Gregory S. Boutis

  Asst Professor
  Department: Physics
  Location: 2157 Ingersoll Hall
  Phone: 718-951-5000 x2873
  Fax: 718-951-4407

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I focused much of my effort in my early career investigating spin diffusion in solids. Spin diffusion is the spatial transport of spin coherence driven by the flip-flop term of the dipolar Hamiltonian. The main outcome of this work was a measurement of the spin diffusion rate of a correlated spin state in a homogeneous solid. This project drew heavily from an experimental coherent control scheme termed Average Hamiltonian Theory, developed by J. S. Waugh and coworkers in the late 60's. My laboratory at Brooklyn College is currently (as of 9/2009) funded under a two year CUNY CIRG proposal to continue experimental and theoretical investigations of spin diffusion. The laboratory is also funded, under NIH, to investigate some of the properties of the complex water-protein interaction in elastin using NMR. We use a variety of unconventional experimental techniques for this work, which has often resulted in development of hardware that is not commercially available.

Education:
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology - 2002 (Nuclear Science and Technology)

B.A., Cornell University - 1997 (Physics)

Areas of Expertise:
Broadly speaking, the underlying theme of my research interest is in solid state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). I am interested in developing new methods for controlling nuclear spin dynamics as well as using quantum coherence and spin diffusion as a method for probing structure and dynamics. Depending on the availability of funding, I am also interested in developing new detection schemes in NMR. My expertise is mainly in solid state NMR, NMR imaging and experimental quantum control.

Books and Publications
E.S. Mananga, C. D. Hsu, S. Ishmael, T. Islam and G. S. Boutis 'Probing the validity of average Hamiltonian theory for spin I=1, 3/2 and 5/3 nuclei by analyzing a simple two pulse sequence ' Journal of Magnetic Resonance 193, 10-22. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2008

E. S. Mananga, R. Roopchand, Y. S. Rumala and G. S. Boutis 'On the application of magic echo cycles for quadrupolar echo spectroscopy of spin-1 nuclei' Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 185, 28. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2007

G.S. Boutis, C. Renner, T. Isahkarov, T. Islam, L. Kannangara, P. Kauer, E. Mananga, A. Ntekim, Y. S. Rumala, D. Wei 'High resolution q-space imaging studies of water in elastin ' Biopolymers, 87, 5-6, 352-359. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2007

E. S. Mananga, Y. S. Rumala and G. S. Boutis 'Finite pulse width artifact suppression in spin-1 quadrupolar echo spectra by phase cycling' Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 181, 296-303. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2006

C. Ramanathan, H. Cho, P. Cappellaro, G. S. Boutis and D. G. Cory 'Exploring large nuclear spin systems in the solid state using NMR', Conference Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Quantum Communication, Measurement and Computing. Ed. J. Shapiro and O. Hirota, Rinton Press. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2003

C. Ramanathan, H. Cho. P. Cappellaro, G. S. Boutis and D. G. Cory* 'Encoding multiple quantum coherences in non-commuting bases' Chemical Physics Letters 369, 311-317. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2003

G. S. Boutis, D. Greenbaum, H. J. Cho, C. Ramanathan, D.G. Cory*. 'Spin diffusion of two-spin correlated states in a dielectric crystal' Physical Review Letters 92, 13. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2003

G. S. Boutis, P. Cappellaro, H. Cho, C. Ramanathan, D. G. Cory 'Pulse error compensating symmetric magic echo trains' Journal of Magnetic Resonance 161, 132-137, 2003. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2003

Awards, Honors and Fellowships
$1,064,783 (4 Years) NIH SC1 "Probing dynamics of water in elastin by q-space imaging and multiple quantum NMR" PI. (Grants and Fellowships) 2009

$29,786 (2 Years) Round 16 CUNY Collaborative Incentive Research Grant (CIRG) Program "Spin diffusion: quantum coherence, disorder, reduced dimensionality" With Dr. Vadim Oganeysian from the College of Staten Island of CUNY. (Grants and Fellowships) 2009

$3,880 (1 Year) PSC CUNY Year 39 "Probing dynamics and structure of mechanically stressed elastin via q space imaging and multiple quantum NMR." (Grants and Fellowships) 2009

$485,762 (5 years) NSF "CAREER: Integrating education and research in NMR structure-function studies of mechanically strained elastin."

These funds had to be returned to NSF due to a PI developmental overlap with a funded NIH SC1 proposal. (Grants and Fellowships) 2009

$381,440 (2 Years) NIH MBRS S06 "High resolution q-space NMR imaging of elastin." (Grants and Fellowships) 2006

PSC CUNY YEAR 36 (1 Year) "High Resolution Nuclear Magnetic Resonance q-space imaging of elastin." (Grants and Fellowships) 2006