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Scientific interests:

• Material
  science, physicochemistry of amorphous state;
•  Nontraditional glasses containing transitionalmetal  oxides:Nb₂O₅,WO₃,  V₂O₅, MoO₃, ZnO, CuO; structure, thermal behavior; infrared spectroscopy;
•  Luminescence properties of nontraditional glasses and glassceramics;
• Mechanochemically assisted solid state synthesis of oxide materials, photocatalytic and luminescence
  properties;
•  Sol- gel synthesis of amorphous and polycrystalline materials containing TiO₂,
  TeO₂, SeO₂, ZnO, B₂O₃, photocatalytic and luminescence properties;

Selected papers:

1. L. Aleksandrov, R. Iordanova, Y. Dimitriev, N. Georgiev, T. Komatsu,
   “Eu³⁺ doped 1La₂O₃:2WO₃:1B₂O₃ glass and glass–ceramic”,
   Optical Materials 36 (2014) 1366–1372
2. M. Gancheva, A. Naydenov, R. Iordanova, D. Nihtianova, P. Stefanov,
   “Mechanochemically assisted solid state synthesis, characterization, and catalytic properties of MgWO₄”
   J. Mater. Sci., 50 (2015) 3447-3456
3. R. Iordanova, A. Bachvarova-Nedelcheva, R. Gegova, Y. Dimitriev,
   “Sol-gel synthesis of composite powders in the TiO₂-TeO₂-SeO₂ system”,
   J. Sol-Gel Sci. Technol., 79 (1) (2016) pp. 12-28.
4.  Reni Iordanova, Margarita Milanova, Lyubomir Aleksandrov, Atul Khanna,
    “Structural study of glasses in the system B₂O₃-Bi₂O₃-La₂O₃-WO₃”
   Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids 481 (2018) 254–259,
5. A. Bachvarova-Nedelcheva, R. Iordanova, Sv. Ganev, Y. Dimitriev,
    “Glass formation and structural studies of glasses  in the TeO₂-Bi₂O₃-Nb₂O₅-ZnO system”,
   J. Non – Cryst. Sol., 503-504 (2019) 224-231.

Teaching experience:

Laboratory
exercises in “Advanced
glass materials” and “Materials science” UCTM Sofia;