{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Yuri M. Lvov | image = Yuri M. Lvov.jpg | caption = Lvov in 2025 | birth_date = | birth_place = Slavgorod, Soviet Union (now Slavgorod, Russia) | field = Nanotechnology<br>Self-assembly | work_institution = Louisiana Tech University (1999–)<br>United States Naval Research Laboratory (1998-99)<br>University of Connecticut (1997-98)<br>Japan Science and Technology Agency (1994–1996)<br>University of Mainz (1991-93)<br>Soviet Academy of Sciences Shubnikov Institute of Crystallography (1980-90) | alma_mater = M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University | doctoral_advisor = Lev Feigin (M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University) | doctoral_students = | known_for = | prizes = | thesis_year = 1979 | yearsactive = 1977–present | website = http://www2.latech.edu/~ylvov/ }}
'''Yuri M. Lvov''' is a Russian American scientist and educator. He serves as the Tolbert Pipes Eminent Endowed Chair on Micro and Nanosystems at Louisiana Tech University's Institute for Micromanufacturing. His scientific research has focused on chemistry and physics, with particular emphasis on the areas of micro and nanotechnologies, ultrathin films, and bio/nanocomposites.<ref name="NATO-Lvov">{{cite web|url=https://natoasi-sk.com/general-information/invited-speakers/yuri-m-lvov/|title=Yuri M. Lvov|work=NATO Science for Peace and Security Programme|language=en-US|access-date=March 9, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250310024205/https://natoasi-sk.com/general-information/invited-speakers/yuri-m-lvov/|archive-date=March 10, 2025|url-status=live}}</ref> His work on developing polyelectrolyte layer-by-layer (LbL) assembly has been recognized by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation with both a fellowship and the Humboldt Research Award in Chemistry,<ref name="Humboldt-Lvov">{{cite web|url=https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/connect/explore-the-humboldt-network/singleview/1017084/prof-dr-yuri-m-lvov|title=Prof. Dr. Yuri M. Lvov|work=Alexander von Humboldt Foundation|language=en-US|access-date=March 10, 2025}}</ref> and he has been identified as among the world's foremost experts in exploring the uses of halloysite clay nanotubes for industrial and commercial purposes.<ref name="EPSCORLvov-2013">{{cite web|url=https://rsi.laregents.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/v9no12.pdf|title=Clay Nanotube Pioneer Lvov Developing Market Applications|date=October 2013|work=Louisiana Board of Regents: EPSCoR|language=en-US|access-date=March 9, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240623160211/https://rsi.laregents.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/v9no12.pdf|archive-date=June 23, 2024|url-status=live}}</ref> Lvov served as a professor in the Soviet Union until its collapse, and then moved to Germany in 1991 to work at the University of Mainz. Following his time in Mainz, Lvov held senior positions with the Japan Science and Technology Agency, the University of Connecticut, and the United States Naval Research Laboratory, before settling at Louisiana Tech University in 1999.<ref name="Lvov-CV">{{cite web|url=https://www2.latech.edu/~ylvov/cv.html|title=Yuri M. Lvov CV|work=Yuri M. Lvov|language=en-US|access-date=March 10, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160318161210/http://www2.latech.edu/~ylvov/cv.html|archive-date=March 18, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> He has also worked with the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces.<ref name="NATO-Lvov" /> Lvov is one of the most cited chemists, with a total citation count exceeding 45,000, and an h-index of 113.<ref name="Lvov-GoogleScholar">{{cite web|url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=BMGybZcAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate|title=Yuri Lvov – List of Works|work=Google Scholar|language=en-US|access-date=May 4, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250504064312/https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=BMGybZcAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate|archive-date=May 4, 2025|url-status=live}}</ref>
==Early life and education== Lvov was born in the Soviet Union in the small town of Slavgorod, located in Siberia. Prior to the Russian Revolution, Lvov's family had been nobles loyal to the Russian Empire and had a small estate in present-day Lithuania. Lvov's great-grandfather Alexei Lvov was the co-author of ''God Save the Tsar!'', the Russian Empire's anthem; his grandfather was a member of the White Guard. Having been on the losing side of the revolution, Lvov's family suffered the political consequences when the Soviets occupied Lithuania in the spring of 1941. Lvov's grandfather, Colonel R. Lvov, was executed. Lvov's grandmother, as well as Lvov's father (who was then 14 years old) were sent to a labor colony in Siberia, where Lvov was born. Following the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953, the Gulag system was slowly dismantled, and Lvov's family was freed. Lvov's father moved to the Ural region, where he received a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Linguistics. Ultimately, Lvov's father relocated to Moscow, where he became a university professor.<ref name="LATech-LvovInteview">{{cite web|url=https://1894.latech.edu/documents/2020/10/yuri-lvov-season-1-bonus-episode.pdf/|title=Beyond 1984 Podcast: Yuri Lvov: Nanotechnology, It's the Little Things that Matter – Bonus Episode|work=Louisiana Tech University|language=en-US|access-date=March 10, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240613144054/https://1894.latech.edu/documents/2020/10/yuri-lvov-season-1-bonus-episode.pdf/|archive-date=June 13, 2024|url-status=live}}</ref>
In the mid-1960s, when Lvov was a teenager, he became inspired by heroic figures in the science and engineering fields, who were exemplified in the Soviet Union. Due to Soviet achievements in the space race, such as Yuri Gagarin's Vostok 1 flight and other scientific developments during the Cold War, Lvov was particularly interested in physics; he viewed success in this field as a way to rebuild his family's former success.<ref name="LATech-LvovInteview" /> Excelling in his studies, he entered the M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, the leading Soviet research university. Lvov graduated in 1974 with a Bachelor of Science degree in physics, and then followed this with a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Physical Chemistry in 1979.<ref name="Lvov-CV" />
