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The article profiles Dr. Dima Bolmatov, an assistant professor at Texas Tech University, and his research on how lipid bilayers in cell membranes may store memories and respond to electrical stimulation. It discusses his interdisciplinary approach, recent publications in scientific journals, and his philosophy on student adaptability.

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“Dima Bolmatov, assistant professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at Texas Tech University, is considering how memories are stored on a cellular level.”
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Multiple independent sources, including the Texas Tech University faculty page, Google Scholar, and a professional profile, confirm Dima Bolmatov is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Texas Tech University.
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web search NEUTRAL — Texas Tech University. Dima Bolmatov.Texas Tech University. Physics and Astronomy. Lubbock, United States. Position. Assistant Professor. June 2017 - June 2025. Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dima-Bolmatov
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web search NEUTRAL — Assistant Professor. Department of Physics and Astronomy. Email: Dima.Bolmatov@ttu.edu. Phone: (806)-834-8448. Office: 37 Science Building. Education: Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Physics, Queen Ma…
https://www.depts.ttu.edu/phas/People/Faculty/bio_bolmatov/b…
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web search NEUTRAL — Assistant Professor, Texas Tech University.D Bolmatov, VV Brazhkin, YD Fomin, VN Ryzhov, K Trachenko. The Journal of chemical physics 139 (23), 2013.
https://scholar.google.ru/citations?user=2mXI8mUAAAAJ&hl=en
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“In January and March, Bolmatov's research was featured as cover articles in two separate journals, Langmuir and ACS Chemical Neuroscience.”
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The claim that his research was featured as cover articles in Langmuir and ACS Chemical Neuroscience in January and March is explicitly stated in a Texas Tech University (TTU) news article, but not corroborated by other independent sources in the provided evidence.
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web search NEUTRAL — In January and March, Bolmatov’s research was featured as cover articles in two separate journals published by the American Chemical Society (ACS), Langmuir and ACS Chemical Neuroscience.
https://www.ttu.edu/now/posts/2026/04/texas-tech-researcher-…
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web search NEUTRAL — This "Cited by" count includes citations to the following articles in Scholar. The ones marked * may be different from the article in the profile.D Bolmatov, K Trachenko. Physical Review B—Condensed M…
https://scholar.google.ru/citations?user=2mXI8mUAAAAJ&hl=en
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web search NEUTRAL — Dima Bolmatov: 34 Followers, 15 Following, 79 Research papers. Research interests: Statistical Mechanics, Physics, and Chemistry.
https://independent.academia.edu/DimaBolmatov
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“The paper in Langmuir presents the discovery that lipid bilayers can exhibit memory-like behavior when responding to electrical fields.”
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The TTU news article and a specific research summary for 'Relaxor Ferroelectric-Like Spatiotemporal Memory in Field-Driven Lipid Bilayers' both confirm that lipid bilayers exhibit memory-like behavior in response to electrical fields.
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web search NEUTRAL — The paper in Langmuir presents the discovery that lipid bilayers can exhibit memory-like behavior when responding to electrical fields. The paper in ACS Chemical Neuroscience demonstrates how melatoni…
https://www.ttu.edu/now/posts/2026/04/texas-tech-researcher-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Here, we demonstrated that fully hydrated lipid bilayers exhibit relaxor ferroelectric-like behavior, sustaining long-lived, field-induced polarization and nanoscale memory even in the absence of prot…
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dima-bolmatov-4b1b4719_relaxo…
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web search NEUTRAL — In doing so, lipid bilayers, fundamental scaffolds of all cell membranes, deform and restructure in response to such electrical activity. These changes impact the electromechanical properties of the m…
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38206535/
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“The paper in ACS Chemical Neuroscience demonstrates how melatonin directly modifies membrane structure and organization.”
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The TTU news article mentions this claim, and a separate research paper ('Molecular interactions of melatonin with lipid rafts') authored by Bolmatov confirms that melatonin modulates the structure and dynamics of lipid bilayers.
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web search NEUTRAL — ACS Style Quick Guide - American Chemical Society.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsguide.40303
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web search NEUTRAL — Biological membranes are composed of a lipid bilayer with a heterogeneous structure and complex dynamics, both of which can be modulated by the presence of melatonin.Bolmatov, D., Lavrentovich, M. and…
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/360655543_Molecular…
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web search NEUTRAL — (DOI: 10.1021/ACS.LANGMUIR.9B01534) Lipid bilayers are fundamental building blocks of cell membranes, which contain the machinery needed to perform a range of biological functions, including cell–cell…
https://scispace.com/papers/deciphering-melatonin-stabilized…
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“From his initial training as a computational and theoretical physicist at Queen Mary University of London, Bolmatov became an experimentalist at Brookhaven National Laboratory.”
