Pavlo Gordiichuk

Assistant Professor of the Physics and Chemistry of Solids Department,

Ph.D.

 

MainMain publicationsCVContacts

Doctor of Philosophy in Physics (Diploma of the University of Groningen, the Netherlands), Department of Solid State Physics and Chemistry, Faculty of Physics and Technology, Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University (Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine).

SCOPUS: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=55667667800

 

 

Research papers

  1. Koman, V. B., Park, M., Lew, T. T. S., Wan, S., Yarwood, E. S., Gong, X., … & Strano, M. S. (2022). Emerging investigator series: linking nanoparticle infiltration and stomatal dynamics for plant nanobionics. Environmental Science: Nano, 9(4), 1236-1246; https://doi.org/10.1039/D1EN01154E.
  2. Yuwen Zeng, Pavlo Gordiichuk, Takeo Ichihara, Ge Zhang, Emil Sandoz-Rosado, Eric D Wetzel, Jason Tresback, Jing Yang, Michael S Strano,  Irreversible synthesis of an ultrastrong two-dimensional polymeric material, Nature, 602 (7895), 91-95. (2022); https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04296-3.
  3. Pavlo Gordiichuk, Sarah Coleman, Tedrick Thomas Salim Lew, Minkyung Park, Yuwen Zeng, Daichi Kozawa, Michael S. Strano, Augmenting the Living Plant Mesophyll into a Photonic Capacitor, Science Advances, 7,  37 (2021); https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abe9733.
  4. Soo-Yeon Cho, Xun Gong, Volodymyr B Koman, Matthias Kuehne, Sun Jin Moon, Manki Son, Tedrick Thomas Salim Lew, Pavlo Gordiichuk, Xiaojia Jin, Hadley D Sikes, Michael S Strano, Cellular lensing and near infrared fluorescent nanosensor arrays to enable chemical efflux cytometry, Nature Communications 12 (1), 1-13. (2021); https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23416-1.
  5. Soo-Yeon Cho, Volodymyr B Koman, Xun Gong, Sun Jin Moon, Pavlo Gordiichuk, Michael S Strano, Nanosensor Chemical Cytometry for Characterizing the Efflux Heterogeneity of Nitric Oxide from Macrophages, ACS Nano 15(8), pp. 13683–13691 (2021); https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.1c04958.
  6. Ge Zhang, Yuwen Zeng, Pavlo Gordiichuk, Michael S Strano, Chemical kinetic mechanisms and scaling of two-dimensional polymers via irreversible solution-phase reactions, The Journal of Chemical Physics 154 (19), 194901. (2021); https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0044050.
  7. Tedrick Thomas Salim Lew, Volodymyr B. Koman, Seon-Yeong Kwak, Pavlo Gordiichuk, Min Hao Wong, Nam-Hai Chua, Michael S. Strano, Real-time detection of wound-induced H2O2 signaling in wild-type plants with plant nanobionics approach. Nature plants 6 (4), 404-415. (2020); https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-020-0632-4.
  8.   Tedrick Thomas Salim Lew, Minkyung Park, Yizhi Wang, Pavlo Gordiichuk, Wan-Chin Yeap, Siti Khadijah Mohd Rais, Harikrishna Kulaveerasingam, Michael S. Strano, Nanocarriers for Transgene Expression in Pollen as a Plant Biotechnology Tool, ACS Materials Lett. 2, 9, 1057–1066. (2020); https://doi.org/10.1021/acsmaterialslett.0c00247.
  9. Tedrick Thomas Salim Lew, Volodymyr B. Koman, Pavlo Gordiichuk, Minkyung Park, Michael S. Strano, The Emergence of Plant Nanobionics and Living Plants as Technology, Advanced Materials Technologies, 5 (3), 1900657, (2020); https://doi.org/10.1002/admt.201900657.
  10. Xun Gong, Minkyung Park, Dorsa Parviz, Kevin S Silmore, Pavlo Gordiichuk, Tedrick Thomas Salim Lew, Michael S Strano. Single‐Particle Tracking for Understanding Polydisperse Nanoparticle Dispersions, Small 15 (37), 1901468 (2019); https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.201901468.
