Olgica Bakajin

Olgica Bakajin
Education	University of Chicago
Alma mater	Princeton University
Scientific career
Institutions	Porifera

Olgica Bakajin is a scientist working at Porifera, Inc.

Biography

Bakajin completed her B.A. in Physics and Chemistry from the University of Chicago and her Ph.D. in Physics from Princeton University. She then worked at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. ^[1] In 2009 she founded Porifera. ^{[2] [3] [4]}

Research

Carbon nanotube technology for water desalination from Bakajin's company, Porifera, has been licensed to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. ^[5]

Honours and awards

• 2007 - NanoTech Briefs Award
• 2010 - Fellow of the American Physical Society for "contributions to the development of new instrumentation for studies of protein folding and for fundamental understanding of transport and selectivity at nano-scale, with implications to understanding of membrane channels." ^[6]

Publications

• Deegan, Robert D.; Bakajin, Olgica; Dupont, Todd F.; Huber, Greg; Nagel, Sidney R.; Witten, Thomas A. (23 October 1997). "Capillary flow as the cause of ring stains from dried liquid drops". Nature. 389 (6653): 827–829. Bibcode:1997Natur.389..827D. doi:10.1038/39827. S2CID   205027233.
• Holt, Jason K.; Park, Hyung Gyu; Wang, Yinmin; Stadermann, Michael; Artyukhin, Alexander B.; Grigoropoulos, Costas P.; Noy, Aleksandr; Bakajin, Olgica (19 May 2006). "Fast Mass Transport Through Sub-2-Nanometer Carbon Nanotubes". Science. 312 (5776): 1034–1037. Bibcode:2006Sci...312.1034H. doi:10.1126/science.1126298. PMID   16709781. S2CID   23954748.
• Deegan, Robert D.; Bakajin, Olgica; Dupont, Todd F.; Huber, Greg; Nagel, Sidney R.; Witten, Thomas A. (1 July 2000). "Contact line deposits in an evaporating drop". Physical Review E. 62 (1): 756–765. Bibcode:2000PhRvE..62..756D. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.62.756 . PMID   11088531.
• Fornasiero, Francesco; Park, Hyung Gyu; Holt, Jason K.; Stadermann, Michael; Grigoropoulos, Costas P.; Noy, Aleksandr; Bakajin, Olgica (11 November 2008). "Ion exclusion by sub-2-nm carbon nanotube pores". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105 (45): 17250–17255. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0710437105 . PMC   2582302 . PMID   18539773.

References

1. "Faces of the Recovery Act" (PDF). Office of the Secretary at the Department of Energy. March 2010.
2. "Leadership". Porifera. Archived from the original on 2022-09-11. Retrieved 2022-09-11.
3. "Profile: Olgica Bakajin, CEO and founder, Porifera". San Francisco Business Times. 28 June 2019.
4. "Dr. Olgica Bakajin" (PDF). www.cmu.edu.
5. "Lawrence Livermore Laboratory Licenses Carbon Nanotube based Membranes for Desailation". www.understandingnano.com. October 2010.
6. "APS Fellow Archive". www.aps.org.

External links

• Porifera, Inc.
• Olgica Bakajin publications indexed by Google Scholar