
Oleg Lavrentovich
Biography
Oleg D. Lavrentovich received his Ph.D. (1984) and Doctor of Science (1990) degrees in Physics and Mathematics from the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. In 1992 he joined the Liquid Crystal Institute as a Senior Research Fellow. He served as the director of institute in 2003-2011. Fellow of SPIE and American Physical Society. Lavrentovich held visiting appointments at the University P. et M. Curie, University Denis Diderot in France and other universities. He is the editor of Liquid Crystals Reviews (Taylor & Francis), associate editor of Soft Matter, member of the Editorial Boards of Liquid Crystals, Condensed Matter Physics, Ukrainian Journal of Physics and Advisor of the 聚色阁 SPIE Student Chapter.
Education
Doctor of Sciences
Physics and Mathematics, Solid State Physics, Institute of Physics, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, 1984-1990
Ph.D.
Physics and Mathematics, Solid State Physics, Institute of Physics, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, 1980-1984
Master and Bachelor of Sciences
Physics, Kiev State University, Ukraine, 1975-1980
Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities
M. Kleman, O.D. Lavrentovich, Soft Matter Physics: An Introduction, pp. 638, Springer New York, (2003).
O.D. Lavrentovich, P. Pasini, C. Zannoni, S. Zumer, Defects in Liquid Crystals: Computer Simulations, Theory and Experiment Kluwer Academic Publishers: The Netherlands (2001).
Publications in refereed journals
G. Cukrov, Y. Mosaddeghian Golestani, J. Xiang, Yu. A. Nastishin, Z. Ahmed, C. Welch, G. H. Mehl, and O.D. Lavrentovich*, Comparative analysis of anisotropic material properties of uniaxial nematics formed by flexible dimers and rod-like monomers, Invited article, Liquid Crystals 44, 219-231 (2017).
M.M. Genkin, A. Sokolov, O.D. Lavrentovich, I.S. Aranson, Topological defects in a living nematic ensnare swimming bacteria, Physical Review X 7, 011029 (2017) DOI:10.1103/PhysRevX.7.011029
Chenhui Peng, Yubing Guo, Taras Turiv, Miao Jiang, Qihuo Wei, Oleg D. Lavrentovich, Patterning of Lyotropic Chromonic Liquid Crystals by Photoalignment with Photonic Metamasks, Advanced Materials 1606112 (2017)
Yubing Guo, Miao Jiang, Chenhui Peng, Kai Sun, Oleg Yaroshchuk, Oleg D. Lavrentovich, Qihuo Wei, Designs of Plasmonic Metamasks for Photopatterning Molecular Orientations in Liquid Crystals, Crystals 7, 8 (2017) DOI: 10.3390/cryst7010008
M. Chapran, E. Angioni, N. J. Findlay, B. Breig, V. Cherpak, P. Stakhira, T. Tuttle, D. Volyniuk, J.V. Grazulevicius, Yu. A. Nastishin, O. D. Lavrentovich, and P. J. Skabara, Ambipolar BODIPY derivative for white exciplex OLED and cholesteric liquid crystal laser, ACS Applied Materials&Interfaces 9 (5) 4750鈥4757 (2017) DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b13689
O.M. Tovkach, C. Conklin, M.C. Calderer, D. Golovaty, O.D. Lavrentovich, J. Vi帽als, N.J. Walkington, Q-tensor model for electrokinetics in nematic liquid crytals, Physical Reviews Fluids (2017)
Yunfeng Li, Elisabeth Prince, Sangho Cho, Alinaghi Salari, Youssef Mosaddeghian Golestani, Oleg D. Lavrentovich and Eugenia Kumacheva, Periodic assembly of nanoparticles in disclinations of cholesteric liquid crystals, Proc. National Acad Sci. 114 (9) 2137-2142 (2017) DOI 10.1073/pnas.1615006114
Chenhui Peng, Taras Turiv, Rui Zhang, Yubing Guo, Sergij V. Shiyanovskii, Qi-Huo Wei, Juan de Pablo, and Oleg D. Lavrentovich, Controlling placement of nonspherical (boomerang) colloids in nematic cells with photopatterned director, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 29, 014005 (2017) DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/29/1/014005
S. Zhou, S.V. Shiyanovskii, H.S. Park, O.D. Lavrentovich, Fine structure of the topological defect core: disclinations in lyotropic chromonic liquid crystal, Nature Communications Accepted (2017)
