Past Seminars - הפקולטה למדע והנדסה של חומרים, טכניון

Phase Transitions During Charge and Thermally Activated Self-Discharge of Nickel (Oxy)Hydroxide Electrodes

20/04/2025

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor Dalia Meidan Bldg.

Nickel (oxy)hydroxide electrodes are used as cathodes in rechargeable alkaline batteries and as anodes in alkaline water electrolysis. Their charge storage and oxygen evolution properties…

Electroless Plating Processes for Applications in Microelectronics and Medicine

24/04/2025

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor Dalia Meidan Bldg.

This talk is focused on the electroless plated coatings for various applications. The first example is related to the electroless nickel immersion gold (ENIG) coatings,…

Polymeric Nanocarriers for Intranasal Delivery of Cannabidiol in Neurodevelopmental Disorders

08/05/2025

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor Dalia Meidan Bldg.

Neurodevelopmental disorders include autism spectrum disorder (ASD) which affects 5.9% of the global population. Research indicates the potential therapeutic use of cannabidiol (CBD) to treat…

Advanced Operation, Characterization and Modelling of Low Frequency Magnetoelectric Composite Devices

11/05/2025

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor Dalia Meidan Bldg.

Hydrogels are cross-linked polymer networks that absorb liquid in a reversible swelling process. Owing to their versatility, biocompatibility, and hiMagnetoelectric (ME) composites offer an alternative…

Toward Designing and Developing Protein-based Functional Sponges

20/03/2025

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor Dalia Meidan Bldg.

Protein-based materials uniquely combine biocompatibility, biochemical-structural diversity, and folding transitions, making them valuable for various applications. In this work, we developed two classes of functional…

Biocompatible Polysaccharide-Based Matrices for Mesenchymal Stem Cell Differentiation Applications

23/03/2025

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor Dalia Meidan Bldg.

Biocompatible polysaccharide-based injectable hydrogels offer a promising approach for enhancing stem cell differentiation and promoting soft tissue regeneration. This project designs and characterizes injectable hydrogels…

Magnetoelectric and Ferroionic Structures for Microelectronic and Biomedical Applications

03/04/2025

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor Dalia Meidan Bldg.

Ferroelectric materials are widely used due to their reversible polarization, high dielectric constant, and remarkable piezoelectric and pyroelectric effects. The functionality of ferroelectrics can be…

Atom Probe Tomography (APT): A New Window to Nano-Chemistry

06/04/2025

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor Dalia Meidan Bldg.

Atom probe tomography (APT) analysis of materials is an established technique for atomic level compositional analysis. Extensive research has been performed on many alloys, multilayered…

Joint Seminar: Understanding and controlling charge transport in organic and hybrid conductors

08/04/2025

GTIIT: Room – E501, Education Building, North Campus \ ZOOM

Despite their emerging applications in fields such as thermoelectrics, neuromorphic computing, and bioelectronics, fundamental aspects of charge transport physics in organic and hybrid conductors remain…

Molecular Programming: From Polymer Architecture to Sequential Mesophase Transitions

10/04/2025

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor Dalia Meidan Bldg.

Nature’s supramolecular assemblies can adopt diverse structures and functions, enabling them to perform intricate biological tasks. Inspired by this adaptability, stimuli‐responsive polymeric amphiphiles have emerged…

Improving the Performance of Dental Implants Abutment Screws Using Electro-pulsing Treatment

09/03/2025

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A dental implant consists of an artificial prosthesis inserted into the gumline to replace damaged or missing teeth. The abutment screw, typically made of Ti-6Al-4V,…

Tailoring the Mechanical Properties of Titanium Zirconium (TiZr) Dental Implant Alloy Using Electropulsing Treatment

16/03/2025

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Titanium-Zirconium(TiZr) alloy has driven much attention as an excellent dental implant material. In this project, Electro-Pulsing(EP) treatment is employed in attempt to optimize the mechanical…

On the Adhesion Behavior of Fibril Adhered to Rigid Substrate

12/03/2025

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Bio-inspired fibrillar dry adhesives have garnered significant research interest due to their strong yet reversible adhesion. To enhance adhesion performance, extensive efforts have been made…

Comparative study of ZnO-Bi2O3 based varistor on the microstructure and electrical properties

02/03/2025

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Varistor is a critical device protecting an electric module or system from failures due to a surge voltage or electrostatic discharge. The electrical resistance of…

The Effect of Size, Shape, and Long-range Order on Compressive Strength of Fe-Pd Nanoparticles Fabricated by Solid-State Dewetting

02/02/2025

What mysteries lie within the tiny world of Fe-Pd nanoparticles, supported by a sapphire substrate? What complexity does the presence of atomic long-range order bring…

Structural and Thermoelectric Properties of Perovskite CaMnO₃-Based Compounds

05/02/2025

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor Dalia Meidan Bldg.

