Prof. Dr. Igor Erukhimovich

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsExperimental and Theoretical Physics of Polymers
KeywordsBlock copolymers, blends, association, morphology, fluctuations

Current contact address

CountryRussian Federation
CityMoscow
InstitutionRussian Academy of Sciences
InstituteA.N.Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoelement Compounds
Homepagehttp://polly.phys.msu.ru/~ierukhs

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Kurt BinderInstitut für Physik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Mainz
Prof. Dr. Marcus MüllerInstitut für Theoretische Physik, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen
Start of initial sponsorship01/07/2003

Programme(s)

2003Humboldt Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Professor Erukhimovich is one of the pioneers in the field of statistical mechanics of polymeric systems, in particular polymer mixtures and mesophase formation in block copolymers. He has analyzed properties of both linear and branched polymers, including the sol-gel transition, "weak crystallization" of random heteropolymers and many other phase trensitions in dense polymeric materials. He is going to collaborate on these topics with the Condensed Matter Theory Group at the University of Mainz.

Publications (partial selection)

2011Igor Erukhimovich, Panagiotis Theodorakis, Wolfgang Paul and Kurt Binder: Mesophase formation in two-component cylindrical bottlebrush polymers. In: THE JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS , 2011, 054906-1-054906-22
2005M. V. Tamm, N.G. Lisachenko, I. Ya. Erukhimovich, and V. A. Ivanov: Finite Size Effects in the Equilibrium System of Ideal Cyclic Polymers: Theory and Computer Simulation. In: Polymer Science, Ser. A, 2005, 202-212
2005Igor Erukhimovich: Weak segregation theory and non-conventional morphologies in the ternary ABC triblock copolymers. In: Eur. Phys. J. E., 2005, 383-406