Sathyanarayana Paladugu, Christopher Conklin, Jorge Vi帽als, Oleg D. Lavrentovich, Nonlinear electrophoresis of colloids controlled by anisotropy of conductivity and permittivity of liquid crystal electrolyte, Phys. Rev. Applied 7, 034033 (2017)
Bing-Xiang Li, S.V. Shiyanovskii, O.D. Lavrentovich, Nanosecond switching of micrometer optical retardance by electrically controlled nematic liquid crystal cell, Optics Express 24(26), 29477-29482 (2016)
M.C. Calderer, D. Golovaty, O. Lavrentovich, and N.J. Walkington, Modeling of nematic electrolytes and nonlinear electroosmosis, SIAM J. Appl. Math. 76, No.6, 2260-2285 (2016)
X. Wang, E. Bukusoglu, D.S. Miller, M.A.B. Pantoja, J. Xiang, O.D. Lavrentovich, N.L. Abbott, Synthesis of optically complex, porous, and anisometric polymeric microparticles by templating from liquid crystalline droplets, Adv. Func. Mat. 26, 7343-7351 (2016)
Z. Parsouzi, Shokir A. Pardaev, C. Welch, Z. Ahmed, G. H. Mehl, A. R. Baldwin, J. T. Gleeson, O. D. Lavrentovich, D. W. Allender, J. V. Selinger, A. Jakli, and S. Sprunt, Light scattering study of the 鈥減seudo-layer鈥 compression elastic constant in a twist-bend nematic liquid crystal, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 18, 31645-31652 (2016) DOI: 10.1039/C6CP06292J
J. Xiang, A. Varanytsia, F. Minkowski, D.A. Paterson, C.T. Imrie, Oleg D. Lavrentovich, Peter Palffy-Muhoray, Electrically tunable laser based on heliconical cholesteric liquid crystal, Proc. National Acad Sci. 113, No.46, 12925-12928 (2016) DOI 10.1073/pnas.1612212113
Chenhui Peng*, Taras Turiv*, Yubing Guo, Qi-Huo Wei, and Oleg D. Lavrentovich, Command of active matter by topological defects and patterns, Science 354, 882-885 (2016), DOI: 10.1126/science.aah6936
S. M. Salili, J. Xiang, H. Wang, Q. Li, D. A. Paterson, J. M. D. Storey, C. T. Imrie, O. D. Lavrentovich, S.N. Sprunt, J.T. Gleeson, A. Jakli, Magnetically tunable selective reflection of light by heliconical cholesterics, Phys. Rev. E 94, 042705 (2016) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRe vE.94.042705
Chenhui Peng, Taras Turiv, Yubing Guo, Sergij V. Shiyanovskii, Qi-Huo Wei, and Oleg D. Lavrentovich, Control of colloidal placement and assembly by modulated molecular orientation in nematic cells, Science Advances 2, no. 9, e1600932 (2016) DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1600932
Yunfeng Li, Jeffrey Jun-yan Suen, Elisabeth Prince, Egor M. Larin, Anna Klinkova, H茅lo茂se Th茅rien-Aubin, Shoujun Zhu, Bai Yang, Amr S. Helmy, Oleg D. Lavrentovich and Eugenia Kumacheva, Colloidal Cholesteric Liquid Crystal in Spherical Confinement, Nature Communications 7, 12520 (2016) DOI: 10.1038/ncomms12520
D.A. Paterson, M. Gao, Y.-K. Kim, A. Jamali, K. Finley, B. Robles-Hernandez, S. Diez-Berart, J. Salud, M. Rosario de la Fuente, B.A. Timimi, H. Zimmermann, C. Greco, A. Ferrarini, J. M. D. Story, D.O. Lopez, O.D. Lavrentovich, G.R. Luckhurst, C.T. Imrie, Understanding the twist-bend nematic phase: the characterization of 1-(4-cyanobiphenyl-4鈥-yloxy)-6-(4-cyanobiphenyl-4鈥-yl)hexane (CB6OCB) and comparison with CB7CB, Soft Matter 12, 6827-6840 (2016) DOI: 10.1039/C6SM00537C
Y. Guo, S. Afghah, J. Xiang, O.D. Lavrentovich, R.B. Selinger, Q.H. Wei, Cholesteric liquid crystals in rectangular microchannels: Skyrmions and stripes, Soft Matter 12, 6312-6320 (2016) DOI: 10.1039/c6sm01190j
O. M. Tovkach, Dmitry Golovaty, M. Carme Calderer, O.D. Lavrentovich, N.J. Walkington, Electro-osmosis in nematic liquid crystals, Phys. Rev. E 94, 012702 (2016) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.94.012702
Z. Parsouzi, S. M. Shamid, V. Borshch, P.K. Challa, A.R. Baldwin, M.G. Tamba, C. Welch, G.H. Mehl, J.T. Gleeson, A. Jakli, O.D. Lavrentovich, D.W. Allender, J.V. Selinger, S. Sprunt, Fluctuation modes of a twist-bend nematic liquid crystal, Phys Rev X 6, 021041 (2016).
