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Oleg D. Lavrentovich

Oleg D. Lavrentovich

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Materials Science

D-Index
82
Citations
21619
World Ranking
2499
National Ranking
723

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For exceptional contributions to the physics of liquid crystals and related soft matter
  • 2004 - SPIE Fellow

Overview

Oleg D. Lavrentovich is a researcher affiliated with Kent State University in the United States, specializing in materials science with significant contributions also spanning physics, astronomy, and engineering. Their research centers primarily on the properties and behaviors of liquid crystals and related advanced materials.

The scientist's work encompasses various subfields including electronic, optical, and magnetic materials, atomic and molecular physics and optics, mechanical engineering, materials chemistry, and condensed matter physics. Their scholarly output demonstrates a strong focus on the fundamental and applied aspects of liquid crystals and their mechanical and optical responses.

Lavrentovich's published research covers topics such as liquid crystal research advancements, advanced materials and mechanics, molecular spectroscopy and chirality, photonic crystals and applications, micro and nano robotics, nonlinear dynamics and pattern formation, as well as surfactants and colloidal systems. This range indicates a multidisciplinary approach engaging with both theoretical and experimental studies.

They have authored notable papers including:

  • Ferroelectric nematic liquid crystal, a century in waiting, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Topology control of human fibroblast cells monolayer by liquid crystal elastomer, 2020, Science Advances
  • Soliton walls paired by polar surface interactions in a ferroelectric nematic liquid crystal, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Polar jets of swimming bacteria condensed by a patterned liquid crystal, 2020, Nature Physics
  • Ferroelectric nematic liquids with conics, 2023, Nature Communications

Frequently, Lavrentovich collaborates with several researchers, including Mojtaba Rajabi, Sergij V. Shiyanovskii, Bijaya Basnet, Hao Wang, and Kamal Thapa, reflecting a networked approach to research within their field.

Their work has been published repeatedly in academic venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), Liquid Crystals, Advanced Optical Materials, Physical Review Research, and Physical Review E. This distribution illustrates engagement with both preprint repositories and peer-reviewed journals focused on optics, materials, and physics.

Among recognitions, they hold the title of Fellow of the American Physical Society since 2015 for contributions to the physics of liquid crystals and related soft matter. Additionally, they are recognized as an SPIE Fellow since 2004.

Best Publications

  • Soft Matter Physics: An Introduction

    Maurice Kléman;Oleg D. Lavrentovich;J. Friedel

  • Nematic twist-bend phase with nanoscale modulation of molecular orientation

    Volodymyr Borshch;Young-Ki Kim;Jie Xiang;Min Gao

  • Living liquid crystals

    Shuang Zhou;Andrey Sokolov;Oleg D. Lavrentovich;Igor S. Aranson;Igor S. Aranson

  • Electrically Tunable Selective Reflection of Light from Ultraviolet to Visible and Infrared by Heliconical Cholesterics

    Jie Xiang;Yannian Li;Quan Li;Daniel Alexander Paterson

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

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

  • Topological defects in dispersed words and worlds around liquid crystals, or liquid crystal drops

    O. D. Lavrentovich

  • Topological point defects in nematic liquid crystals

    Maurice Kleman;Oleg 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

  • Defects in liquid crystals: homotopy theory and experimental studies

    Mikhail V Kurik;O 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

  • Optical characterization of the nematic lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals: light absorption, birefringence, and scalar order parameter.

    Yu. A. Nastishin;H. Liu;T. Schneider;V. Nazarenko

  • Understanding the twist-bend nematic phase: the characterisation of 1-(4-cyanobiphenyl-4′-yloxy)-6-(4-cyanobiphenyl-4′-yl)hexane (CB6OCB) and comparison with CB7CB

    Daniel A. Paterson;Min Gao;Young-Ki Kim;Afsoon Jamali

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

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

  • Colloidal cholesteric liquid crystal in spherical confinement

    Yunfeng Li;Jeffrey Jun-Yan Suen;Elisabeth Prince;Egor M. Larin

  • Internal structure visualization and lithographic use of periodic toroidal holes in liquid crystals.

    Dong Ki Yoon;Myung Chul Choi;Myung Chul Choi;Yun Ho Kim;Yun Ho Kim;Mahn-Won Kim

  • Chiral symmetry breaking by spatial confinement in tactoidal droplets of lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals.

    Luana Tortora;Oleg D. Lavrentovich

  • Photocontrolled nanophase segregation in a liquid-crystal solvent

    Yves Lansac;Yves Lansac;Matthew A. Glaser;Noel A. Clark;Oleg D. Lavrentovich

  • Physics of liquid crystals of bent-shaped molecules

    Antal Jákli;Oleg D. Lavrentovich;Jonathan V. Selinger

  • High-Resolution and High-Throughput Plasmonic Photopatterning of Complex Molecular Orientations in Liquid Crystals.

    Yubing Guo;Miao Jiang;Chenhui Peng;Kai Sun

  • Command of active matter by topological defects and patterns

    Chenhui Peng;Taras Turiv;Yubing Guo;Qi-Huo Wei

  • Living liquid crystals

    Shuang Zhou;Andrey Sokolov;Oleg Lavrentovich;Igor Aronson

Frequent Co-Authors

Ivan I. Smalyukh
Ivan I. Smalyukh University of Colorado Boulder
Antal Jakli
Antal Jakli Kent State University
Georg H. Mehl
Georg H. Mehl University of Hull
Corrie T. Imrie
Corrie T. Imrie University of Aberdeen
Quan Li
Quan Li Chinese University of Hong Kong
Satyendra Kumar
Satyendra Kumar University at Albany, State University of New York
Christopher J. Welch
Christopher J. Welch Indiana Consortium for Analytical Science & Engineering
Kai Sun
Kai Sun University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Paras N. Prasad
Paras N. Prasad University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Dirk J. Broer
Dirk J. Broer Eindhoven University of Technology

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