Due to their relatively high thermopower and conductivity, calcium manganite compounds (CaMnO₃) are regarded as promising candidates for high-performance thermoelectric power conversion at high temperatures.…

Developing Optical Nanosensors for Biomedical Applications

06/02/2025

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor Dalia Meidan Bldg.

Novel biomedical application technologies have been rapidly improved in the past few decades. Despite recent technological progress, significant challenges persist toward more accessible, precise, inexpensive,…

Fully balanced ambipolar OECTs through tunability of blend microstructure

09/02/2025

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor Dalia Meidan Bldg.

Organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs) are versatile devices where the electrical conductivity of an organic semiconductor is modulated by ionic interactions with an electrolyte. Made from…

Pressure effects on crystal structure and the transport properties of thermoelectric materials

12/02/2025

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Thermoelectric (TE) materials have attracted considerable attention for their unique ability to convert heat into electricity and vice-versa. Among potential materials, (Bi1-xSbx)2Te3 (BST-x) is considered…

Tissue Engineering for Disease Modeling and Regenerative Medicine Application in the Cardiovascular System

13/02/2025

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor Dalia Meidan Bldg.

Regenerative medicine aims to repair damaged organs, particularly in ischemic heart disease (IHD), where current treatments only manage symptoms. Extracellular vesicles (EVs) from stem cells…

Comparative Study – Theoretical Calculations of Lead Halide Perovskite’s Electronic Structure and Resistivity

16/02/2025

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor Dalia Meidan Bldg.

The unique electronic properties of lead-halide perovskites (LHPs) make them excellent candidates for various optoelectronic applications, particularly in solar cells. This study focuses on a…

Spectroscopical and optical characterization of 2D 𝑎 − In2Se3 under high pressure conditions

19/02/2025

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In searching for ultrathin and robust ferroelectric two-dimensional materials, α-In2Se3 has drawn special attention owing to the existence of intercoupled in-plane and out-of-plane ferroelectricity. This…

Phase separating materials for regulation of chemical transformations

20/02/2025

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor Dalia Meidan Bldg.

Biomolecular condensates, formed through liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS), serve as dynamic platforms for biochemical regulation. Inspired by these cellular structures, we developed designer peptide-based condensates…

Synthesis of metal sulfide nanoparticles by genetically modified yeast

23/02/2025

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Nanoparticles such as lead sulfide (PbS), cadmium sulfide (CdS), and tin sulfide (SnS) play critical roles in a variety of applications, from optoelectronic devices to…

Melt Processing and Glass Formation in Two-Dimensional Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Perovskites

27/02/2025

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor Dalia Meidan Bldg.

Two-dimensional hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites (2D-HOIPs) are a promising class of materials for optoelectronic applications. They all share the formula (RNH₃)₂BX₄, where R is a bulky…

Structure and Properties of Nickel-Platinum Nanoparticles Fabricated via Solid-State Dewetting Process

02/01/2025

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor Dalia Meidan Bldg.

Solid-state dewetting is an efficient fabrication method of equilibrated nanoparticles of pure metals and metal alloys. Due to their defect-free nature, these nanoparticles exhibit unique…

Effects of grain size and misorientation on thermoelectric properties of bismuth telluride-based compounds

05/01/2025

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor Dalia Meidan Bldg.

Thermoelectric (TE) materials are attractive for waste heat recovery and cooling applications since they can convert heat into electrical energy and vice-versa. We are interested…

Lighting Up the Force: Remote Detection of Multiple Scales of Force by Photon-Avalanche

08/01/2025

302 Classroom, 3rd floor Dalia Maydan Bldg.

Mechanical force is a critical feature for most physical processes, and remote measure of mechanical signals with high force sensitivity and spatial resolution is crucial…

Investigation of Bio-Inspired 3D Printing of Amorphous Materials: Stabilization, Crystallization Pathways, Additive Effects, and Mechanical Properties

09/01/2025

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor Dalia Meidan Bldg.

Crystals formed through biomineralization, the natural process by which organisms produce minerals, exhibit intricate morphologies, enhanced mechanical properties, and stabilization of thermodynamically unfavorable phases. These…

Advanced Binders for Anodes in Li-ion Batteries

12/01/2025

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor Dalia Meidan Bldg.

The ongoing pursuit of high-energy and high-power density batteries is driving the development of new strategies to enhance the performance of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). LIBs…

Engineering Electro-optical Properties of Lead-Free Double Perovskite Nanoparticles

16/01/2025

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor Dalia Meidan Bldg.

