Publications

  1. Poulton, C.G., Mahmodi, H., Arnold, M.D., McAlary, L., Ooi, L. and Kabakova, I., 2025. Statistical data analysis methods in Brillouin spectroscopy: Tutorial. APL Photonics, 10(6).
  2. Zhu, Q., Raza, Z., Do-Ha, D., De Costa, E., Sasheva, P., McAlary, L., Mahmodi, H., Bowen, W., Ooi, L., Kabakova, I. and Yu, H., 2025. Biomolecular Condensates as Emerging Biomaterials: Functional Mechanisms and Advances in Computational and Experimental Approaches.
  3. Trapp, J., Mahmodi, H., Wende, M., McAlary, L., Ooi, L., Li, J., McLaughlin, R.A., Herkommer, A., Toulouse, A. and Kabakova, I., 2025. Dual fiber probe with 3D-printed micro-lens for Brillouin microscopy. APL Photonics, 10(4).
  4. Fernandez, T.T., Ross‐Adams, A., Bakovic, M., Thomas, J.U., Hochrein, O., Mahmodi, H., Kabakova, I., Privat, K., Withford, M. and Gross, S., 2025. High Fidelity Waveguides Through Vitreous Media Recomposition for Next Generation Photonic Devices. Advanced Optical Materials, p.2403427.
  5. Tarsitano, M., Ming, C.L.C., Idais, D., Mahmodi, H., Wyllie, K., Isella, B., Cox, T.R., Kabakova, I., Paolino, D. and Gentile, C., 2024. Sericin improves alginate-gelatin hydrogels’ mechanical properties, porosity, durability, and viability of fibroblasts in cardiac spheroids. International Journal of Bioprinting, 11(1), pp.327-346.
  6. Tarsitano, M., Ming, C.L.C., Bennar, L., Mahmodi, H., Wyllie, K., Idais, D., Al Shamery, W., Paolino, D., Cox, T.R., Kabakova, I. and Ralph, P., 2024. Chlorella-enriched hydrogels protect against myocardial damage and reactive oxygen species production in an in vitro ischemia/reperfusion model using cardiac spheroids. Biofabrication, 17(1), p.015006.
  7. Mahmodi, H., Wooden, K., Poulton, C. and Kabakova, I., 2024, August. Principle Component Analysis for Brillouin Imaging Data. In Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/Pacific Rim (p. Tu2L_4). Optica Publishing Group.
  8. Kabakova, I., Zhang, J., Xiang, Y., Caponi, S., Bilenca, A., Guck, J. and Scarcelli, G., 2024. Brillouin microscopy. Nature Reviews Methods Primers, 4(1), p.8.
  9. Wu, P.J., Kabakova, I.V., Ruberti, J.W., Sherwood, J.M., Dunlop, I.E., Paterson, C., Török, P. and Overby, D.R., 2018. Water content, not stiffness, dominates Brillouin spectroscopy measurements in hydrated materials. Nature methods, 15(8), pp.561-562.
  10. Vettori, L., Tran, H.A., Mahmodi, H., Filipe, E.C., Wyllie, K., Ming, C.L.C., Cox, T.R., Tipper, J., Kabakova, I.V., Rnjak-Kovacina, J. and Gentile, C., 2024. Silk fibroin increases the elasticity of alginate-gelatin hydrogels and regulates cardiac cell contractile function in cardiac bioinks. Biofabrication, 16(3), p.035025.
  11. Sadraeian, M., Kabakova, I., Zhou, J. and Jin, D., 2024. Virus inactivation by matching the vibrational resonance. Applied Physics Reviews, 11(2).
  12. Passarelli, N., Palomba, S., Kabakova, I. and de Sterke, C.M., 2024. Rational design of an integrated directional coupler for wideband operation. Applied Optics, 63(14), pp.D28-D34.
  13. Mahmodi, H., Bradbury, P., Cidem, A., Ong, H.X., Traini, D. and Kabakova, I., 2023, August. Spatial reorganization of F-actin in respiratory cells as measured by Brillouin microscopy. In Emerging Technologies for Cell and Tissue Characterization II (Vol. 12629, pp. 54-55). SPIE.
  14. Fernandez, T.T., Johnston, B., Mahmodi, H., Privat, K., Kabakova, I., Gross, S., Withford, M. and Fuerbach, A., 2022. Thermally stable high numerical aperture integrated waveguides and couplers for the 3 μm wavelength range. APL photonics, 7(12).
  15. Merklein, M., Kabakova, I.V., Zarifi, A. and Eggleton, B.J., 2022. 100 years of Brillouin scattering: Historical and future perspectives. Applied Physics Reviews, 9(4).
  16. Fernandez, T.T., Johnston, B., Gross, S., Cozic, S., Poulain, M., Mahmodi, H., Kabakova, I., Withford, M. and Fuerbach, A., 2022. Ultrafast laser inscribed waveguides in tailored fluoride glasses: An enabling technology for mid-infrared integrated photonics devices. Scientific Reports, 12(1), p.14674.
  17. Bradbury, P., Cidem, A., Mahmodi, H., Davies, J.M., Spicer, P.T., Prescott, S.W., Kabakova, I., Ong, H.X. and Traini, D., 2022. Timothy grass pollen induces spatial reorganisation of F-actin and loss of junctional integrity in respiratory cells. Inflammation, 45(3), pp.1209-1223.
  18. Mathew, M., Rad, M.A., Mata, J.P., Mahmodi, H., Kabakova, I.V., Raston, C.L., Tang, Y., Tipper, J.L. and Tavakoli, J., 2022. Hyperbranched polymers tune the physicochemical, mechanical, and biomedical properties of alginate hydrogels. Materials Today Chemistry, 23, p.100656.
  19. Rad, M.A., Mahmodi, H., Filipe, E.C., Cox, T.R., Kabakova, I. and Tipper, J.L., 2022. Micromechanical characterisation of 3D bioprinted neural cell models using Brillouin microspectroscopy. Bioprinting, 25, p.e00179.
  20. Cidem, A., Bradbury, P., Mahmodi, H., Davies, J.M., Spicer, P., Prescott, S., Kabakova, I., Ong, H.X. and Traini, D., 2022. Implications of Ryegrass pollen exposure on respiratory cell inflammatory expression and cellular viscoelastic properties. In Respiratory Drug Delivery 2022: RDD 2022 (pp. 555-558). RDD Online.
  21. Blumenthal, D.J., Kabakova, I., Rakich, P.T. and Vahala, K., 2022. Integrated Brillouin lasers and their applications. In Semiconductors and semimetals (Vol. 110, pp. 107-180). Elsevier.
  22. Kabakova, I., Scarcelli, G. and Yun, S.H., 2022. Brillouin light scattering in biological systems. In Semiconductors and Semimetals (Vol. 110, pp. 313-348). Elsevier.