1、Personal profile

Name: Banaru Alexander

Title (academic degree)：Dr.

Speciality：Chemical Crystallography

e-mail：banaruam@my.msu.ru

2、Educational experience

2009 Faculty of Chemistry, Lomonosov Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia) – PhD in Physical Chemistry

2001–2006 Faculty of Chemistry, Lomonosov Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia) – MS in Physical Chemistry (with honors)

3、Work experience

2010–2025 Faculty of Chemistry, Lomonosov Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia) – Researcher, Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor

2022–2025 Center for Nanomaterials Science, Kola Science Center RAS (Apatity, Russia) – Leading Researcher

4、Selected papers (in last 5 years)

1. A. M. Banaru, K. G. Seravkin, D. A. Banaru et al. How many symmetry operations are needed to generate a space group? Z. Krist. Cryst. Mat., 2025, 240, 53. https://doi.org/10.1515/zkri-2024-0110

2. S. M. Aksenov, D. O. Charkin, A. M. Banaru et al. Insights into the structural chemistry, topology, and complexity of organically templated polychromates(VI) with the linear [Cr_nO_3n+1]^2– groups: synthesis and crystal structures of 1-methylpiperazinium polychromates, (C₅H₁₄N₂)Cr₂O₇ and (C₅H₁₄N₂)Cr₃O₁₀. Solid State Sci., 2025, 162, 107854. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solidstatesciences.2025.107854

3. D. O. Charkin, V. E. Kireev, A. M. Banaru et al. When sulfate, selenate, and fluoroberyllate are not isostructural analogs: the case of Cd[BeF₄]·4H₂O and (C₂H₈N₂)[Cd(H₂O)₆][BeF₄]₂. CrystEngComm, 2025, 27, 6926. https://doi.org/10.1039/D5CE00696A

4. S. Volkov, V. A. Yukhno, A. M. Banaru et al. Magnesium cations as templates for the self-assembly of supramolecular luminescent {Mg@[B18φ34–35]}-clusters. Dalton Trans., 2024, 53, 8112. https://doi.org/10.1039/D3DT04048H

5. A. M. Banaru, S. M. Aksenov, S. V. Krivovichev. Complexity parameters for molecular solids. Symmetry, 2021, 13, 1399. https://doi.org/10.3390/sym13081399