Tetracyanoquinodimethane and Its Derivatives as Promising Sustainable Materials for Clean Energy Storage and Conversion Technologies: A Review

PhD Tetiana Starodub has been an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Chemistry of the Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, Poland, since October 2017. She is also a member of the Polish Chemical Society. In 1998, she graduated with honors from the Kharkov National University of Vasyl Karazin (KhNU, with a Chemistry major), Ukraine. In the same year, she started her education at the Theoretical and Organic Chemistry Department of KhNU. In 2000-2001, she worked in the laboratories of the Institute of Technology in Karlsruhe, Germany. Her area of scientific interest during this period was the synthesis and testing of new synthetic metals for electronics and spintronics. In 2004, she obtained a PhD in chemical sciences, specializing in inorganic chemistry. From 2004 to 2014, she was a researcher and academic teacher at KhNU. During this period, her research focus was the synthesis and testing of new conductive transition metal complexes (TMC) and anion-radical salts of 7,7',8,8'-tetracyanoquinodimethane (TCNQ ARS), assessing their structure and application. Since 2018, her area of scientific interest has been synthetic metals and TCNQ chemistry, namely the synthesis and testing of TCNQ anion-radical salts in electronics, biotechnology, and environmental protection. Between 2019 and 2023, alongside scientific articles, she published two books in the fields of synthetic metals (ISBN 978-83-01-20734-2) and environmental chemistry (ISBN 978-83-01-22854-5).