Young-Ki Kim, Greta Cukrov, F. Vita, E. Scharrer, E.T. Samulski, O. Francescangeli, and Oleg D. Lavrentovich, Search for Microscopic and Macroscopic Biaxiality in the Cybotactic Nematic Phase of New Oxadiazole Bent-Core Mesoges, Phys Rev E 93, 062701 (2016).
Daniel A. Paterson, Jie Xiang, Rebecca Walker, Gautam Singh, Dena M. Agra-Kooijman, Alfonso Martinez-Felipe, Min Gao, John M.D. Storey, Satyendra Kumar, Oleg D. Lavrentovich, Corrie T. Imrie, Reversible isothermal twist-bend nematic-nematic phase transition driven by the photoisomerisation of an azobenzene-based nonsymmetric liquid crystal dimer, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 138, 5283-5289 (2016), DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b13331
Y. Guo, M. Jiang, C. Peng, K. Sun, O. Yaroshchuk, O. Lavrentovich, Q.H. Wei, High-resolution and high-throughput plasmonic photopatterning of complex molecular orientations in liquid crystals, Adv. Mater. 28, 2353-2358 (2016) DOI: 10.1002/adma.201506002
Dae Seok Kim, Yun Jeong Cha, Mun Ho Kim, Oleg D. Lavrentovich, Dong Ki Yoon, Controlling Gaussian and mean curvatures at microscale by sublimation and condensation of smectic liquid crystals, Nature Communications 7, 10236 (2016) DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10236
O.D. Lavrentovich, Active Colloids in Liquid Crystals, Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science 21, 97-109 (2016) DOI: 10.1016/j.cocis.2015.11.008
Bing-Xiang Li, V. Borshch, S.V. Shiyanovskii, S.-B. Liu, and O.D. Lavrentovich, Kerr effect at high electric field in isotropic phase of mesogenic materials, Phys. Rev. E 92, 050501 (2015) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.92.050501
C. Peng, Y. Guo, C. Conklin, J. Vi帽als, S. V. Shiyanovskii, Q.-H. Wei, and O. D. Lavrentovich, Liquid Crystals with Photo-patterned Molecular Orientation as an Active Electrolytic Medium, Phys. Rev. E 92, 052502 (2015) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.92.052502
C. Peng and O.D. Lavrentovich, Chirality Amplification and Detection by Tactoids of Lyotropic Chromonic Liquid Crystals, Soft Matter, 11, 7257-7263 (2015) DOI: 10.1039/c5sm01632k
C. Zhang, A.M. Grubb, A.J. Seed, P. Sampson, A. J谩kli, and O.D. Lavrentovich, Nanostructure of edge dislocations in a smectic C* liquid crystal, Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 087801 (2015) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.087801
L. Wang, K. Gutierrez-Cuevas, H.K. Bisoyi, J. Xiang, G. Singh, R.S. Zola, S. Kumar, O.D. Lavrentovich, A. Urbas, Quan Li, NIR Light-Directing Self-Organized 3D Photonic Superstructures Loaded with Anisotropic Plasmonic Hybrid Nanorods, Chem Commun. 51, 15039-15042 (2015). DOI: 10.1039/C5CC06146F
C. Xue, J. Xiang, H. Nemati, H.K. Bisoyi, K. Gutierrez-Cuevas, L. Wang, M. Gao, S. Zhou, D.K. Yang, O.D. Lavrentovich, A. Urbas, Quan Li, Light-driven reversible alignment switching of liquid crystals enabled by azo thiol grafted gold nanoparticles, ChemPhysChem 16, No.9, 1852-1856 (2015) DOI: 10.1002/cphc.201500194