==Career== After receiving his Ph.D, Lvov remained in Moscow, becoming a senior researcher and group leader at the Soviet Academy of Sciences Shubnikov Institute of Crystallography. In this role, he studied protein structures and organic thin films, while overseeing the work of graduate students. Lvov held this position from 1980-90.<ref name="Lvov-CV" /> Noteworthy papers published during this period included research on heavy-atom markers in hemoglobin (1980, ''FEBS Letters''),<ref name="FEBS-Lvov1980">{{cite journal|last1=Vainshtein|first1=Boris|last2=Feigin|first2=Lev|last3=Lvov|first3=Yuri|last4=Grosdov|first4=Rudolf|last5=Marakushev|first5=Sergey|last6=Likhtenshtein|first6=Gertz|date=July 1980|title=Determination of the Distance Between Heavy-Atom Markers in Haemoglobin and Histidine Decarboxylase in Solution by Small-Angle X-ray Scattering|url=https://febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1016/0014-5793(80)80539-4|journal=FEBS Letters|volume=116|issue=1|publisher=Elsevier/North-Holland Biomedical Press|pages=107–110|doi=10.1016/0014-5793(80)80539-4|pmid=7409132 |bibcode=1980FEBSL.116..107V |access-date=March 10, 2025}}</ref> bacteriophage (1983, ''Biophysical Journal''),<ref name="Biophysical-Lvov1983">{{cite journal|last1=Rontó|first1=Györgyi|last2=Agamalian|first2=Mikhail|last3=Drabkin|first3=Gil'yari|last4=Feigin|first4=Lev|last5=Lvov|first5=Yuri|date=September 1983|title=Structure of Bacteriophage T7. Small-Angle X-ray and Neutron Scattering Study|url=https://www.cell.com/biophysj/pdf/S0006-3495(83)84354-9.pdf|journal=Biophysical Journal|volume=43|issue=3 |publisher=Biophysical Society|pages=309–314|doi=10.1016/S0006-3495(83)84354-9|pmid=6354291 |pmc=1329299 |bibcode=1983BpJ....43..309R |access-date=March 10, 2025}}</ref> and X-ray and electron diffraction of Langmuir-Blodgett films (1989, Soviet Scientific Reviews);<ref name="SovietScrientific-Lvov1989">{{cite book|last1=Feigin|first1=Lev|last2=Lvov|first2=Yuri|last3=Troitsky|first3=Vladimir|editor-last1=Khalatnikov|editor-first1=Isaak|date=April 1989|title=X-ray and Electron-Diffraction Study of Langmuir-Blodgett Films|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4_38ckf2eMUC|publisher=Harwood Academic Publishers|isbn=978-3-7186-4905-1 |access-date=March 10, 2025}}</ref> key collaborators included Boris Vainshtein (head of the Institute of Crystallography).
At the start of the 1990s, Lvov was in his late 30s and had a stable, successful post supported by the government. That all changed with the dissolution of the Soviet Union, which by 1991 was in the midst of collapse. During this time, salaries at the Soviet Academy of Sciences had fallen to unsustainable lows, with academics making less than bus drivers.<ref name="AlaskaScience-BrainDrain">{{cite web|url=https://www.gi.alaska.edu/alaska-science-forum/brain-drain-saps-former-soviet-union-scientists|title=Brain Drain Saps Former Soviet Union of Scientists|last1=Rozell|first1=Ned|work=University of Alaska Fairbanks|language=en-US|date=June 8, 1995|access-date=March 10, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250311032601/https://www.gi.alaska.edu/alaska-science-forum/brain-drain-saps-former-soviet-union-scientists|archive-date=March 11, 2025|url-status=live}}</ref> In early 1991, Lvov, who by this time had achieved recognition outside the Soviet Union, was granted a fellowship by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and invited to work at the University of Mainz in Germany.<ref name="Humboldt-Lvov" /> Once in Mainz, Lvov was introduced to Helmuth Möhwald, who at the time was a professor of physical chemistry at the university. Möhwald encouraged Lvov to consider his time in Germany to be akin to a new graduate program, and therefore to expand to new types of research.<ref name="LATech-LvovInteview" /> Together with chemist Gero Decher, Möhwald and Lvov pioneered the concept of layer-by-layer (LbL) self-assembly with a series of highly influential papers published between 1993-94.<ref name="AdvMat2010">{{cite journal|last1=Boudou|first1=Thomas|last2=Crouzier|first2=Thomas|last3=Ren|first3=Kefeng|last4=Blin|first4=Guillaume|last5=Picart|first5=Catherine|date=January 26, 2010|title=Multiple Functionalities of Polyelectrolyte Multilayer Films: New Biomedical Applications|url=https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.200901327|journal=Advanced Materials|volume=22|issue=4|publisher=Wiley-VCH|pages=441–467|doi=10.1002/adma.200901327|pmid=20217734 |bibcode=2010AdM....22..441B |access-date=March 11, 2025|url-access=subscription}}</ref> These included a seminal paper focusing on the use of layer-by-layer assembly with polyallylamine hydrochloride (1993, ''Langmuir''),<ref name="Langmuir1993">{{cite journal|last1=Lvov|first1=Yuri|last2=Decher|first2=Gero|last3=Möhwald|first3=Helmuth|date=February 1, 1993|title=Assembly, Structural Characterization, and Thermal Behavior of Layer-by-Layer Deposited Ultrathin Films of Poly(Vinyl Sulfate) and Poly(Allylamine)|url=https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/la00026a020|journal=Langmuir|volume=9|issue=2|publisher=American Chemical Society|pages=481–486|doi=10.1021/la00026a020|access-date=April 23, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250424024311/https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/la00026a020|archive-date=April 24, 2025|url-status=live|url-access=subscription}}</ref> a follow-up involving layering polyallylamine hydrochloride and DNA (1993, ''Macromolecules''),<ref name="Macromolecules1993">{{cite journal|last1=Lvov|first1=Yuri|last2=Decher|first2=Gero|last3=Sukhorukov|first3=Gleb|date=September 1, 1993|title=Assembly of Thin Films by Means of Successive Deposition of Alternate Layers of DNA and Poly(Allylamine)|url=https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/ma00072a016|journal=Macromolecules|volume=26|issue=20|publisher=American Chemical Society|pages=5396–5399|doi=10.1021/ma00072a016|bibcode=1993MaMol..26.5396L |access-date=April 23, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250424023821/https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/ma00072a016?cookieSet=1|archive-date=April 24, 2025|url-status=live|url-access=subscription}}</ref> a paper focusing on nanocomposite films for biosensors (1994, ''Biosensors and Bioelectronics''),<ref name="Biosensors1994">{{cite journal|last1=Decher|first1=Gero|last2=Lehr|first2=Birgit|last3=Lowack|first3=Klaus|last4=Lvov|first4=Yuri|last5=Schmitt|first5=Johannes|date=1994|title=New Nanocomposite Films for Biosensors: Layer-by-Layer Adsorbed Films of Polyelectrolytes, Proteins or DNA|url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0956566394800650|journal=Biosensors and Bioelectronics|volume=9|issue=9–10|publisher=Elsevier|pages=677–684|doi=10.1016/0956-5663(94)80065-0|access-date=March 11, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240416011252/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0956566394800650|archive-date=April 16, 2024|url-status=live|url-access=subscription}}</ref> and a final paper which demonstrated proof of multilayer structural organization in self-assembled films (1994, ''Thin Solid Films'').