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41
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9621
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Alenka Luzar publication distribution in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Materials Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alenka Luzar sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 88 publications — 1st percentile

1% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,163 publications or more.

Alenka Luzar D-index placement in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Materials Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alenka Luzar sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 41 D-Index — 2nd percentile

2% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 165 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2010 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2008 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For her elegant and pioneering contributions to fundamental theory of aqueous interfaces, dynamics of hydrogen bonds in condensed phase systems, phase behavior of confined water, and kinetics of aqueous selfassembly

Overview

Alenka Luzar was affiliated with Virginia Commonwealth University in the United States. Their research spanned several main fields, including Engineering and Materials Science, with specific focus on subfields such as Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Surfaces, Coatings and Films, Materials Chemistry, and Biomedical Engineering.

The scientist's work covered diverse topics, including:

  • Electrowetting and Microfluidic Technologies
  • Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence
  • Surface Modification and Superhydrophobicity
  • Graphene research and applications
  • Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies
  • Electrostatics and Colloid Interactions
  • Nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions

Alenka Luzar published multiple papers in several scientific venues. Frequent publication venues included Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, ACS Nano, and Applied Physics A. Notable recent papers were:

  • "Solvent-Solvent Correlations across Graphene: The Effect of Image Charges" (2020) in ACS Nano
  • "Reversible electrowetting transitions on superhydrophobic surfaces" (2021) in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
  • "Pressure-sensitive conversions between Cassie and Wenzel wetting states on a nanocorrugated surface" (2022) in Applied Physics A
  • "Correction: Reversible electrowetting transitions on superhydrophobic surfaces" (2022) in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Their frequent collaborators included D. Bratko, Davide Vanzo, Neda Ojaghlou, Mathieu Salanne, and Mahdi Shafiei.

Alenka Luzar received recognition within the scientific community through several awards. They became a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2010. Earlier, in 2008, they were named Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) with a citation highlighting contributions to the fundamental theory of aqueous interfaces, hydrogen bond dynamics in condensed phases, phase behavior of confined water, and kinetics of aqueous self-assembly.

Best Publications

  • Hydrogen-bond kinetics in liquid water

    Alenka Luzar;David Chandler

  • Effect of environment on hydrogen bond dynamics in liquid water.

    Alenka Luzar;David Chandler

  • Structure and hydrogen bond dynamics of water–dimethyl sulfoxide mixtures by computer simulations

    Alenka Luzar;David Chandler

  • Resolving the hydrogen bond dynamics conundrum

    Alenka Luzar

  • A neutron diffraction study of dimethyl sulphoxide–water mixtures

    A. K. Soper;Alenka Luzar

  • Impact of urea on water structure: a clue to its properties as a denaturant?

    A.K. Soper;E.W. Castner;Alenka Luzar

  • Effect of field direction on electrowetting in a nanopore

    Dusan Bratko;Christopher D. Daub;Kevin Leung;Alenka Luzar

  • Orientation of Water Molecules around Small Polar and Nonpolar Groups in Solution: A Neutron Diffraction and Computer Simulation Study

    A. K. Soper;Alenka Luzar

  • Dynamics of capillary drying in water.

    Kevin Leung;Alenka Luzar;Dusan Bratko

  • Pathway to surface-induced phase transition of a confined fluid

    Ka Lum;Alenka Luzar

  • Electrowetting at the Nanoscale

    Christopher D. Daub;Dusan Bratko;and Kevin Leung;Alenka Luzar

  • Combined neutron diffraction and computer simulation study of liquid dimethyl sulphoxide

    Alenka Luzar;A. K. Soper;David Chandler

  • Dynamics of capillary evaporation. I. Effect of morphology of hydrophobic surfaces

    Alenka Luzar;Kevin Leung

  • Dielectric behaviour of DMSO-water mixtures. A hydrogen-bonding model

    Alenka Luzar;J. Stefan

  • Monte Carlo simulation of hydrophobic interaction

    A. Luzar;D. Bratko;L. Blum

  • Single-particle dynamics in dimethyl–sulfoxide/water eutectic mixture by neutron scattering

    João T. Cabral;Alenka Luzar;José Teixeira;Marie-Claire Bellissent-Funel

  • Activation Barrier Scaling for the Spontaneous Evaporation of Confined Water

    Alenka Luzar

  • Probing surface tension additivity on chemically heterogeneous surfaces by a molecular approach

    Jihang Wang;Dusan Bratko;Alenka Luzar

  • Structure and lifetimes in ionic liquids and their mixtures

    Sascha Gehrke;Sascha Gehrke;Michael von Domaros;Ryan Clark;Oldamur Hollóczki

  • Water hydrogen-bond dynamics close to hydrophobic and hydrophilic groups

    Alenka Luzar

  • The influence of molecular-scale roughness on the surface spreading of an aqueous nanodrop

    Christopher D. Daub;Jihang Wang;Shobhit Kudesia;Dusan Bratko

  • Electrostatic model for protein/reverse micelle complexation

    D. Bratko;A. Luzar;S. H. Chen

Frequent Co-Authors

Dusan Bratko
Dusan Bratko Virginia Commonwealth University
Alan K. Soper
Alan K. Soper Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
David Chandler
David Chandler University of California, Berkeley
Barbara Kirchner
Barbara Kirchner University of Bonn
José A. Teixeira
José A. Teixeira University of Minho
Mathieu Salanne
Mathieu Salanne Sorbonne University
João T. Cabral
João T. Cabral Imperial College London
Marie-Claire Bellissent-Funel
Marie-Claire Bellissent-Funel University of Paris-Saclay
Tom Welton
Tom Welton Imperial College London
Paul A. Madden
Paul A. Madden University of Oxford

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