J. Xiang, Y. Li, Q. Li, D.A. Patterson, J.M. Storey, C.T. Imrie, O.D. Lavrentovich, Electrically tunable selective reflection of light from ultraviolet to visible and infrared by heliconical cholesterics, Adv. Mat. 27, 3014-3018 (2015), DOI: 10/1002/adma.201500340
Y.K. Kim, G. Cukrov, J. Xiang, O.D. Lavrentovich, Domain Walls and Anchoring Transitions Mimicking Nematic Biaxiality in the Oxadiazole Bent-Core Liquid Crystal C7, Soft Matter 11, 3963-3970 (2015) DOI: 10.1039/C5SM00580A
O.D. Lavrentovich, Liquid crystal-enabled electrophoresis and electro-osmosis, Chapter 12 in Liquid Crystals with Nano and Microparticles, in 2 volumes, Series in Soft Condensed Matter, volume 1, pages 415-457, Edited by Jan P.F. Lagerwall and G. Scalia, World Scientific, New Jersey (2017), DOI: 10.1142/9789814619264_0012
O.D. Lavrentovich, Liquid Crystals, Chapter 3 in Oxford Handbook of Soft Condensed Matter, Edited by E.M. Terentjev and D.A. Weitz, Oxford University Press, 620 pages. (2015).
A. Sokolov, S. Zhou, Oleg D. Lavrentovich, I. S. Aranson, Individual behavior and pairwise interactions between microswimmers in anisotropic liquid, Phys. Rev. E 91, 013009 (2015).
O.D. Lavrentovich, Defects and textures of liquid crystals, 鈥淗andbook on Liquid Crystals鈥, Editors: J.W. Goodby, P.J. Collings, T. Kato, C. Tschierske, H.F. Gleeson, and P. Raynes; Second edition, vol.2, pp. 189-241 (2014),
Bing-Xiang Li, V. Borshch, S.V. Shiyanovskii, Shao-Bin Liu, O.D. Lavrentovich, Electro-optic switching of dielectrically negative nematic through nanosecond electric modification of order parameter, Appl. Phys. Lett. 104, 201105 (2014),
J. Xiang, S.V. Shiyanovskii, C. Imrie, O.D. Lavrentovich, Electrooptic response of chiral nematic liquid crystals with oblique helicoidal director, Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 217801 (2014).
P.K. Challa, V. Borshch, O. Parri, C.T. Imrie, S.N. Sprunt, J.T. Gleeson, O.D. Lavrentovich, A. J谩kli, Twist-bend nematic liquid crystals in high magnetic fields, Phys Rev E 89, 060501 (2014)
Y.-K. Kim, R. Breckon, S. Chakraborty, M. Gao, S.N. Sprunt, J.T. Gleeson, R.J. Twieg, A. Jakli, O.D. Lavrtentovich, Properties of the broad-range nematic phase of a laterally linked H-shaped liquid crystal dimer, Liquid Crystals 41, 1345-1355 (2014)
I. Lazo, C. Peng, J. Xiang, S.V. Shiyanovskii, O.D. Lavrentovich, Liquid crystal-enabled electroosmosis through spatial charge separation in distorted regions as a novel mechanism of electrokinetics, Nature Communications 5, 5033 (2014)
M. Gao, Y.-K. Kim, C. Zhang, V. Borshch, S. Zhou, H.-S. Park, A. J谩kli, O.D. Lavrentovich, M.G. Tamba, A. Kohlmeier, G.H. Mehl, W. Weissflog, D. Studer, B. Zuber, H. Gnagi, F. Lin, Direct Observations of Liquid Crystals Using Cryo-TEM: Specimen Preparation and Low-Dose Imaging, Microscopy Research and Technique 77, 754-772 (2014).
Shuang Zhou, Adam J. Cervenka, and Oleg D. Lavrentovich, Ionic content dependence of viscoelasticity of lyotropic chromonic liquid crystal sunset yellow, Phys. Rev. E 90, 042505, (2014).
