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Greta Babakhanova, Ph.D. (Fed)

Physicist

OVERVIEW

Greta Babakhanova is a Physicist in the Biomaterials Group. Previously she was a NIST-NRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow working with her advisor, Dr. Carl G. Simon Jr. Her current objective is to develop robust standard protocols for measuring cell viability in three-dimensional scaffolds.

She completed her PhD in Chemical Physics from the Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University in 2019. Her dissertation research was performed in the lab of Dr. Oleg D. Lavrentovich where Greta worked on characterizing twist-bend nematic liquid crystals using electro- and magneto-optical methods as well as electron microscopy techniques. She also developed stimuli-responsive elastomer coatings with pre-determined surface topographies.

PROJECTS

WORKSHOPS

RESEARCH INTERESTS

GRANTS AND RESEARCH FUNDING

  • National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2019 - 2021
  • Graduate Student Research Award, Kent State University, 2018
  • Graduate Student Research Award, Kent State University, 2017
  • Undergraduate Research Grant, 2012

PUBLICATIONS

  1. G. Babakhanova, CG Simon Jr, E. Romantseva E (2024) Measurement Needs for Biofabrication of Tissue Engineered Medical Products Workshop Report, NIST Special Publication 1500 (NIST SP 1500-23). 
  2. S. Hameed, N. Viswakarma, G. Babakhanova, CG Simon Jr, B. Epel, M. Kotecha. Nondestructive, longitudinal, 3D oxygen imaging of cells in a multi-well plate using pulse electron paramagnetic resonance imaging. npj Imaging 2, 8 (2024).
  3. G. Babakhanova, A. Agrawal, D. Arora, et al. Three-dimensional, label-free cell viability measurements in tissue engineering scaffolds using optical coherence tomography. J Biomed Mater Res. 2023; 1- 13.
  4. MC McCorry, KF Reardon, M. Black, C. Williams, G. Babakhanova, JM Halpern, S. Sarkar, NS Swami, KA Mirica, S. Boermeester, A. Underhill. Sensor technologies for quality control in engineered tissue manufacturing. Biofabrication, 15, 012001, (2023).
  5. G. Babakhanova, S.M. Zimmerman, L.T. Pierce, S. Sarkar, N.J. Schaub, C.. Simon Jr. Quantitative, traceable determination of cell viability using absorbance microscopy. PLoS ONE, 17 (1), e0262119, (2022).
  6. S. Zimmerman, C.G. Simon Jr, G. Babakhanova. AbsorbanceQ: An App for Generating Absorbance Images from Brightfield Images. NIST JRES, (2022).
  7. G. Babakhanova, H. Wang, M. Rajabi, D. Li, Q. Li, O. D Lavrentovich. Elastic and electro-optical properties of flexible fluorinated dimers with negative dielectric anisotropy. Liquid Crystals, 1-13, (2022).
  8. N.J Castro, G. Babakhanova, J. Hu, K.A. Athanasiou. Nondestructive testing of native and tissue-engineered medical products: adding numbers to pictures. Trends in Biotechnology 40(2), 194-209, (2021).
  9. G. Babakhanova, J. Krieger B-X. Li, T. Turiv, M-H. Kim, O.D. Lavrentovich. Cell alignment by smectic liquid crystal elastomer coatings with nanogrooves. Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A, 108: 1223– 1230, (2020).
  10. G. Babakhanova, Y. M. Golestani, H. Baza, S. Afghah, H. Yu, M. Varga, Q-H. Wei, P. Shiller, J. V. Selinger, R. L. B. Selinger, O. D. Lavrentovich. Dynamically morphing microchannels in liquid crystal elastomer coatings containing disclinations. Journal of Applied Physics, 128(18), 184702, (2020).
  11. D. Arora, G. Babakhanova, C. G. Simon. Tissue Engineering Measurands. ACS Biomater. Sci. Eng, 6(10), 5368–5376, (2020).
  12. 2. T. Turiv, J. Krieger, G. Babakhanova, H. Yu, S. V. Shiyanovskii, Q-H. Wei, M-H.Kim, O. D. Lavrentovich. Cell alignment by smectic liquid crystal elastomer coatings with nanogrooves. Science Advances, 6 (20), (2020).
  13. 3. O. S. Iadlovska, G. Babakhanova, G. H. Mehl, C. Welch, E.Cruickshank, G. J. Stra-chan, J. MD. Storey, C. T. Imrie, S. V. Shiyanovskii, O. D. Lavrentovich. Temperature dependence of bend elastic constant in oblique helicoidal cholesterics. Physical ReviewResearch, 2: 013248, (2020).
  14. G. Babakhanova, O. D. Lavrentovich. The Techniques of Surface Alignment of Liquid Crystals. In: Bulavin L., Xu L. (eds) Modern Problems of the Physics of Liquid Systems. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 223. Springer (2019). (Book chapter)
  15. G. Babakhanova, H. Yu, I. Chaganava, Q. Wei, P. Shiller, O. D. Lavrentovich. Controlled placement of microparticles at the water-liquid crystal elastomer interface. ACS applied materials interfaces, (2019).
