Faculty Profile

Dr. Svetlana Sukhishvili

PROFESSOR, CHEMISTRY; CO-DIRECTOR, NANOTECHNOLOGY GRADUATE PROGRAM
Building: McLean Building
Room: 315
Phone: 201.216.5544
Fax: 201.216.8240
Email: ssukhish@stevens.edu
School:  Schaefer School of Engineering & Science
Department:  Chemistry, Chemical Biology & Biomedical Engineering / Chemical Engineering & Materials Science
Education

June 1989: Ph.D. in Polymer Chemistry, Moscow State University, Russia
June 1984: B.S. in Polymer Science with award for excellence, Moscow State University, Russia

 

Research

Physical chemistry of polymers, polymers and biopolymers at interfaces, surface spectroscopies, soft materials.

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Honors & Awards

NSF Special Creativity Award, 2012

Davis Award for Research Excellence, 2011

Award for Distinguished Scientific Achievement, American Coatings Association, IN, April 2009

Fellow, American Physical Society, 2007- present

Selected Publications
Journals
  1. S. Pavlukhina, Y. Lu, A. Patimetha, M. Libera, S. Sukhishvili. "Polymer Multilayers with pH-Triggered Release of Antibacterial Agents", Biomacromolecules 2010, 11 3448–3456.
  2. Y. Han, S. Tan, M. K. Kh. Oo, D. Pristinski, S. Sukhishvili, and H. Du. "Towards Full-Length Accumulative SERS-active Photonic Crystal Fiber", Advanced Materials 2010, 22 1-5.
  3. L. Xu, Z. Zhu, O. Borisov, E. Zhulina and S. A. Sukhishvili. "pH-Triggered Block Copolymer Micelle-to-Micelle Phase Transition", Phys. Rev. Lett. 2009, 103 118301.
  4. Zh. Zhu and S. A. Sukhihsvili. (2009). "Temperature-induced Swelling and Small Molecule Release with Hydrogen-Bonded Multilayers of Block Copolymer Micelles", ACS Nano , 3 3595-3605.
  5. M. Erol, Y. Han, S. K. Stanley, C. M. Stafford, H. Du and S. Sukhishvili. (2009). "SERS Not To Be Taken for Granted in the Presence of Oxygen", J. Am. Chem. Soc, 131 7480–7481.
  6. E. Kharlampieva, J. F. Ankner, M. Rubinstein and S.A. Sukhishvili. (2008). "pH-Induced Release of Polyanions from Multilayer Films", Phys. Rev. Letters , 100 128303.
  7. E. Kharlampieva, V. Kozlovskaya, and S. A. Sukhishvili. (2009). "Layer-by-Layer Hydrogen-Bonded Polymer Films: From Fundamentals to Applications", Advanced Materials, 21 1-13.
  8. I. Erel-Unal and S. A. Sukhishvili. (2008). "Hydrogen-bonded Multilayers of a Neutral Polymer and a Polyphenol", Macromolecules, 41 3962-3970.
  9. V. Kozlovskaya and S. A. Sukhishvili. (2006). "Amphoteric Hydrogel Capsules: Multiple Encapsulation and Release Routes", Macromolecules , 39 6191-6199.
  10. S.A. Sukhishvili, E. Kharlampieva and V. Izumrudov. (2006). "Where Polyelectrolyte Multilayers and Polyelectrolyte Complexes Meet", Macromolecules, 39 8873-8881.
  11. V. Kozlovskaya, E. Kharlampieva, M. L. Mansfield and S. A. Sukhishvili. (2006). "Poly(methacrylic acid) Hydrogel Films and Capsules: Response to pH and Ionic Strength, and Encapsulation of Macromolecules", Chem. Materials , 18 328-336.
Courses
  • NANO 600 Nanoscale Science and Technology
  • CH 362 Instrumental Analysis I - Spectroscopy and Chromatography
  • CH/NANO 525 Techniques of Surface Analysis
  • CH 671 Physical Chemistry of Polymers
  • CH 672 Macromolecules in Modern Technology
  • CH 673 Special Topics in Polymer Chemistry
  • NANO 672 Polymers at Solid-Liquid Interfaces