<ref name="ThinSolidFilms1994">{{cite journal|last1=Decher|first1=Gero|last2=Lvov|first2=Yuri|last3=Schmitt|first3=Johannes|date=May 15, 1994|title=Proof of Multilayer Structural Organization in Self-Assembled Polycation-Polyanion Molecular Films|url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/004060909490569X|journal=Thin Solid Films|volume=244|issue=1–2|publisher=Elsevier|pages=772–777|doi=10.1016/0040-6090(94)90569-X|bibcode=1994TSF...244..772D |access-date=March 11, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240415191532/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/004060909490569X|archive-date=April 15, 2024|url-status=live|url-access=subscription}}</ref> This research was foundational for subsequent development and application of LbL assembly, including for use in drug delivery, tissue engineering, fuel cell preparation, and anti-reflection / anti-UV coatings.<ref name="AdvancedHealthcareMaterials2024">{{cite journal|last1=Borges|first1=João|last2=Zeng|first2=Jinfeng|last3=Liu|first3=Xi|last4=Chang|first4=Hao|last5=Monge|first5=Claire|last6=Garot|first6=Charlotte|last7=Ren|first7=Ke-feng|last8=Machillot|first8=Paul|last9=Vrana|first9=Nihal|last10=Lavalle|first10=Philippe|last11=Akagi|first11=Takami|last12=Matsusaki|first12=Michiya|last13=Ji|first13=Jian|last14=Akashi|first14=Mitsuru|last15=Mano|first15=João|last16=Gribova|first16=Varvara|last17=Picart|first17=Catherine|date=March 25, 2024|title=Recent Developments in Layer-by-Layer Assembly for Drug Delivery and Tissue Engineering Applications|journal=Advanced Healthcare Materials|volume=13|issue=8|publisher=Wiley-VCH|doi=10.1002/adhm.202302713|hdl=10773/40125|hdl-access=free|pmc=11469081}}</ref><ref name="Nanobiomedicine2014">{{cite journal|last1=Rawtani|first1=Deepak|last2=Agrawal|first2=Yadvendra|date=January 1, 2014|title=Emerging Strategies and Applications of Layer-by-Layer Self-Assembly|journal=Nanobiomedicine|volume=1 |page=8 |publisher=Sage Publishing|doi=10.5772/60009|pmid=30023019 |pmc=6029239}}</ref> Lvov, Decher, and Möhwald have subsequently been credited as the developers of layer-by-layer assembly for multicomponent films made up of polyions (such as DNA, RNA, and proteins), as well as other charged materials.<ref name="ChemComm2007">{{cite journal|last1=Rusling|first1=James|last2=Hvastkovs|first2=Eli|last3=Hull|first3=Dominic|last4=Schenkman|first4=John|date=August 30, 2007|title=Biochemical Applications of Ultrathin Films of Enzymes, Polyions and DNA|journal=ChemComm|issue=2|publisher=Royal Society of Chemistry|pages=141–154|doi=10.1039/B709121B|pmid=18092072 |pmc=3473181}}</ref>
At the end of 1993, Lvov's fellowship at Mainz came to its conclusion, and in 1994 he moved to Japan to work with the Research Development Corporation of Japan (now known as the Japan Science and Technology Agency) in Fukuoka. Lvov served as a staff researcher with the Corporation for two years.<ref name="Lvov-CV" /> During this time, Lvov published his most frequently cited paper: a demonstration of the feasibility of assembling multicomponent biocatalytic films using electrostatic layer-by-layer adsorption, which he co-authored with Katsuhiko Ariga, Izumi Ichinose, and Toyoki Kunitake (1995, ''Journal of the American Chemical Society'').<ref name="AmerChemSoc1995">{{cite journal|last1=Lvov|first1=Yuri|last2=Ariga|first2=Katsuhiko|last3=Ichinose|first3=Izumi|last4=Kunitake|first4=Toyoki|date=June 1, 1995|title=Assembly of Multicomponent Protein Films by Means of Electrostatic Layer-by-Layer Adsorption|url=https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/ja00127a026|journal=Journal of the American Chemical Society|volume=117|issue=22|publisher=American Chemical Society|pages=6117–6123|doi=10.1021/ja00127a026|bibcode=1995JAChS.117.6117L |access-date=March 11, 2025|url-access=subscription}}</ref> This paper has been cited more than 1,800 times as indexed by Google Scholar.<ref name="AmerChemSoc1995-GoogleScholar">{{cite web|url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=BMGybZcAAAAJ&cstart=300&pagesize=100&sortby=pubdate&citation_for_view=BMGybZcAAAAJ:u5HHmVD_uO8C|title=Yuri Lvov - Assembly of Multicomponent Protein Films by Means of Electrostatic Layer-by-Layer Adsorption|work=Google Scholar|language=en-US|access-date=March 11, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250312040943/https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=BMGybZcAAAAJ&cstart=300&pagesize=100&sortby=pubdate&citation_for_view=BMGybZcAAAAJ:u5HHmVD_uO8C|archive-date=March 12, 2025|url-status=live}}</ref> This successful collaboration with Ariga led to the pair subsequently co-authoring more than 30 additional papers together,<ref name="Lvov-GoogleScholar" /> as well as Lvov being named a collaborative researcher to Japan's National Institute for Materials Science Supermolecules Group, which Ariga leads.<ref name="SupermoleculesGroup-Members">{{cite web|url=https://www.nims.go.jp/super/HP/member-e.html|title=Supermolecules Group - Members|work=National Institute for Materials Science|language=en-US|access-date=March 12, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241207104300/https://www.nims.go.jp/super/HP/member-e.html|archive-date=December 7, 2024|url-status=live}}</ref> Other significant papers produced during Lvov's time in Japan included an exploration of assembling dye−polyion molecular films via layer-by-layer absorption (1997, ''Journal of the American Chemical Society''),<ref name="AmerChemSoc1997">{{cite journal|last1=Ariga|first1=Katsuhiko|last2=Lvov|first2=Yuri|last3=Kunitake|first3=Toyoki|date=March 5, 1997|title=Assembling Alternate Dye−Polyion Molecular Films by Electrostatic Layer-by-Layer Adsorption|url=https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ja963442c|journal=Journal of the American Chemical Society|volume=119|issue=9|publisher=American Chemical Society|pages=2224–2231|doi=10.1021/ja963442c|bibcode=1997JAChS.119.2224A |access-date=March 12, 2025|url-access=subscription}}</ref> and an investigation of layer by layer assembly of colloidal SiO2 particles (1997, ''Langmuir'').