Robert Szoszkiewicz
Assistant Professor
Address:	307 Cardwell Hall
Phone:	(785) 532-0855
E-mail:	rs@phys.ksu.edu
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Ph.D. Swiss Federal Inst of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2003 M.Sc. Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, 1999

Research Area

Soft and Biological Matter Physics

Our research is at the interface of biology, chemistry and physics. 

We would like to address quantitatively issues spanning from mechanics and mechanochemical reactions of single molecules under force, up to mechanics of systems of biomolecules.

We want as well to translate certain structure-functionality relations (and in particular those dwelling on cellular functionality) into man-made surfaces and devices, and to start with by working with the nanopatterned templates for controllable assembly of single molecules.

Recent Selected Publications

• S. Garcia-Manyes, J. Liang, R. Szoszkiewicz, T.-L. Kuo and J. M. Fernandez, Force activated reactivity in a biomolecular chemical reaction, Nature Chemistry, 1, 236 (2009) 

• R. Szoszkiewicz, S. R. K. Ainavarapu, A. P. Wiita, R. Perez-Jimenez and J. Fernandez, Dwell time analysis of a single molecule mechanochemical reaction, Langmuir, 24, 1356 (2008) 

• D. Wang, R. Szoszkiewicz, T. Okada, S. C. Jones, M. Lucas, W. P. King, S. R. Marder and E. Riedo, Local wettability modifcation by thermochemical nanolithography with write- read-overwrite capability, Appl. Phys. Lett., 91, 243104 (2007)

• R. Szoszkiewicz, T. Okada, S. C. Jones, T.-D. Li, W. P. King, S. R. Marder and E. Riedo, High-speed, thermochemical nanolithography with sub-15 nm feature size, Nano Letters, 7(4), 1064 (2007) 

• T.-D. Li, J. Gao, R. Szoszkiewicz, U. Landman and E. Riedo, Structured and viscous water in sub-nanometer gaps, Phys. Rev. B 75, 115415 (2007)