Director (Liquid Crystal Institute), Professor (Chemical Physics),
Kent State University,
Kent, OH 44242, USA
tel.: +1 330 672 4844
fax.: +1 330 672 2796
e-mail: olavrentkent.edu

Scientific area of interest:
physics of liquid crystals and soft matter

Representative recent publications:

• Kleman M., Lavrentovich O.D., Soft matter Physics: An Introduction. Springer, New York, 2003, 638 p.
• Tortora L., Lavrentovich O.D., Chiral symmetry breaking by spatial confinement in tactoidal droplets of lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals, Proc. Natl. Acad Sci. USA, 2011; doi:10.1073/pnas.1100087108.
• Lavrentovich O.D., Liquid crystals, photonic crystals, metamaterials, and transformation optics, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 2011; doi:10.1073/pnas.1102130108.
• Pishnyak O., Shiyanovskii S., Lavrentovich O.D. Inelastic Collisions and Anisotropic Aggregation of Particles in a Nematic Collider Driven by Backflow, Phys. Rev. Lett., 2011, 106, 047801.
• Lavrentovich O.D., Lazo I., Pishnyak O.P., Nonlinear electrophoresis of dielectric and metal spheres in a nematic liquid crystal, Nature, 2010, 467, 947-950.