Lead-free perovskite nanocrystals are interesting due to their nontoxicity and potential for energy applications. However, engineering their optical properties is challenging due to their tendency…

SLS 3D Printing and Characterization of Polymer-Metal Composites of TPU-Sn

19/01/2025

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor Dalia Meidan Bldg.

Selective laser sintering (SLS) is a 3D printing technique that uses a laser beam to selectively solidify powdered materials layer by layer. This process allows…

Innovations in Continuous Physiological Monitoring: Advancing Biosensors with On-Demand Reversibility and Scalable Arrays

23/01/2025

Continuous, real-time insights into clinically relevant biomarkers can transform healthcare by enabling early detection of deviations from normal bodily functions, facilitating timely interventions and personalized…

Simulation of metal-insulator transitions in Mott insulators thin films using resistor networks

26/01/2025

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor Dalia Meidan Bldg.

Artificial intelligence is pushing our current CMOS-based hardware to its limits. Meeting its ever-growing demands requires a paradigm shift, using new biomimetic materials in hardware-level…

Thin Film Eutectic Systems as Tools for Surface Patterning: Morphology, Orientation, and Impurity Incorporation

30/01/2025

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor Dalia Meidan Bldg.

The fabrication of patterned surfaces is integral to various device manufacturing processes, where precise manipulation of surface properties at the nanoscale is essential. In this…

Train Yourself to Think Patent Before You Publish: Integrating Patentability into Your Research Workflow

12/12/2024

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor Dalia Meidan Bldg.

Your research is brilliant—but is it patentable? This seminar flips the script on the "publish or perish" mindset, teaching you how to integrate patent strategy…

Surfaces and Interfaces in Recrystallization and Related Annealing Phenomena

19/12/2024

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor Dalia Meidan Bldg.

Recovery, recrystallization, and grain growth represent the primary methods used to manipulate the microstructure and properties of bulk metals. During recrystallization new, defect-free grains nucleate…

Biomineralized Hierarchical Architectures and Chemical Composition of Harpoon-Like Notochaetae in Toxic Fireworms

22/12/2024

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor Dalia Meidan Bldg.

Fireworms (Amphinomidae family) are infamous for their toxic sting, attributed to their dorsal harpoon-like bristles. The presence of a naturally occurring central cavity, which could…

Induced twist in geometrically incompatible bi-layer tubes

03/11/2024

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor Dalia Meidan Bldg.

Twist-actuated devices are essential in soft robotics and actuator applications; however, conventional approaches typically require direct torque application. Recent studies present a novel approach to…

Atomic Layer Deposition Technique for Dielectric Enhancement and Loss Reduction of Polymer Composites

07/11/2024

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High dielectric constant (K), high breakdown strength, and low loss tangent are important factors for using polymer dielectrics in important fields, such as power electronics,…

Atomic Layer Deposition Technique for Dielectric Enhancement and Loss Reduction of Polymer Composites

10/11/2024

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor Dalia Meidan Bldg.

Ceramic Matrix Composites (CMC) are advanced materials designed for high-temperature environments, combining high strength and fracture toughness. One of the leading CMC materials for high-temperature…

Support-induced Strain Engineering of the Chemical Ordering in Anchored Ni-Pt Nanoalloys

17/11/2024

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For nanoalloy of multi-metallic components, equilibrium structures are always of importance since they affect their physical and chemical properties and resultant potential applications. When…

Data-Driven Discovery of Electrides

21/11/2024

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor Dalia Meidan Bldg.

Electrides are rare ionic compounds in which an electron does not occupy an atomic orbital but exists as a free electron in a cavity of…

Investigation of the Dielectric Properties and Microstructure of Al2O3-TiO2

06/10/2024

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Microwave dielectric ceramics are widely used for communication applications. Their key attributes are: 1) the dielectric constant, required to be as low as possible to…

Engineering nanostructure scintillators for enhanced light emission

31/10/2024

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor Dalia Meidan Bldg.

Scintillators are materials that convert ionizing radiation into visible light. They serve a wide array of functions in high-energy detection and characterization, spanning from particle…

Enhancement Mechanism of Amorphous Oxide Nanolayers on the Dielectric Breakdown Strength of Polymer Films

13/10/2024

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Polymeric dielectrics are vital in energy storage systems and electronic components, with applications in technologies like electric vehicles. Their energy density depends on the electric…

Enhanced Lithium Transference Number of Ionogel Electrolytes with 2D Hydroxide Nanosheets for Solid-State Lithium-Ion Batteries

27/10/2024

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Traditional lithium-ion batteries use liquid electrolytes based on carbonate solvents, known for their high ionic conductivity but also associated with safety risks like flammability and…

Re-capitulating Development Using TIssue Specic Biomaterials and Basic Biological Building Blocks

01/08/2024

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor Dalia Meidan Bldg.

