"If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is Nature’s way"
Aristotle (4th century B.C.)
Just Published
Dobrynin D, Zlotver I, Polishchuk I, Kauffmann Y, Suharenko S, Koifman R, Kuhrts L, Katsman A, Sosnik A. and Pokroy B*. Controlled Synthesis of Bimetallic Gold-Silver Nanostars: Atomic Insights and Predictive Formation Model. Small 2025, DOI:10.1002/smll.202410152.
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Shaked H, Polishchuk I, Ben Arie N, Dobrynin D, Gainza J, Katsman A and Pokroy B*. “Writing” Crystal Phases in Amorphous Calcium Carbonate via Bio-Inspired Laser-Induced Patterned Transformations. Adv Funct Mater, 2025,DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202502691. |
Lang A, Kurashvili M, Sklar J, Polishchuk I, Fada’os A, Sessa I, Buyan-Arivjikh A, Richter A. F, Katsam A, Feldmann F*, and Pokroy B*. Exploring Lysine Incorporation as a Strategy to Mitigate Postsynthetic Halide Exchange in Lead-Halide Hybrid Perovskites. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces, 2025, DOI:10.1021/acsami.4c22194.
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
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!
Four posters and two talks! Our students presented their research on bio-inspired functional materials. A special moment was the talk by Dr. Arad Lang, our former PhD student and now a postdoc at Cambridge Uni, who shared his… Continue Reading IMEC20 Recap
Yasmin Soltsman, our first graduate from the prestigious “Gvishim” Master’s program, delivered an exceptional seminar. A year of hard work and dedication pays off—congratulations, Yasmin!
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