Draft:Alexei A. Kornyshev

• Comment: This still reads like a CV, rather than a wikipedia article.
  Some improvements needed include
  Remove "(for the full account see his webpage [1])" and "(for the full list see [19])"
  and "for a full list see [16]."
  Wikipedia is not the place for a full list of any of his career, works, awards.
  Replace the bibliography section with a "Selected Works" section including around 3 to 5 works of particular note. Newystats (talk) 19:50, 15 December 2023 (UTC)

• Comment: This version is much better. The Bibliography is too long. Beyond that I will let someone else decide. Ldm1954 (talk) 15:12, 5 December 2023 (UTC)

• Comment: You ignored the request to provide verification for his career. At least 6 independent sources. Until you do this article will be declined. If you continue to ignore this request, it may be rejected without an option to resubmit.
  
  1)Source for his PhD thesis -- to prove he did one
  2)Verification of his jobs abroad
  3)Humboldt prize
  4) Positions in Germany, US, UK etc. Ldm1954 (talk) 13:44, 7 October 2023 (UTC)

• Comment: As previous reviewers have noted, there are not enough inline citations. In terms of his achievements he would meet the notability criteria. However, his achievements are not backed up by verifiable sources. For instance, the Career has just one reference, none of his editorial work is validated by references. I suggest using Google scholar, for instance, to validate the publications. This is not too much work, but pro-forma it is required. Biographies of living people have high standards. Ldm1954 (talk) 20:12, 28 September 2023 (UTC)

• Comment: Assuming the external links in the article are refs, more are needed (please see WP:REFB to learn how to properly format refs). There are still large unsourced portions. ARandomName123 (talk)^{Ping me!} 22:48, 20 August 2023 (UTC)

• Comment: Are there any reviews for books or papers? Gusfriend (talk) 09:00, 27 December 2022 (UTC)

• Comment: Meets WP:PROF. Awards and honours needs references. Contributions has WP:OVERCITE and should ideally be about half a dozen items. Excessive detail in career steps. More information from text should be in infobox. Gusfriend (talk) 08:59, 27 December 2022 (UTC)

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Alexei A. Kornyshev
Academic background
Alma mater	Moscow Engineering Physics Institute
Academic work
Institutions	Institute of Electrochemistry, Acad. Sci. USSR Julich Research Center Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf Imperial College London
Main interests	Theoretical Condensed Matter Chemical Physics Electrochemistry Energy Research Biophysics Photonics Nanoscience
Website	https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/a.kornyshev

Alexei Kornyshev is a scientist specializing in theoretical condensed matter chemical physics and its applications to electrochemistry, biophysics, smart materials, optical metamaterials, nanoscience, energy generation and storage. Theoretical physicist by training, he performs his research in close relation with experiments and development of applications; over the years he has led many joint theoretical-experimental projects. His style of work as a theorist is developing where possible analytical theory, supplied where needed with computer simulations, and then testing and realising the theory predictions, in the laboratories of experimental partners, updating theoretical models in feedback with experimental findings.  

The particular areas of his studies were electron and proton transfer reactions and processes, hydration, metal/electrolyte and liquid-liquid interfaces, transport phenomena in solid electrolytes and polymer electrolyte membranes, theory of modern fuel cells and super-capacitors, and biomolecular assembly. In the last 20 years he focused on DNA biophysics, electrotunable photonics and nanophotonically modified optical devices, ionic liquids and solvent-in-salts systems, molecular electronics and machines, electrochemical micromechanics (electroactuators and reverse actuators) and nanotribology.

Career and research (for the full account see his webpage [1])

In 2002 Alexei took a Chair of Chemical Physics at the Chemistry Department of the Imperial College London . Since then, he was leading Theoretical Chemical Physics group including guest researchers from the USA, Germany, France, Italy, Romania, Israel, India, China, Russia, and Ukraine. In turn, Alexei continued his regular research visits to National Institutes of Health, participated in further NSF programs at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, worked on leave at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, University of Iowa, Doshisha University, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, etc. He also regularly visited Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, as an Advisory Professor; in 2019, Huazhong University of Science and Technology bestowed him the status of a Honorary Professorship. He was also a Principal Investigator in a collaboration project between Imperial College London and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Over the years of his work in Germany and the UK he has led/participated in a number of joint international projects with leading scientists of USA, Canada, Germany, France, Poland, Israel, China, Russia, Estonia, and Ukraine.

Other Professional Activities

Alexei organized over 25 International meetings; among them was a series of conferences that he directed at the ICTP Trieste: “Condensed Matter, Atomic & Molecular Aspects of Electrochemistry” (1990), “Electron and Ion Transfer in Condensed Media” (1996) , “Interaction and Assembly of Biomolecules” (2001) , “From Physical Understanding to New Architectures of Fuel Cells” (2007) , “From DNA-Inspired Physics to Physics-Inspired Biology” (2009) . More recently he also chaired the Royal Society of Chemistry Faraday Discussion on  “Chemical Physics of Electroactive Materials” (2017)

He served as a member of editorial boards on a number of scientific journals. Currently he is a member of Editorial Board of the Journal of Physics Condensed Matter (section “Physics of Chemical Processes”) , on the Russian J. of Physical Chemistry A (Springer) , and is on Advisory Board of Chemical Physics Letters (Elsevier) . He was an Editor of 5 multi-author books and collective monographs, and a number of special, topical journal issues. In 1995-1998 he co-chaired the Interfacial Electrochemistry Division of the International Society of Electrochemistry, and in 1999-2002 served as an Associate Member of Electrochemistry Commission of the International Union of Pure & Applied Chemistry. He is a fellow of a number of learned societies, e.g. International Society of Electrochemistry , for a full list see .

