个人简介
APPOINTMENTS / EMPLOYMENT
2017-present: Professor (with tenure), Department of Physics and Liquid Crystal Materials Research Center, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309
2017-present: Professor (courtesy appointment), Department of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309
2014-present: Associate Professor (with tenure), Department of Physics and Liquid Crystal Materials Research Center, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309
2014-present: Associate Professor (courtesy appointment), Department of Electrical, Computer,and Energy Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309
2012-present: Fellow and Executive Committee Member, Materials Science and Engineering Graduate Program, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309
2009-present: Fellow of the Renewable & Sustainable Energy Institute (RASEI), Joint Institute of NREL and University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309
2011-2014: Assistant Professor (courtesy appointment), Department of Electrical, Computer,and Energy Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309
2007-2014: Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Liquid Crystal Materials Research Center, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309
2005-2007: Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2004-2006: Visiting Scientist, Inst. For Lasers, Photonics, & Biophotonics, SUNY at Buffalo
2004-2005: Postdoctoral Researcher, Liquid Crystal Institute and AlphaMicron Inc.
EDUCATION
2003: PhD IN CHEMICAL PHYSICS Kent State University, Ohio
1994, 1995: BS & MS, WITH HIGHEST HONORS Lviv Polytechnic Natl. Univ., Ukraine
研究领域
We study organizing principles of mesoscale self-assembly phenomena that lead to creation of artificial materials and structures with emergent physical behavior and properties arising from the patterning of molecular order combined with the organization of nano- and micro-sized particles into precisely controlled configurations. These phenomena may enable technological breakthroughs in the development of flexible information displays, efficient conversion of solar energy to electricity, novel optically controlled materials capable, in turn, of controlling light, etc. The emergent scientific frontiers in these fields show an exceptional promise of significant new discovery becoming possible only now, after recent breakthroughs in different branches of science and technology. They require dealing with a hierarchy of length and time scales as well as inspiration and creation of entirely new concepts, laws, and generalizations. We pursue this study in a broad range of nano-structured soft matter systems, with the focus on fundamental aspects, such as the role that topology and geometry play in pre-determining self-assembly. The common theme that unites our research interests is the emergence of various degrees of (liquid crystalline) order as a result of the self-assembly.
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Colloidal interactions and unusual crystallization versus de-mixing of elastic multipoles formed by gold mesoflowers Y. Yuan, M. Tasinkevych and I. I. Smalyukh NATURE COMMUNICATIONS 11, 188 (2020) | doi:10.1038/s41467-019-14031-2
Topological solitons, cholesteric fingers and singular defect lines in Janus liquid crystal shells G. Durey, H. R. O. Sohn, P. J. Ackerman, E. Brasselet, I. I. Smalyukh and T. Lopez-Leon SOFT MATTER, Accepted Manuscript (2020) | doi:10.1039/C9SM02033K
Plasmonic metamaterial gels with spatially patterned orientational order via 3D Printing A. J. Hess, A. J. Funk, Q. Liu, J. A. De La Cruz, G. H. Sheetah, B. Fleury and I. I. Smalyukh ACS OMEGA 4, 20558-20563 (2019) | doi:10.1021/acsomega.9b02418