  11. Zhang Yanxi, Soni, Saurabh Krijger, Theodorus Leonardus, Pavlo Gordiichuk, Qiu Xinkai, Ye Gang, Jonkman Harry, Herrmann Andreas, Zojer Karin, Zojer Egbert, Chiechi Ryan, Tunneling Probability Increases with Distance in Junctions Comprising Self-assembled Monolayers of Oligothiophenes, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 140 (44), pp 15048–15055. (2018
  12. Shengshuang Zhu, Pavlo Gordiichuk, Jungsoo Park, Hang Xing, Chad A. Mirkin, Poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) Spherical Nucleic Acids, Adv. Mater., 30, 1707113. (2018)
  13. Jie Yang, Pavlo Gordiichuk, Oleksandr Zheliuk, Jianming Lu, Andreas Herrmann, and Jianting Ye, Role of defects in tuning the electronic properties of monolayer WS2 grown by chemical vapor deposition Phys. Status Solidi RRL, 11, 1700302. (2018)
  14. Liliang Huang, Peng-Cheng Chen, Mohan Liu, Xianbiao Fu, Yanan Yu, Pavlo Gordiichuk, Zhuang Xie, Chris Wolverton, Yijin Kang, Chad A. Mirkin, Catalyst design by DFT and scanning probe block copolymer lithography, PNAS 10, 115 (15) 3764-3769. (2018)
  15. Yanxi Zhang, Theodorus L. Krijger, Pavlo Gordiichuk, Gang Ye, Xinkai Qiu, Li Qiu, Andreas Herrmann, Ryan C. Chiechi, Negative Tunneling Decay Coefficients in Junctions Comprising Self-assembled Monolayers of Oligothiophenes, J. Phys. Chem. C, 121 (27), pp 14920–14928 (2017)
  16. Zhuang Xie#, Pavlo Gordiichuk#, Qing-Yuan Lin, Brian R. Meckes, Peng-Cheng Chen, Lin Sun, Jingshan S. Du, Jinghan Zhu, Yuan Liu, Vinayak P. Dravid, Chad A. Mirkin, Solution-Phase Photochemical Nanopatterning Enabled by High-Refractive-Index Beam Pen Arrays, ACS Nano, 11 (8), pp 8231–8241 #equal contributions. (2017)
  17. Yanxi Zhang#, Xinkai Qiu#, Pavlo Gordiichuk#, Saurabh Soni, Theodorus L. Krijger, Andreas Herrmann, Ryan C. Chiechi, Mechanically and Electrically Robust Self-Assembled Monolayers for Large-Area Tunneling Junctions, (accepted to JPCC) #equal contributions. (2017)
  18. Pavlo Gordiichuk, Diego Pesce, Olga E Castañeda Ocampo, Alessio Marcozzi, Gert‐Jan AH Wetzelaer, Avishek Paul, Mark Loznik, Ekaterina Gloukhikh, Shachar Richter, Ryan C Chiechi, Andreas Herrmann, Orientation and Incorporation of Photosystem I in Bioelectronics Devices Enabled by Phage Display, Advanced Science, 1600393. (2017)
  19. Sabrina Koch, Janny G de Wit, Iuliia Vos, Jan Peter Birkner, Pavlo Gordiichuk, Andreas Herrmann, Antoine M van Oijen, Arnold JM Driessen, Lipids Activate SecA for High-Affinity Binding to the SecYEG Complex, Journal of Biological Chemistry, 291, 43, 22534-22543. (2016)
  20. Solmaz Torabi, Fatemeh Jahani, Pavlo Gordiichuk, Andres Herrmann, Jan C. Hummelen, L. Jan Anton Koster, Doping Effect of LiF Interlayers in Fullerene Based Devices, ACS applied materials & interfaces 8, 34, 22623-22628. (2016)
  21. Shaohua Liu, Jian Zhang, Renhao Dong, Pavlo Gordiichuk, Tao Zhang, Xiaodong Zhuang, Yiyong Mai, Feng Liu, Andreas Herrmann, and Xinliang Feng, Dimensional Mesoscale-Ordered Conducting Polymer Sheets, Angewandte Chemie International Edition 55 (40), 12516-12521. (2016)
  22. Patrick Wünnemann, Michael Noyong, Klaus Kreuels, Roland Brüx, Pavlo Gordiichuk, Patrick van Rijn, Felix A. Plamper, Ulrich Simon, Alexander Böke, Microstructured Hydrogel Templates for the Formation of Conductive Gold Nanowire Arrays, Macromolecular Rapid Communications, Macromolecular Rapid Communications, 37, 17, 1446-1452. (2016)
  23. Vasyl Skrypnychuk, Gert-Jan A. H. Wetzelaer, Pavlo Gordiichuk, Stefan C. B. Mannsfeld, Andreas Herrmann, Michael F. Toney and David R. Barbero, High vertical mobility in an organic semiconductor, Advanced Materials, Advanced Materials, 28 (12), 2463-2463. (2016)
