APS Profile Details

Ivan Kuzmenko

Physicist

Chemical and Materials ScienceX-ray Science Division

Contact

  • Argonne National Laboratory
  • 9700 S. Cass Ave
  • Building 433 - E003
  • (630) 252-0327
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Biography:

Staff member @ APS, 2003-present

Post-doctoral Researcher, University of California, Berkeley, 2000-2003

Ph.D. student, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

Publications:

Ivankin, A.; Kuzmenko, I.; Gidalevitz, D., Cholesterol-Phospholipid Interactions: New Insights from Surface X-Ray Scattering Data. Physical Review Letters 2010, 104 (10).

Kent, M. S.; Yim, H.; Murton, J. K.; Satija, S.; Majewski, J.; Kuzmenko, I., Oligomerization of membrane-bound diphtheria toxin (CRM197) facilitates a transition to the open form and deep insertion. Biophysical Journal 2008, 94 (6), 2115-2127.

Lefenfeldt, M.; Baumert, J.; Sloutskin, E.; Kuzmenko, I.; Pershan, P.; Deutsch, M.; Nuckolls, C.; Ocko, B. M., Direct structural observation of a molecular junction by high-energy x-ray reflectometry. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2006, 103 (8), 2541-2545.

Strzalka, J.; DiMasi, E.; Kuzmenko, I.; Gog, T.; Blasie, J. K. Resonant x-ray reflectivity from a bromine-labeled fatty acid Langmuir monolayer. Phys. Rev. E 2004, 70, (5 PN Part 1 AR 05160).

Kuzmenko, I.; Rapaport, H.; Kjaer, K.; Als-Nielsen, J.; Weissbuch, I.; Lahav, M.; Leiserowitz, L. Design and characterization at crystalline thin film architectures at the air-liquid interface: Simplicity to complexity. Chem. Rev. 2001, 101, (6), 1659-1696.

Kuzmenko, I.; Kaganer, V. M.; Leiserowitz, L. Packing of hydrocarbon chains and symmetry of condensed phases in Langmuir monolayers. Langmuir 1998, 14, (14), 3882-3888.

Interests:

Small angle X-ray scattering

Structure of biological membranes at liquid interfaces

Liquid surface X-ray scattering

Grazing incidence x-ray diffraction

X-ray reflectivity

Education:

Ph.D. Chemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, 1999

M.Sc.  Chemistry,  Moscow University, Russia, 1987