Tissue Engineering (TE) is an interdisciplinary field that applies the principles of life sciences and engineering to develop biological substitutes that restore, maintain, or improve…

Simulating the super-elastic folding behavior in freestanding ferroelectric thin films

11/08/2024

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor Dalia Meidan Bldg.

Freestanding ferroelectric films offer many advantages over traditional substrate-attached thin films such as the enhanced spontaneous polarization and flexibility. Without constraints of the rigid substrate,…

Inverse design of thermally activated morphing structures

15/08/2024

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor Dalia Meidan Bldg.

Morphing structures that can change their shape in response to external stimuli to enhance performance have been studied in various fields including soft robotics. The…

Fabrication of 2D In2Se3-In2O3 based vertical heterojunction devices for optoelectronic applications

18/08/2024

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor Dalia Meidan Bldg.

Two-dimensional materials exhibit remarkable optical and electrical properties essential for optoelectronic and memory applications. Notably, α-In2Se3 possesses room temperature-intercoupled ferroelectricity in both in-plane and out-of-plane…

Joint SEMINAR: Materials science at work in very tight places: what we can learn about materials properties through high-pressure studies

22/08/2024

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor Dalia Meidan Bldg.

Pressure, as a fundamental thermodynamic variable, can substantially affect not only the structural and the electronic properties, but also the fundamental chemical bonding of elements…

Equilibrium Crystal Shape and Anisotropic Grain Boundary Mobility in Calcium Doped Alumina

25/08/2024

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor Dalia Meidan Bldg.

Grain growth is an important process which occurs together with densification during sintering of polycrystalline ceramics. The shape of grains can influence the properties of…

Laser welding using dynamic beam shape: technology and practical applications

04/07/2024

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor Dalia Meidan Bldg.

Laser welding provides a high-performance process for joining materials with various thicknesses in a wide range of modes. Among the main advantages - are high…

Assembly of minimal DNA-based cellular systems with on-chip technologies

11/07/2024

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor Dalia Meidan Bldg.

The assembly of autonomous artificial cells exhibiting the essential characteristics of life is one of the great scientific goals in both basic research and technology.…

Emulsion Templating of Rigid, Twisted Macromolecules for Hierarchical Porosity

18/07/2024

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor Dalia Meidan Bldg.

Macroporous polymer monoliths (polyHIPEs) can be prepared by templating within high internal phase emulsions (HIPEs). Applications often require porous polymer monoliths with high specific surface…

Ambipolar Blend-Based Organic Electrochemical Transistors

25/07/2024

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor Dalia Meidan Bldg.

Bioelectronics bridges biology and electronics using Organic Mixed Ionic-Electronic Conductors (OMIECs). These materials are crucial in Organic Electrochemical Transistors (OECTs), devices that convert ionic signals…

Polyelectrolyte Complex Nanoparticles for the Targeted Delivery of siRNA.

02/06/2024

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor Dalia Meidan Bldg.

With its rapid development in the past decades, gene therapy has shown great therapeutic potential for diverse life-threatening diseases. One of the mechanisms that have…

Porous, Degradable Polyesters from Emulsion Templating: Synthesis, Properties, Degradation, and 3D Printing

06/06/2024

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor Dalia Meidan Bldg.

PolyHIPEs are highly porous polymers templated within high internal phase emulsions (HIPEs). The ability to tailor the macromolecular and porous structures of polyHIPEs makes them…

The effect of interfacial geometry on magnetoelectric composites performance

23/06/2024

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Developing new technology based smart magnetoelectric (ME) composites will allow designing antennas several orders of magnitude smaller, with higher efficiency, while working in lower frequencies.…

Atomistic Insights into Gas-Solid Interfaces in Catalytic Reactions via In Situ Infrared Spectroscopy

27/06/2024

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor Dalia Meidan Bldg.

Fundamental understanding of the surface processes occurring at the gas-solid interface is crucial for the rational design and optimization of new catalysts and catalytic processes…

Intrinsic Mechanical Properties of the Fetal Membrane as an indication for preterm birth.

05/05/2024

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor Dalia Meidan Bldg.

Preterm birth affects approximately one in ten women and stands as the leading cause of neonatal morbidity, and mortality globally and the most common reason…

The Effect of nanoscale porosity on piezoelectricity and conductivity in GaN

12/05/2024

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III-N materials have a Wurtzite crystal structure, which naturally exhibits piezoelectricity due to its non-centrosymmetric nature. This property holds significant implications in GaN applications, such…

Spectrum analysis through machine learning: fundamental aspects and applications

16/05/2024

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The machine learning approach to the analysis of the optical spectrums provides comprehensive generic framework using the global properties of the complex spectrum shapes. The…

Binder Jetting Powder Bed Additive Manufacturing followed by Reactive Infiltration Assisted Sintering of Metal/Ceramic composites

23/05/2024

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor Dalia Meidan Bldg.

