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Dusan Bratko is affiliated with Virginia Commonwealth University in the United States. Their research encompasses several fields including Engineering and Materials Science, with a particular focus on subfields such as Biomedical Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

The scientist's work spans a variety of main topics, including nanopore and nanochannel transport studies, electrostatics and colloid interactions, graphene research and applications, spectroscopy and quantum chemical studies, electrowetting and microfluidic technologies, modular robots and swarm intelligence, as well as surface modification and superhydrophobicity.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Alenka Luzar, Davide Vanzo, Mulpuri Nagaraju, Serban Zamfir, and Neda Ojaghlou.

Dusan Bratko has published multiple papers in several scientific venues. The research has appeared notably in:

  • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
  • The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • Molecules
  • ACS Nano
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Selected recent papers include:

  • "Solvent-Solvent Correlations across Graphene: The Effect of Image Charges", 2020, ACS Nano
  • "Reversible electrowetting transitions on superhydrophobic surfaces", 2021, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
  • "Polarity-dependence of the nonlinear dielectric response in interfacial water", 2023, The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • "High-Pressure Infiltration-Expulsion of Aqueous NaCl in Planar Hydrophobic Nanopores", 2020, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
  • "Pressure-sensitive conversions between Cassie and Wenzel wetting states on a nanocorrugated surface", 2022, Applied Physics A

Best Publications

  • Effect of field direction on electrowetting in a nanopore

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

  • Interaction between like-charged colloidal spheres in electrolyte solutions

    Jianzhong Wu;Dusan Bratko;John M. Prausnitz

  • Ion-specific effects in the colloid-colloid or protein-protein potential of mean force: Role of salt-macroion van der waals interactions

    F. W. Tavares;D. Bratko;H. W. Blanch;J. M. Prausnitz

  • Monte Carlo simulation for the potential of mean force between ionic colloids in solutions of asymmetric salts

    J. Z. Wu;D. Bratko;H. W. Blanch;J. M. Prausnitz

  • Dynamics of capillary drying in water.

    Kevin Leung;Alenka Luzar;Dusan Bratko

  • Electrowetting at the Nanoscale

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

  • Electrical double layer interactions with image charges

    Dušan Bratko;Bo Jönsson;Håkan Wennerström

  • Distribution of counterions in the double layer around a cylindrical polyion

    D. Bratko;V. Vlachy

  • Interaction between hydrophobic surfaces with metastable intervening liquid

    D. Bratko;R. A. Curtis;H. W. Blanch;J. M. Prausnitz

  • Effect of alcohols on aqueous lysozyme-lysozyme interactions from static light-scattering measurements.

    Wei Liu;Dusan Bratko;John M. Prausnitz;John M. Prausnitz;Harvey W. Blanch

  • Monte Carlo simulation of hydrophobic interaction

    A. Luzar;D. Bratko;L. Blum

  • Polyelectrolyte solutions containing mixed valency ions in the cell model: A simulation and modified Poisson–Boltzmann study

    T. Das;D. Bratko;L. B. Bhuiyan;C. W. Outhwaite

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

    Jihang Wang;Dusan Bratko;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

  • Gas solubility in hydrophobic confinement.

    and Alenka Luzar;Dusan Bratko

  • MODIFIED POISSON-BOLTZMANN THEORY APPLIED TO LINEAR POLYELECTROLYTE SOLUTIONS

    T. Das;D. Bratko;L. B. Bhuiyan;C. W. Outhwaite

  • An integral equation approach to structure and dynamics of ionic colloidal solutions

    Dušan Bratko;Harold L. Friedman;En Ci Zhong

  • A simple model for the intermolecular potential of water

    D. Bratko;L. Blum;A. Luzar

  • Wetting transparency of graphene in water.

    Joshua Driskill;Davide Vanzo;Dusan Bratko;Alenka Luzar

Frequent Co-Authors

Alenka Luzar
Alenka Luzar Virginia Commonwealth University
John M. Prausnitz
John M. Prausnitz University of California, Berkeley
Harvey W. Blanch
Harvey W. Blanch University of California, Berkeley
Jianzhong Wu
Jianzhong Wu University of California, Riverside
Alberto Striolo
Alberto Striolo University College London
Eugene I. Shakhnovich
Eugene I. Shakhnovich Harvard University
Mathieu Salanne
Mathieu Salanne Sorbonne University
Barry W. Ninham
Barry W. Ninham Australian National University
Barbara Kirchner
Barbara Kirchner University of Bonn

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