2026 Alenka Luzar: Materials Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Materials Science	41	12659	2900	88	9621

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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

2069
Citations
Effect of environment on hydrogen bond dynamics in liquid water.

Alenka Luzar;David Chandler

1272
Citations
Structure and hydrogen bond dynamics of water–dimethyl sulfoxide mixtures by computer simulations

Alenka Luzar;David Chandler

1040
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Resolving the hydrogen bond dynamics conundrum

Alenka Luzar

700
Citations
A neutron diffraction study of dimethyl sulphoxide–water mixtures

A. K. Soper;Alenka Luzar

280
Citations
Impact of urea on water structure: a clue to its properties as a denaturant?

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

258
Citations
Effect of field direction on electrowetting in a nanopore

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

205
Citations
Orientation of Water Molecules around Small Polar and Nonpolar Groups in Solution: A Neutron Diffraction and Computer Simulation Study

A. K. Soper;Alenka Luzar

186
Citations
Dynamics of capillary drying in water.

Kevin Leung;Alenka Luzar;Dusan Bratko

180
Citations
Pathway to surface-induced phase transition of a confined fluid

Ka Lum;Alenka Luzar

178
Citations
Electrowetting at the Nanoscale

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

170
Citations
Combined neutron diffraction and computer simulation study of liquid dimethyl sulphoxide

Alenka Luzar;A. K. Soper;David Chandler

138
Citations
Dynamics of capillary evaporation. I. Effect of morphology of hydrophobic surfaces

Alenka Luzar;Kevin Leung

130
Citations
Dielectric behaviour of DMSO-water mixtures. A hydrogen-bonding model

Alenka Luzar;J. Stefan

125
Citations
Monte Carlo simulation of hydrophobic interaction

A. Luzar;D. Bratko;L. Blum

106
Citations
Single-particle dynamics in dimethyl–sulfoxide/water eutectic mixture by neutron scattering

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

104
Citations
Activation Barrier Scaling for the Spontaneous Evaporation of Confined Water

Alenka Luzar

104
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Probing surface tension additivity on chemically heterogeneous surfaces by a molecular approach

Jihang Wang;Dusan Bratko;Alenka Luzar

103
Citations
Structure and lifetimes in ionic liquids and their mixtures

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

102
Citations
Water hydrogen-bond dynamics close to hydrophobic and hydrophilic groups

Alenka Luzar

97
Citations
The influence of molecular-scale roughness on the surface spreading of an aqueous nanodrop

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

96
Citations
Electrostatic model for protein/reverse micelle complexation

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

94
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