Past Seminars

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…

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,…

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…

  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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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 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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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)…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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…

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

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:…

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

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

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…