In the Dissertation Council D.002.106.01 at Institute of Solution Chemistry RAS on October, 8, 2015, post-graduate Marina V. Smirnova, under the adviser of Prof. Nadezhda V. Usol’tseva, successfully defended the thesis for a Candidate’s degree (specialities: 02.00.04 – Physical chemistry): "Influence of carbon nanotubes on the physicochemical properties of helicoidal liquid crystalline phases"