Spring 2012 Teaching: Phys 7810-004 "Physics of Liquid Crystals and Colloids"

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

EDUCATION

RESEARCH INTERESTS AND EXPERTISE

HONORS

Awards, grants, and fellowships 2011 Kavli Frontiers Fellow, Selected by the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 2010 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), Office of Science and Technology Policy, the White House 2010 Sigma Pi Sigma Favorite Professor selected by CU Physics Sigma Pi Sigma Student Chapter 2009 Selected as Founding Fellow of RASEI 2009 University of Colorado Energy Initiative Seed Grant award 2009 NSF CAREER Award  2008 University of Colorado JFDA award 2008 NSF-DARPA PTAP award 2008 University of Colorado Innovation Seed Grant award 2008 Liquid Crystal Materials Research Center Investigator 2008 ICAM-I2CAM fellowship (mentor-driven) 2007 International Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter (I2CAM) Grant 2006 Glenn H. Brown Prize, International Liquid Crystal Society 2004-2006 ICAM (Institute for Complex and Adaptive Matter) two-year Fellowship 2006 SPIE Grant (as a Secretary of the Great Lakes SPIE Chapter) Conference organization grant from I2CAM for "Liquid Crystal Technology and Applications", 2006 2005 Travel Fellowship of International Institute for Complex and Adaptive Matter (IICAM) 2005 UNESCO "Bio-image" Grant and travel Fellowship 2005 SPIE Grant (as a Secretary of the Great Lakes SPIE Chapter) The 2003 SPIE Educational Scholarship in Optical Science and Engineering 2002 conference grant of American Physical Society "Opportunities in Biology for Physicists" The International Liquid Crystal Society 2002 MultiMedia Award The 2002 SPIE Educational Scholarship in Optical Science and Engineering The 2002 Microscopy Society of America - Royal Microscopical Society Scholarship 2001 David B. Smith Fellowship (Kent State University) Focus on Microscopy FOM2001 Travel Scholarship 1998 International Science Foundation (G. Soros) Award recognizing outstanding research Professional achievements and service Organizer of the annual inter-continental advanced materials for photonics (I-CAMP) summer schools Co-organizer of the Frontiers of Soft Matter Symposium, Boulder, Colorado, May 16-18, 2012 Co-Chair of the I-CAMP'12 School in Boulder, Colorado, July 16 - August 11, 2012 Co-Chair, Planer-Smoluchowski Soft Matter Workshop on Liquid Crystal Colloids Chair of the I-CAMP'11 School, Argentina-Uruguay, May 28 - June 17, 2011 Co-Chair of the Metamaterials Workshop in Hangzhou, China, April, 2011 Chair of the I-CAMP 2010 summer school in Australia, June 20-July 10, 2010 Chair of the CIMOPV workshop in Brisbane, Australia, July 1-3, 2010 Chair of the Inter-continental advanced materials for photonics I-CAMP 2009 held in China, June 28-July 19 Chair of the Planer-Smoluchowski Soft Matter Workshop (PSSM09), June 22, Lviv, Ukraine: "PSSM-09" Chair of the LC2CAM conference (together with N. Clark), August 7-10, 2008 Program/organizing Committee member for the annual "Emerging Liquid Crystal Technologies" Conference at the annual Photonics West symposia, San Francisco, CA Organizer and local coordinator of the CU-Boulder Branch of the International Institute for complex Adaptive Matter (I2CAM) Editorial Board Member of the international journal "Advances in Condensed Matter Physics" Advisor of the University of Colorado SPIE student chapter Advisor of the University of Colorado MRS student chapter Referee for Science, Nature, Procs. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review E, Physics Letters A, Applied Optics, J. Phys.: Cond. Matter, Nanoscale Research Letters, Europhys. Lett., European Phys. J. E, Nanotechnology, J. Mol. Liquids, Soft Matter, PLoS One, JSTAT, ACS Nano, Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst., J. of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, Advances in Cond. Matter Physics, Opto-Electronics Review, Sensors & Actuators B, Electrocemical and Solid State Letters (ESTL), J. Nanoscience Lett., and Langmuir Chair of the Soft Matter Oversight Committee of the International Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter Instructor of the SPIE conference