<ref name="Langmuir1997">{{cite journal|last1=Lvov|first1=Yuri|last2=Ariga|first2=Katsuhiko|last3=Onda|first3=Mitsuhiko|last4=Ichinose|first4=Izumi|last5=Kunitake|first5=Toyoki|date=November 12, 1997|title=Alternate Assembly of Ordered Multilayers of SiO2 and Other Nanoparticles and Polyions|url=https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/la970517x|journal=Langmuir|volume=13|issue=23|publisher=American Chemical Society|pages=6195–6203|doi=10.1021/la970517x|access-date=March 12, 2025|url-access=subscription}}</ref> Additionally, Lvov, Ariga, Kunitake, and Mitsuhiko Onda were granted two Japanese patents relating to the preparation of ultrathin films.<ref name="JustiaPatent1-2000">{{cite web|url=https://patents.justia.com/patent/6020175|title=Multiple Layered Functional Thin Films|work=Justia|language=en-US|access-date=April 27, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250427233956/https://patents.justia.com/patent/6020175|archive-date=April 27, 2025|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="JustiaPatent2-2000">{{cite web|url=https://patents.justia.com/patent/6107084|title=Method for the Preparation of an Immobilized Protein Ultrathin Film Reactor and a Method for a Chemical Reaction by Using an Immobilized Protein Ultrathin Film Reactor|work=Justia|language=en-US|access-date=April 27, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151009083605/https://patents.justia.com/patent/6107084|archive-date=October 9, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> Lvov concluded his time in Japan in 1996, and thereafter immigrated to the United States, where he has conducted the rest of his career.<ref name="Lvov-CV" />
In 1997, Lvov joined the University of Connecticut as a senior research scientist and adjunct professor, roles he held until 1998.<ref name="Lvov-CV" /><ref name="ChemComm2007" /> During this time, Lvov focused on facilitating direct electrochemical activation of metabolic enzymes on solid electrodes using the layer-by-layer method. This culminated in a significant paper which provided the first report of direct enzyme voltammetry in layer-by-layer films on electrodes (1998, ''Journal of the American Chemical Society'').<ref name="ChemComm2007" /><ref name="AmerChemSoc1998">{{cite journal|last1=Lvov|first1=Yuri|last2=Lu|first2=Zhongqing|last3=Schenkman|first3=John|last4=Zu|first4=Xiaolin|last5=Rusling|first5=James|date=April 17, 1998|title=Direct Electrochemistry of Myoglobin and Cytochrome P450cam in Alternate Layer-by-Layer Films with DNA and Other Polyions|url=https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ja9737984|journal=Journal of the American Chemical Society|volume=117|issue=22|publisher=American Chemical Society|pages=4073–4080|doi=10.1021/ja9737984|bibcode=1998JAChS.120.4073L |access-date=March 12, 2025|url-access=subscription}}</ref> From 1998-99, Lvov joined the United States Naval Research Laboratory as a research associate professor specializing in biomolecular science and engineering to address Navy needs such as ship antifouling coating. It was during this time that Lvov first began to consider and introduce research relating to his major research focus: halloysite nanotube composites.<ref name="Lvov-CV" /><ref name="LATech-LvovInteview" /> While at the Naval Research Laboratory, Lvov collaborated with his former colleague Möhwald to co-edit and contribute a chapter to the book ''Protein Architecture: Interfacing Molecular Assemblies and Immobilization Biotechnology'', a comprehensive work which also included a chapter by Frank Caruso, as well as frequent collaborators Ariga and Kunitake, with whom Lvov had continued to work after his time in Japan (2000, Marcel Dekker).<ref name="GB-ProteinArchitecture2000">{{cite book|editor-last1=Lvov|editor-first1=Yuri|editor-last2=Möhwald|editor-first2=Helmuth|date=2000|title=Protein Architecture: Interfacing Molecular Assemblies and Immobilization Biotechnology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MTTWYJJLOawC|publisher=Marcel Dekker|isbn=0-8247-8236-4|access-date=April 23, 2025}}</ref>
After leaving the Naval Research Laboratory, Lvov settled at his long-term research institution, Louisiana Tech University, in 1999. Initially serving as an associate professor from 1999-2003, in 2004 Lvov was named as a chemistry professor, as well as the Tolbert Pipes Eminent Endowed Chair on Micro and Nanosystems.<ref name="NATO-Lvov" /> During his time at Louisiana Tech University, Lvov continued his focus on layer-by-layer assemblies. In 2006, Lvov was granted a US patent for lithography-based layer-by-layer assembled nanofilms.<ref name="JustiaPatent-2006">{{cite web|url=https://patents.justia.com/patent/7090783|title=Lithography-Based Patterning of Layer-by-Layer Nano-Assembled Thin Films|work=Justia|language=en-US|access-date=April 27, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151127040702/https://patents.justia.com/patent/7090783|archive-date=November 27, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> Two additional patents relating to layer-by-layer formation of papers and wood fibers were granted in 2013 and 2014,<ref name="JustiaPatentPaper-2013">{{cite web|url=https://patents.justia.com/patent/8349131|title=Method for the Manufacture of Smart Paper and Smart Wood Microfibers|work=Justia|language=en-US|access-date=April 27, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150919130943/https://patents.justia.com/patent/8349131|archive-date=September 19, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="JustiaPatentPaper-2014">{{cite web|url=https://patents.justia.com/patent/8764938|title=Method for the Manufacture of Smart Paper and Smart Wood Microfibers|work=Justia|language=en-US|access-date=April 27, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150920045439/https://patents.justia.com/patent/8764938|archive-date=September 20, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> Research into nanoparticles yielded a further patent grant in 2014, which focused on stable polyelectrolyte coatings for nanoparticles to enable their usage with medications with poor solubility.<ref name="JustiaPatentNPCoating-2014">{{cite web|url=https://patents.justia.com/patent/8685538|title=Stable Polyelectrolyte Coated Nanoparticles|work=Justia|language=en-US|access-date=April 27, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923233520/https://patents.justia.com/patent/8685538|archive-date=September 23, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> However, Lvov's most significant research at Louisiana Tech University involved his expansion into a new field: research of halloysite, a naturally occurring clay material with a hollow nanotubular structure, with which he developed functional nanoclay formulations.<ref name="EPSCORLvov-2013" />
