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Scientific interests:

• Design of new effective nanoscale mesoporous and
  composite materials.
• Investigation of catalysts and adsorbents for  control of emissions containing greenhouse
  gases, volatile organic substances and nitrogen oxides.
• Adsorption-textural studies of porous materials

Selected papers:

1. I. Spassova, M. Khristova, D. Panayotov, D. Mehandjiev, “Coprecipitated CuO-MnO_x for Low-Temperature CO-NO and CO-NO-O₂ Reactions”
   Journal of Catalysis, 185 (1) (1999) 43-57.
2. I. Spassova, M Khristova, R. Nickolov, D. Mehandjiev,
   “Novel application of depleted fullerene soot (DFS) as support of catalysts for low-temperature reduction of NO with CO”
   Journal of Colloid Interface Science 320 (1) (2008) 186-193.
3. I. Spassova, N. Velichkova, D. Nihtianova, M. Khristova,
   “Influence of Ce Addition on The Catalytic Behavior of Alumina Supported Cu-Co Catalysts in NO Reduction with CO”
   Journal of Colloid Interface Science 354 (2) (2011) 777-784.
4. I. Spassova, N. Stoeva, R. Nickolov, G. Atanasova, M. Khristova,
   Impact of carbon on the surface and activity of silica-carbon supported copper catalysts for reduction of nitrogen oxides,
   Applied Surface Science 369 (2016) 120–129.
5. N. Velikova, I. Spassova,
   Amine functionalized mesoporous hybrid materials: Influence of KCl and xylene on the textural characteristics and CO₂ sorption“,
   Journal of  Sol-Gel Science and Technology 91 (2) (2019) 374-384