Olgica Bakajin

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]

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

• 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]

• 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. doi:10.1038/39827.
• 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. doi:10.1126/science.1126298.
• 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. doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.62.756.
• 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.

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