Igor Sokolov
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Igor Sokolov Professor and Director of NanoBioLaboratory (NABLAB) 204 Science Center Clarkson University PO Box 5280 Potsdam, NY 13699-5820 Phone: 315-268-2375 |
Educational Background
Ph.D., D.I. Mendeleev Metrology Institute Soviet Bureau of Standards (Russian NIST), (1991)
Teaching:
Molecular Forces and Interfaces
Advanced Topics in Functional Materials
Research Interests:
Professor Sokolov's research interests are in the following areas:
Condensed Matter Physics:
- Self-organization and morphogenisis of mesoporous organic-inorganic composite shapes.
- Photonics. Ultrabrigth fluorescent materials.
- Self-healing materials.
Soft Condensed Matter Physics in Biological physics:
Biological Physics is the study of biological processes/systems through the application of physics, seeking quantitative information at the molecular, cellular, organismal, and systems level.
- Biophysical properties of aging epithelial cells
- Biophysical properties of cancerous and pre-cancerous epithelial cells.
- Biosensors, Immunosensors.
- Study of human skin.
- Physiology of insects.
Surface Science:
- Molecular interaction between nanoclusters; Forces between colloids.
- Diffusion in nanochannels.
- Atomic force microscopy (AFM).
- Mechanisms of AFM imaging, etc.
- Dental surfaces.
More information can be found on his research Web site.
Selected Publications
117 refereed publications (2000+ citations, H-index is 23), 27 US patents filed and pending
Volkov, D., J. Benson, Y. Kievsky, I. Sokolov "Towards understanding of shape formation mechanism of mesoporous silica particles", Phys.Chem. Chem. Phys., 2010, 12, 341 - 344, DOI: 10.1039/b917424a (front page)
Eun-Bum Cho, Dmytro Volkov, Igor Sokolov, "Ultrabright fluorescent mesoporous silica nanoparticles", Small, 2010, 10.1002/smll.201001337, in press
M. Dokukin, N. Guz, S. Vasilyev, and I. Sokolov, "Atomic Force Microscopy to Detect Internal Live Processes in Insects", Applied Physics Letters, 96, 043701 (2010); doi:10.1063/1.3273371 (chosen for Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research)
M. Dokukin, R. Olac-Vaw, N. Guz, V. Mitin, and I. Sokolov "Addressable Photo-Charging of Single Quantum Dots Assisted with Atomic Force Microscopy Probe", Applied Physics Letters, 2009, v.95, 173105.
Iyer, S., R.M. Gaikwad, V. Subba-Rao, C.D. Woodworth, and I. Sokolov, "AFM Detects Differences in the Surface Brush on Normal and Cancerous Cervical Cells" Nature Nanotechnology, 2009: v.4, p. 389-393.
Berdyyeva, T.K., C.D. Woodworth, and I. Sokolov, Human epithelial cells increase their rigidity with ageing in vitro: direct measurements. Physics in Medicine and Biology, 2005. 50(1): p. 81-92
Firtel, M., G. Henderson, and I. Sokolov, Nanosurgery: observation of peptidoglycan strands in Lactobacillus helveticus cell walls. Ultramicroscopy, 2004. 101(2-4): p. 105-109.
Sokolov, I., H. Yang, G.A. Ozin, and C.T. Kresge, Radial patterns in mesoporous silica. Advanced Materials, 1999. 11(8): p. 636-641.
Yang, H., N. Coombs, I. Sokolov, and G.A. Ozin, Free-standing and oriented mesoporous silica films grown at the air-water interface. Nature, 1996. 381(6583): p. 589-592.
Moffat, J.W. and I.Y. Sokolov, Galaxy dynamics predictions in the nonsymmetric gravitational theory. Phys.Lett.B, 1996. 378: p. 59-67.
Ahari, H., R.L. Bedard, C.L. Bowes, N. Coombs, O. Dag, T. Jiang, G.A. Ozin, S. Petrov, I. Sokolov, A. Verma, G. Vovk, and D. Young, Effect of microgravity on the crystallization of a self-assembling layered material. Nature, 1997. 388(6645): p. 857-860.
Moiseev, Y.N., V.M. Mostepanenko, V.I. Panov, and I.Y. Sokolov, Force dependencies for the definition of the spatial resolution of the atomic force microscope. Phys.Lett.A, 1988. 132: p. 354-358.
