RESEARCH INTERESTS

Experimental Condensed Matter, Biophysics

BIOGRAPHY
B.S., Physics (1980)
MIT
M.S., Physics (1983)
Cornell University
Ph.D., Physics(1987)
Cornell University

Soft interfaces provide a model environment to study the interplay of dimensionality, fluctuations, and intermolecular interactions. Professor Schlossman"s group uses synchrotron x-ray scattering and other techniques to study these interfaces on length scales from sub-nanometer to macroscopic. His group pioneered the study of structure on the molecular length scale at liquid-liquid interfaces. This included studies of ordering and structure of nearly two-dimensional assemblies of molecules supported at the interface between two liquids. Application of an electric field at the interface has allowed his group to determine fundamental aspects of the ordering of ions that are important for many processes in chemistry and biology. His group is also studying interactions between proteins and lipids by forming monolayers of lipids, allowing proteins to bind to the lipids, then studying the lipid-protein interface with x-ray scattering.

PUBLICATIONS

• Structure and Depletion at Fluorocarbon and Hydrocarbon/Water Liquid/Liquid Interfaces, Kaoru Kashimoto, Jaesung Yoon, Binyang Hou, Chiu-hao Chen, Binhua Lin, Makoto Aratono, Takanori Takiue, and Mark L. Schlossman, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 076102 (2008).
• Molecular Ordering and Phase Behavior of Surfactants at Water-Oil Interfaces as Probed by X-ray Surface Scattering, Mark L. Schlossman and Aleksey M. Tikhonov, Annual Reviews of Physical Chemistry 59, 153-177 (2008).
• Vaporization and Layering of Alkanols at the Oil/Water Interface, Aleksey M. Tikhonov and Mark L. Schlossman, J. Phys. Cond. Matt. 19, 375101 (1-16) (2007).
• Ion Distributions Near a Liquid-Liquid Interface, Guangming Luo, Sarka Malkova, Jaesung Yoon, David G. Schultz, Binhua Lin, Mati Meron, Ilan Benjamin, Petr Vanysek, and Mark L. Schlossman, Science 311, 216 (2006).
• X-ray Reflectivity Studies of cPLA2-C2 Domains Adsorbed onto Langmuir Monolayers of SOPC, Sarka Malkova, Fei Long, Robert V. Stahelin, Sai V. Pingali, Diana Murray, Wonhwa Cho, and Mark L. Schlossman, Biophysical Journal 89, 1861 (2005).