Binder Jetting Bowder Bed Additive Manufacturing is a novel promising technique permitting to produce 3D objects with complicated geometrical shape via layer-by-layer addition of material…

Hybrid nanobiomaterials based on amphiphilic copolymers with amorphous titanium dioxide for sonodynamic therapy.

26/05/2024

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor Dalia Meidan Bldg.

This research investigated the synthesis, the nanostructure and the sono-responsiveness of hybrid nanomaterials that combine an amphiphilic poly(vinyl alcohol)-graft-poly(methyl methacrylate) copolymer and amorphous titanium dioxide…

Understanding unusual properties of advanced materials from first principles

04/04/2024

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor Dalia Meidan Bldg.

Advanced materials often exhibit unusual mechanical, electrical, optical, or magnetic properties that cannot be explained by textbook models. Understanding these properties, and the mechanisms through…

The effect of interfacial geometry on magnetoelectric composites performance

14/04/2024

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Developing new technology based smart magnetoelectric (ME) composites will allow designing antennas several orders of magnitude smaller, with higher efficiency, while working in lower frequencies.…

Inorganic nanotubes: From WS2 to “misfit” layered compounds

18/04/2024

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor Dalia Meidan Bldg.

Update on the synthesis and characterization of new inorganic nanotubes from 2D compounds, like WS2, and from misfit layered compounds (MLC) will be reported. The…

Small Molecule Mixed Ionic-Electronic Conductors for Organic Electrochemical Transistors

03/03/2024

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor Dalia Meidan Bldg.

Organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs) are building block devices for applications in a variety of fields, including energy storage, mechanical actuators, sensors etc. The OECT channel…

Targeted Hybrid Nanomaterials for Sonodynamic Therapy of Cancer

07/03/2024

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor Dalia Meidan Bldg.

Our study aims to investigate the efficacy of actively targeted sonodynamic therapy using a new family of hybrid nanomaterials made of amorphous titanium dioxide (aTiO2)…

Formulating and Characterizing Functional Protein-Based Hydrogels Microparticles

10/03/2024

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor Dalia Meidan Bldg.

Hydrogel microparticles (HMPs) are becoming essential in many fields for their small size, high water content, and other unique properties, especially in drug delivery. Various…

Joint Seminar: Harnessing the Potential of Perovskite Solar Cells: From Single-Junction to Tandem

13/03/2024

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Solar photovoltaic energy has been playing an increasingly important role in the world’s energy portfolio. It is becoming a key contributor in the global transition…

Bifurcation Theory of Plasticity, Damage, and Failure

14/03/2024

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Two important trends are taking place simultaneously in the community of materials scientists. On one hand, after accumulating substantial knowledge of phase transformations, researchers began…

Magnetic Precursor to the metal-insulator transition in V2O3

17/03/2024

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor Dalia Meidan Bldg.

The coupling between magnetic, electronic and structural degrees of freedom across the metal-insulator transition (MIT) in V2O3 makes it hard to determine the main driving…

Tales of bridging the gap between directed material design and efficient heterogeneous catalysis

28/03/2024

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor Dalia Meidan Bldg.

Numerous bio-organisms employ template-assisted crystallization of molecular solids to yield crystal morphologies with unique optical properties that are difficult to reproduce synthetically. We developed a…

Surface-guided Crystallization of Theophylline for Refractive Optical Elements

01/02/2024

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor Dalia Meidan Bldg.

Numerous bio-organisms employ template-assisted crystallization of molecular solids to yield crystal morphologies with unique optical properties that are difficult to reproduce synthetically. We developed a…

Mechanics and kinetics of Cu-Au alloys at the nanoscale

04/02/2024

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor Dalia Meidan Bldg.

The Cu-Au alloys represent one of the best-studied systems in Physical Metallurgy, yet it turns out that they still hold many surprises at the nanoscale.…

Non-Wettable Ultra Slippery (Aerophilic) Surfaces

08/02/2024

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Wetting refers to the ability of liquids to maintain contact with a solid surface. However, in engineering applications, contact of solids with aqueous media can…

Tuning the Magnetic Properties of Magnetic Crystals via the Incorporation of Amino Acids

11/02/2024

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor Dalia Meidan Bldg.

Transition metal oxides like iron, cobalt, zinc, and lead received considerable attention over the last few years due to their outstanding performance and potential applications.…

Pyroelectricity from a polar disorder

15/02/2024

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor Dalia Meidan Bldg.