short courses (such as SC790 short course) on Liquid Crystals Member of the SPIE Regional Chapter Task Force Committee Instructor for the SPIE Traveling Lecturer Outreach Program Member of the Board of Governors of the International Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter (ICAM-I2CAM) Chair of the "Liquid Crystal Technology and Applications" conference, Dayton, June 12-16, 2006 Member of the SPIE Scholarships and Grants Committee Program Committee member, Conference GL06-108, "Nano- and Microphotonics: Materials, Devices, Processing, and Applications," 13-15 June 2006 Chair of the "Liquid Crystals in optics and Photonics" conference, Kent, OH, October 27-28, 2005 Organizer of the Outreach Day, Science Tours for high school students, and Career Workshop, Western Reserve Academy and Kent State Univ., OH, October 26-28, 2005 Organizing Committee member, Great Lakes Photonics Symposium GLPS2006, Dayton, OH, June 12-16, 2006 News and highlight articles about our research Ingo Dierking, “Editor's interview with Ivan Smalyukh,” Liquid Crystals Today 20, 116 (2011). Our research on colloidal self-assembly in liquid crystals is highlighted by the National Science Foundation. Elizabeth Skwiot, “ICAM Members Honored by US President Barack Obama for Their Work,” ICAM news, August 2011. “PRESIDENT HONORS OUTSTANDING EARLY-CAREER SCIENTISTS,” White House Press Release, November 5, 2010. D. J. Broer, “Liquid crystals: Defects dictated,” Nature Materials 9, 99-100 (2010): a News and Views article about our paper published in the same issue [ Nature Materials 9, 139-145 (2010) ]. Narture Materials highlight [ Nature Materials 9, 2 (2010). ] about our article [C. Lapointe, T. Mason, and I.I. Smalyukh, Science 326, 1083-1086 (2009) ]. Nature Photonics highlight [ Nature Photonics 4, 66 (2010) ] about our article I.I. Smalyukh et al., Nature Materials 9, 139-145 (2010). “I-CAMP 09 tours China,” by Karie Friedman, ICAM News, October 2009. Our paper on alignment of bacteria is featured in the Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research. Nature Photonics, October 2008 issue, article by Rachel P.C. Won about the LC2CAM workshop in Boulder organized by Ivan Smalyukh: "View from LC2CAM: Flowing Crystals Glow". An article “Workshop on Light-Controlled Liquid Crystals Provides Shining Example” by By Karie Friedman, ICAMNews, October 2008 issue: "Workshop on Light-Controlled Liquid Crystals Provides Shining Example". Our paper on CARS-PM imaging of LC director structures is featured in the Virtual Journal of Biomedical Optics. CARS microscopy textures of liquid crystals from our paper on CARS-PM imaging of LC director structures are featured on the cover page of the latest issue of Optics Express, Volume 16, issue 14 Our paper on laser manipulation of defects is featured on the cover of Optics Express, Volume 15, issue 7 Research highlights on the web page of ICAM: http://www.icam-i2cam.org/?page_id=7 Cover page of the Physical Review Letters, Volume 96, issue 17; image of a liquid crystalline pattern formed by DNA from our article I.I. Smalyukh et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 177801 (2006) was featured by Bioinfo-online, see the web page I.I. Smalyukh et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 177801 (2006) was featured by ScienceDaily, see the web page I.I. Smalyukh et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 177801 (2006) was featured by Medical News Today, see the web page I.I. Smalyukh et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 177801 (2006) was featured by WordPress.com, see the web page I.I. Smalyukh et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 177801 (2006) was featured by EurekAlert, see the web page I.I. Smalyukh et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 157801 (2005) was featured by the V.J. of Nanoscale Science and Technology, Vol. 12, Issue 16 (2005) I.I. Smalyukh and O.D. Lavrentovich, Phys. Rev. Let. 90, 085503 (2003) was featured by the V.J. of Biophysical Research, Vol. 5, Issue 5 (2003) I.I. Smalyukh and O.D. Lavrentovich, Phys. Rev. E 66, 051703 (2002) was featured by the V.J. of Biophysical Research, Volume 4, Issue 10 (2002) Phillip Espinasse, Liquid Crystal Imaging goes 3D, OE Magazine, May 2003, Page 6. Patricia E. Cladis, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., A hard look at Soft Matter, 41 (18), 3505 (2002); see also Angew. Chem. 114 (18), 3655 (2002) Ingo Dierking, Fluorescence Confocal Polarizing Microscopy: Imaging Liquid Crystal Director Fields in Three Dimensions, CHEMPHYSCHEM 2, 663-664 (2001)

