Svetlana Sukhishvili

Educational Background

- Stimuli-responsive polymer assemblies
- Covalent adaptive networks
- Polymer salogels for thermal energy storage
- Structure and dynamics of polyelectrolyte assemblies
- Surface modification for controlling wettability, adhesion and adsorption

Senior Faculty Fellow Award, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station – 2023
Dean of Engineering Excellence Award, Texas A&M College of Engineering – 2022
Distinguished Research Achievement Award, Texas A&M Association of Former Students – 2021 
Distinguished Visiting Scientist, Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Singapore – 2017-2020
Provost’s Entrepreneurship Award, Stevens Institute of Technology – 2013
Special Creativity Award, National Science Foundation – 2012
Davis Award for Research Excellence, Stevens Institute of Technology – 2011
Award for Distinguished Scientific Achievement, American Coatings Association – 2009

K. Kumar Rajagopalan and S. A. Sukhishvili “Temperature- and Creep-Resistant Diels-Alder Salogels for Shape Stabilization of Salt Hydrate Phase Change Materials”, J. Mater. Chem. A. 2025, 13, 8157-8170
Zh. Sang, H. Eoh, K. Xiao, D. Kurouski, W. Shan, J. Hyon, S. A. Sukhishvili and E. L. Thomas “Supersonic Puncture-Healable and Impact Resistant Covalent Adaptive Networks”, Materials Today 2025, 83, 43-53,
J. Moon, Zh. Sang, K. Kumar Rajagopalan, F. Gardea and S. A. Sukhishvili “Stereochemical Shape Morphing in Diels-Alder Polymer Networks”, Small 2024, 21, 2407858
A. Aliakseyeu, P. Purvin Shah, J. F. Ankner, and S. A. Sukhishvili “Salt-Induced Diffusion of Star and Linear Polyelectrolytes within Multilayer Films”, Macromolecules 2023, 56, 5434–5445.
K. Kumar Rajagopalan, X. Zhu, and S. A. Sukhishvili “Strong, Thermo-Reversible Salogels with Boronate Ester Bonds as Thermal Energy Storage Materials,” Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2022, 10, 21622-21632.
Zh. Sang, Q. Zhou, K. Kumar Rajagopalan, E. L. Thomas, F. Gardea, S. A. Sukhishvili “Dynamic Polymer Network Conductive Nanocomposites: Low Percolation Threshold and Joule-heating-induced Network Plasticity”, Chem. Eng. J. 2022, 443, 136400.
Q. Zhou, F. Gardea, Zh. Sang, S. Lee, M. Pharr, and S.A. Sukhishvili “A Tailorable Family of Elastomeric-to-Rigid, 3D Printable, Interbonding Polymer Networks,” Adv. Funct. Mater. 2020, 30, 2002374.