N.V. Kamanina has current interest in the areas of investigations on inorganic soft materials of the UV and IR range, coatings, organic conjugated materials, liquid crystals, laser-matter interaction, fullerenes and biological objects. She has an experience in nanoparticles doping process of organics, in recording of amplitude-phase thin gratings in thin films as well as in developing of LC cells and spatial light modulators; she has an experience in optical limiting effect of laser radiation over visible and infrared spectral ranges, in medical applications of LC
structures to orient human blood cell.
She has published more than 200 scientific papers in the
International and Russian journals. She is the author of the Book ―Features of Optical Materials
Modified with Effective Nanoobjects: Bulk Properties and Interface‖, New York, Physics
Research and Technology, ―Novinka‖, Published by Nova Science Publishers, Inc., New York,
2014, 116 p. ISBN: 978-1-62948-033-6; Book ―Surface Structuration and Its Advantages in
Optoelectronics, Published by Nova Science Publishers, Inc., New York, 2018. She is an author
of handbooks for the students: ―New Optical Materials – Fullerenes. Properties and
Applications‖ published by Saint-Petersburg Technical University ―LETI‖, 2002; ―Liquid
crystals – perspective materials of optoelectronics. Properties and application area‖ published by
Saint-Petersburg Technical University ―LETI‖, 2004; ―Electrooptical systems based on liquid
crystal and fullerenes – perspective nanoelectronics materials. Properties and area of
applications‖ published by Saint-Petersburg Technical University ―IFMO‖, 2008;
―Nanostructures influence the surface and bulk properties of the optical materials‖, ―IFMO‖,
2012.
Her pioneer ideas and experienced contributions in a creation of nonlinear absorbers, spatial
light modulators and liquid crystal cells for aligning erythrocytes of human blood were applied
in technique and were certificated by 13 Russian Patents.
She is a member of the European Optical Society (from 1999); of the International (from
1996) and Russian Liquid Crystal Society (from 1991); of D.S. Rozhdestvensky Optical Society
(2002). Laureate of the Prize from the International Academic Publishing Company
―Nauka/Interperiodika‖ for best publication in its journals in 2000 year. Laureate of the Russian
National President Stipend on Physics and Astronomy (2000-2002). Laureate of Yu.I. Ostrovskii
Prize for the best work in the area of optical holography and interferometry (2003). Laureate of
the Competition ―Idea-Samsung: Perspective Display Technology and Information Processing
Methods‖ organized in Russia on May-June 2004. Laureate of the Competition in the
Nanotechnology area organized by Nanotechnology News Network LTD, 2005. She was an
Editor of the books: 1). ―Features of liquid crystal display materials and processes‖ Edited by
Natalia V. Kamanina, InTech, Croatia. 2011. 240 p.; 2). ―Nonlinear Optics‖ Edited by Natalia V.
Kamanina, InTech, Croatia. 2012. 224 p. 3). ―Fullerenes and Relative Materials - Properties and
Applications‖ Edited by Natalia V. Kamanina, InTech, Croatia. 2018. 143 p.
https://www.intechopen.com/books/fullerenes-and-relative-materials-properties-and-applications
She was awarded by Russian Medal devoted to three-hundredth anniversary of Saint-
Petersburg (Medal No391679, 19 Feb., 2003). She was the RusNano expert during 2009-2012
years (certificate #418); She is Federal Russian expert in scientific-technical area; certificate
#04-04583, 2013-2016; 2016-2019 ; certificate #8 on 30.09.2019, 2020-2022. By the decision of
the attestation commission for the accreditation of experts in the "Federal Register of
Experts in the Scientific and Technical Sphere" (dated 30.09.2022, Protocol No. 8), the
accreditation was extended for a period of three years).
By the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of February 19, 2003, she was
awarded the Medal in Memory of the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg (No. 391679, February
19, 2003). She is awarded by Ministry (certificate #37p on February 10, 2012). She was
awarded by A.A.Lebedev medal and diploma for the development of the innovation direction
―Photophysics of media with nanoobjects‖ (December 2013), by S.I.Vavilov medal (November
2016) for the study of the features of the nanostructuring process of the material surface, by
D.S.Rozhdestvenskiy (December 2017) for the review with the brief title: ―Nanotechnology in
optics‖.
She was involved in a work in the RFBR grants ## 00-15-99067, 01-03-33162, 04-03-32249,
08-02-00966; in the ISTC Project 1454 (2000-2002). She was a chief of the Russian
Nanotechnology Base Program according the Project ―Limiter‖ (2003-2006), of the Project
―Modulator with SEW‖ (2011), and of the Project ―Nanocoating-SOI‖ (2012-2015); the chief,
from Russian side, in ISTC Project IPP A-1484 (2007-2009). She is a chief of RFBR grant #10-
03-00916 (2010-2012); grant 13-03-00044 (2013-2015), the chief, from Russian side, in the FP7
Marie Curie International researchers exchange proposal ―BIOMOLEC‖ (2011-2015), the chief
of the Project ―Adaptatsiya‖ (2017) between Israel (Ariel University) and Russia (Vavilov State
Optical Institute), the chief of the Vavilov State Optical Institute Project ―LC-nano-WS2», 2019-
2020, etc.