  24. Zheng Cao, Pavlo Gordiichuk, Katja Loos, Ernst J. R. Sudhölter, Louis C. P. M. de Smet, The effect of guanidinium functionalization on the structural properties and anion affinity of polyelectrolyte multilayers, Soft Matter, 12 (5), 1496-1505. (2016)
  25. Pavlo Gordiichuk#, Olga E. Castañeda Ocampo#, Stefano Catarci, Daniel A. Gautier, Andreas Herrmann and Ryan C. Chiechi, Mechanism of Orientation-Dependent Asymmetric Charge Transport in Tunneling Junctions Comprising Photosystem I, J. Am. Chem. Soc.,137 (26), pp 8419–8427. #equal contributions (2015)
  26. Pavlo Gordiichuk, Avishek Paul, Daniel A. Gautier, Agnieszka Gruszka, Manfred Saller, Jan Willem de Vries, Gert-Jan A. H. Wetzelaer, Marianna Manca, Widianta Gomulya, Dolev Rimmerman, Paul W. M. Blom, Shachar Richter, Maria Antonietta Loi, Andreas Herrmann, Increasing the activity of a megadalton Photosystem I complex by attachment of organic dyes, Bioconjugate Chemistry, 27 (1), 36-41. (2015)
  27. Shaohua Liu, Pavlo Gordiichuk, Zhongshuai Wu, Zhaoyang Liu, Wei Wei, Dongqing Wu, Yiyong Mai, Andreas Herrmann, Klaus Müllen, and Xinliang Feng, Patterning Two-Dimensional Free-Standing Surfaces with Mesoporous Conducting Polymers, Nature Communications, 6, 8817. (2015)
  28. Pavlo Gordiichuk, Gert-Jan A H Wetzelaer, Dolev Rimmerman, Agnieszka Gruszka, Jan Willem de Vries, Manfred Saller, Daniel A Gautier, Stefano Catarci, Diego Pesce, Shachar Richter, Paul W M Blom, Andreas Herrmann, Solid-state biophotovoltaic cells containing photosystem I, Advanced Materials, 26(28): 4863-9 (2014).
  29. Naureen Akhtar, Alexey O. Polyakov, Aisha Aqeel, Pavlo Gordiichuk, Graeme R Blake, Jacob Baas, Heinz Amenitsch, Andreas Herrmann, Petra Rudolf, Thomas T M Palstra, Self-assembly of ferromagnetic organic-inorganic perovskite-like films, Small, 10(23): c4912-9. (2014)
  30. Vladimir Derenskyi, Widianta Gomulya, Jorge Mario Salazar Rios, Martin Fritsch, Nils Fröhlich, Stefan Jung, Sybille Allard, Satria Zulkarnaen Bisri, Pavlo Gordiichuk, Andreas Herrmann, Ullrich Scherf, Maria Antonietta Loi, Carbon nanotube network ambipolar field-effect transistors with 108 on/off ratio, Advanced Materials, 26(34): 5969-75. (2014)
  31. Jelena Ciric, Albert J.J. Woortman, Pavlo Gordiichuk, Marc Stuart, Katja Loos, Physical Properties and Structure of Enzymatically Synthesized Amylopectin Analogs, Starch/Stärke, 65: 1061–1068. (2013)
  32. Widianta Gomulya, Guadalupe Diaz Costanzo, Elton J. Figueiredo de Carvalho, Satria Zulkarnaen Bisri, Vladimir, Derenskyi, Martin Fritsch, Nils Frohlich, Sybille Allard, Siewert Jan Marrink, Maria Cristina dos Santos, Ulrich Scherf, Pavlo Gordiichuk, Andreas Herrmann Maria Antonietta Loi, Semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes on demand by polymer wrapping, Advanced Materials, 25(21): 2948-56. (2013)
  33. Satria Zulkarnaen Bisri, Jia Gao, Vladimir Derenskyi, Widianta Gomulya, Igor Iezhokin, Pavlo Gordiichuk, Andreas Herrmann, Maria Antonietta Loi, High-Performance Ambipolar Field-Effect Transistor of Random Network Carbon Nanotubes, Advanced Materials, 24, 46, 6147-6152. (2012)
  34. Alexei Vasil’ev, Pavlo Gordiichuk, The density distribution of a binary liquid in a cylindrical pore under the action of an external field, High Temperature 49 (1), 63-67. (2011)
  35. Alina Veligura, Paul J. Zomer, Csaba Jozsa, Pavlo Gordiichuk, Nikolaos Tombros, Harry T. Jonkman, Bart J. van Wees, Relating hysteresis and electrochemistry in graphene field-effect transistors, Journal of Applied Physics, 110, 11, 113708 – 113708-5. (2010)