Lvov began exploring halloysite in the year 2000, working with Naval Research Laboratory members Ronald Price and Bruce Garber on two key papers. The first paper focused on in-vitro release characteristics of active agents encapsulated in halloysite (2001, ''Journal of Microencapsulation'').<ref name="JournalMicroencapsulation2001">{{cite journal|last1=Lvov|first1=Yuri|last2=Price|first2=Ronald|last3=Gaber|first3=Bruce|date=November–December 2001|title=In-Vitro Release Characteristics of Tetracycline HCl, Khellin and Nicotinamide Adenine Dineculeotide from Halloysite; A Cylindrical Mineral|journal=Journal of Microencapsulation|volume=18|issue=6|publisher=Informa|pages=713–722|doi=10.1080/02652040010019532|pmid=11695636 }}</ref> The second paper (co-authored with former colleague Ichinose) focused on halloysite's use in layer-by-layer nanofabrication (2002, ''Colloids and Surfaces'').<ref name="Colloids2002">{{cite journal|last1=Lvov|first1=Yuri|last2=Price|first2=Ronald|last3=Gaber|first3=Bruce|last4=Ichinose|first4=Izumi|date=February 18, 2002|title=Thin Film Nanofabrication Via Layer-by-Layer Adsorption of Tubule Halloysite, Spherical Silica, Proteins and Polycations|url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0927775701009700|journal=Colloids and Surfaces|volume=198-200|publisher=Elsevier|pages=375–382|doi=10.1016/S0927-7757(01)00970-0|access-date=April 23, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240420024409/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0927775701009700|archive-date=April 20, 2024|url-status=live|url-access=subscription}}</ref> These papers were the first of more than 90 journal papers, book chapters, and written conference presentations which Lvov authored on halloysite.<ref name="Lvov-GoogleScholar" /> Lvov's entry into the halloysite research field predates by several years the rise in attention to the aluminosilicate, which prior to 2005 had primarily been considered viable as a replacement for kaolin in ceramics.<ref name="ClayMinerals2016">{{cite journal|last1=Churchman|first1=Jock|last2=Pasbakhsh|first2=Pooria|last3=Hillier|first3=Stephen|date=2016|title=The Rise and Rise of Halloysite|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/307956318|journal=Clay Minerals|volume=51|issue=3 |publisher=Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland|pages=303–308|doi=10.1180/claymin.2016.051.3.00|access-date=April 24, 2025|doi-access=free|bibcode=2016ClMin..51..303J }}</ref> In subsequent decades, Lvov's initial paper on utilizing halloysite to encapsulate active agents was cited as a pioneering work which enabled the exploration of use of halloysite in medical drug delivery applications.<ref name="RendicontiLincei2020">{{cite journal|last1=Massaro|first1=Marina|last2=Lazzara|first2=Giuseppe|last3=Noto|first3=Renato|last4=Riela|first4=Serena|date=February 19, 2020|title=Halloysite Nanotubes: A Green Resource for Materials and Life Sciences|url=https://iris.unipa.it/bitstream/10447/430123/4/Halloysite%20nanotubes%20a%20green%20resource.pdf|journal=Rendiconti Lincei. Scienze Fisiche e Naturali|volume=31|issue=20 |publisher=Springer Nature|pages=213–221|doi=10.1039/D2MA00528J|pmid=36324871 |pmc=9577303 |access-date=April 24, 2025}}</ref><ref name="RoyalSocietyChemistry2022">{{cite journal|last1=Katti|first1=Kalpana|last2=Jasuja|first2=Haneesh|last3=Jaswandkar|first3=Sharad|last4=Mohanty|first4=Sibanwita|last5=Katti|first5=Dinesh|date=August 31, 2022|title=Nanoclays in Medicine: A New Frontier of an Ancient Medical Practice|journal=Materials Advances|volume=3|issue=20 |publisher=Royal Society of Chemistry|pages=7484–7500|doi=10.1039/D2MA00528J|pmid=36324871 |pmc=9577303}}</ref> Over the following years, Lvov worked with numerous scientific teams throughout the world to further explore and develop uses for halloysite, particularly in the fields of nanoencapsulation, nanoassembly of ultrathin organized films, and nanocomposites. In 2007, Lvov's work in nanoencapsulation was recognized with the Best of Small Tech Award for Innovator of the Year, an award granted by ''Small Times Magazine''.<ref name="SmallTechAward2007-Lvov">{{cite web|url=https://sst.semiconductor-digest.com/2008/01/2007-best-of-small-tech-awards/|title=2007 Best of Small Tech Awards|work=Semiconductor Digest|language=en-US|access-date=April 25, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250113232634/https://sst.semiconductor-digest.com/2008/01/2007-best-of-small-tech-awards/|archive-date=January 13, 2025|url-status=live}}</ref> Also in 2007, Lvov co-edited (with Ariga and others) the book ''Bio‐inorganic Hybrid Nanomaterials: Strategies, Syntheses, Characterization and Applications'', while also contributing a chapter co-written with Price (2007, Wiley-VCH).<ref name="WileyBook-2007">{{cite book|url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9783527621446|title=Bio-inorganic Hybrid Nanomaterials: Strategies, Syntheses, Characterization and Applications|publisher=Wiley-VCH|date=2007 |doi=10.1002/9783527621446 |isbn=978-3-527-31718-9 |access-date=April 27, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240123205633/https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9783527621446|archive-date=January 23, 2024|url-status=live |editor-last1=Ruiz-Hitzky |editor-last2=Ariga |editor-last3=Lvov |editor-first1=Eduardo |editor-first2=Katsuhiko |editor-first3=Yuri M. |url-access=subscription }}</ref> The following year, Lvov significantly expanded his explorations by analyzing the potential of halloysite nanotubes to be used for the controlled release of active agents over time (2008, ''ACS Nano''). This significant paper, co-authored with Price, Möhwald, and Dmitry Shchukin, established that halloysite nanotubes could be utilized for the sustained release of therapeutic agents, an essential characteristic for use in medicines.