Vladimir Tsukruk
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Vladimir Tsukruk received the M.S. degree in molecular physics from National University of Ukraine, Kiev, in 1978; Ph.D. degree in polymer science from Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry in 1983; another Ph.D. degree in chemistry from National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, in 1988. In 1990, he was a postdoctor (Wendorff) of polymer engineering at Technical University of Darmstadt; and in 1992-1993, he was postdoctor in polymer science at Polymer Science Department, Akron University. His publications include more than 250 refereed papers, 17 reviews, three books, 4 patents, and more than 300 presentations at conferences.
Biography Updated on 8 October 2007
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Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]
- Buckling Behavior of Highly Oriented Silver Nanowires Encapsulated within Layer-by-Layer Films
Chemistry of Materials, vol. 19, no. 8, pp. 2007–2015, 2007 - Negative Thermal Expansion in Ultrathin Plasma Polymerized Films
Chemistry of Materials, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 129–131, 2007 - Langmuir, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 265–273, 2007
- Substrate- and Time-Dependent Photoluminescence of Quantum Dots Inside the Ultrathin Polymer LbL Film
Langmuir, vol. 23, no. 8, pp. 4509–4515, 2007 - Langmuir, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 25–30, 2007
- Robust, fluorescent, and nanoscale freestanding conjugated films
Soft Matter, vol. 3, no. 4, p. 432, 2007 - Robust Fluorescent Response of Micropatterned Multilayered Films
Journal of Macromolecular Science, Part B, vol. 46, no. 1, pp. 7–19, 2007 - Nano Letters, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 730–734, 2006
- Macromolecules, vol. 39, no. 14, pp. 4756–4766, 2006
- Nano Letters, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 740–743, 2006
- Nano Letters, vol. 6, no. 10, pp. 2254–2259, 2006
- Nano Letters, vol. 6, no. 7, pp. 1443–1448, 2006
- Nano Letters, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 435–440, 2006
- Langmuir, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 1027–1037, 2006
- Langmuir, vol. 22, no. 14, pp. 6168–6176, 2006
- Langmuir, vol. 22, no. 16, pp. 7011–7015, 2006
- Chemistry of Materials, vol. 18, no. 11, pp. 2632–2634, 2006
- Unfolding the multi-length scale domain structure of silk fibroin protein
Polymer, vol. 47, no. 16, pp. 5821–5830, 2006 - Role of functionalized terminal groups in formation of nanofibrillar morphology of hyperbranched polyesters
Polymer, vol. 47, no. 24, pp. 8137–8146, 2006 - Freestanding 2D Arrays of Silver Nanorods
Advanced Materials, vol. 18, no. 21, pp. 2895–2899, 2006 - 3D Polymer Microframes That Exploit Length-Scale-Dependent Mechanical Behavior
Advanced Materials, vol. 18, no. 16, pp. 2123–2127, 2006 - Freestanding Nanostructures via Layer-by-Layer Assembly
Advanced Materials, vol. 18, no. 7, pp. 829–840, 2006 - Trilayered Ceramic–Metal–Polymer Microcantilevers with Dramatically Enhanced Thermal Sensitivity
Advanced Materials, vol. 18, no. 9, pp. 1157–1161, 2006 - Flexible and Robust 2D Arrays of Silver Nanowires Encapsulated within Freestanding Layer-by-Layer Films
Advanced Functional Materials, vol. 16, no. 15, pp. 2024–2034, 2006 - The Elastic Properties and Plastic Behavior of Two-Dimensional Polymer Structures Fabricated by Laser Interference Lithography
Advanced Functional Materials, vol. 16, no. 10, pp. 1324–1330, 2006 - Gradient Array of Freely Suspended Nanomembranes
Advanced Functional Materials, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 27–32, 2006 - Microtribological and Nanomechanical Properties of Switchable Y-Shaped Amphiphilic Polymer Brushes
Advanced Functional Materials, vol. 15, no. 9, pp. 1529–1540, 2005 - Freely Suspended Layer-by-Layer Nanomembranes: Testing Micromechanical Properties
Advanced Functional Materials, vol. 15, no. 5, pp. 771–780, 2005 - Strain-Sensitive Raman Modes of Carbon Nanotubes in Deflecting Freely Suspended Nanomembranes
Advanced Materials, vol. 17, no. 17, pp. 2127–2131, 2005 - Freely Suspended Gold Nanoparticle Arrays
