Karthik Nayani Source Confirmed

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Federal Grant PI

Researcher

University of Arkansas at Fayetteville

faculty

12 h-index 46 pubs 622 cited

Research Areas

Liquid Crystals: Materials and Applications Biomaterials Science and Engineering Machine Learning in Medical Imaging Cellular Mechanics and Interactions Nanoparticles: synthesis and applications Protein Structure and Dynamics Livestock and Poultry Management Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques

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OverviewAI-generated summary

Karthik Nayani's research focuses on the development of novel biomaterials and sensing platforms, leveraging principles from liquid crystal science and machine learning. His work includes the investigation of liquid crystalline collagen assemblies for directed alignment of human cells and the creation of liquid crystal-based biomaterial platforms for rapid sensing of heat stress.

Nayani has received a $500,000 NSF CAREER award to investigate liquid-liquid crystal phase separation in solutions of rod-shaped particles for the design of functional materials. His recent publications explore topics such as the hierarchical transfer of chirality in polymer nanohelices, the self-assembly of amphiphilic β-peptides, and the effects of heat stress on blood cell gene expression and mechanical properties in different avian lines. He has also studied the sculpting of giant unilamellar vesicles using phase cycles.

With a total of 46 publications and 622 citations, Nayani holds an h-index of 12. His collaborations include work with Elizabeth Adeogun and Sara Orlowski at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, and Leonard A. Harris at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.

Metrics

h-index: 12
Publications: 46
Citations: 622

Selected Publications

Introduction to optical microscope and image formation (2025) DOI
Experiment 4: Liquid crystals, phase transitions, morphologies, and defects (2025) DOI
Experiment 2: Comparison of a real space image and q-space (diffraction) image for size measurement (2025) DOI
Experiment 7: Structural color and iridescence of Morpho butterfly (2025) DOI
Experiment 1: Getting to know your optical microscope (DM 750P) and its basic software (2025) DOI
Experiment 6: Polymer crystallization (2025) DOI
Experiment 3: Microporous polymer films and 2D diffraction (2025) DOI
Through a Modern Microscope (2025) DOI
Experiment 5: Features in liquid crystal display (LCD) (2025) DOI
Computationally Guided Liquid Crystal‐Based Competitive Binding Sensing Platform for Optical Detection of Spike Protein (2025) DOI
Liquid crystalline collagen assemblies as substrates for directed alignment of human Schwann cells (2024) DOI
A liquid crystal-based biomaterial platform for rapid sensing of heat stress using machine learning (2024) DOI
Effects of heat stress on cyto(chemo)kine and inflammasome gene expression and mechanical properties in isolated red and white blood cells from 4 commercial broiler lines and their ancestor jungle fowl (2022) DOI
Surfaces Decorated with Enantiomorphically Pure Polymer Nanohelices via Hierarchical Chirality Transfer across Multiple Length Scales (2021) DOI
Sculpting the shapes of giant unilamellar vesicles using isotropic–nematic–isotropic phase cycles (2021) DOI