C. Peng, I. Lazo, S.V. Shiyanovskii, O.D. Lavrentovich, Breaking symmetries in induced-charge electro-osmosis around metal and Janus spheres in water, Phys. Rev. E 90, 051002(R) (2014).
V. Borshch, S.V. Shiyanovskii, Bing-Xiang Li, O.D. Lavrentovich, Nanosecond electro-optics of a nematic liquid crystal with negative dielectric anisotropy, Phys. Rev. E 90, 062504, 16 pages (2014).
J. Xiang, S.V. Shiyanovskii, Y. Li, C.T. Imrie, Q. Li, and O.D. Lavrentovich, Electrooptics of chiral nematics formed by molecular dimers (Invited paper), Liquid Crystals XVIII, Ed. by I.C. Khoo, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 9182, pp.91820P-1 鈥 91820P-9 (2014).
C. Zhang, O.D. Lavrentovich, A. J谩kli, New twist on the helical nanofilament phase of bent-core liquid crystals (Invited paper), Liquid Crystals XVIII, Ed. by I.C. Khoo, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 9182, pp.91820Q-1 鈥 91820Q-1 (2014).
C. Zhang, N. Diorio, O.D. Lavrentovich, and A. J谩kli, Helical nanofilaments of bent-core liquid crystals with a second twist, Nature Communications 5, 3302 (2014)
S. Zhou, K. Neupane, Yu. A. Nastishin, A.R. Baldwin, S.V. Shiyanovskii, O.D. Lavrentovich, S.N. Sprunt, Elasticity, viscosity, and orientational fluctuations of a lyotropic chromonic nematic liquid crystal disodium cromoglycate, Soft Matter 10, 6571-6581 (2014)
O.D. Lavrentovich, Transport of particles in liquid crystals, Soft Matter 10, 1264-1283 (2014)
S. Zhou, A. Sokolov, O.D. Lavrentovich, I. Aranson, Living liquid crystals, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA doi: 10.1073/pnas.1321926111 (2014)
C. Zhang, N. Diorio, O.D. Lavrentovich, A. Jakli, Helical nanofilaments of bent-core liquid crystals with a second twist, Nature Communications 5, 3302 (2014)
Y.-K. Kim, B. Senyuk, S.-T. Shin, A. Kohlmeier, G.H. Mehl, and O.D. Lavrentovich, Surface alignment, anchoring transitions, optical properties, and topological defects in the thermotropic nematic phase of an organo-siloxane tetrapodes, Soft Matter 10, 500-509 (2014)
T. Turiv, I. Lazo, A. Brodin, B.I. Lev, V. Reiffenrath, V.G. Nazarenko, and O.D. Lavrentovich, Effect of collective molecular reorientation on Brownian motion of colloids in nematic liquid crystal, Science 342, 1351-1354 (2013)
V. Borshch, Y.-K. Kim, J. Xiang, M. Gao, A. Jakli, V.P. Panov, J.K. Vij, C.T. Imrie, M.G. Tamba, G.H. Mehl, and O.D. Lavrentovich, Nematic twist-bend phase with nanoscale modulation of molecular orientation, Nature Communications 4, 2635 (2013)
Y.-K. Kim, S.V. Shiyanovskii, O.D. Lavrentovich, Morphogenesis of defects and tactoids during isotropic-nematic phase transition in self-assembled lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 25, 404202 (2013)
V. Borshch, S.V. Shiyanovskii, O.D. Lavrentovich, Nanosecond electro-optic switching of a liquid crystal, Phys. Rev. Lett.111, 107802 (2013)
J. Xiang, O.D. Lavrentovich, Blue-phase-polymer-templated nematic with sub-millisecond broad-temperature range electro-optic switching, Appl. Phys. Lett. 103, 051112 (2013)
D.S. Miller, X. Wang, J. Buchen, O.D. Lavrentovich, N.L. Abbott, Analysisof the internal configurations of droplets of liquid crystals using flow cytometry, Analytical Chemistry 86, 10296-10303 (2013)
Y. Geng, D. Sec, P.L. Almeida, O.D. Lavrentovich, S. Zumer, M.H. Godinho, Liquid crystal necklaces: Cholestric drops threaded by thin cellulose fibers, Soft Matter 9, 7928-7933 (2013)
T. Ostapenko, Yu.A. Nastishin, P.J. Collings, S.N. Sprunt, , O.D. Lavrentovich, J. Gleeson, Aggregation, pretransitional behavior and optical properties in the isotropic phase of lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals studied in high magnetic fields, Soft Matter 9, 9487-9498 (2013)
