Meet the Team
About the Founder
Throughout his career, Professor Solovev has been working at leading universities worldwide including Harvard University (ranked #1 in the World), University of Toronto (ranked #21), Columbia University in the City of New York (ranked #23), Princeton University (ranked #17), Technical University of Munich (ranked #37), Fudan University (ranked #50), and Max Planck Institute (#1 research institute in Europe). He has a strong publication track record, with over 70 journal articles published in leading materials science, chemistry, physics, and nanotechnology journals. His work has garnered a growing citation record of over 5400 citations and a Hirsch index of 27.
Several of Professor Solovev's research papers have been cited more than 700 times. Over the course of his career, he has received numerous awards, including the Australian Global Talent, the Guinness World Record for the demonstration of the "Smallest Man-Made Jet Engine", He was named an outstanding graduate students' supervisor in the "top 10 groups" at Fudan University, receiving the Emerging Leader award from IOP Science Publishing, a "1000 Talent" Award from China, the "Dawn Program" Award from Shanghai City, and fellowships from prestigious institutions like the Humboldt Feodor Lynen, Max Planck Institute, and the University of Toronto. He was also honored with the DSM Science and Technology Award from Switzerland, a Dechema honorable mention, and the STIBET DAAD prize. Additionally, he was the 1st prize winner in the "theoretical mechanics" subject Olympiad of the Kyrgyz Republic.
Professor Solovev has been successful in securing more than 1 Million USD in research grants, both as a PI and co-PI. His recent grants include funding for development of high-performance membraneless hydrogen peroxide fuel cells with three-dimensional electrodes; water cleaning using hydrogel microcapsules containing photo-catalytic nanoparticles; microbubbles for biomedical ultrasound-driven theranostics, and energy harvesting using non-equilibrium physics.
Professor Solovev's lab is renowned for innovative and transformative fundamental scientific and technological advances. He has invented a new method for fabricating strain-engineered nano-micro-tubes from conductors, semiconductors, and insulators, capable of producing novel quantum, chemical, electrical, optical, and mechanical properties in unprecedented ways. These functional elements can be integrated on-chip or find novel off-chip applications. The list of functional materials they work with is extensive, comprising more than one hundred 2D materials, and new interesting and exotic properties continue to be studied.
Professor Solovev's research led to a record in nanotechnology, he demonstrated the smallest man-made jet engine, recognized by the Guinness World Record in nanotechnology as "the smallest man-made nanomotor." This achievement opened the door to powerful autonomous nano-micro-machines capable of converting energy stored in the local environment and external field into autonomous motion. Currently, his group works on new fabrication methods of nano-membranes, bubbles, and capsules to reduce their fabrication time from hours to mere seconds and work on breakthrough properties and applications of nano-materials and devices.
Professor Solovev's current research topics include: i) the fabrication and characterization of nano- membranes, tubes, bubbles, and capsules with novel electronic, quantum, photonic, mechanical, and chemical properties for both on-chip integration and off-chip applications, ii) electromagnetic nanomembranes for energy harvesting using the most compact micro-coils and colloidal motors in non-equilibrium conditions, iii) electrochemical nanomembranes integration into environmentally clean one-compartment one-reactant fuel cells with an autonomous micropump, and iv) biomedical nanomembranes for echogenic microbubbles used in super-resolution ultrafast ultrasound biomedical imaging and therapy.