Advanced Materials, vol. 17, no. 13, pp. 1669–1673, 2005 - Intensive electric arc interaction with polymer surfaces: reorganization of surface morphology and microstructure
Polymer, vol. 46, no. 18, pp. 7028–7036, 2005 - Langmuir monolayers from functionalized amphiphiles with epoxy terminal groups
Thin Solid Films, vol. 493, no. 1-2, pp. 237–248, 2005 - Chemistry of Materials, vol. 17, no. 10, pp. 2490–2493, 2005
- Chemistry of Materials, vol. 17, no. 22, pp. 5489–5497, 2005
- The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 109, no. 43, pp. 20393–20402, 2005
- Langmuir, vol. 21, no. 14, pp. 6392–6398, 2005
- Macromolecules, vol. 38, no. 19, pp. 8028–8035, 2005
- Macromolecules, vol. 38, no. 21, pp. 8765–8774, 2005
- Nano Letters, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 491–495, 2005
- Self-recovery of stressed nanomembranes
Applied Physics Letters, vol. 86, no. 12, p. 121912, 2005 - Organized arrays of nanostructures in freely suspended nanomembranes
Soft Matter, vol. 1, no. 5, p. 334, 2005 - Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering Monitoring of Chain Alignment in Freely Suspended Nanomembranes
Physical Review Letters, vol. 95, no. 11, 2005 - High-resolution Raman microscopy of curled carbon nanotubes
Applied Physics Letters, vol. 85, no. 13, p. 2598, 2004 - Nanomechanical probing of layered nanoscale polymer films with atomic force microscopy
Journal of Materials Research, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 716–728, 2004 - Langmuir, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 882–890, 2004
- Freely suspended nanocomposite membranes as highly sensitive sensors
Nature Materials, vol. 3, no. 10, Article ID nmat1212, 7 pages, 2004 - Macromolecules, vol. 37, no. 17, pp. 6511–6522, 2004
- Macromolecules, vol. 37, no. 20, pp. 7497–7506, 2004
- Langmuir, vol. 20, no. 21, pp. 9044–9052, 2004
- The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 108, no. 14, pp. 4385–4393, 2004
- Langmuir, vol. 20, no. 23, pp. 10046–10054, 2004
- Langmuir, vol. 20, no. 22, pp. 9423–9427, 2004
- Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 126, no. 31, pp. 9675–9684, 2004
- Adaptive and responsive surfaces through controlled reorganization of interfacial polymer layers
Progress in Polymer Science, vol. 29, no. 7, pp. 635–698, 2004 - Micro-surface and bulk thermal behavior of a single-grain decagonal Al–Ni–Co quasicrystal
Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, vol. 334-335, pp. 312–316, 2004 - Oxidation kinetics of an AlCuFeCr approximant compound: an ellipsometric study
Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, vol. 334-335, pp. 532–539, 2004 - Some aspects of AFM nanomechanical probing of surface polymer films
European Polymer Journal, vol. 40, no. 5, pp. 949–956, 2004 - Nanofibers from Functionalized Dendritic Molecules
Angewandte Chemie International Edition, vol. 43, no. 39, pp. 5246–5249, 2004 - Supramolecular Multiscale Fibers through One-Dimensional Assembly of Dendritic Molecules
Advanced Materials, vol. 16, no. 23-24, pp. 2206–2212, 2004 - Compliant, Robust, and Truly Nanoscale Free-Standing Multilayer Films Fabricated Using Spin-Assisted Layer-by-Layer Assembly
Advanced Materials, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 157–161, 2004 - Effect of Pulsed Laser Radiation on the Properties of Resistive Thick Films Based on Nickel and Barium Borides
Powder Metallurgy and Metal Ceramics, vol. 43, no. 1/2, pp. 94–98, 2004 - Micromechanical properties of glassy and rubbery polymer brush layers as probed by atomic force microscopy
Polymer, vol. 44, no. 16, pp. 4557–4562, 2003 - Synthetic and bio-hybrid nanoscale layers with tailored surface functionalities
Progress in Organic Coatings, vol. 47, no. 3-4, pp. 288–291, 2003 - Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 125, no. 42, pp. 12722–12723, 2003
- Dramatic enhancement of wear stability in oil-enriched polymer gel nanolayers
Wear, vol. 255, no. 7-12, pp. 801–807, 2003 - Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 125, no. 51, pp. 15912–15921, 2003
- Langmuir, vol. 19, no. 19, pp. 7832–7836, 2003
- Langmuir, vol. 19, no. 15, pp. 6126–6134, 2003
- Langmuir, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 495–499, 2003
- Macromolecules, vol. 36, no. 9, pp. 3101–3110, 2003