RESEARCH INTERESTS

 

Development of new technologies for CO2 capture, advanced functional materials using nanotechnology, as well as new energy storage batteries

 

MATERIALS SCIENTIST

  • Highly motivated to work at the interface of several disciplines on innovative ideas.
  • Strong experience in starting companies, where was one of the first employees at TeraPrint (Northwestern University), Lunar Resources (MIT/Houston), and Avanti Battery Company (MIT).
  • Strongly participated in hiring professional people, setting up experimental labs, and team leading.
  • Highly experienced in wet chemistry, self-assembly, surface analysis, and electrochemistry. Fabrication and analysis of thin films, polymers, organic photovoltaics, and mechanics.
  • Large-area coatings, development of cathodes, roll-to-roll fabrication methods, tools prototyping, batteries prototyping, COMSOL, and Gaussian 16 modeling.
  • Scientific hands-on broad range of experiment tools SEM, TEM, AFM, FIB, optical lithography, RIE, wet etching, and HF, TGA, XRF, and XPS.
  • Highly motivated self-starter, detail-oriented, powerful drive for accomplishments, excellent analytical skills, and capability to manage several projects at a time, presenting data.
  • Strong skills in writing technical reports and scientific proposals, presentations, and organizing meetings.
  • Excellent experience in design and optimization, and identification of the limiting parameters of the processes, evaluation, and revision of the processes, and troubleshooting of problems.

