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Yan Levin is affiliated with the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil. Their research spans multiple disciplines with a focus on chemistry, physics and astronomy, and engineering. Within these fields, Levin's work primarily falls under physical and theoretical chemistry, atomic and molecular physics and optics, biomedical engineering, statistical and nonlinear physics, and electrochemistry.

Levin's research topics are centered on areas including electrostatics and colloid interactions, spectroscopy and quantum chemical studies, nanopore and nanochannel transport studies, electrochemical analysis and applications, material dynamics and properties, theoretical and computational physics, and microfluidic and capillary electrophoresis applications.

Recent publications by Levin include:

  • Theory of Charge Regulation of Colloidal Particles in Electrolyte Solutions, 2022, Langmuir
  • Reactive Monte Carlo simulations for charge regulation of colloidal particles, 2021, The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • Interaction between Charge-Regulated Metal Nanoparticles in an Electrolyte Solution, 2020, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
  • Widom insertion method in simulations with Ewald summation, 2022, The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • Simulations of electroosmotic flow in charged nanopores using Dissipative Particle Dynamics with Ewald summation, 2021, Journal of Molecular Liquids

Levin frequently publishes in venues such as The Journal of Chemical Physics, Faraday Discussions, arXiv (Cornell University), Langmuir, and The Journal of Physical Chemistry B.

Collaborations are a significant part of Levin's research activities. Frequent coauthors include Amin Bakhshandeh, Alexandre P. dos Santos, Derek Frydel, Igor M. Telles, and Renato Pakter.

Best Publications

  • Electrostatic correlations: from plasma to biology

    Yan Levin

  • Criticality in ionic fluids: Debye-Hückel theory, Bjerrum, and beyond.

    Michael E. Fisher;Yan Levin

  • Ions at the air-water interface: an end to a hundred-year-old mystery?

    Yan Levin;Alexandre Pereira dos Santos;Alexandre Diehl

  • Criticality in the hard-sphere ionic fluid

    Yan Levin;Michael E Fisher

  • Polarizable ions at interfaces.

    Yan Levin

  • Surface Tensions, Surface Potentials, and the Hofmeister Series of Electrolyte Solutions

    Alexandre P. dos Santos;Alexandre Diehl;Yan Levin

  • Simulation and Theory of Ions at Atmospherically Relevant Aqueous Liquid-Air Interfaces

    Douglas J. Tobias;Abraham C. Stern;Marcel D. Baer;Yan Levin

  • Ion specificity and the theory of stability of colloidal suspensions.

    Alexandre Pereira dos Santos;Yan Levin

  • Simple model for attraction between like-charged polyions

    J.J. Arenzon;J.F. Stilck;Y. Levin

  • Monte Carlo simulations of two-dimensional hard core lattice gases.

    Heitor C. Marques Fernandes;Jeferson J. Arenzon;Yan Levin

  • Ions at the water-oil interface: interfacial tension of electrolyte solutions.

    Alexandre P. dos Santos;Yan Levin

  • Liquid-state theory of charged colloids

    Y. Levin;M. C. Barbosa;M. N. Tamashiro

  • What happened to the gas-liquid transition in the system of dipolar hard spheres?

    Yan Levin

  • COULOMBIC CRITICALITY IN GENERAL DIMENSIONS

    Yan Levin;Xiao-jun Li;Michael E. Fisher

  • The Electrochemical Surface Potential Due to Classical Point Charge Models Drives Anion Adsorption to the Air-Water Interface

    Marcel D. Baer;Abraham C. Stern;Yan Levin;Douglas J. Tobias

  • Smoluchowski equation and the colloidal charge reversal.

    Alexandre Diehl;Yan Levin

  • When do like charges attract

    Yan Levin

  • Charge renormalization and phase separation in colloidal suspensions

    Alexandre Diehl;Marcia C. Barbosa;Marcia C. Barbosa;Yan Levin

  • Renormalized jellium model for charge-stabilized colloidal suspensions

    Emmanuel Trizac;Yan Levin;Yan Levin

  • Electrochemical Surface Potential Due to Classical Point Charge Models Drives Anion Adsorption to the Air-Water Interface.

    Marcel D. Baer;Abraham C. Stern;Yan Levin;Douglas J. Tobias

  • Charge reversal of colloidal particles

    S. Pianegonda;Marcia C. Barbosa;Yan Levin

  • Charge inversion in DNA-amphiphile complexes: Possible application to gene therapy

    Paulo S Kuhn;Yan Levin;Marcia C Barbosa

  • Weak and strong coupling theories for polarizable colloids and nanoparticles.

    Amin Bakhshandeh;Amin Bakhshandeh;Alexandre Pereira dos Santos;Yan Levin

  • Linear DNA Low Efficiency Transfection by Liposome Can Be Improved by the Use of Cationic Lipid as Charge Neutralizer

    Andrea von Groll;Yan Levin;Marcia C. Barbosa;Ana P. Ravazzolo

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher J. Mundy
Christopher J. Mundy Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Michael E. Fisher
Michael E. Fisher University of Maryland, College Park
Kenneth A. Dawson
Kenneth A. Dawson University College Dublin
Douglas J. Tobias
Douglas J. Tobias University of California, Irvine
Lydéric Bocquet
Lydéric Bocquet École Normale Supérieure
Christos N. Likos
Christos N. Likos University of Vienna
Alexei A. Kornyshev
Alexei A. Kornyshev Imperial College London
Alberto Fernandez-Nieves
Alberto Fernandez-Nieves University of Barcelona
Arkady Pikovsky
Arkady Pikovsky University of Potsdam

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