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Boris Shklovskii
Professor
420 Tate, 625-0771, email shklovsk @ physics.umn.eduhttp://www.ftpi.umn.edu/shklovskii/
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Director of Theoretical Physics Institute, 1995-98, APS Fellow, 1994, LANDAU PRIZE OF ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF USSR, 1986.
Organizer or Co-organizer of FTPI workshops “Compressible states in QHE”, 1995, “Molecular Biophysics: At the Interface Between Physics and Biology” 1997, “Progress in Quantum Hall Effect”, 1998, “Theoretical Physics” , 1999 “Electrostatic effects in biology”, 2001, “Biologically motivated Physics”, 2004, “Biologically motivated Physics”, 2007. Co-organizer of the workshop “Coulomb Effects in Condensed matter”, Lorentz Institute, Leiden, 2006. QHE@30 (2010)
Research Areas
Theory of transport and electron-electron correlations in disordered systems, quantum Hall effect, hopping conduction and metal-nonmetal transition.Current Research
Theory of transport and electron-electron correlations in disordered systems, quantum Hall effect, hopping conduction and metal-nonmetal transition. Theory of screening of DNA and other macroions by multivalent ions: charge inversion. Theories of transport of ions and DNA through ion channels. Theory of virus self-assembly. Theory of Super-capacitors.
Advisees and Collaborators
Tianran Chen, Research Assistant/Teaching Assistant
Zvie Razieli, Graduate Student
Brian Skinner, Research Associate
Selected Publications
Brian Skinner, M. M. Fogler, and B. I. Shklovskii , Model of large volumetric capacitance in graphene supercapacitors based on ion clustering, Phys. Rev. B 84, 235133 (2011) [abstract]
Tianran Chen, Brian Skinner, B. I. Shklovskii, Cooperative Charging in a Nanocrystal Assembly Gated By Ionic Liquid, Phys. Rev. B 84, 245304 (2011) [abstract]
A. L. Efros, B. Skinner, B. I. Shklovskii, Coulomb gap in the one-particle density of states in three-dimensional systems with localized electrons, Phys. Rev. B 84, 064204 (2011) [abstract]
M. Loth, B. Skinner, B. I. Shklovskii, Theory of volumetric capacitance of an electric double layer super-capacitor, Phys. Rev. E, 83, 056102 (2011) [abstract]
B. Skinner, M. Loth, B. I. Shklovskii, “Capacitance of the Double Layer Formed at the Metal/Ionic-Conductor Interface: How Large Can It Be?”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 128302 (2010)
M. Loth, B. Skinner, B. I. Shklovskii, “Non-mean-field theory of anomalously large double-layer capacitance”, Rev. E 82, 016107 (2010)
B. Skinner, B. I. Shklovskii, “Anomalously large capacitance of a plane capacitor with a two-dimensional electron gas”, Phys. Rev. B 82, 155111 (2010)
M. Loth, B. Skinner, B. I. Shklovskii, Anomalously large capacitance of an ionic liquid described by the restricted primitive model, Phys. Rev. E 82, 056102 (2010)
B. Skinner, B. I. Shklovskii, “Non-monotonic swelling of a macroion due to correlation-induced charge inversion”, Physica A, 388, 1 (2009)
M. Mueller, B. I. Shklovskii, “Compensation driven superconductor-insulator transition”, Phys. Rev. B 79, 134504 (2009)
Education
A. B. Physics, Leningrad University, 1966