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  • 2016 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For seminal contributions to the physics of liquid crystal colloids, topological solitons, and related soft matter systems

Overview

Ivan I. Smalyukh is affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Materials Science and Physics and Astronomy, with a focus on subfields including Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Condensed Matter Physics, and Mechanical Engineering.

The scientist's work covers several specialized topics such as Liquid Crystal Research Advancements, Advanced Materials and Mechanics, Pickering Emulsions and Particle Stabilization, Micro and Nano Robotics, Photonic Crystals and Applications, Nonlinear Dynamics and Pattern Formation, and Surfactants and Colloidal Systems.

Ivan I. Smalyukh has contributed to numerous publications, with frequent appearances in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), Advanced Materials, Physical Review E, Science Advances, and Nature Communications.

Recent notable papers include:

  • Highly transparent silanized cellulose aerogels for boosting energy efficiency of glazing in buildings, 2023, Nature Energy
  • Review: knots and other new topological effects in liquid crystals and colloids, 2020, Reports on Progress in Physics
  • Thermal Management by Engineering the Alignment of Nanocellulose, 2020, Advanced Materials
  • Nanocrystal Assemblies: Current Advances and Open Problems, 2024, ACS Nano
  • Hopfions, heliknotons, skyrmions, torons and both abelian and nonabelian vortices in chiral liquid crystals, 2022, Liquid Crystals Reviews

The scientist collaborates frequently with a group of co-authors. These include Bohdan Senyuk, Jin-Sheng Wu, Jung-Shen B. Tai, Haridas Mundoor, and Mykola Tasinkevych, each contributing to multiple joint publications.

Ivan I. Smalyukh was recognized as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2016 for contributions to the physics of liquid crystal colloids, topological solitons, and related soft matter systems.

Best Publications

  • Self-alignment of plasmonic gold nanorods in reconfigurable anisotropic fluids for tunable bulk metamaterial applications.

    Qingkun Liu;Yanxia Cui;Dennis Gardner;Xin Li

  • Three-dimensional structure and multistable optical switching of triple-twisted particle-like excitations in anisotropic fluids

    Ivan I. Smalyukh;Yves Lansac;Yves Lansac;Noel A. Clark;Rahul P. Trivedi

  • Shape-Controlled Colloidal Interactions in Nematic Liquid Crystals

    Clayton P. Lapointe;Clayton P. Lapointe;Thomas G. Mason;Ivan I. Smalyukh

  • Topological colloids

    Bohdan Senyuk;Qingkun Liu;Sailing He;Randall D. Kamien

  • Three-dimensional imaging of orientational order by fluorescence confocal polarizing microscopy

    I.I. Smalyukh;S.V. Shiyanovskii;O.D. Lavrentovich

  • Elasticity-mediated self-organization and colloidal interactions of solid spheres with tangential anchoring in a nematic liquid crystal.

    Ivan I. Smalyukh;Oleg D. Lavrentovich;A. N. Kuzmin;A. V. Kachynski

  • Structure and dynamics of liquid crystalline pattern formation in drying droplets of DNA.

    Ivan I. Smalyukh;Ivan I. Smalyukh;Olena V. Zribi;John C. Butler;Oleg D. Lavrentovich

  • Preparation and in vitro characterization of a eutectic based semisolid self-nanoemulsified drug delivery system (SNEDDS) of ubiquinone: mechanism and progress of emulsion formation

    S Nazzal;I.I Smalyukh;O.D Lavrentovich;Mansoor A Khan

  • Topography from topology: photoinduced surface features generated in liquid crystal polymer networks.

    Michael E. McConney;Angel Martinez;Vincent P. Tondiglia;Kyung Min Lee

  • Two-dimensional skyrmion bags in liquid crystals and ferromagnets

    David Foster;Charles Kind;Paul J. Ackerman;Jung-Shen B. Tai

  • Plasmon-enhanced energy transfer for improved upconversion of infrared radiation in doped-lanthanide nanocrystals

    Qi Sun;Haridas Mundoor;Josep Ribot;Vivek Singh

  • Diversity of Knot Solitons in Liquid Crystals Manifested by Linking of Preimages in Torons and Hopfions

    Paul Jeffrey Ackerman;Ivan I. Smalyukh

  • Liquid Crystal Colloids

    Ivan I. Smalyukh

  • Static three-dimensional topological solitons in fluid chiral ferromagnets and colloids

    Paul J. Ackerman;Ivan I. Smalyukh

  • Liquid crystals of aqueous, giant graphene oxide flakes

    Budhadipta Dan;Natnael Behabtu;Angel Martinez;Julian S. Evans

  • Ordered droplet structures at the liquid crystal surface and elastic-capillary colloidal interactions.

    Ivan I. Smalyukh;S. Chernyshuk;B. I. Lev;A. B. Nych

  • Electrically and Optically Tunable Plasmonic Guest–Host Liquid Crystals with Long-Range Ordered Nanoparticles

    Qingkun Liu;Ye Yuan;Ivan I. Smalyukh

  • Mutually tangled colloidal knots and induced defect loops in nematic fields

    Angel Martinez;Miha Ravnik;Brice Lucero;Rayshan Visvanathan

  • Real-time microbe detection based on director distortions around growing immune complexes in lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals

    Sergij V. Shiyanovskii;Sergij V. Shiyanovskii;T. Schneider;Ivan I. Smalyukh;T. Ishikawa

  • Metal nanoparticle dispersion, alignment, and assembly in nematic liquid crystals for applications in switchable plasmonic color filters and E-polarizers.

    Yuan Zhang;Yuan Zhang;Qingkun Liu;Haridas Mundoor;Ye Yuan

Frequent Co-Authors

Oleg D. Lavrentovich
Oleg D. Lavrentovich Kent State University
Jao van de Lagemaat
Jao van de Lagemaat National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Sailing He
Sailing He Zhejiang University
Paras N. Prasad
Paras N. Prasad University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Slobodan Žumer
Slobodan Žumer University of Ljubljana
Noel A. Clark
Noel A. Clark University of Colorado Boulder
Matteo Pasquali
Matteo Pasquali Rice University
Xiaolin Xie
Xiaolin Xie Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Scott B. Papp
Scott B. Papp National Institute of Standards and Technology
Scott A. Diddams
Scott A. Diddams University of Colorado Boulder

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