Spontaneous polarization in solids can be viewed as spontaneous surface charge, which is not measurable. Its temperature derivative, the pyroelectric effect is measurable and allows…

Nonlinear Electrochemical Energy Storage Mechanism in Nickel (Oxy) Hydroxide Electrodes

18/02/2024

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor Dalia Meidan Bldg.

One of the technologies that can help bridge the intermittency gap of renewables is aqueous electrolyte batteries, which unlike lithium-ion batteries do not rely on…

Superhydrophobic Antimicrobial Coatings Based on Self-Assembled Crystalline Fatty Acids: from Formation and Characterization to Function

22/02/2024

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor Dalia Meidan Bldg.

Superhydrophobicity is a well-known wetting phenomenon found in numerous plants and insects, and often provides organisms with additional functional properties such as self-cleaning ability, enhanced…

Small Molecule Mixed Ionic-Electronic Conductors for Organic Electrochemical Transistors

25/02/2024

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor Dalia Meidan Bldg.

Organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs) are building block devices for applications in a variety of fields, including energy storage, mechanical actuators, sensors etc. The OECT channel…

Oxygen vacancies in ferroelectrics: how persistent they are and what can we use them for?

25/02/2024

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor Dalia Meidan Bldg.

Ferroelectrics are functional materials that exhibit reversible macroscopic polarization, which is the core of, e.g., contemporary biomedical and memory devices as well as cellular communication.…

Engineering micro- and nanopatterned cell culture substrates for cryo-electron tomography

29/02/2024

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor Dalia Meidan Bldg.

The ability of living cells to respond to mechanical cues from the microenvironment plays a vital role in physiological processes such as embryonic development and…

Controlling Nucleation and Growth in ALD of Noble Metals

04/01/2024

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor Dalia Meidan Bldg.

Noble metal thin films have attracted significant interest due to their distinctive properties and structures, making them ideal for microelectronics, catalysis, energy, and photovoltaics applications.…

Aerosol-Jet-Printable Graphene Inks Stabilized with Polypropylene Carbonate

07/01/2024

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Graphene inks have been prepared for various printing methods using polymers as dispersing agents and viscosity modifiers. However, the removal of the polymers in benign…

Principles designing anode compositions: Exploring Earth-Abundant Transition Metal Oxides for Li-ion Batteries

11/01/2024

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor Dalia Meidan Bldg.

Innovative battery electrode materials are essential for unlocking the full potential of Li-ion batteries in various aspects of modern life. A primary focus is identifying…

Extraordinary dielectric responses in PNN-PZT relaxor-ferroelectrics for precisely depicting morphotropic phase boundary

14/01/2024

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Piezoelectric materials are the core of defense and civil technologies, such as naval sonars, cell-phone communication and accurate actuators and motors. Contemporary piezoelectric applications are…

Light-driven out-of-equilibrium phenomena in solids: ultrafast spectroscopy of topology, Floquet phases of matter, and magnetism

18/01/2024

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor Dalia Meidan Bldg.

In recent years highly nonlinear optics has paved the way to novel material spectroscopies such as all-optical band-structure reconstruction, probing exciton formation and recombination in…

Enhanced Electrochemical Performance of Supercapacitors via Electrode Surface Modification

21/12/2023

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Designing high-voltage, high-energy density, activated carbon-based supercapacitors has long been a goal to meet the needs of energy storage devices. Despite their high power density,…

The Influence of Fe on Grain Boundary Mobility of Alumina

17/05/2025

Zoom link: https://technion.zoom.us/j/92220652416

MSc candidate: Xinnian Wu Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Guangdong Technion- Israel…

The Study of The Formation of Hierarchical Nanoporous Au via Eutectic Phases and Deformation Defect Utilization for Crystal Growth of Low-Dimensional Semiconductors in Au

17/05/2025

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor, Dalia Maydan Bldg.

Mr. Lotan Portal - PhD candidate Department of Materials Science and Engineering Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa Nanoporous gold (np-Au) synthesis using the…

Study of advanced anode materials for Li-ion batteries

17/05/2025

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor, Dalia Maydan Bldg.

Mr. Shixian Huang - MSc candidate Department of Materials Science and Engineering Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa Most used anode material for Li-ion…

Research and development of novel rechargeable batteries based on active Silicon anode

17/05/2025

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor, Dalia Maydan Bldg.

Mr. Alon Epshtein - PhD candidate Department of Materials Science and Engineering Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa Despite its high abundance, ease of…

Engineering nanostructure scintillators for enhanced radioluminescence

17/05/2025

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor, Dalia Maydan Bldg.

