Olga Kuksenok
Associate Professor
Materials Science & Engineering
Clemson University
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Kuksenok is currently an Associate Professor at the Materials Science and Engineering Department at Clemson University in Clemson, SC. She was formerly a Research Associate Professor at the Chemical Engineering Department at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. Dr. Kuksenok received her PhD in Physics and Mathematics from the Institute of Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine, in 1997. Dr. Kuksenok’s research interests and accomplishments span the following areas of materials science: elastodynamics of responsive polymer gels, dynamics of multi-component polymer blends, biomimetic materials, pattern formation in non-equilibrium chemical systems, complex fluids dynamics, and theory of heterogeneous liquid crystalline systems. Dr. Kuksenok has co-authored over 70 peer-reviewed publications and 5 book chapters.
Research Interest
"Computational design of biomimetic materials Theory and computer simulations of multi-component polymer blends Interfacial phenomena and surface properties Pattern formation in non-equilibrium systems Heterogeneous liquid crystalline systems"
Publications
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Shastri, A., He, X., Mc Gregor, L., Liu, Y., Mujica, M., Vasquez, Y., Bhattacharya, A., Ma, Y., Aizenberg, M., Kuksenok, O., Balazs, A.C., Aizenberg. J. (2015) An aptamer-functionalized chemomechanically modulated biomolecule catch-and-release system, Nature Chemistry 7(5), 447-454.
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Kuksenok, O., Balazs, A.C. (2015). Designing Dual-functionalized Gels for Self-reconfiguration and Autonomous Motion Scientific Reports, 5, 9569.