TEACHING AND LECTURING

Conference Short Courses Short Course SC790 “Liquid Crystals: from fundamentals to applications”, offered at the SPIE conferences and symposia (at least two times a year at SPIE Annual Meeting & Photonics West) Short Course “Liquid Crystals” co-located with the “Nanophotonics” conference of the Optical Society of America, June 2007, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China Short Course “Liquid Crystals” co-located with the LCOPV workshop, August 7-10, 2010, Univ. Colorado at Boulder, USA Plenary and invited conference presentations 13th International Symposium on Colloidal and Molecular Electrooptics, Ghent, Belgium, September 2-5, 2012 The Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics workshop on Knotted Fields, Santa Barbara, California, 18 June - 14 July, 2012 Advanced Liquid Crystal Technologies conference, SPIE Photonics West 2012, San Francisco, USA, January 21-26, 2012 Conference on Current Trends and Issues on Renewable Energy-2011 (CTIRE-2011), Mahatma Gandhi University, Nalgonda, India, December 19-21, 2011 Soft Matter Workshop, Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India, November 9-11, 2011 (plenary) Gordon Research Conference on Liquid Crystals, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, June 19-24, 2011 Inter-Continental Advanced Materials for Photonics 2011 (I-CAMP 2011) Summer School, Montevideo - Buenos Aires - Corrientes, May 28 - June 17, 2011 Metamaterials Workshop, Hangzhou, China, April 9-12, 2011 Photonics West Symposium of the International Society for Optical Engineering, Conference "Emerging Liquid Crystal Technologies," January 22-27, 2011, San Francisco, USA Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, November 29 - December 3, 2010, Boston, USA Fourth International Conference on Electroactive Polymers: Materials and Devices, November 21-26, 2010, Surajkund, India Conference on Optical Trapping & Optical Micromanipulation (OTOM), San Diego, California, August 1-5, 2010.  23rd International Liquid Crystal Conference ILCC2010, July 11-16, 2010, Krakow, Poland (plenary) SPIE Liquid Crystal conference XIV, part of the SPIE Annual Meeting “Optics & Photonics,” August 1-4, 2010, San Diego, California. Conference “Confined Liquid Crystals: Landmarks and Perspectives”, Ljubljana, Slovenia, July 19-20, 2010 I-CAMP 2010 Summer School, June 19-July 11, Sydney-Brisbane, Australia Conference “Emerging liquid crystal technologies,” Photonic West, January 23-28, 2010, San Francisco, CA Conference “Emerging liquid crystal technologies,” Photonic West, Jan 24-29, 2009, San Jose, CA Liquid Crystal Microsymposium at the SIAM meeting on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science, May 11-14, 2008 Conference "Nanophotonics" of the Optical Society of America, June 17-22, 2007, Hangzhou, China Conference "Emerging liquid crystal technologies", Photonic West, Jan 20-25, 2007, San Jose, CA 21st International Liquid Crystal Conference, ILCC2006, Keystone, CO (plenary) Glenn H. Brown Prize lecture at the 21st International Liquid Crystal Conference, ICLC-2006, July 2-6, 2006, Keystone, CO 19th International Liquid Crystal Conference, ILCC2002, 30 June - 5 July, Edinburgh, UK, as a winner of the 2002 International Liquid Crystal Society Multimedia Prize Light and Optics in Biomedicine 2002 (LOB2002), October 23-24, 2002, Warsaw, Poland Invited colloquia and seminars Distinguished lecturer series “Gateways to Emergence in Science and Society: Toward a Science of Sustainability”, Davis, California, January 19, 2012 OEQS Seminar, University of Colorado at Boulder, "Optical manipulation and nonlinear optical imaging of liquid crystals," Boulder, Colorado, March 18, 2011 Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright Patterson Research Laboratory, "Tunable self-assembly