 

FELLOWSHIPS

07/2016-05/2018 Rubicon, Dutch NWO, “Rapid fabrication of bifunctional surfaces” ($150k)

07/2020-05/2021 Maria Sklodowska Curie Action (MSCA), EU, “Measurements of vdW in 2D systems” ($210k)

 

PROFESSIONAL AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCES

05/2022 – now     VP of Research
Avanti Battery Company, Watertown MA
My work is focused on the development of a new battery that utilizes new electrochemistry and sulfur-based cathode formulation in Al-S batteries, which is MIT-based startup. We focus my research and development programs on the fabrication and selection of compatible materials, as well development of new characterization strategies for improving the cycling life of different cells. My team of five research scientists and engineers cover major the company directions dealing with the optimization and development of new electrolytes, prototyping of new battery formulations of 2Ah scalable batteries, conduction of failure analysis and ASTM characterization of battery materials, electrochemical characterization of batteries as well as batteries and electrolyte modeling with COMSOL and Gaussian packages, and secure IP.

 

05/2021 –05/2022 Research Scientist (Physicist)
Lunar Resources Boston&Houston
Was working on the development of experimental (at MIT) and theoretical (at Huston) studies of Lunar Regolith in Molten Regolith Electrolysis (MRE) for the Oxygen extraction process. Conducted modeling of high-temperature metals extraction and Si refining on the Moon.
Scientific Advisor: Professor Donald R. Sadoway

 

05/2018 –05/2021 Postdoctoral Research Associate
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering, USA
Projects: (1) Developed sustainable phosphorescent light-emitting plants (LEP), recently accepted to Science Advance with a pending Patent. (2) Characterization and fabrication of 2D polymers. Established and conducted chemical and high-resolution AFM measurements of 2D polymer molecules, the submitted manuscript received minor revision at Nature (2nd author).
PI: Professor Michael S. Strano

01/2016-05/2018  Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Rubicon personal fellowship)

Northwestern University, Department of Chemistry, USA
Research projects: (1) Development of liquid-phase beam pen lithography (BPL) for molecule patterning in high throughput. (2) Development of PLGA-based spherical nucleic acids. During this fellowship, my role was focused on the development of microfluidic cells, testing rapid solutions exchange strategies, and nanopatterning surface chemistry.
PI: Professor Chad A. Mirkin

 

09/2011-01/2016 Ph.D. Research Fellow
Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen, the Netherlands

Title: Integration and modification of photosystem I for bio-photovoltaics. During my Ph.D., my research project was focused on the application of atomic force microscopy (AFM) for mechanical, frictional, and electrical conducting measurements on polymers, 2D polymers, 2D materials, proteins, and self-assembled molecules, which became the basis for the development of my expertise in surface science and AFM measurement strategies both in liquid and gas phases.
PI: Professor Andreas Herrmann

09/2009-08/2011 Top Master Researcher in Nanoscience
Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
Title: Development of slippery DNA architectures using molecular self-assembly
During my MSc program, my research program was related to fabricating self-assembled molecular and polymer arrays with the help of the nano grafting strategy, which became the basis for my work on surface chemistry, chemical reaction in-situ, molecular nano-patterning, and measurements of interaction forces within DNA molecules in solution phases.
PI: Professor Andreas Herrmann

 

09/2004-08/2009 Master Researcher in Physics
Kyiv National University (KNU), Ukraine
Title: Phase separation in model binary mixtures confined in cylindrical and slit geometries. During my fellowship, my research project was related to the development of theoretical models for the visualization of liquid mixture density profiles under confinements.

PI: Professor Oleksii Vasilev

 

EDUCATION

 09/2011-01/2016 Ph.D. in Physics
Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen, the Netherlands

Title: Integration and modification of photosystem I for bio-photovoltaics
PI: Professor Andreas Herrmann

 

09/2009-08/2011 Top Master Programme in Nanoscience
Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
Title: Development of slippery DNA architectures using molecular self-assembly
PI: Professor Andreas Herrmann

 

09/2004-08/2009 Master in Physics
Kyiv National University (KNU), Ukraine
Title: Phase separation in model binary mixtures confined in cylindrical and slit geometries

PI: Professor Oleksii Vasilev

Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian national University,

office 116-a, Shevchenko Str. 57,

Ivano-Frankivsk, 76018, Ukraine

phone.: +38-0342-596082

e-mail:

pavlo.gordiichuk@pnu.edu.ua