"If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is Nature’s way"
Aristotle (4th century B.C.)
Just Published
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Amini S , Zaslansky P, Pokroy B, and Fratzl P. Elastic Energy Storage in Biological Materials: Internal Stresses and Their Functionality. Adv Mater, 2025, DOI:10.1002/adma.202508442. |
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Li S, Liu X, Zheng Z, Oshima K, Zhu L, Kato Y, Negishi L, Kurumizaka H, Okumura T, Nagata K, Pokroy B, and Michio Suzuki. The Gln-rich protein twip1 promotes high-density {110} twins formation in the shell of the limpet Cellana rota. PNAS, 2025, DOI:10.1073/pnas.250333612. |
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Prudnikov E, Hamad H.A, Polishchuk I, Katsman A, Segal E* and Pokroy B*. Superhydrophobic Fatty Acid-Based Spray Coatings with Dual-mode Antifungal Activity. ACS Appl Bio Mater 2025, DOI:/10.1021/acsabm.5c00596. |
Current EU Projects
SafeWax is an EU-funded project, which joins an international research network with 5 organizations from 3 different EU countries, coordinated by the Technion. Prof. Boaz Pokroy, a principal investigator and a project manager, will spearhead the development of the SafeWax technology. SafeWax will develop bio-derived non-toxic fatty acid-based formulations to create a protective multifunctional coating for plants with anti-adhesive, self-cleaning and antifungal properties. SafeWax technology will be demonstrated on grapevines and will pave the way to protect other commodity crops. Follow the project's progress on Twitter and via LinkedIn.
PataFEST project aims to provide a powerful European initiative, focusing on sustainable Integrated Pest Management strategies to treat and control the presence of Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum pest and its vector in plant, and address the incidence of soil-borne pathogens during potato postharvest storage. Technion, and our Lab, in particular, is a leader of the WP3 related to the development of sustainable solutions to prevent pest spread in potato plants. Follow the project here.
News
Leading the SafeWax project is both a responsibility and a privilege. It was truly exciting to meet all the SafeWax partners and discuss the project’s progress in Bologna. Together, we were fortunate to participate in the field trials at… Continue Reading SafeWax Field Trials
Congratulations to our PhD student ,Daniela Dobrynin, for her excellent talk at the ongoing in E-MRS 2025 in Strasbourg, France!
Our recent paper on bioinspired “writing crystallography” in Advanced Functional Materials has been featured in the ESRF News! Watch the science in action: https://youtube.com/shorts/voEFSFJJnt0…
Warm congratulations to the 2024 graduates! 51 graduates across four study tracks, and 5 of them are continuing with us as researchers. Good luck!
A proud moment from the Spring 2025 Final-Year Project Poster Session! Best Poster Award and 2nd Place Prize awarded to undergraduate project students from our lab! Huge congratulations to young researchers Ariel Lizmi and Lana Furman, mentored by… Continue Reading Future is bright!
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