N. Ould-Moussa, C. Blanc, C. Zamora-Ledezma, O.D. Lavrentovich, I.I. Smalyukh, M.F. Islam, A.G. Yodh, M. Maugey, P. Poulin, E. Anglaret, M. Nobili, Dispersion and orientation of single walled carbon nanotubes in a chromonic liquid crystal, Liquid Crystals 40, 1628-1635 (2013)
C. Zhang, B.K. Sadashiva, O.D. Lavrentovich, A. Jakli, Cryo-TEM studies of two smectic phases of an asymmetric bent-core material, Liquid Crystals 40, 1636-1645 (2013)
O.D. Lavrentovich, Designing Dupin cyclides in micro- and macro worlds, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 110, 5-6 (2013)
N. Avci, V. Borshch, D.D. Sarkar, R. Deb, G. Venkatesh, T. Turiv, S.V. Shiyanovskii, N.V.S. Rao, O.D. Lavrentovich, Viscoelasticity, dielectric anisotropy, and birefringence in the nematic phase of three four-ring bent-core liquid crystals with an L-shaped molecular frame, Soft Matter 9, 1066-1075 (2013)
I. Lazo, O.D. Lavrentovich, Liquid crystal enabled electrophoresis of spheres in a nematic medium with negative dielectric anisotropy, Phil. Trans. Royal Society A 371, 20120255 (2013)
O.D. Lavrentovich, Y.-K. Kim, B. Senyuk, Optical manifestation of thermal expansion of a nematic liquid crystal, Liquid Crystals XVI, Edited by I.C. Khoo, Proc. SPIE 8475, 84750G-1-7 (2012)
Y.-K. Kim, B.I. Senyuk, O.D. Lavrentovich, Molecular reorientation of a nematic liquid crystal by thermal expansion, Nature Communications 3, 1133-1139 (2012).
S. Zhou, Yu. A. Nastishin, M.M. Omelchenko, L. Tortora, V.G. Nazarenko, O.P. Boiko, T. Ostapenko, T. Hu, C.C. Almasan, S>N. Sprunt, J.T. Gleeson, O.D. Lavrentovich, Elasticity of lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals probed by director reorientation in a magnetic field,Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 037801 (2012).
Y.-K. Kim, M. Majumdar, B.I. Senyuk, L. Tortora, J. Seltmann, M. Lehmann, A. Jakli, J.T. Gleeson, O.D. Lavrentovich, S. Sprunt, Search for biaxiality in a shape-persistent bent-core nematic liquid crystal, Soft Matter 8, 8880-8890 (2012).
B. Zupancic, S. Diez-Berart, D. Finotello, O.D. Lavrentovich, and B. Zalar, Photoisomerization-controlled phase separation in a submicron confined azonematic liquid crystal, Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 257801 (2012).
V. Borshch, S.V. Shiyanovskii, O.D. Lavrentovich, Electric field induced biaxial order and differential quenching of uniaxial fluctuations in a nematic with negative dielectric anisotropy, Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 559, 97-105 (2012).
J. Xiang, O.D. Lavrentovich, Liquid crystal structures for transformation optics, Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 559, 106-114 (2012).
O.D. Lavrentovich, Looking at the world through liquid crystal glasses, Contemporary Mathematics: American Math Society 577, 25-47 (2011)
O.P. Pishnyak, S.V. Shiyanovskii, O.D. Lavrentovich, Aggregation of colloidal particles in a non-equilibrium backflow induced by electrically-driven reorientation of the nematic liquid crystal, J. Molec. Liquids 164, 132-142 (2011).
O.D. Lavrentovich, Liquid crystals, photonic crystals, metamaterials and transformation optics, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 108, 5143-5144 (2011).
L. Tortora, O.D. Lavrentovich, Chiral symmetry breaking by spatial confinement in tactoidal droplets of lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 108, 5163-5168 (2011).
B. Senyuk, S.V. Shiyanovskii, O.D. Lavrentovich, Surface alignment, anchoring transitions, optical properties and topological defects in nematic bent-core materials C7 and C12, Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 540, 20-41 (2011).
