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Christos N. Likos

Christos N. Likos

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Materials Science

D-Index
66
Citations
14421
World Ranking
5412
National Ranking
23

Overview

Christos N. Likos is affiliated with the University of Vienna in Austria, where their research primarily focuses on materials science. Their work spans multiple specialized subfields including materials chemistry, organic chemistry, molecular biology, fluid flow and transfer processes, and biomedical engineering.

The range of topics they cover in their research includes material dynamics and properties, Pickering emulsions and particle stabilization, rheology and fluid dynamics studies, surfactants and colloidal systems, polymer surface interaction studies, electrostatics and colloid interactions, and advanced polymer synthesis and characterization.

Christos N. Likos has contributed extensively to the scientific literature, with frequent publications appearing in a variety of venues. The most common platforms for their research dissemination include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Soft Matter
  • Macromolecules
  • The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • Nature Communications

Their recent papers illustrate a focus on topics related to polymers, topological constraints, and soft matter, including the following:

  • Active topological glass, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Topology in soft and biological matter, 2024, Physics Reports
  • Hydrodynamic inflation of ring polymers under shear, 2020, Communications Materials
  • Effects of topological constraints on linked ring polymers in solvents of varying quality, 2020, Soft Matter
  • Self assembling cluster crystals from DNA based dendritic nanostructures, 2021, Nature Communications

Collaboration plays a notable role in their research output. Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Iurii Chubak
  • Jan Smrek
  • Emmanuel Stiakakis
  • Nataša Adžić
  • Dimitris Vlassopoulos

Christos N. Likos's work navigates complex scientific areas related to the synthesis, properties, and behavior of polymers and soft matter systems. Their contributions to the understanding of polymer topology, fluid dynamics, and particle stabilization reflect consistent engagement with interdisciplinary approaches and diverse experimental and theoretical methods in materials science.

Best Publications

  • EFFECTIVE INTERACTIONS IN SOFT CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS

    Christos N. Likos

  • Star Polymers Viewed as Ultrasoft Colloidal Particles

    C. N. Likos;H. Löwen;H. Löwen;M. Watzlawek;B. Abbas

  • Patchy colloids: state of the art and perspectives

    Emanuela Bianchi;Emanuela Bianchi;Ronald Blaak;Ronald Blaak;Christos N. Likos;Christos N. Likos

  • Dendrimers in Solution: Insight from Theory and Simulation

    Matthias Ballauff;Christos N. Likos

  • Phase Diagram of Star Polymer Solutions

    M. Watzlawek;C. N. Likos;C. N. Likos;H. Löwen;H. Löwen

  • Soft matter with soft particles

    Christos N. Likos

  • Criterion for determining clustering versus reentrant melting behavior for bounded interaction potentials.

    C. N. Likos;A. Lang;A. Lang;M. Watzlawek;H. Löwen

  • Formation of Polymorphic Cluster Phases for a Class of Models of Purely Repulsive Soft Spheres

    Bianca M. Mladek;Dieter Gottwald;Gerhard Kahl;Martin Neumann

  • Why do ultrasoft repulsive particles cluster and crystallize? Analytical results from density-functional theory

    Christos N. Likos;Bianca M. Mladek;Dieter Gottwald;Gerhard Kahl

  • Phase behavior of ionic microgels.

    D. Gottwald;D. Gottwald;C. N. Likos;G. Kahl;H. Löwen

  • Gaussian effective interaction between flexible dendrimers of fourth generation: A theoretical and experimental study

    C. N. Likos;S. Rosenfeldt;N. Dingenouts;M. Ballauff

  • Counterion-induced entropic interactions in solutions of strongly stretched, osmotic polyelectrolyte stars

    A. Jusufi;C. N. Likos;H. Löwen

  • Asymmetric caging in soft colloidal mixtures

    C. Mayer;C. Mayer;E. Zaccarelli;E. Stiakakis;C. N. Likos;C. N. Likos

  • Soft Interaction between Dissolved Flexible Dendrimers: Theory and Experiment

    C. N. Likos;Matthias Schmidt;H. Löwen;M. Ballauff

  • Conformations and interactions of star-branched polyelectrolytes.

    A. Jusufi;C. N. Likos;H. Löwen

  • Complex alloy phases for binary hard-disc mixtures

    C. N. Likos;C. L. Henley

  • Partial clustering in binary two-dimensional colloidal suspensions.

    Norman Hoffmann;Florian Ebert;Christos N. Likos;Hartmut Löwen

  • Structural arrest in dense star-polymer solutions.

    G. Foffi;F. Sciortino;P. Tartaglia;E. Zaccarelli

  • Soft Interaction Between Dissolved Dendrimers: Theory and Experiment

    C. N. Likos;M. Schmidt;H. Loewen;M. Ballauff

  • Counterion distributions and effective interactions of spherical polyelectrolyte brushes

    A. Jusufi;C. N. Likos;M. Ballauff

  • Computer assembly of cluster-forming amphiphilic dendrimers.

    Bianca M. Mladek;Gerhard Kahl;Christos N. Likos

Frequent Co-Authors

Hartmut Löwen
Hartmut Löwen Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Emanuela Zaccarelli
Emanuela Zaccarelli National Research Council (CNR)
Dimitris Vlassopoulos
Dimitris Vlassopoulos Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas
Dieter Richter
Dieter Richter Forschungszentrum Jülich
Francesco Sciortino
Francesco Sciortino Sapienza University of Rome
Matthias Ballauff
Matthias Ballauff Freie Universität Berlin
Jacques Roovers
Jacques Roovers National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Ard A. Louis
Ard A. Louis University of Oxford
Nikos Hadjichristidis
Nikos Hadjichristidis King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

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