<ref name="ACSNano2008">{{cite journal|last1=Lvov|first1=Yuri|last2=Shchukin|first2=Dmitry|last3=Möhwald|first3=Helmuth|last4=Price|first4=Ronald|date=May 27, 2008|title=Halloysite Clay Nanotubes for Controlled Release of Protective Agents|url=https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/nn800259q|journal=ACS Nano|volume=2|issue=5|publisher=American Chemical Society|pages=814–820|doi=10.1021/nn800259q|pmid=19206476 |access-date=April 25, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200602165539/https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/nn800259q|archive-date=June 2, 2020|url-status=live|url-access=subscription}}</ref> In 2008, Lvov's ongoing work with cancer drug nanoencapsulation, a topic he first received notice for in 2002,<ref name="SpaceDaily-2002">{{cite web|url=https://www.spacedaily.com/news/nanotech-02b.html|title=Voyage of the Nano-Surgeons|work=Space Daily|last=Barry|first=Patrick|date=January 15, 2002|language=en-US|access-date=April 26, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071108225908/https://www.spacedaily.com/news/nanotech-02b.html|archive-date=November 8, 2007|url-status=live}}</ref> was highlighted with an extensive cover story in ''Pharma Focus Asia'' magazine, where Lvov and his student Anshul Agarwal shared the magazine's cover with other global scientific leaders in the nanoencapsulation field.<ref name="EPSCORLvov-2009">{{cite web|url=https://rsi.laregents.edu/documents/March%202009.pdf|title=LA Tech/Italian Collaborative Among Top 20 Research Proposals|date=March 2009|work=Louisiana Board of Regents: EPSCoR|language=en-US|access-date=April 26, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250427021516/https://rsi.laregents.edu/documents/March%202009.pdf|archive-date=April 27, 2025|url-status=live}}</ref> That same year, Lvov led a joint research project focused on nanocarriers for cancer therapy which was co-organized by Louisiana Tech University and the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia's Nanotechnology Laboratory; the project was selected as one of 2008's 20 most outstanding scientific joint projects between the US and Italy.<ref name="EPSCORLvov-2009" /> In 2010, Lvov's halloysite research further optimized controlled release as described in a paper detailing the use of end stoppers, which could be used to adjust the release timing of contained active agents over a range of tens to hundreds of hours, while also including the ability to start and halt the release (2010, ''Journal of Materials Chemistry'').<ref name="JounralMaterialsChemistry2010">{{cite journal|last1=Abdullayev|first1=Elshad|last2=Lvov|first2=Yuri|date=June 30, 2010|title=Clay Nanotubes for Corrosion Inhibitor Encapsulation: Release Control with End Stoppers|url=https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2010/jm/c0jm00810a|journal=Journal of Materials Chemistry|volume=20|issue=32|publisher=Royal Society of Chemistry|pages=6681–6687|doi=10.1039/C0JM00810A|access-date=April 25, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240915033250/https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2010/jm/c0jm00810a#!divAbstract|archive-date=September 15, 2024|url-status=live|url-access=subscription}}</ref> The next year, Lvov served as the chief organizer and chairman of the Polymer-Clay Nanocomposites Symposium at the Conference of the American Chemical Society;<ref name="LATACS-2011">{{cite web|url=https://www.latech.edu/2011/04/28/louisiana-tech-researcher-presents-on-eco-friendly-nanotechnology-at-national-conference/|title=Louisiana Tech Researcher Presents on Eco-Friendly Nanotechnology at National Conference|work=Louisiana Tech University|date=April 28, 2011|language=en-US|access-date=April 27, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250213131719/https://www.latech.edu/2011/04/28/louisiana-tech-researcher-presents-on-eco-friendly-nanotechnology-at-national-conference/|archive-date=February 13, 2025|url-status=live}}</ref> this was one of five American Chemical Society conferences at which he presented, and one of two (the other being 2008) in which he was presented an Award Certificate by the organization.<ref name="Lvov-CV" /> Lvov concluded 2011 by co-editing and writing the preface of a special edition of ''Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews'',<ref name="LATADDR-2011">{{cite web|url=https://coes.latech.edu/2011/08/08/nanosystems-engineer-co-edits-special-issue-of-high-impact-drug-delivery-journal/|title=Nanosystems Engineer Co-Edits Special Issue of High-Impact Drug Delivery Journal|work=Louisiana Tech University|date=August 8, 2011|language=en-US|access-date=April 27, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250315052544/https://coes.latech.edu/2011/08/08/nanosystems-engineer-co-edits-special-issue-of-high-impact-drug-delivery-journal/|archive-date=March 15, 2025|url-status=live}}</ref> as well as contributing three articles to the issue which explored the combination of halloysite and layer-by-layer self-assembly for the creation of nanoshells to contain insoluble medicines, serving as an alternative approach to therapeutic drug delivery.<ref name="ADDR2011-1">{{cite journal|last1=Ariga|first1=Katsuhiko|last2=Lvov|first2=Yuri|last3=Kawakami|first3=Kohsaku|last4=Ji|first4=Qingmin|last5=Hill|first5=Jonathan|date=August 14, 2011|title=Layer-by-Layer Self-Assembled Shells for Drug Delivery|url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0169409X11000688|journal=Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews|volume=63|issue=9|publisher=Elsevier|pages=762–771|doi=10.1016/j.addr.2011.03.016|pmid=21510989 |access-date=April 27, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240415142135/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0169409X11000688|archive-date=April 15, 2024|url-status=live|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref name="ADDR2011-2">{{cite journal|last1=de Villiers|first1=Melgardt|last2=Otto|first2=Daniel|last3=Strydom|first3=Schalk|last4=Lvov|first4=Yuri|date=August 14, 2011|title=Introduction to Nanocoatings Produced by Layer-by-Layer (LbL) Self-Assembly|url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0169409X11001311|journal=Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews|volume=63|issue=9|publisher=Elsevier|pages=701–715|doi=10.1016/j.addr.2011.05.011|pmid=21699936 |access-date=April 27, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240413155616/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0169409X11001311|archive-date=April 