Optically enriched and guided dynamics of active skyrmions H. R. O. Sohn, C. D. Liu, R. Voinescu, Z. Chen and I. I. Smalyukh ArXiv preprint arXiv:1911.04640
Surface anchoring as a control parameter for stabilizing torons, skyrmions, twisted walls, fingers and their hybrids in chiral nematics J.-S. B. Tai and I. I. Smalyukh ArXiv preprint arXiv:1911.07829
Programmable ultralight magnets via orientational arrangement of ferromagnetic nanoparticles within aerogel hosts Y. Li, Q. Liu, A. J. Hess, S. Mi, X. Liu, Z. Chen, Y. Xie and I. I. Smalyukh ACS NANO 13, 13875-13883 (2019) | doi:10.1021/acsnano.9b04818
Chiral carbon dots synthesized on cellulose nanocrystals M. Chekini, E. Prince, L. Zhao, H. Mundoor, I. I. Smalyukh and E. Kumacheva ADVANCED OPTICAL MATERIALS, Early View (2019) | doi:10.1002/adom.201901911
Schools of skyrmions with electrically tunable elastic interactions H. R. O. Sohn, C. D. Liu and I. I. Smalyukh NATURE COMMUNICATIONS 10, 4744 (2019) | doi:10.1038/s41467-019-12723-3
Three-dimensional crystals of adaptive knots J.-S. B. Tai and I. I. Smalyukh SCIENCE 365, 1449-1453 (2019) | doi:10.1126/science.aay1638
Light-controlled skyrmions and torons as reconfigurable particles H. R. O. Sohn, C. D. Liu, Y. Wang and I. I. Smalyukh OPTICS EXPRESS 27, 29055-29068 (2019) | doi:10.1364/OE.27.029055
Electrostatically controlled surface boundary conditions in nematic liquid crystals and colloids H. Mundoor, B. Senyuk, M. Almansouri, S. Park, B. Fleury and I. I. Smalyukh SCIENCE ADVANCES 5, eaax4257 (2019) | doi:10.1126/sciadv.aax4257
Real-space observation of skyrmion clusters with mutually orthogonal skyrmion tubes H. R. O. Sohn, S. M. Vlasov, V. M. Uzdin, A. O. Leonov and I. I. Smalyukh PHYSICAL REVIEW B 100, 104401 (2019) | doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.100.104401
Controlled multistep self-assembling of colloidal droplets at a nematic liquid crystal–air interface N. Wang, J. S. Evans, C. Li, V. M. Pergamenshchik, I. I. Smalyukh and S. He PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 123, 087801 (2019) | doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.087801
Holographic polymer nanocomposites with simultaneously boosted diffraction efficiency and upconversion photoluminescence X. Zhang, W.Yao, X. Zhou, W. Wu, Q. Liu, H. Peng, J. Zhu, I. I.Smalyukh and X. Xie COMPOSITES SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 181, 107705 (2019) | doi:10.1016/j.compscitech.2019.107705
Elastic colloidal monopoles and reconfigurable self-assembly in liquid crystals Y. Yuan, Q. Liu, B. Senyuk and I. I. Smalyukh NATURE 570, 214–218 (2019) | doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1247-7
Two-dimensional skyrmion bags in liquid crystals and ferromagnets D. Foster, C. Kind, P. J. Ackerman, J.-S. B. Tai, M. R. Dennis and I. I. Smalyukh NATURE PHYSICS 15, 655–659 (2019) | doi:10.1038/s41567-019-0476-x
Self-organized nonlinear gratings for ultrafast nanophotonics D. D. Hickstein, D. R. Carlson, H. Mundoor, J. B. Khurgin, K. Srinivasan, D. Westly, A. Kowligy, I. I. Smalyukh, S. A. Diddams and S. B. Papp NATURE PHOTONICS 13, 494–499 (2019) | doi:10.1038/s41566-019-0449-8
High-order elastic multipoles as colloidal atoms B. Senyuk, J. Aplinc, M. Ravnik and I. I. Smalyukh NATURE COMMUNICATIONS 10, 1825 (2019) | doi:10.1038/s41467-019-09777-8
Degenerate conic anchoring and colloidal elastic dipole-hexadecapole transformations Y. Zhou, B. Senyuk, R. Zhang, I. I. Smalyukh and J. J. de Pablo NATURE COMMUNICATIONS 10, 1000 (2019) | doi:10.1038/s41467-019-08645-9
Colloidal plasmonic DNA-origami with photo-switchable chirality in liquid crystals Q. Liu, A. Kuzyk, M. Endo and I. I. Smalyukh OPTICS LETTERS 44, 2831-2834 (2019) | doi:10.1364/OL.44.002831