and self-alignment of anisotropic plasmonic nanoparticles in liquid crystals," February 18, 2011 Johns Hopkins University, Condensed Matter Seminar, "Light-directed self-assembly of colloids and localized particle-like structures in chiral nematic liquid crystals," February 16, 2011 Rice University, Chemical Engineering Department Seminar "Reconfigurable structural self-assembly and self-alignment of anisotropic nanoparticles in liquid crystals," February 10, 2011 Physics Colloquium at the Colorado School of Mines, "Control of colloids and topological defects in liquid crystals by optical phase singularities," January 18, 2011 School of Mathematics Seminar, workshop on topology “Control of Liquid Crystal Defects using Optical Phase Singularities”, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, October 6, 2010 (http://math.ias.edu/seminars) Condensed Matter Seminar, "Assembly and Alignment of Colloidal Particles Mediated by Liquid Crystal Defects and Elasticity", Department of Physics, University of Pennsylvania, September 29, 2010 (http://www.physics.upenn.edu/~cmsem/) SPIE Visiting Lecturer Program Lecture “Laser tweezers and optical manipulation,” School of Optics, The National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics & Electronics (INAOE), Puebla, Mexico, 2010 Condensed Matter Seminar “Colloidal Self-Assembly and Self-Alignment in Liquid Crystals”, Inst.for Cond. Matter Physics of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Lviv, Ukraine, July 26, 2010 SPIE Visiting Lecturer Program Lecture “Seeing in 3D: confocal, two-photon flourescence, and CARS microscopy,” Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, October 1, 2010 Seminar Lecture “Liquid Crystals of DNA and F-actin biopolymers,” Institute of Cell Biology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, July 22, 2010 Nonlinear Physics Center Seminar “Towards Reconfigurable Optical Metamaterials: Nanoparticle Self-Assembly and Self-Alignment in liquid crystals”, Department of Physics, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, July 9, 2010 Colloquium “Self-Assembled Optical Metamaterials Based on Liquid Crystals”, Institute of Electro-Optical Science and Engineering (EOSE), National Cheng-Kung University (NCKU), Tainan, Taiwan, June 18, 2010 Condensed Matter Physics Seminar "Optically-induced quasiparticles in confined chiral nematic liquid crystals", University of California at Davis, April 8, 2009 Physics Colloquium "Contact-free Optical Manipulation of Micro- and Nano-sized Objects Using Holographic Laser Tweezers", CSU-Sacramento, April 9, 2009 COSI Seminar lecture "Non-contact optical control of multiple defects and structures in liquid crystals using holographic and time-shared optical trapping," Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder, February 2, 2009 Saturday Physics Series Seminar “Laser Tweezers & Laser Shapers: Moving things without touching," Dept. of Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder, April 18, 2009 Physical Chemistry Seminar, “Light-Controlled Liquid Crystals”, UCLA, October 20, 2008 SPIE Visiting Lecturer Program Lecture “Laser tweezers and laser shapers,” Department of Physics, Taras Shevchenko National University, Ukraine, Desember 17, 2008 Seminar, “Tunable self-organized and optically-generated ordered structures for electro-optic and photonic applications,” Department of Applied Physics, Yale University, March 26, 2007 Colloquium, “Probing and Controlling Order in Soft Matter,” Department of Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder, March 19, 2007 Colloquium, “Colloidal self-organization and optical control of structures in ordered biomolecular and soft materials,” Department of Physics, Georgetown University, February 22, 2007 Seminar, “Artificial and natural order in biological systems: from liquid crystalline patterns of DNA to aligned bacteria,” Department of Physics, Iowa State University, February 27, 2007 Colloquium, “Non-contact optical control in soft materials: from stretching disclinations to photonic applications,” Department of Physics, Syracuse University, February 20, 2007 Condensed Matter Physics Seminar, “Elasticity-Mediated Colloidal Interactions and