June 1989: Ph.D. in Polymer Chemistry, Moscow State University, Russia June 1984: B.S. in Polymer Science with award for excellence, Moscow State University, Russia Honors & Awards NSF Special Creativity Award, 2012 Davis Award for Research Excellence, 2011 Award for Distinguished Scientific Achievement, American Coatings Association, IN, April 2009 Fellow, American Physical Society, 2007- present

Research Recognition Award, Stevens Institute of Technology, 2004 SOROS International Science Foundation Research Award, 1994 – 1995 Featured in Chemical & Engineering News (newsletter of the American Chemical Society), August 31, p. 9, 1992 Excellence Fellowship (for top 5% of graduate students), Moscow State University, Russia, 1984 – 1989

Physical chemistry of polymers, polymers and biopolymers at interfaces, surface spectroscopies, soft materials.

A. Zhuk, L. Xu, J.F. Ankner and S.A. Sukhishvili. (2013). "Selective Water Uptake within Micelle-Containing Layer-by-Layer Films of Various Architectures: a Neutron Reflectometry Study", Soft Matter. 9 410-417.

F. Tian, J. Kanka, S.A. Sukhishvili and H. Du. (2012). "Photonic Crystal Fiber for Layer-by-layer Assembly and Measurements of Polyelectrolyte Thin Films", Optics Letters. accepted.

S.V. Pavlukhina, J.B. Kaplan, L. Xu, W. Chang, X. Yu, S. Madhyastha, N. Yakandawala, A. Mentbayeva, B. Khan, and S.A. Sukhishvili. (2012). "Non-eluting Enzymatic Antibiofilm Coatings", ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 4 4708-4716.

P. Pinkhasova, T. Chou, B. Puccio, S. Sukhishvili, H. Du. (2012). "Noble Metal Nanostructure as both SERS Nanotag and Analyte Probe", ChemComm. 48 9750-9752.

A. Mentbayeva, A. Ospanova, Zh. Tashmuhambetova, V. Sokolova, and S. Sukhishvili. (2012). "Polymer-Metal Complexes in Polyelectrolyte Multilayer Films as Catalysts for Oxidation of Toluene", Langmuir. ASAP.

L. Xu, D. Pristinski, A. Zhuk, Ch. Stoddart, J. F. Ankner, and S.A. Sukhishvili. (2012). "Linear versus Exponential Growth of Weak Polyelectrolyte Multilayers: Correlation with Polyelectrolyte Complexes", Macromolecules. 45 3892-3901.

Zh. Zhu, E. Senses, P. Akcora and S.A. Sukhishvili. (2012). "Programmable Light-Controlled Shape Changes in Layered Polymer Nanocomposites", ACS Nano. 6 3152-3162.

Zh. Zhu and S.A. Sukhishvili. (2012). "Layer-by-layer Films of Stimuli-responsive Block Copolymer Micelles", J. Mater. Chem. 22 7667-7671.

P. Pinkhasova, L. Yang, Y. Zhang, S. Sukhishvili and H. Du. (2012). "Differential SERS Activity of Au and Ag Nanostructures Enabled by Adsorbed Poly(vinyl Pyrrolidone)", Langmuir. 28 2529-2535.

L. Xu, V. Kozlovskaya, E. Kharlampieva, J. Ankner and S. Sukhishvili. (2012). "Anisotropic Diffusion of Polyelectrolyte Chains within Multilayer Films", ACS Macro Letters. 1 127-130.

A. Zhuk, R. Mirza and S. Sukhishvili. (2011). "Multiresponsive Clay-Containing Layer-by-Layer Films", ACS Nano. 5 8790-8799.

W.S. Tan, Zh. Zhu, S.A. Sukhishvili, M.F. Rubner, R.E. Cohen. (2011). "Temperature Swellable Micelle Polyelectrolyte Multilayers: The Effect of Block Copolymer Architecture", Macromolecules. 44 7767-7774.

L. Xu, J. Ankner and S. Sukhishvili. (2011). "Steric Effects in Ionic Pairing and Polyelectrolyte Interdiffusion within Multilayered Films: A Neutron Reflectometry Study", Macromolecules. 44 6518-6524.

Y. Han, R. Lupitskyy, T.-M. Chou, Ch. M. Stafford, H. Du and S. Sukhishvili. (2011). "Effect of oxidation on SERS activity of silver nanoparticles: a quantitative correlation", Analytical Chemistry. 83 5873-5880.

S. Pavlukhina and S. Sukhishvili. (2011). "Polymer Assemblies for Controlled Delivery of Bioactive Molecules from Surfaces", Adv. Drug Del. Rev. 63 822-836.

I. Erel, Zh. Zhu, A. Zhuk, S. Sukhishvili. (2011). "Hydrogen-Bonded Layer-by-Layer Films of Block Copolymer Micelles with pH-Responsive Cores", J. Coll. Int. Sci. 355 61-69.

L. Xu, Zh. Zhu and S. Sukhishvili. (2011). "Polyelectrolyte Multilayers of Diblock Copolymer Micelles with Temperature-Responsive Cores", Langmuir. (27), 409-415.

S. Pavlukhina, Y. Lu, A. Patimetha, M. Libera, S. Sukhishvili. "Polymer Multilayers with pH-Triggered Release of Antibacterial Agents", Biomacromolecules 2010, 11 3448-3456.

Y. Han, S. Tan, M. K. Kh. Oo, D. Pristinski, S. Sukhishvili, and H. Du. "Towards Full-Length Accumulative SERS-active Photonic Crystal Fiber", Advanced Materials 2010, 22 1-5.

L. Xu, Z. Zhu, O. Borisov, E. Zhulina and S. A. Sukhishvili. "pH-Triggered Block Copolymer Micelle-to-Micelle Phase Transition", Phys. Rev. Lett. 2009, 103 118301.