Mr. Orr Be'er - PhD candidate Department of Materials Science and Engineering Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa Scintillators are materials that convert ionizing…

Flexural Properties of Pancratium Maritimum (Sea Daffodil) Leaves and their Relation to Longitudinal Axis Twist

17/05/2025

3rd floor, Room 302 Dalia Maydan Bldg.

Mr. Ithai Sessa - MSc candidate Department of Materials Science and Engineering Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa Helical structures are a common occurrence…

Lead-telluride alloying with copper for thermoelectric applications

17/05/2025

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor, Dalia Maydan Bldg.

Mr. Gilad Agam - MSc candidate Department of Materials Science and Engineering Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa Although PbTe has been implemented and…

Porous hydrogels templated within water-in-water emulsions: Relationship between emulsion stability, polymer synthesis, and properties

17/05/2025

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor, Dalia Maydan Bldg.

Ms. Natalie Rosen, PhD candidate Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa Natalie Rosen received both her BSc and…

The Effect of Thin Film Patterning on its Solid-State Dewetting Behavior

17/05/2025

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Mr. Aviv Marom - MSc candidate Department of Materials Science and Engineering Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa Many applications of gold nanoparticles are…

Piezoelectric and Pyroelectric Effects Induced in Silicon Schottky Diodes

17/05/2025

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Ms. Aya Mohammd Mrar - MSc candidate Department of Materials Science and Engineering Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa Piezoelectricity and pyroelectricity refer to…

Quantifying analysis the electronic structures of molecular junctions based on alkane alkyne

17/05/2025

Zoom link: https://technion.zoom.us/j/93818286607

Mr. Yuhong Chen - MSc candidate Department of Materials Science and Engineering GTIIT-Technion MSc Student in Material Science and Engineering The lecture will take place…

Exploring Oxygen Vacancies in NiFe2O4 Spinel Oxide: Insights from Theoretical Calculations on Electronic Structure and Conductivity

17/05/2025

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Ms. Shahar Cohen MSc candidate Department of Materials Science and Engineering Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa The rising demand for renewable energy has…

Introduction to Knife Making: History, Regions and Modern. (Hebrew Language)

17/05/2025

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Mr. Dima Pesel MNFU, Technion, Haifa Israel Abstract: Knife making is the process of manufacturing a knife by any one or a combination of processes:…

Hybrid nanomaterials based on amphiphilic copolymers and titanium dioxide (TiO2) for brain targeted sono-dynamic therapy

17/05/2025

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor, Dalia Maydan Bldg.

Ms. Noa Dekel Shechtman MSc candidate Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa BSc, Materials Science and Engineering. This…

Foaming During Emulsion-templated Polymer Synthesis: Bubble Formation, Stabilization, and Porosity

17/05/2025

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Ms. Shiri Maoz, PhD Candidate Interdepartmental Program in Polymer Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa I received a BSc and an MSc in…

Optical Properties of Au Nanoparticles with Constrained Shapes Obtained by Selective Etching

17/05/2025

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Ms. Chen Errera MSc candidate Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Technion Israel Institute of Technology Haifa B.Sc. in materials science and engineering (2021). Gold…

Study of Optical Activity in Lead-free Double Perovskite Nanocrystals

17/05/2025

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Ms. Sasha Khalfin PhD candidate Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Technion Israel Institute of Technology Haifa B.Sc. in Material Science and Engineering and B.Sc.…

Synthesizing Block-Copolymer-Based Emulsion-Templated Porous Polymers

17/05/2025

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Ms. Keren Mizrahi MSc candidate Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Technion Israel Institute of Technology Haifa Keren Mizrahi is currently in her second year…

Plant Bioelectronics and Biohybrid Systems

17/05/2025

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Assoc. Prof. Eleni Stavrinidou Laboratory of Organic Electronics, Department of Science and Technology, Linköping University SE-581 83 Linköping, Sweden The development of bioelectronic technologies is…

How to Assess and Test Students in an Era of Changing Reality

17/05/2025

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Dr. Emad Eid The Center for Promotion of Learning and Teaching. Technion, Haifa. The modern classroom is constantly evolving, and with it, the methods by…

3D-printed composites with a programmable response to tension and torsion: a design guide

17/05/2025

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Mrs. Rita Levit MSc candidate Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Technion Israel Institute of Technology Haifa Soft robotics, actuators, and artificial muscles typically experience…

MoS2-based Nanocomposites for Water Decontamination

17/05/2025

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor Dalia Maydan Bldg.