  16. B-X. Li, G. Babakhanova, R-L. Xiao, V.Borshch, S. Siemianowski, S. V. Shiyanovskii, O. D. Lavrentovich. Microsecond electro-optic switching of nematic liquid crystals with giant dielectric anisotropy. Physical Review Applied, (2019).
  17. R. Saha, G. Babakhanova, Z. Parsouzi, M. Rajabi, P. Gyawali, C. Welch, G. H. Mehl, J. T. Gleeson, O. D. Lavrentovich, S. Sprunt, A. Jakli. Oligomeric odd-even effect in liquid crystals. Materials Horizons, (2019).
  18. Z. Parsouzi, G. Babakhanova, R. Rajabi, M. Saha, P. Gyawali, T. Turiv, H. Wang, A. R. Baldwin, C. Welch, G. H. Mehl, J. T. Gleeson, A. Jakli, O. D. Lavrentovich, S. Sprunt. Pretransitional behavior of viscoelastic parameters at the nematic to twist-bend nematic phase transition in flexible n-mers. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, (2019).
  19. M. Mrukiewicz, O. S. Iadlovska, G. Babakhanova, S. Siemianowski, S. V. Shiyanovskii, O. D. Lavrentovich. Wide temperature range of an electrically tunable selective reflection of light by oblique helicoidal cholesteric. Liquid Crystals,1-7, (2019).
  20. G. Babakhanova, A. P. H. J. Schenning, D. J. Broer, O. D. Lavrentovich. Surface structures of hybrid aligned liquid crystal network coatings containing reverse tilt domain. Proc. SPIE, 109410I, (2019).
  21. JK. Guo, SH. Hong, HJ. Yoon, G. Babakhanova, O. D Lavrentovich, JK. Song. Laser Induced Nanodroplet Injection and Recon_gurable Double Emulsions with Designed Inner Structures. Advanced Science, 1900785, (2019).
  22. G. Babakhanova, T. Turiv, Y. Guo, M. Hendrikx, Q-H. Wei, A. P. H. J. Schenning, D. J. Broer, O. D. Lavrentovich. Liquid crystal elastomer coatings with programmed response of surface profile. Nature Communications, 9, 456 (2018).
  23. O. S. Iadlovska, G. R. Maxwell, G. Babakhanova, G. H. Mehl, C. Welch, S. V. Shiyanovskii, O. D. Lavrentovich. Tuning selective reflection of light by surface anchoring in cholesteric cells with oblique helicoidal structures," Optics Letters, (2018).
  24. G. Babakhanova, Z. Parsouzi, S. Paladugu, H. Wang, Yu. A. Nastishin, S. V. Shiyanovskii, S.Sprunt, O. D. Lavrentovich. Elastic and viscous properties of the nematic dimer CB7CB. Physical Review E, 96, 062704 (2017).
  25. G. Cukrov*, Y.M. Golestani, J. Xiang, Yu. A. Nastishin, Z. Ahmed, C. Welch, G. H. Mehl and O. D. Lavrentovich. Comparative analysis of anisotropic material properties of uniaxial nematics formed by flexible dimers and rod-like monomers. Liquid Crystals, 1-13 (2016).
  26. Y. K. Kim, G. Cukrov*, Francesco Vita, Eric Scharrer, Edward T. Samulski, Oriano Francescangeli, and O. D. Lavrentovich. Search for microscopic and macroscopic biaxiality in the cybotactic nematic phase of new oxadiazole bent-core mesogens. Phys. Rev.E, 93, 062701 (2016).
  27. N. Sebastian, M. G. Tamba, R. Stannarius, M. R. de la Fuente, M. Salamonczyk, G.Cukrov*, J. Gleeson, S. Sprunt, A. Jkli, C. Welch, Z. Ahmed, G. H. Mehl and A. Eremin. Mesophase structure and behaviour in bulk and restricted geometry of a dimeric compound exhibiting a nematic-nematic transition. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 18, 19299-19308 (2016).
  28. Y. K. Kim, G. Cukrov*, J. Xiang, S. T. Shin and O. D. Lavrentovich. Domain walls and anchoring transitions mimicking nematic biaxiality in the oxadiazole bent-core liquid crystal C7. Soft Matter, 11, 3963-3970 (2015).
  29. A. Mainzer, J. Bauer, T. Grav, J. Masiero, R. M. Cutri, E. Wright, C. R. Nugent, R. Stevenson, E. Clyne, G. Cukrov, and F. Masci. The Population of Tiny Near-Earth Objects Observed by NEOWISE. The Astrophysical Journal, 784, 2 (2014).
  30. G. Cukrov*. Using Stereo Photogrammetry to Create Digital Elevation Models of Planetary Surfaces. Proceedings of The National Conference On Undergraduate Research (NCUR), (2013).

 *Formerly known as Greta Cukrov

Awards

  • MML Postdoctoral Fellow Accolade, 2022
  • PEAR Service Accolade, 2022
  • Glenn H. Brown Prize, The International Liquid Crystal Society, 2020
  • Bayer Science and Education Foundation Fellow, 2019
  • Selected participant of the 69th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, 2019

Publications

Sensor Technologies for Quality Control in Engineered Tissue Manufacturing

Author(s)
Mary Clare McCorry, Marcie Black, Chrysanthi Williams, Greta Babakhanova, Sumona Sarkar, Nathan Swami, Katherine A. Mirica, Sarah Boermeester, Abbie Underhill
The use of engineered cells, tissues, and organs has the opportunity to change the way injuries and diseases are treated. Commercialization of these
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Created June 4, 2019, Updated August 29, 2024