A.B. Golovin, J. Xiang, H.S. Park, L. Tortora, O.D. Lavrentovich, Electro-optic effects in colloidal dispersion of metal nano-rods in dielectric fluid, Materials 4, 390-416 (2011).
Y.K. Kim, D.K. Yoon, H.S. Jeong, O.D. Lavrentovich, H.T. Jung, Smectic liquid crystal defects for self-assembling of building blocks and their lithographic applications,Advanced Functional Materials 21, 610-627 (2011).
H.S. Park, S.W. Kang, L. Tortora, S. Kumar, O.D. Lavrentovich, Condensation of self-assembled lyotropic chromonic liquid crystal Sunset Yellow in aqueous solutions crowded with polyethylene glycol and doped with salt, Langmuir 27, 4164-4175 (2011).
O.P. Pishnyak, S.V. Shiyanovskii, O.D. Lavrentovich, Inelastic collisions and anisotropic aggregation of particles in a nematic collider driven by backflow, Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 047801 (2011).
V.G. Nazarenko, O.P. Boiko, M.I. Anisimov, A.K. Kadashchuk, Yu.A. Nastishin, A.B. Golovin, O.D. Lavrentovich, Lyotropic chromonic liquid crystal semiconductors for water-solution processable organic electronics, Appl. Phys. Lett. 97, 263305 (2010).
O.D. Lavrentovich, I. Lazo, O.P. Pishnyak, Nonlinear electrophoresis of dielectric and metal spheres in a nematic liquid crystal, Nature 467, 947-950 (2010).
B. Senyuk, H. Wonderly, M. Mathews, Q. Li, S.V. Shiyanovskii, O.D. Lavrentovich, Surface alignment, anchoring transitions, optical properties and topological defects in the nematic phase of thermotropic bent-core liquid crystal A131, Phys. Rev. E 82, 041711 (2010).
V.G. Nazarenko, O.P. Boiko, H.-S. Park, O.M. Brodyn, M.M. Omelchenko, L. Tortora, Yu.A. Nastishin, O.D. Lavrentovich, Surface alignment and anchoring transitions in nematic lyotropic chromonic liquid crystal, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 017801 (2010).
S.V. Shiyanovskii and O.D. Lavrentovich, Dielectric relaxation and memory effects in nematic liquid crystals, Liquid Crystals 37(6-7), 737-745 (2010).
L. Tortora, H.-S. Park, S.-W. Kang, V. Savaryn, S.-H. Hong, K. Kaznatcheev, D. Finotello, S. Sprunt, S. Kumar, O.D. Lavrentovich, Self-assembly, condensation, and order in aqueous lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals crowded with additives, Soft Matter 6, 4157-4167 (2010).
E.C. Gartland, Jr., H. Huang, O.D. Lavrentovich, P. Palffy-Muhoray, I.I. Smaluykh,T. Kosa, B. Taheri, Electric-field induced transitions in a cholesteric liquid-crystal film with negative dielectric anisotropy, J. Comput. Theor. Nanoscience 7, 709-725 (2010).
A.B. Golovin,O.D. Lavrentovich, Electrically reconfigurable optical metamaterial based on colloidal dispersion of metal nanorods in dielectric fluid, Applied Physics Letters 95, 254104 (2009).
H.S. Park, O.D. Lavrentovich, Orientational order in systems of nanorods: Side-by-side and end-to-end controlled assembly using lyotropic chromonic materials, Metamaterials: Fundamentals and Applications II, Ed. M.A. Noginov, N.I. Zheludev, A.D. Boardman, N. Engheta, Proc. of SPIE, 739210, 12 pages (2009). San Diego, August 2009
M. Kleman, O.D.Lavrentovich, Liquids with Conics, Liquid crystals 36, 1085-1099(2009).
Bong Hoon Kim, Hyung Min Lee, Joo-Hyung Lee, Seung-Woo Son, Seong-Jun Jeong, Sumi Lee, Dong Il Lee, Shin Woong Kwak, Hawoong Jeong, Hyunjung Shin, Jun-Bo Yoon, Oleg D. Lavrentovich, and Sang Ouk Kim, Spontaneous Lamellar Alignment in Thickness-Modulated Block Copolymer Films, Adv. Functional Materials 19, 2584-2591 (2009).
