1), (2004), 93-99.
56. Z. S. Nickolov, X.
Wang, J. D.
Miller, Liquid/Air Interfacial Structure of Alcohol - Octyl Hydroxamic Acid Mixtures: A Study by
Sum-Frequency Spectroscopy,
Spectrochim. Acta A, 60(12),
(2004), 2711-2717.
57. Z. S. Nickolov, J. D. Miller, Sum Frequency Spectroscopy Reveals
New Possibilities to Study Interfaces, 2004 SME Annual Meeting
Preprints, (2004), p 699-704.
58. M. Georgiev,
T. Popova, Z. S. Nickolov, N.
Goutev, G. Georgiev, H. Matsuura, Raman Spectroscopic Study of the Hydration of
Short-Chain Poly(Oxyethylene)s C1EnC1 (n =
1−4), Central
European Journal of Chemistry, 2(4), (2004), 617-626.
59. M. Georgiev, Z. S. Nickolov, N. Goutev, G. Georgiev,
Excess Thermodynamic Quantities of D2O Water Calculated from its Raman O-D Stretching
Spectra, Central European Journal of
Physics, 3(1), (2005), 104-114.
60.
Z. S. Nickolov
and J. D. Miller, Water Structure in Aqueous Solutions of Alkali Halide
Salts: FTIR Spectroscopy of the OD Stretching Band, J. Coll. Int. Sci., 287,
(2005), 572-580.
61. O. Ozdemir A.V. Nguyen, Z. S. Nickolov, M. S. Çelik, and J. D. Miller, Flotation Chemistry Considerations in the Development of
Flotation Technology for the Trona Industry, XXIII International Mineral
Processing Congresss Proceedings, (2006),
September 3-8, Istanbul, Turkey.
62. Z. S. Nickolov, D. W. Britt and J. D. Miller, Sum-Frequency Spectroscopy Analysis of Two-Component Langmuir Monolayers
and the Associated Interfacial Water Structure, J. Phys. Chem.
B, 110, (2006), 15506-15513.
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