BAR-ILAN INSTITUTE OF NANOTECHNOLOGY & ADVANCED MATERIALS | 2019 ANNUAL REPORT

BINA strategically and continuously expands its research activities and remarkable achievements. This is the result of persistence, determination and extensive efforts invested in building a scientific community where excellence and perfectionism are a way of life. Over the last decade, BINA researchers produced over 3,400 publications in leading academic journals, including Nature, Nano Letters, ACS Nano, Physical Review Letters, Nanoscale, Optics Letters and many more. BINA continues to demonstrate its success in increasing its grant funding through numerous applied research and academic grant proposals, including EU grants such as European Research Council (ERC) and Horizon 2020, The German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development (GIF) and U.S-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF), Israel Science Foundation (ISF) grants, and industry-oriented funding programs such as MAGNET, Nofar and Kamin. The total amount of funds accrued over the last decade from research grants reached $160M, averaging over $230K per researcher annually—a remarkable amount by any standard. Additionally, as a research institute, BINA itself received several international grants through ERASMUS+ projects for the promotion of nanotechnology education. For the first time, we 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2016 2017 2018 2019 2015 400 450 200 250 300 350 100 50 150 0 359 365 384 399 331 266 219 206 191 197 180 201 173 Publications 37 (For a full list of BINA’s 2019 publications, see Appendix)