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Soft Matter Group
Confinement and Template Directed Assembly in
Chemical and Biomolecular Materials
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Ben Ocko
Senior Scientist and Group Leader
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Phone: 631.344.4299
Fax: 631.344.2739
Email: ocko@bnl.gov |
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Education:
- Ph.D. 1984: Physics, MIT
- B.S. 1978: Physics, Swarthmore College
Research Interests:
- Surface Freezing at Interfaces
- Surface Ordering in Liquids at Solid Interfaces
- Surface Wetting of Topographical Patterns
- Nanoscale Wetting of Topographical Patterns
- Structure of Thin Organic Films
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Key Publications:
Liquid nanostripes,
A. Checco, O. Gang, and B. Ocko. Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 056104
(2006).
Surface
crystallization in a liquid AuSi alloy, O. Shpyrko, R. Streitel, V. S. K.
Balagurusamy, A. Griogoriev, M. Deutsch, B. M. Ocko, M. Meron, B. Lin, and P.
Pershan. Science 313, 77-80 (2006).
Structure
of a Langmuir film on a liquid metal surface,
H. Kraack, B. Ocko, P. Pershan, and M. Deutsch, Science 298, 1404 (2002).
Bromide
adsorption on Ag(001): A potential induced two-dimensional Ising order-disorder transition,
B.M. Ocko, J.X. Wang, T. Wandlowski, Phys Rev. Lett. 79 1511-1514 (1997)
Surface freezing in chain molecules,
B.M. Ocko, X.Z. Wu, E. B. Sirota, S.K. Sinha, O. Gang, and M. Deutsch, Phys. Rev. E 55, 3164- (1997)
X-ray reflectivity measurements of surface layering in liquid mercury,
O.M. Magnussen, B.M. Ocko, M.J. Regan, K. Penanen, P.S. Pershan, and M. Deutsch, Phys. Rev. Lett. 74 , 4444-4447 (1995).
In situ diffraction and reflectivity studies of the Au(111)/electrolyte
Interface: Reconstruction and anion adsorption,
J. Wang, B.M. Ocko, A.J. Davenport, and H.S. Isaacs, Phys. Rev. B 46 ,
10321--38 (1992).
Capillary waves on the surface of simple liquids measured by x-ray reflectivity, A. Braslau, P.S. Pershan, G. Swislow, B.M. Ocko, and J. Als-Nielsen, Phys. Rev. A38, 2457 (1988).
Quantized layer growth at liquid crystal surfaces, B.M. Ocko, A. Braslau, P.S. Pershan, J. Als-Nielsen, J., and M. Deutsch,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 57, 94 (1986).
Critical and tricritical behavior at the nematic to smectic-A
transition,
B.M. Ocko, R.J. Birgeneau, J.D. Litster, and M.E. Neubert, Phys. Rev. Lett. 52, 208 (1984).
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