Dr. Ines Zucker School of Mechanical Engineering and Porter School of the Environment and Earth Sciences. Tel-Aviv University. George Wise Street, Tel Aviv-Yafo 6997801 Contamination…

Steps in density functional theory (DFT) potentials: exact properties and advanced approximations

17/05/2025

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Dr. Eli Kraisler Fritz Haber Research Center and the Institute of Chemistry, Hebrew University. Jerusalem, Israel Density functional theory (DFT) is the leading theoretical framework…

Guiding the search for high-temperature ferroelectric perovskites

17/05/2025

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Assoc. Prof. Alp Sehirlioglu Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Case Western Reserve University High temperature ferroelectrics are sought after for actuator applications such as…

Science Opportunities at SESAME

17/05/2025

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Dr. Andrea Lausi Scientific Director – SESAME, Jordan Officially opened in Jordan on 16 May 2017, SESAME (Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the…

Heterostructures for Low-Power Electronics and Strong Light-Matter Interactions

17/05/2025

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Asst. Prof. Deep Jariwala Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA \The isolation of a growing number of two-dimensional…

Electrochemical Performance of Catalysts Supported by 3D and 2D Transition Metal Carbides at Positive Potentials

17/05/2025

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Prof. Brian Rosen Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv 6997801 Transition metal carbides have been widely studied as replacements for…

Highly active and stable cathode catalysts for application in PEMFCs for transportation

17/05/2025

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Dr. Shlomi Polani Technical University Berlin The synthesis of platinum-based catalysts for the cathode of proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) is a particularly active…

Electrocatalytic multi-step Processes in Water Electrolyzers and H2/Air Fuel Cells have a Common Mechanistic Pattern

16/04/2023

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Prof. Shimshon Gottesfeld Fuel Cell Consulting, Ltd, Niskayuna, NY, USA, and Herzliya, Israel The common mechanistic pattern of electrocatalytic processes [1], consists of: (a) electro-activation…

Chemistry, structure and scale matters in functional materials

02/04/2023

Sunday, 2nd April 2023 at 14:30 David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor Dalia Maydan Bldg.

Prof. Yun Liu Research School of Chemistry, College of Sciences, The Australian National University Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia Solid-state functional materials are strong correlation systems…

High durability of Ni-Zn batteries for a renewable energy storage

05/02/2023

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor Dalia Meidan Bldg.

Ni-Zn battery is a rechargeable aqueous battery with high theoretical power density and considerably low cost in addition to being safe and sustainable. Currently, its…

Self-assembled sugar-based polymeric nanocarriers for drug targeting of immune cells

16/02/2023

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Macrophages are highly plastic phagocytic cells that play key roles in the immune response, and physiological and pathological pathways. They can exist in different activation…

Characterizing the atomic-level structure and stability of interfaces of Pt nanoparticles in contact with alumina

23/02/2023

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor Dalia Meidan Bldg.

Metal nanoparticles (NPs) supported on metal-oxides play a critical role industrial catalytic processes. The activity and selectivity of NPs used in catalysis depends on their…

Tuning the composition and shape of garnet scintillation ceramics and other materials to detect different kinds of ionizing radiation

26/01/2023

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor Dalia Meidan Bldg.

Scintillators are used as detector materials for various kinds of ionizing radiation in applications ranging from medical imaging to fundamental physics. Each application has its…

The Influence of Cr on Microstructural Evolution of Alumina

08/01/2023

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An important microstructural feature of polycrystalline materials is grain size, since grain size and the respective area of grain boundaries affect mechanical and functional properties.…

Optical, Electronic, and Catalytic Properties of Iron Oxide Under Working Conditions

12/01/2023

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor Dalia Meidan Bldg.

Hematite is a widely studied material as an anode for water-splitting due to some favorable properties, such as a suitable bandgap, high abundance, and high…

Harnessing Coulombic Forces to Guide Colloidal Self-Assembly

15/01/2023

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From snowflakes to nanoparticle superlattices, a menagerie of complex structures emerge from simple building blocks attracting each other with Coulombic forces. On the colloidal scale,…

Non-complementary mismatched bases locally distort DNA structure, leading to increased DNA-binding by transcription factor proteins

19/01/2023

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Base-base mispairs are dominant sources for genetic mutations. Each mismatch enforces different DNA conformations, which are dictated by the number, arrangement, and chemical identity of…

Engineering the Piezoelectric Properties of Bacterial Cellulose Films

22/01/2023

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor Dalia Meidan Bldg.

Cellulose is a widely used natural polymer synthesized by plants and some bacteria. It was discovered that cellulose has piezoelectric properties. Recent studies showed that…

Enhancement of the thermoelectric performance of calcium-manganite based oxides via selective doping

29/01/2023

David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor Dalia Meidan Bldg.

Calcium manganite (CaMnO3)-based oxides are applied for thermoelectric (TE) energy conversion, and are inexpensive, nontoxic and possess chemical and thermal stability. The major challenge in…