Alexei Sokolov

Governor's Chair, Professor
Department of Chemistry and
Department of Physics & Astronomy

Polymer Chemistry

-Physics of Soft Matter, Disordered Materials including glasses, polymers, liquids, etc.;

- Nanostructure and dynamics, optical properties of Soft Materials;

- Raman and Brillouin scattering, Inelastic neutron and X-ray scattering spectroscopy; 

- Processes of optical memory; Non-linear optics and Photonics in general

- Amorphous semiconductors.

-based catalysis

M.S. in Physics, Novosibirsk State University, Russia (1981)
PhD in Physics, Academy of Sciences of USSR (1986)

Habilitation (Dr.Sci.), Russian Academy of Sciences

Research

Dynamics of disordered materials (including low-energy excitation spectra, low-temperature properties, implications for other properties, etc.);

Glass transition; Raman, Brillouin and neutron scattering spectroscopies of disordered materials (including glasses, polymers, liquids and disordered crystals);

Dynamics and functions of biological macromolecules; Photonics and nano-optics, scanning nano-Raman spectroscopy.

Alexei Sokolov

563 Buehler Hall
Knoxville, TN 37996-1600
Phone: (865) 974-3852
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