Professor of Polymer Physics
Queens' College, Fellow and Director of Studies
Cavendish Laboratory,
JJ Thomson Avenue
Cambridge CB3 0HE
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Biography:
Eugene Terentjev is a Professor of Polymer Physics at Cambridge University, with over 280 publications on many aspects of physics of liquid crystals polymers, colloids and biological systems. He studied in Moscow, obtaining the MSc in 1982 and PhD in 1985; then carried out postdoctoral research in Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio). After moving to Cambridge in 1992, he became a University Lecturer in 1998 and Professor of Polymer Physics in 2005. He is a fellow of Queens' College where he is the Director of Studies in Natural Sciences.
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Research Interests
Eugene Terentjev is an experienced theoretician in soft condensed matter physics. His research mainly focuses on structure and dynamical properties of complex materials: polymer systems, liquid crystals and colloids, with an increasing impact in molecular and cell biophysics (biological polymers, tissues and cell mechanics). He worked extensively on the physics of liquid crystalline elastomers. The multidisciplinary research group combines the chemical synthesis facility, physical experimental laboratory and theoretical modelling.
Key Publications
How cells feel: stochastic model for a molecular mechanosensor. M. Escude, M.K. Rigozzi, E.M. Terentjev: Biophys. J., 106, 124–133 (2014).
Mouldable liquid-crystalline elastomer actuators with exchangeable covalent bonds. Z. Pei, Y. Yang, Q. Chen, E.M. Terentjev, Y.Wei, Y. Ji: Nature Mater. 13, 36-41 (2013).
A chain mechanism for flagellum growth. L.D.B. Evans, S. Poulter, E.M. Terentjev, C. Hughes, G.M. Fraser: Nature, 504, 287-290 (2013).
Strength of nanotubes, filaments and nanowires from sonication-induced scission. Y.Y. Huang, T.P.J. Knowles and E.M. Terentjev: Adv. Mater. 21, 1–4 (2009).
Photo-mechanical actuation in polymer-nanotube composites. S.V. Ahir, E.M. Terentjev: Nature Mater. 4, 491–495 (2005).
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