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Materials Science D-index 70 Citations 14,668 337 World Ranking 1761 National Ranking 588

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Awards & Achievements

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

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Quantum mechanics
  • Optics
  • Liquid crystal

Oleg D. Lavrentovich mainly focuses on Liquid crystal, Optics, Condensed matter physics, Lyotropic and Chromonic. His Liquid crystal research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Chemical physics, Crystallography, Phase and Topological defect. The Optics study combines topics in areas such as Optoelectronics, Perpendicular and Electric field.

The various areas that he examines in his Condensed matter physics study include Layer, Isotropy, Magnetic field and Anisotropy. His Lyotropic study incorporates themes from Self-assembly and Nanotechnology. His study explores the link between Chromonic and topics such as Polarizer that cross with problems in Transmittance, Adsorption, Self-assembled monolayer and Deposition.

His most cited work include:

  • Soft Matter Physics: An Introduction (449 citations)
  • Nematic twist-bend phase with nanoscale modulation of molecular orientation (407 citations)
  • Living liquid crystals (242 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

Oleg D. Lavrentovich mostly deals with Liquid crystal, Condensed matter physics, Optics, Electric field and Optoelectronics. His Liquid crystal research integrates issues from Chemical physics, Crystallography and Phase. His research integrates issues of Isotropy, Dielectric and Anisotropy in his study of Condensed matter physics.

Many of his research projects under Optics are closely connected to Anchoring with Anchoring, tying the diverse disciplines of science together. His Electric field research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Field and Perpendicular. His Lyotropic research incorporates elements of Nanotechnology, Thermotropic crystal and Chemical engineering.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Liquid crystal (99.30%)
  • Condensed matter physics (39.44%)
  • Optics (36.65%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2018-2021)?

  • Liquid crystal (99.30%)
  • Condensed matter physics (39.44%)
  • Chemical physics (17.63%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

His primary scientific interests are in Liquid crystal, Condensed matter physics, Chemical physics, Phase and Electric field. His research in Liquid crystal is mostly concerned with Lyotropic. His work on Dopant as part of general Condensed matter physics study is frequently linked to Spiral, therefore connecting diverse disciplines of science.

The study incorporates disciplines such as Electrokinetic phenomena, Nonlinear system and Microscale chemistry in addition to Chemical physics. His Phase research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Phase transition, Viscosity, Oligomer and Molecule, Molecular geometry. His studies deal with areas such as Switching time, Shutter, Optics and Asymmetry as well as Electric field.

Between 2018 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • Topology control of human fibroblast cells monolayer by liquid crystal elastomer. (25 citations)
  • Topology control of human fibroblast cells monolayer by liquid crystal elastomer. (25 citations)
  • Wide temperature range of an electrically tunable selective reflection of light by oblique helicoidal cholesteric (16 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Quantum mechanics
  • Optics
  • Polymer

Oleg D. Lavrentovich mainly investigates Liquid crystal, Phase, Condensed matter physics, Chemical physics and Topological defect. Oleg D. Lavrentovich studies Liquid crystal, focusing on Cholesteric liquid crystal in particular. Oleg D. Lavrentovich has researched Phase in several fields, including Viscosity, Oligomer, Dielectric, Orientation and State of matter.

In his research, Lyotropic is intimately related to Crystal, which falls under the overarching field of Viscosity. His study in the field of Phase transition is also linked to topics like Spiral. As a part of the same scientific study, he usually deals with the Chemical physics, concentrating on Small-angle X-ray scattering and frequently concerns with Elastic energy, Nucleation and Chromonic.

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Best Publications

Soft Matter Physics: An Introduction

Maurice Kléman;Oleg D. Lavrentovich;J. Friedel.
(2003)

691 Citations

Nematic twist-bend phase with nanoscale modulation of molecular orientation

Volodymyr Borshch;Young-Ki Kim;Jie Xiang;Min Gao.
Nature Communications (2013)

506 Citations

Living liquid crystals

Shuang Zhou;Andrey Sokolov;Oleg D. Lavrentovich;Igor S. Aranson;Igor S. Aranson.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (2014)

320 Citations

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

I.I. Smalyukh;S.V. Shiyanovskii;O.D. Lavrentovich.
Chemical Physics Letters (2001)

265 Citations

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

Ivan I. Smalyukh;Oleg Lavrentovich;A. N. Kuzmin;A. V. Kachynski.
Physical Review Letters (2005)

255 Citations

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

Jie Xiang;Yannian Li;Quan Li;Daniel Alexander Paterson.
(2015)

247 Citations

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.
Physical Review Letters (2006)

247 Citations

Defects in liquid crystals: homotopy theory and experimental studies

Mikhail V Kurik;O D Lavrentovich.
Physics-Uspekhi (1988)

230 Citations

Topological point defects in nematic liquid crystals

Maurice Kleman;Oleg D Lavrentovich.
Philosophical Magazine (2006)

224 Citations

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.
International Journal of Pharmaceutics (2002)

212 Citations

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