Controlled Self-Assembly in Liquid Crystals,” Dept. of Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder, March 20, 2007 Seminar, "Self-organized periodic structures in liquid crystalline biomolecular and soft materials," Department of Physics, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY, April 18, 2007 Colloquium, “Probing & Controlling Order in Soft Matter: From Confined Liquid Crystals to Aligned DNA,” Department of Physics, Emory University, Atlanta, February 2, 2007 Condensed Matter Physics Seminar, “Elasticity-Mediated Colloidal Interactions and Controlled Self-Assembly in Liquid Crystals,” Syracuse University, February 21, 2007 Seminar, “Self-organized structures in biological systems: from periodic patterns of DNA to aligned bacteria,” San Francisco State University, February 5, 2007 Seminar, “Polarization-Sensitive Optical Trapping and Imaging of Ordered Structures in Soft Materials,” Department of Physics, University of Missouri at Kansas City, January 29, 2007 Seminar, “Tunable ordered structures for photonic applications,” School of Engineering, University of Dayton, Ohio, April 11, 2007 Seminar, “Probing and Controlling Order in Soft and Biomolecular Materials,” University of California at Merced, February 7, 2007 Seminar, “Colloidal particles in ordered biomolecular & soft materials: from controlled self-organization to optical manipulation,” Physics Department, Virginia Commonwealth University, February 16, 2007 Seminar, “Colloidal self-organization & optical control of structures in ordered biomolecular & soft materials,” Department of Physics, Kansas State University, March 1, 2007 Colloquium, “Colloidal interactions & controlled self-assembly in ordered soft & biomolecular materials,” Department of Physics, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, March 5, 2007 Seminar, “Order in biological systems: from liquid crystalline patterns of DNA to aligned bacteria,” Department of Physics, Boise State University, March 15, 2007 Solid State & Optics Seminar, Dept. of Applied Physics, Yale Univ., New Haven, February 14, 2007 Seminar, “Ordered structures and patterns of biopolymers and bacteria,” Department of Physics, Florida Atlantic University, March 29, 2007 Seminar, “Focused Laser Beams in Liquid Crystals: 3D imaging, trapping, and manipulation,” Fordham University, New York, November 9, 2005 Seminar, “Quantitative Study of Defects and Colloidal Interactions in Liquid Crystals Using Laser Tweezers and Fluorescence Confocal Polarizing Microscopy,” University of Montpellier II, Montpellier, France, July 15, 2005 Seminar, “Electric-field-induced nematic-cholesteric transition and 3-D director structures in homeotropic cholesteric cells,” AlphaMicron Inc., Kent, OH, January 12, 2005 Electro-optics Seminar, “3-D imaging of orientational structures in cholesteric liquid crystals and their electro-optic applications,” School of Engineering, Univ. of Dayton, Dayton, OH, April 2, 2004 Seminar, “Ordered structures in liquid crystals, anisotropic emulsions and suspensions,” Institute for Lasers, Photonics, and Biophotonics, State University of New York at Buffalo, March 12, 2004

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

LANGUAGES

English, Ukrainian, Polish, and Russian

PUBLICATIONS

Chapters in books I.I. Smalyukh and O.D. Lavrentovich, Defects, surface anchoring, and tree-dimensional director fields in the lamellar structure of cholesteric liquid crystals as studied by Fluorescence Confocal Polarizing Microscopy, pp. 205-250, In Topology in Condensed matter, M. Monastyrsky (ed.), (Springer, Berlin, 2006) S.V. Shiyanovskii, I.I. Smalyukh, and O.D. Lavrentovich, Computer simulations and fluorescence confocal polarizing microscopy of structures in cholesteric liquid crystals, pp.229-270, In Defects in Liquid Crystals: Computer Simulations, Theory and Experiments, O.D. Lavrentovich, P. Pasini, C. Zannoni, and S. Zumer (eds.), (NATO Science Series, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001) T. Lee, B. Senyuk, R. P. Trivedi, and I.I. Smalyukh, Optical microscopy of soft matter systems. In press. In Soft Matter, A. Fernandez De Las Nieves (ed.), (Wiley-VCH, 2011) http://arxiv.org/abs/1108.3287. Articles in refereed journals R. P. Trivedi, D. Engström, and I. I. Smalyukh, “Optical manipulation of colloids and defect structures in anisotropic liquid crystal fluids,” J. Opt. 13, 044001 (2011). I. I. Smalyukh, “Deft tricks with liquid crystals,” Nature 478, 330 (2011). I.I. Smalyukh, Y. Lansac, N. Clark, R. Trivedi, “Three-dimensional structure and multistable optical switching of Triple Twist Toron quasiparticles in anisotropic fluids.” Nature Mater. 