Biography
Vlad received his B.S. in Chemistry from Samara State University (Russia) in 2010 and Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry from Samara University and Lobachevsky University of Nizhny Novgorod in 2015. During his graduate school, he worked for a year at Forschungszentrum Jülich (Germany) as a DAAD scholar. After teaching for 2 years as a senior lecturer at Samara National Research University, he took a postdoctoral appointment in the research group of Prof. Hans-Conrad zur Loye at the University of South Carolina, where he studied crystal growth and magnetic properties of f element chalcogenides and fluorides. In 2021, he moved to Northwestern University to work on the synthesis and device fabrication of new radiation detectors with Prof. Mercouri Kanatzidis. Vlad moved to the University of Georgia in 2022, where he started his independent career as an Assistant Professor.
Research
The Klepov lab designs functional inorganic materials by tuning crystal and electronic structures for wide-ranging applications in radiation detection, magnetism, and sustainability. The lab focuses on addressing synthetic challenges that entangle technological advancements at the intersection of inorganic solid state chemistry, materials science, and engineering. We aim at developing new synthetic techniques and procedures, fully characterizing the properties of new materials, relating the properties to the composition and structure on atomic, micro, and macro levels, and designing new device architectures that will maximize the output of new materials.
Selected Publications
Long, H. A.; Duong, D.; Blawat, J.; Morrison, G.; Wu, Y.; Cao, H.; Pokhrel, N.; Parker, D.; Singleton, J.; Jin, R.; Klepov, V. V.* Magnetic Properties Tuning via Broad Range Site Deficiency in Square Net Material UCuxBi2. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025, 147 (18), 15157–15169. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.4c18438
Novikov, S. A.; Long, H. A.; Valueva, A. D.; Klepov, V. V.* Application of Voronoi Polyhedra for Analysis of Electronic Dimensionality in Emissive Halide Materials. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146 (51), 35449–35461. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.4c14554
Novikov, S. A.; Valueva, A. D.; Klepov, V. V.* Bandgap Engineering and Photoluminescence Tuning in Halide Double Perovskites. Dalton Trans. 2024, 53 (30), 12442–12449. DOI: 10.1039/D4DT01420K
Valueva, A.D.; Novikov, S.A.; Bledsoe, J.; Cai, Y.; Maksimova, A.A.; Locklin, J.; Zhao, Y.; Klepov, V.* Cubic Halide Perovskites in the Cs(Pb1-xSnx)(Br3-yCly) Solid Solutions for Crack-Free Bridgman Grown Single Crystals. MRS Comm. 2024 DOI: 10.1557/s43579-024-00535-6
Klepov, V. V.; Pace, K. A.; Berseneva, A. A.; Felder, J. B.; Calder, S.; Morrison, G.; Zhang, Q.; Kirkham, M. J.; Parker, D. S.; zur Loye, H.-C.* Chloride reduction of Mn3+ in the mild hydrothermal synthesis of a charge ordered defect pyrochlore, CsMn2+Mn3+F6, a canted antiferromagnet with a hard ferromagnetic component. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143 (30), 11554-11567. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c04245