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LinkedIn and Texas Tech University records confirm his education at Queen Mary University of London. Multiple sources, including Google Scholar and ORNL profiles, confirm his research role at Brookhaven National Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
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web search NEUTRAL — Dima Bolmatov is an academic researcher from Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The author has contributed to research in topics: Phonon & Supercritical fluid. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored …
https://scispace.com/authors/dima-bolmatov-3sa6sfdhc0
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web search NEUTRAL — · Experience: Texas Tech University · Education: Queen Mary University of London · Location: Lubbock · 500+ connections on LinkedIn. View Dima Bolmatov’s profile on LinkedIn, a professional community …
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dima-bolmatov-4b1b4719
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web search NEUTRAL — Dima Bolmatov. Among the three basic states of matter, solid, liquid, and gas, the liquid state has always eluded general theoretical approaches for describing liquid energy and heat capacity.Kostya T…
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dima-Bolmatov
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“Toward the end of his Brookhaven appointment in 2017, a colleague was researching lipid membranes and offered Bolmatov an opportunity at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to help with the work.”
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Professional profiles and search results confirm Bolmatov worked at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) starting around 2017 (specifically June 2017 - June 2025).
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web search NEUTRAL — University of Tennessee/Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Verified email at ornl.gov - Homepage.D Bolmatov, VV Brazhkin, K Trachenko. Nature communications 4 (1), 2331, 2013.
https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=2mXI8mUAAAAJ&hl…
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web search NEUTRAL — Dima Bolmatov is an academic researcher from Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The author has contributed to research in topics: Phonon & Supercritical fluid. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored …
https://scispace.com/authors/dima-bolmatov-3sa6sfdhc0
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web search NEUTRAL — June 2017 - June 2025. Oak Ridge National Laboratory.Full-text available. Aug 2022. Dima Bolmatov. Among the three basic states of matter, solid, liquid, and gas, the liquid state has always eluded ge…
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dima-Bolmatov
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“Bolmatov joined Texas Tech in 2025 to continue his work”
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The TTU news article and professional profile data explicitly state that Bolmatov joined Texas Tech in 2025.
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web search NEUTRAL — Bolmatov joined Texas Tech in 2025 to continue his work in finding answers to those fundamental questions. He was drawn to the university due to its strong support for interdisciplinary research.
https://www.ttu.edu/now/posts/2026/04/texas-tech-researcher-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Dima Bolmatov. Lubbock, Texas, United States. 7K followers 500+ connections. See your mutual connections. View mutual connections with Dima. Dima can introduce you to 10+ people at Texas Tech Universi…
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dima-bolmatov-4b1b4719
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web search NEUTRAL — Texas Tech University. Dima Bolmatov.Texas Tech University. Physics and Astronomy. Lubbock, United States. Position. Assistant Professor. June 2017 - June 2025.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dima-Bolmatov
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“Bolmatov uses the patch clamp technique to measure electrical currents or voltages passing across cell membranes.”
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The TTU news article explicitly states Bolmatov uses the patch clamp technique for these measurements, and Wikipedia confirms the patch clamp technique is used to measure voltage across cell membranes.
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web search NEUTRAL — Used to measure the voltage across a cell membrane.Molecular biology. Patch clamp. Used to study ionic currents in individual isolated living cells, tissue sections, or patches of cell membrane. Elect…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_research_methods_in_bi…
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web search NEUTRAL — To complete the work in his lab at Texas Tech, Bolmatov uses the patch clamp technique to measure electrical currents or voltages passing across cell membranes. This, he said, presents the macroscopic…
https://www.ttu.edu/now/posts/2026/04/texas-tech-researcher-…
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“Dima Bolmatov et al, Relaxor Ferroelectric-Like Spatiotemporal Memory in Field-Driven Lipid Bilayers, Langmuir (2026). DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.5c05017”
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No evidence was found to verify the specific publication date of 2026 or the specific DOI provided for this paper in the search results.
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“Dima Bolmatov et al, Melatonin-Induced Modulation of Cholesterol-Enriched Model Neuronal Membranes, ACS Chemical Neuroscience (2026). DOI: 10.1021/acschemneuro.5c00682”
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No evidence was found to verify the specific publication date of 2026 or the specific DOI provided for this paper in the search results.
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