9, 139-145 (2010). C. Lapointe, T. Mason, and I.I. Smalyukh, “Shape-controlled colloidal interactions in nematic liquid crystals,” Science 326, 1083-1086 (2009). A. Martinez, H. C. Mireles, and I.I. Smalyukh, “Large-area optoelastic manipulation of colloidal particles in liquid crystals using photoresponsive molecular surface monolayers,” Proc. Natl. Acad. U.S.A. 108, 20891-20896 (2011). I. I. Smalyukh, “Liquid crystals enable chemoresponsive reconfigurable colloidal self-assembly”, Proc. Natl. Acad. U.S.A. 107, 3945-3946 (2010). Q. Liu, Y. Cui, D. Gardner, X. Li, S. He, I.I. Smalyukh, “Self-Alignment of Plasmonic Gold Nanorods in Reconfigurable Anisotropic Fluids for Tunable Bulk Metamaterial Applications,” Nano Lett. 10, 1347 (2010). N. Petit-Garrido, R. P. Trivedi, J. Ignes-Mullol, J. Claret, C. Lapointe, F. Sagues, and I. I. Smalyukh, “Healing of defects at the interface of nematic liquid crystals and structured Langmuir-Blodgett monolayers,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 177801 (2011). C. P. Lapointe, S. Hopkins, T. G. Mason, and I.I. Smalyukh, “Electrically-Driven Multi-axis Rotational Dynamics of Colloidal Platelets in Nematic Liquid Crystals”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 178301 (2010). I.I. Smalyukh, A.V. Kachynski, A.N. Kuzmin, and P.N. Prasad, “Laser trapping in anisotropic fluids and polarization controlled particle dynamics,” Proc. Natl. Acad. U.S.A. 103, 18048 (2006) J. S. Evans, C. Beier, and I. I. Smalyukh, “Alignment of high-aspect ratio colloidal gold nanoplatelets in nematic liquid crsytals,” J. Appl. Phys. 110, 033535 (2011). C. P. Lapointe, T. G. Mason, and I. I. Smalyukh, “Optical Alignment and Rotation of Trapped Anisotropic Colloids in Nematic Liquid Crystals by Vortex Laser Beams,” Opt. Express 19, 18182 (2011). D. Engström, R. P. Trivedi, M. Persson, M. Goksör, K. A. Bertness, and I. I. Smalyukh, “Three-dimensional imaging of liquid crystal structures and defects by means of holographic manipulation of colloidal nanowires with faceted sidewalls,” Soft Matter 7, 6304 (2011). B. Dan, T. Wingfield, J. Evans, F. Mirri, C. Pint, M. Pasquali, and I. I. Smalyukh, “Spontaneous Ordering of Gold Nanorods on Highly Aligned SWNT Macrostructures,” ACS Appl. Materials & Interfaces 3, 3718-3724 (2011). Q. Liu, C. Beier, J. Evans, T. Lee, S. He, and I. I. Smalyukh, “Self-Alignment of Dye Molecules in Micelles and Lamellae for Three-Dimensional Imaging of Lyotropic Liquid Crystals,” Langmuir 27, 7446-7452 (2011). T. Lee, R.P. Trivedi, and I.I. Smalyukh, “Multimodal nonlinear optical polarizing microscopy of long-range molecular order in liquid crystals”, Opt. Lett. 35, 3447-3449 (2010). R. Pratibha, W. Park, I. I. Smalyukh, “Colloidal gold nanoparticle dispersions in smectic liquid crystals and thin nanoparticle-decorated smectic films,” J. Appl. Phys. 107, 063511 (2010). E. C. Gartland, Jr., H. Huang, O. D. Lavrentovich, P. Palffy-Muhoray, I. I. Smalyukh, T. Kosa and B. Taheri, “Electric-Field Induced Transitions in a Cholesteric Liquid-Crystal Film with Negative Dielectric Anisotropy”, J. of Computational & Theoretical Nanoscience 7, 709-725 (2010). R. Deb, R. Nath, M. Paul, N.V. S. Rao, F. Tuluri, Y. Shen, R. Shao, D. Chen, C. Zhu, I.I. Smalyukh, and N.A. Clark, “Four-ring achiral unsymmetrical bent core molecules forming strongly fluorescent smectic liquid crystals with spontaneous polar and chiral ordered B7 and B1 phases.” J. Mat. Chem. 20, 7332-7336 (2010). D.-K. Yoon, J. Yoon, Y.H. Kim, M.C. Choi, J. Kim, O. Sakata, S. Kimura, M. W. Kim, I. I. Smalyukh, N.A. Clark, M. Ree, and H.