Homepage
for Yoav Tsori
Department
of Chemical Engineering
Ben
Gurion University of the Negev
Beer-Sheva, 84105,
Israel
Member of:
Reimund
Stadler Minerva Center
Ilse
Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology
Phone:
+972-8-6477794
Fax:
+972-8-6472916
E-mail:
tsori at bgu.ac.il
Research
interests:
• Theoretical
understanding of interfacial phenomena at the micron
and
sub-micron scales.
•
Phase-transitions in liquid mixtures under
external spatially nonuniform electric
or
gravitational fields. Phase-separation in ion-containing mixtures.
• Theoretical
study of phase-transitions and structural changes in ordered
phases
of block-copolymers, as a result of confinement, elastic forces,
or
external electric field. Orientation of ordered phases confined to
thin-films.
• Conformations
of curved objects (i.e. micelles) near solid surfaces.
Competition
between entropic, elastic and enthalpic forces.
• Non-trivial
polymer brush conformations when the end-groups are charged.
• "Bacteria
optics" : E. Coli bacteria sometimes behave in wave-like
fashion.
The
similarity and dissimilarity with optics is explored in these complex
systems.
Students:
Sela
Samin
Hagai Shalev
CV
– click here
Books
“Polymers, liquids
and colloids in electric fields: Interfacial instabilities,
orientation,
And
phase-transitions”
Eds. Y. Tsori and U.
Steiner, World Scientific (2008).
http://www.worldscibooks.com/physics/7266.html
Book
chapters
Y. Tsori,
External-Field Induced Pattern Formation in Some Polymer Systems,
in Nonlinear
Dynamics in Polymeric Systems, ACS Symposium Series No.
869;
Eds. Pojman, J. A.;
Tran-Cong-Miyata, Q.; Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2003; pp 264.
List
of publications
30. S. Samin and Y. Tsori, Stability of Binary Mixtures in Electric Field Gradients
J. Chem. Phys. 131, 194102 (2009) [arXiv:0907.4855] [pdf].
29. Y. Tsori, Colloquium: Phase Transitions in
Polymers and Liquids in Electric Fields,
Rev. Mod. Phys. 81, 1471 (2009) [arXiv:0912.1736] [pdf].
28. G. Marcus and Y. Tsori, Phase Separation
Transition in Liquids and Polymers Induced
by Electric Field Gradients,
J. Phys. Soc. Jap.
78, 041010 (2009) [arXiv:0901.1990] [pdf].
27. G. Marcus, S. Samin and Y. Tsori,
Phase-Separation Transition in Liquid Mixtures
Near Charged Objects,
J.
Chem. Phys. 129,
061101 (2008) [arXiv:0712.2901] [pdf].
26. Y. Tsori, D.
Andelman, and J.-F. Joanny, Interfacial Instability of Charged
End-Group
Polymer Brushes,,
Europhys. Lett.
82, 46001
(2008) [arXiv:0801.3318] [pdf].
25. Y. Tsori and L.
Leibler, Phase-Separation of Miscible Liquids in a Centrifuge,
C. R. Physique
8, 955
(2007) [arXiv:0707.2266] [pdf]
24. Y. Tsori, Discontinuous Meniscus Location
in Tapered Capillaries Driven by Pressure
Difference and Dielectrophoretic Forces,
Langmuir
23, 8028
(2007) [cond-mat/0702099] [pdf].
23. Y. Tsori and L. Leibler, Phase-Separation
in Ion-Containing Mixtures in Electric Fields,
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA
104, 7348
(2007) [cond-mat/0610475] [pdf].
22. Y. Tsori, Lamellar Phase in Nonuniform
Electric Fields: Breaking the In-Plane Rotation
Symmetry and the Role of Dielectric Constant Mismatch,
Macromolecules
40, 1698
(2007) [cond-mat/0609319] [pdf].
21. Y. Tsori, Discontinuous Liquid Rise in
Capillaries With Varying Cross-Sections,
Langmuir
22, 8860
(2006) [cond-mat/0604231] [pdf].
20. Y. Tsori, C.-Y. Li, D. Andelman and M.
Schick, Block-Copolymers in Electric Field --
A Comparison of Single-Mode and Self-Consistent Field Approximations,
Macromolecules
39, 289
(2006) [cond-mat/0508179] [pdf].
