Professor, head of department,
Biocolloidal Chemistry Institute named after F. D. Ovcharenko, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine,
42 Vernadskii Av., 252142 Kyiv, Ukraine
tel.: +38 044 444 0378
fax.: +38 044 444 8078
e-mail: lebovkagmail.com

Scientific area of interest:
Colloids & nanoparticles: composites filled with nanotubes and clays, electro-physical and rheological properties, nuclear magnetic resonance.
Computational Physics: percolation and jamming, anisotropic and confined systems, brittle fracture and dielectric breakdown. Patterns growth, aggregation of particles and deposition processes.
Biomaterials processing assisted by electroporation: application of pulsed electric fields (PEF) as tool for extraction and processing of biomaterials.

Representative recent publications:

• Müller M., Lebovka N., Starchenko V., Growth of Polyelectrolyte Complex Nanoparticles of PDADMAC/PSS: Experiments And Computer Simulations, J. Phys. Chem. C, 2008, 112, 8863-8869.
• Goncharuk A.I., Lebovka N.I., Lisetski L.N., Minenko S.S., Aggregation, percolation and phase transitions in nematic liquid crystal EBBA doped with carbon nanotubes, J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys., 2009, 42, 165411 (8pp).
• Cherkasova V.A., Tarasevich Y.Y., Lebovka N.I., Vygornitskii N.V., Percolation of aligned dimers on a square lattice, Eur. Phys. J. B, 2010, 74, 205-209.
• Lebovka N.I., Alexeev O.L., Electroosmotic Flow in Micro and Nanosized Systems, in: Nano-Science: Colloidal and Interfacial Aspects, Edited by Victor M. Starov. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2010, p. 129-164.
• Dolgov L., Kovalchuk O., Lebovka N., Tomylko S., Yaroshchuk O., Liquid crystal dispersions of carbon nanotubes: dielectric, electro-optical and structural peculiarities, in Carbon Nanotubes Edited by Jose Mauricio Marulanda, In-Tech Vukovar, Croatia, 2010, p.451-483.
• Lebovka N., Vorobiev E., Biomaterials processing assisted by electroporation - In: Advanced electroporation techniques in biology and medicine, Edited by Andrei G. Pakhomov, Damijan Miklavcic, Marko S. Markov, Series: Biological Effects of Electromagnetics. CRC Press, 1 edition, 2010, p. 463-490.