Yuri Lvov

Lvov

Dr. Yuri Lvov is an expert on micromanufacturing and a professor of chemistry, and the Tolbert Pipes Eminent Endowed Chair on Micro and Nanosystems at the Institute for Micromanufacturing, Louisiana Tech University.^[1] He earned his B.S. degree from Moscow State University, Russia in 1974 and his Ph.D. degree in Physical Chemistry (protein crystallography) from the same university in 1979. He subsequently worked at the Max Planck Institute, on the Japanese ERATO Supramolecule Project, and at the USA Naval Research Laboratory before moving to Louisiana Tech in 1999. He was named to his professorship in 2004.

His area of specialization is nanotechnology, specifically the nanoassembly of ultrathin organized films, bio/nanocomposites, nano/construction of ordered shells on tiny templates (drug nanocapsules, shells on microbes and viruses), and clay nanotubes for controlled release of bioactive agents. Lvov holds 9 US and Japanese patents on nanoassembly. He was among pioneers of the polyelectrolyte layer-by-layer (LbL) assembly - a nanotechnology method which was first described in papers in 1993. LbL nanoassembly has already found industrial applications including eye lens modification, improvement of cellulose fiber for better fabric and paper, microcapsules for insulin sustained release and cancer drug nanocapsules.

His group's funding exceeded $4 million in the last five years.

Honors/Awards

• Humboldt Prize in chemistry, 2014
• Best of Small Tech National Innovator Award, 2007
• Medal for Best Research Achievements from Louisiana Tech University, 2005
• Royal Chemical Society Publication Award, 1999, UK;
• Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, 1991–1993, Germany;
• Member, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation,
• Member, American Chemical Society,
• Member, TAPPI (Technical Association for Pulp and Paper Industry)

Professional Service

• Member of Editorial Board of the Journal of Biomedical Nanotechnology

Publications

Lvov has co-edited two books, and written or co-written 18 book chapters and more than 160 peer reviewed papers.

In 2004, the Institute for Scientific Information ranked his group's article in “Langmuir,” v.9, p. 481, among three most cited papers on molecular self-assembly (citations: 370); his co-authored paper on protein architecture in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1995, v.117, p. 6177 was cited 570 times.

Books edited

"Protein Architecture: Interfacial Molecular Assembly and Immobilization Biotechnology", Editors: Y. Lvov and H. Möhwald, 2000, Marcel Dekker Publ., NY, pp. 1–394.

“Bio-Inorganic Nanostructured Hybrid Materials,” Editors: E. Ruiz-Hitzky and Y. Lvov, 2006, Wiley Publ., London, Berlin, New York, pp. 1–320

References

External links

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