19. Y. Tsori and D. Andelman, Coarse Graining
in Block Copolymer Films,
J.
Pol. Sci.: Pol. Phys. B 44,
2725 (2006) [cond-mat/0603096] [pdf].
18. Y. Tsori, E. Sivaniah, D. Andelman and T.
Hashimoto, Orientational transitions
in symmetric diblock copolymers on rough surfaces,
Macromolecules
(note) 38,
7193 (2005) [cond-mat/0504410] [pdf].
17. Y. Tsori and L. Leibler, Electrostatic
Cancellation of Gravity Effects in Liquid Mixtures,
Phys. Rev. E
(Brief Reports) 71,
032101 (2005) [cond-mat/0501744] [pdf].
16. Y. Tsori and P.-G. de Gennes, Damping of
Acoustic Waves in Dilute Polymer Solutions,
Macromolecules (Communication
to the Editor) 37,
8195 (2004) [cond-mat/0407698] [pdf].
15. Y. Tsori, F. Tournilhac and L. Leibler,
Demixing in Simple Fluids Induced by Electric Field Gradients,
Nature 430,
544 (2004) [pdf].
14. Y. Tsori and P.-G. de Gennes, Frustrated
Rotations in Nematic Monolayers,
Eur. Phys. J. E 14,
91 (2004) [cond-mat/0404259] [pdf].
13. Y. Tsori and P.-G. de Gennes, Self Trapping
of a Single Bacterium in its Own Chemoattractant,
Europhys. Lett.
66, 599
(2004) [q-bio.PE/0405005] [pdf].
12. Y. Tsori, Controlled Pattern Formation in
some Block Copolymer Systems,
ACS
symposium series 869, 264-275 (2004).
11. Y. Tsori and D. Andelman, Parallel and
Perpendicular Lamellae on Corrugated Surfaces,
Macromolecules 36,
8560 (2003) [cond-mat/0304334] [pdf].
10. Y. Tsori, F. Tournilhac and L. Leibler,
Orienting Ion-Containing Block Copolymers
Using AC Electric Fields,
Macromolecules
36, 5873
(2003) [cond-mat/0301116] [pdf].
9. Y. Tsori, F. Tournilhac, D. Andelman and L.
Leibler, Structural Changes in Block Copolymers:
Coupling of Electric Field and Mobile Ions,
Phys. Rev. Lett.
90, 145504
(2003) [cond-mat/0208129] [pdf].
8. Y. Tsori and D. Andelman, Ordering
Mechanisms in Confined Diblock Copolymers,
J.
Interf. Sci. 11,
259 (2003) [cond-mat/0208127] [pdf].
7. Y. Tsori and D. Andelman, Thin Films of
Diblock Copolymer in Electric Field:
Transition from Perpendicular to Parallel Oriented Lamellae,
Macromolecules
35, 5161
(2002) [cond-mat/0110282] [pdf].
6. Y. Tsori and D. Andelman, Diblock Copolymers
Thin Films: Parallel and Perpendicular
Lamellar Phases in the Weak Segregation,
Eur.
Phys. J. E. 5,
605 (2001) [cond-mat/0105213] [pdf].
5. Y. Tsori and D. Andelman, Surface Induced
Ordering in Thin Film Diblock Copolymers:
Tilted Lamellar Phases,
J.
Chem. Phys. 115,
1970 (2001) [cond-mat/0103250] [pdf].
4. Y. Tsori and D. Andelman, Diblock Copolymer
Ordering Induced by Patterned
Surfaces Above
the Order-Disorder Transition,
Macromolecules
34,
2719 (2001) [cond-mat/0007055] [pdf].
3. Y. Tsori and D. Andelman, Diblock Copolymer
Ordering Induced by Patterned Surfaces,
Europhys. Lett. 53,
722 (2001) [cond-mat/0007056] [pdf].
2. Y. Tsori, D. Andelman and M. Schick, Defects
in Lamellar Diblock Copolymers:
Chevron- and
Omega-shaped tilt Boundaries,
Phys.
Rev. E. 61,
2848 (2000) [cond-mat/9905378] [pdf].
1. B. Meerson and Y. Tsori, Annular Ballast
Resistor: Symmetry Breaking,
Pinning and
Coarsening in a Globally Constrained Reaction-Diffusion System,
Phys. Rev. E. 57,
159 (1998) [pdf].