- Macromolecules, vol. 36, no. 8, pp. 2825–2831, 2003
- Macromolecules, vol. 36, no. 19, pp. 7244–7255, 2003
- Nanoscale stiffness of individual dendritic molecules and their aggregates
Applied Physics Letters, vol. 82, no. 6, p. 907, 2003 - Tribology Letters, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 101–104, 2002
- Tribology Letters, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 35–40, 2002
- Macromolecules, vol. 35, no. 15, pp. 5963–5973, 2002
- Macromolecules, vol. 35, no. 13, pp. 5131–5139, 2002
- Langmuir, vol. 18, no. 9, pp. 3408–3412, 2002
- The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 106, no. 29, pp. 7246–7251, 2002
- Biomacromolecules, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 106–115, 2002
- The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 106, no. 43, pp. 11277–11284, 2002
- Towards self-lubricated nanocoatings
Tribology International, vol. 35, no. 12, pp. 829–836, 2002 - Wear stability of polymer nanocomposite coatings with trilayer architecture
Wear, vol. 252, no. 11-12, pp. 946–955, 2002 - Microthermal analysis of polymeric materials
Thermochimica Acta, vol. 395, no. 1-2, pp. 151–158, 2002 - Langmuir–Blodgett monolayers from lower generation amphiphilic monodendrons
Thin Solid Films, vol. 406, no. 1-2, pp. 233–240, 2002 - Low generation photochromic monodendrons on a solid surface
Thin Solid Films, vol. 410, no. 1-2, pp. 147–158, 2002 - Polymer nanocomposite coatings with non-linear elastic response
Polymer, vol. 43, no. 5, pp. 1695–1699, 2002 - Triplex molecular layers with nonlinear nanomechanical response
Applied Physics Letters, vol. 80, no. 25, p. 4825, 2002 - Molecular Lubricants and Glues for Micro- and Nanodevices
Advanced Materials, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 95–108, 2001 - Bilayer nanocomposite molecular coatings from elastomeric/rigid polymers: fabrication, morphology, and micromechanical properties
Macromolecular Symposia, vol. 167, no. 1, pp. 227–242, 2001 - Surface force spectroscopy of elastomeric nanoscale films
Macromolecular Symposia, vol. 167, no. 1, pp. 167–175, 2001 - Biomacromolecules, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 304–312, 2001
- Biomacromolecules, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 757–764, 2001
- Nanotribological behavior of tethered reinforced polymer nanolayer coatings
Tribology International, vol. 34, no. 5, pp. 327–333, 2001 - Stability of microdomain morphology in tethered block copolymer monolayers
Polymer, vol. 42, no. 5, pp. 2267–2273, 2001 - Langmuir, vol. 17, no. 21, pp. 6715–6719, 2001
- Langmuir, vol. 17, no. 19, pp. 5924–5931, 2001
- Tribology Letters, vol. 10, no. 1/2, pp. 127–132, 2001
- Journal of Materials Science Letters, vol. 20, no. 9, pp. 873–876, 2001
- High Performance Polymers, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 603–610, 2000
- Macromolecules, vol. 33, no. 20, pp. 7629–7638, 2000
- Macromolecules, vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 1043–1048, 2000
- Langmuir, vol. 16, no. 26, pp. 10569–10572, 2000
- Electrostatic self-assembly of sulfonated C60-porphyrin complexes on chitosan thin films
Thin Solid Films, vol. 372, no. 1-2, pp. 85–93, 2000 - Dynamic microprobing of viscoelastic polymer properties
Polymer International, vol. 49, no. 5, pp. 441–444, 2000 - Micro-thermomechanical properties of heterogeneous polymer films
Polymer, vol. 41, no. 14, pp. 5541–5545, 2000 - Langmuir, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 504–516, 2000
- Nano-Tribological and Wear Behavior of Boric Acid Solid Lubricant©
Tribology Transactions, vol. 42, no. 1, pp. 180–185, 1999 - Spring constants of composite ceramic/gold cantilevers for scanning probe microscopy
Thin Solid Films, vol. 339, no. 1-2, pp. 249–257, 1999 - Nanoscale design of snake skin for reptation locomotions via friction anisotropy
Journal of Biomechanics, vol. 32, no. 5, pp. 477–484, 1999 - Langmuir, vol. 15, no. 24, pp. 8340–8343, 1999
- Langmuir, vol. 15, no. 9, pp. 3029–3032, 1999
- Journal of Materials Science, vol. 33, no. 20, pp. 4905–4909, 1998
- Langmuir, vol. 14, no. 16, pp. 4535–4544, 1998
- Langmuir, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 446–455, 1998
- On the structure of polyamidoamine dendrimer monolayers
