Adjunct Prof. Dept. of Chemical and Biological Engineering (UMaine)
Vladimir Smorodin
Research Professor
University of Maine
Bryand Global Sciences Center
Orono, ME 04469-5790
My general professional interests are concentrated in the multidisciplinary area of environmental science and "green" technology.
In total they are buit upon ideas and methods of physics, physical chemistry (colloid interface science), and biophysics. In part, colloid science does focuse on typical scales of its objects from nano- to micro–meters, and includes both world of physico–chemical species (e.g., aerosols, hydrosols, mineral particles) and bio–origin (e.g., bioaerosols, microorganisms, cells, sub–cellular structures) and their mixtures. Aerosols, despite of their small sizes, may effect on large regional and global planetary space and time scales (by direct and indirect climate forcing).
Such bioaerosols as pollen and spores are representative systems in both climatic and environmental research, either effecting environment and climate or reflecting climate change. That is why climatologists and environmentalists have to combine their investigations, from collecting and monitoring to developing models and studying dynamic pathways and mechanisms in linked climatic and environmental systems.
I believe that in climatic–environmental programs we have to employ both "passive" and complementary "active" approaches: e.g., (a) monitoring climatic sub–systems and air quality and (b) applying weather modification technology to improve and/or smooth environment and climate. Realizing such a strategy, humanity may get a chance to resolve many tragic global problems related with planetary lack of fresh water, "ozone holes", "greenhouse" effect, floods and droughts, soil erosion and desertification, massive forest fires, and possibly, tornados.
Smorodin, V.Y. and Hopke, P.K. Rleationship of heterogeneous nucleation and condensational growth in aerosol nanoparticles. 2006, Atmospheric Research, 82, 591–604.
Smorodin, V.Y. and Melo, E. Shape and Dimensions of Gel–Domains in Phospholipid Bilayers: A Theoretical Study. 2001, Journal of Physical Chemistry, 105, 6010 – 6016.
Bakhtina, E., Ilyin, V.A., and V.Y. Smorodin. Phase Transitions in Thin Films of Bound Water on the Surface of Dispersion System Grains. Surface. X-Ray, Synchrotron and Neutron Research (Russian). 1999, 110-112.
Smorodin, V.Y. On Thermohydrodynamic Instabilities in Aerosol Hazes (Fogs).Atmospheric Environment, 1996, 31, 1239 – 1247.
Smorodin, V.Y. Hydrodynamic Instability of Wetting Films (Boundary Layers). Langmuir, 1994, 10, 2419-2422.
Smorodin, V.Y. Adsorption, Wetting and Condensation on Energetically Heterogeneous Solid Surfaces. Ibid, 2250-2256.
Smorodin, V.Y. Mixed aerosol particles as effective ice nucleating systems, 1994, Atmospheric Research, 31, 199 – 233.
Smorodin, V.Y., Kalyazin, E. P., Zil’bershmidt, M. G. and O. P. Povolotskaya.Influence of Irradiation on Flotation Properties of Coals: The Surface HeterogeneityFactor. In: Proc. of the Intl. Conference "Carbon ‘94", Granada,Spain, 1994, 414-415.
Smorodin, V.Y. What is the Electrokinetic Potential? New Approach. In: Proc. of the Intl. Symposium "Electrokinetic Phenomena '93", Granada, Spain, 1993, 16.
Smorodin, V.Y. General Law of Filtration through Heterophilic Porous Media. Soil Science (Reports of Moscow State University), 1993, 6, 62-68.
Petrov, A.G., and V.Y. Smorodin. Electroosmosis on Electrically Non-Uniform Charged Solid Surfaces. J. Appl. Math. and Mechanics, 1993, 3, 172-175.
Smorodin, V.Y., and B.V. Derjaguin. On the Factor Heterogeneity of the Surface Solids on the Interface Phenomena. J. Colloid Interface Sci., 1991, 142 (1), 272-277.
Smorodin, V.Y. Electroosmosis and Filtration through Porous Heterophilic Media. Physical Chemistry of the USSR, 1991, 318 (6), 379-384.
Smorodin, V.Y. Generalization of the Young Law and Evolution of a Drop on an Energetically Nonuniform Surface. Surface (Russian), 1991, No 2.
Smorodin, V.Y. Theory of the Electrical Double Layer on Mosaic (Modified) Surfaces. Physical Chemistry of the USSR, 1990, 312 (6), 537-540.
Smorodin, V.Y. Theory of Separating Modified Membranes. Colloidal J. of the USSR, 1990, 52(2), 341-346.
Smorodin, V.Y. Effective Viscosity of Miscible Films Heterogeneous Surfaces. Physical Chemistry of the USSR, 1989, 313 (5), 667-671.