13, 2024|url-status=live|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref name="ADDR2011-3">{{cite journal|last1=Vergaro|first1=Viviana|last2=Scarlino|first2=Flavia|last3=Bellomo|first3=Claudia|last4=Rinaldi|first4=Rosaria|last5=Vergara|first5=Daniele|last6=Maffia|first6=Michele|last7=Baldassarre|first7=Francesca|last8=Giannelli|first8=Gianluigi|last9=Zhang|first9=Xingcai|last10=Lvov|first10=Yuri|last11=Leporatti|first11=Stefano|date=August 14, 2011|title=Drug-Loaded Polyelectrolyte Microcapsules for Sustained Targeting of Cancer Cells|url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0169409X11000810|journal=Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews|volume=63|issue=9|publisher=Elsevier|pages=847–864|doi=10.1016/j.addr.2011.05.007|pmid=21620912 |access-date=April 27, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240415000156/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0169409X11000810|archive-date=April 15, 2024|url-status=live|url-access=subscription}}</ref>
In 2013, Lvov was recognized with the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation's Humboldt Research Award in Chemistry in acknowledgement of his extensive work in the field of nanochemistry,<ref name="Humboldt-Lvov" /><ref name="LATHumboldt-2014">{{cite web|url=https://coes.latech.edu/2014/01/23/louisiana-tech-professor-researcher-receives-prestigious-humboldt-prize/|title=Louisiana Tech Professor, Researcher Receives Prestigious Humboldt Prize|work=Louisiana Tech University|last=Fraser|first=Catherine|date=January 23, 2014|language=en-US|access-date=April 26, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241108115511/https://coes.latech.edu/2014/01/23/louisiana-tech-professor-researcher-receives-prestigious-humboldt-prize/|archive-date=November 8, 2024|url-status=live}}</ref> while in 2014, he was named a National Academy of Inventors Fellow.<ref name="LATNAI-2014">{{cite web|url=https://www.latech.edu/2014/12/16/chemistry-professor-named-a-national-academy-of-inventors-fellow/|title=Chemistry Professor Named a National Academy of Inventors Fellow|work=Louisiana Tech University|date=December 16, 2014|language=en-US|access-date=April 27, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240918151604/https://www.latech.edu/2014/12/16/chemistry-professor-named-a-national-academy-of-inventors-fellow/|archive-date=September 18, 2024|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2014, Lvov co-edited the book ''Cell Surface Engineering: Fabrication of Functional Nanoshells'' and contributed two chapters, while two of his students contributed to an additional chapter (2014, Royal Society of Chemistry).<ref name="LATBook-2014">{{cite web|url=https://www.latech.edu/2014/10/15/louisiana-tech-students-professor-contribute-to-textbook-on-nanotechnology/|title=Louisiana Tech Students, Professor Contribute to Textbook on Nanotechnology|work=Louisiana Tech University|date=October 15, 2014|language=en-US|access-date=April 27, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241015001206/https://www.latech.edu/2014/10/15/louisiana-tech-students-professor-contribute-to-textbook-on-nanotechnology/|archive-date=October 15, 2024|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="RoyalSocietyChemistryBook-2014">{{cite book|url=https://books.rsc.org/books/edited-volume/53/Cell-Surface-Engineering-Fabrication-of-Functional|title=Cell Surface Engineering: Fabrication of Functional Nanoshells |series=Smart Materials Series |date=2014 |publisher=The Royal Society of Chemistry |doi=10.1039/9781782628477 |isbn=978-1-84973-902-3 |access-date=April 27, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250211023238/https://books.rsc.org/books/edited-volume/53/Cell-Surface-Engineering-Fabrication-of-Functional|archive-date=February 11, 2025|url-status=live}}</ref> Two years later, Lvov co-edited another book, ''Functional Polymer Composites with Nanoclays'', while contributing two chapters (2016, Royal Society of Chemistry).<ref name="RoyalSocietyChemistryBook-2016">{{cite book|url=https://books.rsc.org/books/edited-volume/636/Functional-Polymer-Composites-with-Nanoclays|title=Functional Polymer Composites with Nanoclays |date=2016 |publisher=The Royal Society of Chemistry |doi=10.1039/9781782626725 |isbn=978-1-78262-422-6 |access-date=April 27, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250210142151/https://books.rsc.org/books/edited-volume/636/Functional-Polymer-Composites-with-Nanoclays|archive-date=February 10, 2025|url-status=live |editor-last1=Lvov |editor-last2=Guo |editor-last3=Fakhrullin |editor-first1=Yuri |editor-first2=Baochun |editor-first3=Rawil F. }}</ref> In 2024, in acknowledgement of his contributions to the University, Louisiana Tech recognized Lvov with its inaugural Distinguished Research Excellence Award.<ref name="LATREA-2024">{{cite web|url=https://www.latech.edu/2024/04/16/tech-presents-inaugural-research-excellence-awards/|title=Tech Presents Inaugural Research Excellence Awards|work=Louisiana Tech University|date=April 16, 2024|language=en-US|access-date=April 27, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241207211456/https://www.latech.edu/2024/04/16/tech-presents-inaugural-research-excellence-awards/|archive-date=December 7, 2024|url-status=live}}</ref>
In the following years, Lvov's ongoing work with halloysite led to Louisiana Tech University becoming a major contributor of scientific research and discoveries relating to the material. Lvov's students have completed doctoral dissertations on halloysite, and in one case been awarded a fellowship with the United States Environmental Protection Agency.