Publications

Alexei published >300 original articles in refereed journals, >35 monographic/review articles, and 3 Books. The latter two were an ambitious educational project, the two volume textbook: A.A. Kornyshev and D.O’Lee, “How to Derive a Formula” (World Scientific, Singapore). Vol. 1 Basic Analytical Skills and Methods for Physical Scientists (2020), Vol. 2 Further Analytical Skills and Methods for Physical Scientists (2023)

Partial List of Awards and Honors (for the full list see )

2023 Honorary DSc of Tartu University

2022 Electrochimica Acta Gold Medal of the International Society for Electrochemistry

2017 Inaugural winner of the first Lynden-Bell Award “for distinguished career in the field of the chemical physics of ionic systems”

2010 Interdisciplinary Prizes (RSC), Medal, and Lectureship, a major RSC award for "his many outstanding contributions at the interfaces of chemistry with both physics and with biology" 2008 Foreign Member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters

2007 Geoffrey Barker Medal, “for his pioneering works and outstanding achievements in the application of modern theory of condensed matter to electro-chemical systems”

2006 Fellow of the International Society of Electrochemistry

Bibliography

S. Kondrat, G. Feng, F. Bresme, M.Urbakh, A.A.Kornyshev, Theory and simulation of ionic liquids in nanoconfinement, Chem. Rev. 123, 6668–6715 (2023)

J.B. Edel, Y.Ma, A.A. Kornyshev, Electrochemical photonics: a pathway towards electrovariable optical metamaterials, Nanophotonics 12, 2717-2744 (2023)

E. Haimov, Y. Chen, Z. Najeeb, M. Urbakh, A.A. Kornyshev, Ionotronics for reverse actuation, Faraday Disc. (2023)

F. Bresme. A.A. Kornyshev, S. Perkin, M. Urbakh, Electrotuneable friction with ionic liquid lubricants, Nature Materials 21, 848-858 (2022)

G. Feng, M. Chen, S. Bi, Z.A.H. Z.A.H. Goodwin, E.B. Postnikov, N. Brilliantov, M. Urbakh, A.A. Kornyshev, Free and bound state in ionic liquids, conductivity, and underscreening paradox, Phys. Rev. X 9, #021024 (2019)

S. Kondrat, A.A. Kornyshev, Pressing a spring: what does it take to maximize the energy storage in nanoporous supercapacitors? Nanoscale Horizons 1, 45-52 (2016)

M.V. Fedorov and A.A. Kornyshev, Ionic liquids at electrified interfaces, Chem. Rev. 114, 2978−3036 (2014)

A.A. Kornyshev, D.J. Lee, A. Wynveen, S. Leikin, Signatures of DNA flexibility, interactions and sequence-related structural variations in classical X-ray diffraction patterns, Nucleic Acids Research 39, 7289-7299 (2011)

A.A. Kornyshev, A.R. Kucernak, M. Marinescu, C.W. Monroe, A.E.S. Sleightholme, M. Urbakh, Ultra-low voltage electrowetting, J. Phys. Chem. C 114, 14885-14890 (2010)

A.A. Kornyshev, Physics of DNA: unravelling hidden abilities encoded in the structure of 'the most important molecule’ PCCP 39, 12352-12378 (2010)

A.A. Kornyshev, D.J. Lee, S. Leikin, A. Wynveen, Structure and interactions of biological helices, Revies of Modern Physics 79, 943-996 (2007)

M. Eikerling, A.A. Kornyshev, A.A. Kulikovsky, Physical modeling of fuel cells and their components in: Encyclopedia of Electrochemistry 5, Eds. A.Bard et al., Wiley-VCH, New York, 429-543 (2007)

A.A. Kornyshev, A.M. Kuznetsov, J. Ulstrup, In situ superexchange electron transfer through a single molecule: a rectifying effect, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 103, 6799-6804 (2006)

Z. Wang, J. Palma, H. Wang, J. Liu, G. Zhou, M.R. Ajayakumar, X. Feng, W. Wang, J. Ulstrup, A.A. Kornyshev, Yueqi Li, N. Tao, Electrochemically controlled of rectification in symmetric single-molecule junctions, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 119, # e2122183119 (2022)

A.A. Kornyshev, A.M. Kuznetsov, E. Spohr, J. Ulstrup, Kinetics of proton transport in water, J. Phys. Chem. 107, 3351-3366 (2003)

A.A. Kornyshev, E. Spohr, M.A. Vorotyntsev, Electrochemical Interface: At the border line, in: Encyclopedia of Electrochemistry 1, Eds. A.Bard et al., Wiley-VCH, New York, 33-132 (2002)

Ph. A. Bopp, A.A. Kornyshev, G. Sutmann, Frequency and wave-vector dependent dielectric function of water. Collective modes and relaxation spectra J.Chem.Phys. 109, 1939-1958 (1998)

A.A. Kornyshev, I. Vilfan, Phase transitions at the electrochemical interface, Electrochim. Acta 40, 109-127 (1994)

M.A. Vorotyntsev, A.A. Kornyshev, Electrostatics of Media with the Spatial Dispersion, Moscow: Nauka, 1993

A.A. Kornyshev, M.A.Vorotyntsev, Conductivity and space charge phenomena in solid electrolytes with one mobile charge carrier specie, a review with original material, Electrochim. Acta 26, 303-323 (1981)

A.A. Kornyshev, Nonlocal screening of ions in a structurized polar solvent: new aspects of solvent description in electrolyte theory, Electrochim. Acta 26, 1-20 (1981)

External links

• Faculty home page
• Alexei A. Kornyshev publications indexed by Google Scholar