Polymer, vol. 39, no. 21, pp. 5249–5252, 1998 - Dendritic Macromolecules at Interfaces
Advanced Materials, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 253–257, 1998 - Columnar discotics for light emitting diodes
Advanced Materials, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 48–52, 1997 - Analysis of light emitting diodes by X-ray reflectivity measurements
Thin Solid Films, vol. 302, no. 1-2, pp. 214–222, 1997 - Assembly of supramolecular polymers in ultrathin films
Progress in Polymer Science, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 247–311, 1997 - Side chain liquid crystalline polymers at interfaces
Progress in Polymer Science, vol. 22, no. 5, pp. 1089–1132, 1997 - Macromolecules, vol. 30, no. 21, pp. 6615–6625, 1997
- Macromolecules, vol. 29, no. 27, pp. 8706–8716, 1996
- Langmuir, vol. 12, no. 16, pp. 3905–3911, 1996
- Langmuir, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 754–757, 1996
- Langmuir, vol. 12, no. 11, pp. 2825–2829, 1996
- Langmuir, vol. 12, no. 20, pp. 4840–4849, 1996
- Structure-fluorescence properties of some naphthoylene-benzimidazole-based Langmuir-Blodgett films
Thin Solid Films, vol. 287, no. 1-2, pp. 232–236, 1996 - Miscibility and segregated structures in mixed Langmuir monolayers
Supramolecular Science, vol. 2, no. 3-4, pp. 219–231, 1995 - Self-Organization of Polymer Brush Layers in a Poor Solvent
Journal de Physique II, vol. 5, no. 10, pp. 1441–1456, 1995 - Macromolecules, vol. 28, no. 5, pp. 1370–1376, 1995
- Macromolecules, vol. 27, no. 5, pp. 1274–1280, 1994
- Langmuir, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 996–999, 1994
- Modulation of supramolecular structure of linear polyurethane systems by addition of liquid-crystalline polymers in the molecular miscibility range
Polymer, vol. 35, no. 21, pp. 4690–4693, 1994 - Morphology and molecular ordering in Langmuir-Blodgett films from ladder polyheteroarylenes
Thin Solid Films, vol. 244, no. 1-2, pp. 745–749, 1994 - Surface morphology of cyanine dye single-crystal sheets grown on a lipid monolayer
Thin Solid Films, vol. 244, no. 1-2, pp. 763–767, 1994 - Structural rearrangements during mesomorphic phase transitions in poly?10-[(cyano-4'-biphenyl)oxy]decanyl vinyl ether?
Polymer, vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 481–486, 1993 - Langmuir, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 614–618, 1993
- Langmuir, vol. 9, no. 8, pp. 2141–2144, 1993
- Langmuir, vol. 9, no. 12, pp. 3538–3547, 1993
- Langmuir, vol. 8, no. 9, pp. 2279–2283, 1992
- Molecular packing at surfaces of oriented polyimide fiber and film observed by atomic force microscopy
Polymer Bulletin, vol. 29, no. 5, pp. 557–563, 1992 - Supramolecular structure of disperse phase of detergent oil additives
Chemistry and Technology of Fuels and Oils, vol. 26, no. 6, pp. 311–315, 1990 - One-dimensional correlations in ordered smectic phases of comb-like polymers
Polymer, vol. 31, no. 9, pp. 1793–1796, 1990 - Structure of micelles of overbased salicylate lube oil additives
Chemistry and Technology of Fuels and Oils, vol. 25, no. 5, pp. 273–275, 1989 - Structure and orientation in the magnetic field of a liquid crystalline polyester with polyethylene glycol spacers
Polymer Science U.S.S.R, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 503–508, 1988 - Structural characteristics of highly oriented fibres of polyethyleneterephthalate-oxybenzoic acid copolymers, prepared from a liquid-crystalline melt
Polymer Science U.S.S.R, vol. 30, no. 10, pp. 2353–2359, 1988 - Structural order in comb-like liquid-crystalline copolymers
Polymer Science U.S.S.R, vol. 29, no. 5, pp. 1177–1183, 1987 - Layer order in liquid-crystalline polyesters having polyoxypropylene spacers in the main chain
Polymer Science U.S.S.R, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 722–730, 1987 - Structure of polymer blends and copolymers based on liquid crystalline compounds from phenyl benzoates
Polymer, vol. 28, no. 8, pp. 1370–1376, 1987 - Structural-mechanical characteristics of polyurethane-liquid crystal mixtures exposed to radiation
Polymer Science U.S.S.R, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 60–68, 1986 - Macromolecules, vol. 19, no. 5, pp. 1308–1317, 1986