-T. Jung, “Liquid crystal periodic zigzags by geometrical & surface anchoring induced confinement: Origin and internal structure from mesoscopic scale to molecular level” Phys Rev. E 82, 041705 (2010). R. T. Trivedi, T. Lee, K. A. Bertness I. I. Smalyukh, “Three dimensional optical manipulation and structural imaging of soft materials by use of laser tweezers and multimodal nonlinear microscopy” Optics Express 18, 27658 (2010). D. K. Yoon, R. Deb, E. Körblova, R. Shao, N. V. S. Rao, D. M. Walba, I. I. Smalyukh, N. A. Clark, “Organization of Polarization Splay Modulated (B7) Smectic Phases by Confinement in Channels”, Proc. Nat. Acad. U.S.A. 105, 21311 (2010). T. Dutta Choudhury, N. V. S. Rao, R. Tenent, J. Blackburn, B. Gregg, and I. I. Smalyukh, “Homeotropic alignment and director structures in thin films of triphenylamine based discotic liquid crystals controlled by supporting nanostructured substrates and surface confinement,” J. Phys. Chem. B 115, 609 (2011). 25. Q. Liu, T. Asavei, T. Lee, H. Rubinsztein-Dunlop, S. He, and I. I. Smalyukh, “Measurement of viscosity coefficients of liquid crystals by rotating laser-trapped anisotropic micropartricles,” Opt. Express 19, 25134-25143 (2011). D.-K. Yoon, Y. Yi, Y. Shen, E. D. Korblova, D. M. Walba, I. I. Smalyukh, and N. A. Clark, “Orientation of a Helical Nanofilament (B4) Liquid-Crystal Phase: Topographic Control of Confinement, Shear Flow, and Temperature Gradients,” Advanced Materials, 23, 1962-1967 (2011). D. F. Gardner, J. S. Evans, and I. I. Smalyukh, “Towards Reconfigurable Optical Metamaterials: Colloidal Nanoparticle Self-Assembly and Self-Alignment in Liquid Crystals,” Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 545, 1227 (2011). D. B. Conkey, R. P. Trivedi, S. R. P. Pavani, I. I. Smalyukh, and R. Piestun, “3D parallel particle tracking with holographic optical tweezers using engineered psf,” Opt. Express 19, 3835 (2011). B. Dan, N. Behabtu, A. Martinez, J. S. Evans, D. V. Kosynkin, J. M. Tour, M. Pasquali, and I. I. Smalyukh, “Liquid Crystals of Aqueous, Giant Graphene Oxide Flakes,” Soft Matter 7, 11154-11159 (2011). O. Trushkevych, P. Ackerman, W.A. Crossland, and I.I. Smalyukh, Optically Generated Adaptive Localized Structures in Confined Chiral Liquid Crystals Doped with Fullerene, Appl. Phys. Lett. 97, 201906 (2010). N. V. S. Rao, T. Dutta Choudhury, R. Deb, M. K. Paul, T. R. Rao, Tuluri Francis, and I. I. Smalyukh, “Fluorescent lanthanide complexes of Schiff base ligands possessing N-aryl moiety: influence of chain length on crossover (calamitic to discotic) phase behaviour,” Liq. Cryst. 37, 1393 (2010). R. Pratibha, K. Park, I. I. Smalyukh, and W. Park, “Tunable optical metamaterial based on liquid crystal-gold nanosphere composites,” Optics Express 17, 19459-19469 (2009). I.I. Smalyukh, J. Butler, J. D. Shrout, M. R. Parsek, and G.C.L. Wong, Elasticity-mediated nematic-like bacterial organization in model extracellular DNA matrix, Phys. Rev. E 78 030701(R) (2008). Featured in the Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research. S. Anand, R.P. Trivedi, G. Stockdale, and I.I. Smalyukh, “Non-contact optical control of multiple particles and defects using holographic optical trapping with phase-only liquid crystal spatial light modulator”, Proc. SPIE 7232, 723208 (2009).  A.V. Kachynski, A.N. Kuzmin, P.N. Prasad, and I.I. Smalyukh, Realignment-enhanced coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) and three-dimensional imaging in anisotropic fluids, Optics Express 16, 10617-10632 (2008); Featured in the Virtual Journal of Biomedical Optics. G.H. Lai, J.C. Butler, O.V. Zribi, I.I. Smalyukh, T.E. Angelini, K. Purdy, R. Golestanian, and G.C.L. Wong, “Self-organized gels in DNA/F-actin mixtures without crosslinkers: entangled networks of nematic domains with tunable density,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 218303 (2008).  