<ref name="LATAbdullayevDissertation-2010">{{cite journal|url=https://digitalcommons.latech.edu/dissertations/400/|title=Halloysite Clay Nanotubes for Controlled Delivery of Chemically Active Agents|journal=Louisiana Tech University|date=October 2010 |language=en-US|access-date=April 26, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240723014439/https://digitalcommons.latech.edu/dissertations/400/|archive-date=July 23, 2024|url-status=live |last1=Abdullayev |first1=Elshard |bibcode=2010PhDT.......137A }}</ref><ref name="LATSalehDissertation-2023">{{cite journal|url=https://digitalcommons.latech.edu/dissertations/993/|title=Clay Nanotube Drug Carrier with Enhanced Membrane/Skin Permeability|journal=Louisiana Tech University|date=May 2023 |language=en-US|access-date=April 26, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240708130941/https://digitalcommons.latech.edu/dissertations/993/|archive-date=July 8, 2024|url-status=live |last1=Saleh |first1=Mahdi }}</ref><ref name="LATEPA-2015">{{cite web|url=https://www.latech.edu/2015/06/23/chemistry-student-awarded-prestigious-epa-fellowship/|title=Chemistry Student Awarded Prestigious EPA Fellowship|work=Louisiana Tech University|last=McKnight|first=Brandy|date=June 23, 2015|language=en-US|access-date=April 27, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240908075537/https://www.latech.edu/2015/06/23/chemistry-student-awarded-prestigious-epa-fellowship/|archive-date=September 8, 2024|url-status=live}}</ref> Commercialization efforts have resulted in Lvov being granted a US patent for layer-by-layer nanocoating with halloysite for paper fabrication (2010),<ref name="JustiaPatent-2010">{{cite web|url=https://patents.justia.com/patent/7842162|title=Layer-by-Layer Nanocoating for Paper Fabrication|work=Justia|language=en-US|access-date=April 27, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151113073207/https://patents.justia.com/patent/7842162|archive-date=November 13, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> a patent for using a halloysite nanotube to form a microreservoir with end plugs for the controlled release of a corrosion inhibitor (2013),<ref name="JustiaPatentMicroreservoir-2013">{{cite web|url=https://patents.justia.com/patent/8507056|title=Microreservoir with End Plugs for Controlled Release of Corrosion Inhibitor|work=Justia|language=en-US|access-date=April 27, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241005125409/https://patents.justia.com/patent/8507056|archive-date=October 5, 2024|url-status=live}}</ref> a patent for halloysite-based ceramic nanotube composites for use with bone repair and implants (2015),<ref name="JustiaPatent-2015">{{cite web|url=https://patents.justia.com/patent/9192912|title=Ceramic Nanotube Composites with Sustained Drug Release Capability for Implants, Bone Repair and Regeneration|work=Justia|language=en-US|access-date=April 27, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210305014133/https://patents.justia.com/patent/9192912|archive-date=March 5, 2021|url-status=live}}</ref> two patents relating to incorporating halloysite into geopolymers to slow their polymerization reaction (2017-18),<ref name="JustiaPatent-2017">{{cite web|url=https://patents.justia.com/patent/9604880|title=Geopolymer with Nanoparticle Retardant and Method|work=Justia|language=en-US|access-date=April 27, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250428015743/https://patents.justia.com/patent/9604880|archive-date=April 28, 2025|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="JustiaPatent-2018">{{cite web|url=https://patents.justia.com/patent/10087107|title=Geopolymer with Nanoparticle Retardant and Method|work=Justia|language=en-US|access-date=April 27, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250428020219/https://patents.justia.com/patent/10087107|archive-date=April 28, 2025|url-status=live}}</ref> three patents relating to halloysite's use for the encapsulation of dyes for human hair and natural fibers (2019-20),<ref name="JustiaPatent1-2019">{{cite web|url=https://patents.justia.com/patent/10166175|title=Coating of Clay Micro-Tubes on Surfaces of Hair and Natural Fibers|work=Justia|language=en-US|access-date=April 27, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250428020738/https://patents.justia.com/patent/10166175|archive-date=April 28, 2025|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="JustiaPatent2-2019">{{cite web|url=https://patents.justia.com/patent/10478387|title=Coating of Clay Micro-Tubes on Surfaces of Hair and Natural Fibers|work=Justia|language=en-US|access-date=April 27, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250428021021/https://patents.justia.com/patent/10478387|archive-date=April 28, 2025|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="JustiaPatent-2020">{{cite web|url=https://patents.justia.com/patent/10799439|title=Coating of Clay Micro-Tubes on Surfaces of Hair and Natural Fibers|work=Justia|language=en-US|access-date=April 27, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250428021547/https://patents.justia.com/patent/10799439|archive-date=April 28, 2025|url-status=live}}</ref> and two additional patents granted to Lvov and the cosmetics company L'Oréal for the development of a halloysite-based microtube-dye composite for hair coloring (2023-24).<ref name="JustiaPatent-2023">{{cite web|url=https://patents.justia.com/patent/11654122|title=Systems, Methods, and Kits for Altering the Color of the Hair|work=Justia|language=en-US|access-date=April 27, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230922085852/https://patents.justia.com/patent/11654122|archive-date=September 22, 2023|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="JustiaPatent-2024">{{cite web|url=https://patents.justia.com/patent/11857656|title=Systems, Methods, and Kits for Altering the Color of the Hair|work=Justia|language=en-US|access-date=April 27, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250428022242/https://patents.justia.com/patent/11857656|archive-date=April 28, 2025|url-status=live}}</ref> Lvov's 2010 work on coatings and manufacturing techniques for paper led to him establishing a small licensing company, Nano Pulp and Paper, to commercialize the technology.<ref name="LATGradReport-2010">{{cite web|url=https://regents.la.gov/assets/docs/2014/07/LATechReport.pdf|title=Louisiana Tech University GRAD Act Annual Report FY 2010-2011|work=Louisiana Tech University|language=en-US|access-date=April 27, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170131160857/https://regents.la.gov/assets/docs/2014/07/LATechReport.pdf|archive-date=January 31, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2013, a joint effort between Lvov and Grambling State University resulted in the development of an experimental anti-corrosion paint for use in oil and gas settings; the companies Cameron International, PPG Industries, and Schlumberger were the commissioning entities.<ref name="EPSCORLvov-2013" /> Additional commercial research and applications have included collaborations with Baxter International to develop protein drug encapsulation, with Novartis for eye lens nanocoating, and with Sappi, Smurfit Westrock, and International Paper for the strengthening of paper cellulose.<ref name="EPSCORLvov-2009" />
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