Y.H. Kim, D. K. Yoon, M.C. Choi, H. S. Jeong, M. W. Kim, O.D. Lavrentovich, H. T. Jung, Confined Self-Assembly of Toric Focal Conic Domains (The Effects of Confined Geometry on the Feature Size of Toric Focal Conic Domains) Langmuir 25, 1685-1691 (2009).
Yu.A. Nastishin, O.P. Boiko, R.M. Vasyuta, V.M. Pergamenshchik, V.G. Nazarenko, O.D. Lavrentovich, Photoinduced reorientation of light-absorbing lyotropic chromonic liquid crystal, Ukrainsk. Fizich. Zhurnal 54, 82-88 (2009).
O.P. Pishnyak, S. Tang, J.R. Kelly, S.V. Shiyanovskii, O.D. Lavrentovich, Electrically induced dynamics of colloidal particles in nematic liquid crystal, Ukrainsk. Fizich. Zhurnal54, 101-108 (2009).
Mingxia Gu, S.V. Shiyanovskii, and O.D. Lavrentovich, Polar and nonpolar ordering in the electrically induced isotropic-nematic phase transition, Phys. Rev. E 78, 040702(R) (2008).
A. Jakli, B. Senyuk, G. Liao, O.D. Lavrentovich, Colloidal micro-motor in smectic A liquid crystal driven by DC electric field, Soft Matter 4, 2471-2474 (2008).
H.S. Park, S.W. Kang, L. Tortora, Y. Nastishin, D. Finotello, S. Kumar, O.D. Lavrentovich, Self-assembly of lyotropic chromonic liquid crystal sunset yellow and effects of ionic additives, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 112, 16307-16319 (2008).
H.S. Park, A. Agarwal, N.A. Kotov, O.D. Lavrentovich, Controllable side-by-side and end-to-end assembly of nanorods by lyotropic chromonic materials, Langmuir 24, 13833-13837 (2008).
Mingxia Gu, Sergij V. Shiyanovskii, and Oleg D. Lavrentovich, Polarity-Dependent Dielectric Torque in Nematic Liquid Crystals, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100,237801 (2008).
S.V. Shiyanovskii,A. B. Golovin, Ye Yin, O.D. Lavrentovich, "Effects of Dielectric Relaxation on the Dynamics and Dielectric Heating of Nematic Liquid Crystals, Mol.Cryst. Liq. Cryst.,480, 111-128 (2008).
Mingxia Gu, YeYin, S.V. Shiyanovskii, and O.D. Lavrentovich, Effects of dielectric relaxation on the director dynamics of uniaxial nematic liquid crystals, Phys. Rev. E. 76, 061702 (2007).
K. V. Kaznatcheev, P. Dudin, O.D. Lavrentovich, A.P. Hitchcock,X-ray microscopy study of chromonic liquid crystal dry film texture, Phys. Rev. E. 76, 061703 (2007).
Brian G. Saar,Heung-Shik Park, X. S. Xie, and Oleg D. Lavrentovich, Three-dimensional imaging of chemical bond orientation in liquid crystals by coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering microscopy, Optics Express 15, 13585-13596 (2007).
O.P. Pishnyak,S. Tang, J.R. Kelly, S.V. Shiyanovskii, O.D. Lavrentovich, Levitation,Lift and bidirectional motion of colloidal particles in an electrically-driven nematic liquid crystal,Phys. Rev. Lett. 99,127802 (2007).
D.K. Yoon, M.C.Choi, Y.H. Kim, M.W. Kim, O.D. Lavrentovich and H.T. Jung, Internalstructure visualization and lithographic use of periodic toroidal holes in liquid crystals, Nature Materials 6, 866-870(2007).
O.P. Boiko, R.M.Vasyuta, V.G. Nazarenko, V.M. Pergamenshchik, Yu. A. Nastishin, O.D.Lavrentovich, Polarizing properties offunctional optical films based on lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals, Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 467, 181-194 (2007).
L. Tortora, H.-S.Park, K. Antion, D. Finotello, O.D. Lavrentovich, Lyotropic chromonicliquid crystals as materials for opticaland biosensing applications, Proceedings of SPIE 6487, p. 6487OI-1-6487OI-15 (2007).