A.V. Kachynski, A.N. Kuzmin, P.N. Prasad, and I.I. Smalyukh, Coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) polarized microscopy of three-dimensional director structures in liquid crystals, Appl. Phys. Lett. 91, 151905 (2007) ; Featured in the Virtual Journal of Biomedical Optics. I.I. Smalyukh, D.S. Kaputa, A.V. Kachynski, A.N. Kuzmin, and P.N. Prasad, Optics Express 15, 4359 (2007)  I.I. Smalyukh, O.V. Zribi, J.C. Butler, O.D. Lavrentovich, G.C.L. Wong, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 177801 (2006)  I.I. Smalyukh, O.D. Lavrentovich, A. Kuzmin, A. Kachynski, P.N.Prasad, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 157801 (2005) I.I. Smalyukh, S. Chernyshuk, B. Lev, A. Nych, U. Ognysta, V. Nazarenko, O.D. Lavrentovich, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 117801 (2004)  I.I. Smalyukh and O.D. Lavrentovich, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 085503 (2003) I.I. Smalyukh, A. Kuzmin, A. Kachynski, P.N.Prasad, O.D. Lavrentovich, Appl. Phys. Lett. 86, 021913 (2005)  I.I. Smalyukh, Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 477, 23-41 (2007).  I.I. Smalyukh, R. Pratibha, N.V. Madhusudana, O.D. Lavrentovich, European Phys. J. E 16, 179 (2005) M. Gu, I.I. Smalyukh, O.D. Lavrentovich, Appl. Phys. Lett. 88, 061110 (2006)  N. Gheorghiu, I.I. Smalyukh, O.D. Lavrentovich, J.T. Gleeson, Phys. Rev. E 74, 041702 (2006) B.I. Senyuk, I.I. Smalyukh, O.D. Lavrentovich, Phys. Rev. E 74, 011712 (2006)  I.I. Smalyukh, B. I. Senyuk, S. V. Shiyanovskii, O. D. Lavrentovich, A. N. Kuzmin, A. V. Kachynski, and P.N. Prasad, Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 450(1), 79-95 (2006) B.I. Senyuk, I.I. Smalyukh, O.D. Lavrentovich, Opt. Lett., 30, 349-351 (2005)  I.I. Smalyukh, B. I. Senyuk, P. Palffy-Muhoray, O. D. Lavrentovich, H. Huang, E. C. Gartland, Jr., V. H. Bodnar, T. Kosa, B. Taheri, Phys. Rev. E 72, 061707 (2005) G. Liao, I.I. Smalyukh, J.R. Kelly, O.D. Lavrentovich, A. Jakli, Phys. Rev. E 72, 031704 (2005)  S.V Shiyanovskii, T. Schneider, I.I. Smalyukh et al, Phys. Rev. E 71, 020702(R) (2005) A. Vella, R. Intartaglia, C. Blank, I.I. Smalyukh et al, Phys. Rev. E 71, 061705 (2005)  G. Zhang, J. L. West, A. Glushchenko, I.I. Smalyukh, O. D. Lavrentovich, SID Digest 36, 691 (2005)  S.V. Shiyanovskii, O.D. Lavrentovich, T. Schneider, T. Ishikawa, I.I. Smalyukh, C. Woolverton, G. Niehaus, K. J. Doane, Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 434, 587 (2005) B.I. Senyuk, I.I. Smalyukh, O.D. Lavrentovich, SPIE Procs. 5936, 59360W1 (2005)  G. Zhang, A. Glushchenko, J. L. West, I.I. Smalyukh et al, SPIE Procs. 5936, 593615 (2005) I.I. Smalyukh, B.I. Senyuk, M. Gu, O.D. Lavrentovich, SPIE Procs. 5947, 594707 (2005)  I.I. Smalyukh, R. Pratibha, O.D. Lavrentovich, N.V. Madhusudana, Liquid Crystals 30, 877 (2003) S. Garg, K. Purdy, E. Bramley, I. Smalyukh, O. Lavrentovich, Liquid Crystals 30, 1377 (2003)  I.I. Smalyukh and O.D. Lavrentovich, Phys. Rev. E 66, 051703-051716 (2002) S. Nazzal, I.I. Smalyukh, O. D. Lavrentovich, and M.A. Khan, Int. J. of Pharmaceutics 235, 247-265 (2002)  I.I. Smalyukh, S. Shiyanovskii, D. Termine, O.D. Lavrentovich, G.I.T. Laboratory Journal 3, 118-120 (2002) I.I. Smalyukh, S.V. Shiyanovskii, and O.D. Lavrentovich, Chem. Phys. Lett. 336, 88-96 (2001)  I.I. Smalyukh, S.V. Shiyanovskii, D.J. Termine, O.D. Lavrentovich, Imaging&Microscopy 3, 16-19 (2001)  I.I. Smalyukh and Yu. A. Nastishin, Ukrainian Phys. J. 45, 941-948 (2000) Yu.A. Nastishin and I.I. Smalyukh, Optics & Spectroscopy 85, 465-468 (1998); Optika i spectroscopiya 85, 507-511 (1998)  Yu.A. Nastishin and I.I. Smalyukh, Journal of Physical Studies 2, 335-338 (1998)  Yu.A. Nastishin and I.I. Smalyukh, SPIE Procs. 3488, 149-155 (1998) Yu.A. Nastishin, I.I. Smalyukh, and Z.Yu. Gotra, SPIE Procs. 3488, 21-28 (1998)  Gotra O.Z., Senyuk B. I., Smalyukh I.I., Visnyk LPNU 305, 82-86 (1996)  Z.Yu. Gotra, Yu.A. Nastishin, I.I. Smalyukh, B.I. Senyuk, Visnyk LPNU 305, 91-99 (1996) Popular science articles & conference reviews I. I. Smalyukh, "Confined Liquid Crystals: a Workshop in Ljubljana", Liquid Crystals Today, 20, 63 (2011) I. I. Smalyukh, and A. Trokhymchuk, "Planer Smoluchowski Soft Matter Workshop on Liquid Crystals and Colloidal Dispersions," Cond. Matter Phys. 13, 37101 (2010) P. Ackerman, R.P. Trivedi, T. Lee, and I.I. Smalyukh, "Control of defects in matter using optical phase singularities", SPIE Newsroom, DOI: 10.1117/2.1201008.003079, August (2010) I.I. Smalyukh, Microscience 2002, Procs. Royal Microscopical Society 37(3), 157-158 (2002) Internet presentations I.I. Smalyukh, FCPM: Imaging of Liquid Crystals in 3D, 2002

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