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

Dr. Gili Cohen-Taguri XRD Unit Member of BINA staff Publications 2018 and 2019 • Tal Shpigel, Gili Cohen Taguri, Dan Y. Lewitus, “Controlling drug delivery from polymer microspheres by exploiting the complex interrelationship of excipient and drug crystallization”, J. Appl. Polym. Sci., 136, 47227, 2019 . • Nina Armon, Ehud Greenberg, Eitan Edri, Avraham Kenigsberg, Silvia Piperno, Omree Kapon, Ohad Fleker, Ilana Perelshtein, Gili Cohen-Taguri, Idan Hod and Hagay Shpaisman, “Simultaneous laser-induced synthesis and micro-patterning of a metal organic framework”, Chem. Commun., 55, 12773, 2019 . • Fogel, G Bernstein Toker, G Cohen-Taguri, P Gergaud, F Gaillard, Z Kotler and Z Zalevsky, “An investigation of the influence of thermal process on the electrical conductivity of LIFT printed Cu structures”, J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 52, 285303, 2019 . • Shmuel Borenstain, Gil Bar-Haim, Keren Goldshtein and Gili Cohen-Taguri, “Color and absorption of thin ink layers Shmuel Borenstain”, Color research and application, 2019 . • Itzhak, E. Teblum, O. Girshevitz, S. Okashy, Y. Turkulets, L. Burlaka, G. Cohen-Taguri, E. Shawat Avraham, M. Noked, I. Shalish, Dr. Amos Danielli Faculty of Engineering Member of BINA, Nano-Medicine & Nano-Magnetism Center Research Areas • Rapid and highly sensitive detection of biomarkers, such as proteins and specific DNA sequences • Detection of protein-protein interactions • Magnetic manipulation of nanoparticles, design of magnetic poles, magnetic force optimization Abstract Optical Imaging and Biosensing Laboratory Sensitive and rapid detection of fluorescently-labeled biomolecules at low concentrations is crucial in many biological and medical applications. Fluorescently- labeled biomolecules are widely used in detection of specific DNA sequences or proteins, as well as in investigation of protein-protein interactions. In particular, detection of sequence-specific nucleic acids is important in pathogen detection and gene expression analysis, and the detection of proteins that serve as biomarkers is useful in diagnosis of diseases. For example, when a patient suffers a heart attack, increasing amounts of a cardiac protein (troponin) are slowly released to the patient’s blood. Rapid 56 • Cohen E., Pollak E., “Determination of weak values of quantum operators using only strong measurements”, Phys. Rev. A 98, 042112 2018 . • Nowakowski M., Cohen E., Horodecki, P., “Entangled Histories vs. the Two-State- Vector Formalism - Towards a Better Understanding of Quantum Temporal Correlations”, Phys. Rev. A 98, 032312 2018 . • Aharonov Y., Cohen E., Carmi A., Elitzur A.C., “Anomalous Weak Values Emerging from Strong Interactions between Light and Matter”, Proc. Roy. Soc. A 474, 20180030 2018 . • Carmi A., Cohen E., “On the Significance of the quantummechanical covariance matrix” Entropy 20, 500 2018 . • Tsekov R., Heifetz E., Cohen E., “Relating quantummechanics with hydrodynamic turbulence”, Europhys. Lett. 122, 40002 2018 . • Elitzur A.C., Cohen E., Okamoto R., Takeuchi, S., “Nonlocal Position Changes of a Photon Revealed by Quantum Routers”, Sci. Rep. 8, 7730 2018 (cover story in: https://www.scientificamerican.com/ article/quantum-physics-may-be-even- spookier-than-you-think/). • Georgiev D., Cohen E., “Sequential weak values probe finite coarse-grained virtual Feynman histories”, Phys. Rev. A 97, 052102 2018 . • Aharonov Y., Cohen E., Shushi T., “Is the Quilted Multiverse Consistent with a Thermodynamic Arrow of Time”, Front. Phys. 2018 . • Cohen E., Nowakowski M., “Comment on ‘Measurements without probabilities in the final state proposal’”, Phys. Rev. D 97, 088501 2018 . • Aharonov Y., Cohen E., Elitzur A. C., Smolin L., “Interaction-Free Effects Between Distant Atoms”, Found. Phys. 48, 1-16 2018 (cover story in https://sciencetrends. com/quantum-wishes-can-turn-horses- new-thought-experiment-shows-even-non- events-can-causal-effects/). • H. Alon et al., “Effect of Internal Heteroatoms on Level Alignment at Metal/ Molecular Monolayer/Si Interfaces,” J. Phys. Chem. C, vol. 122, no. 6, pp. 3312–3325, Feb. 2018 . • C Thamaraiselvan, Y Carmiel, G Eliad, CN Sukenik, R Semiat, CG Dosoretz, “Modification of a polypropylene feed spacer with metal oxide-thin film by chemical bath deposition for biofouling control in membrane filtration”, Journal of Membrane Science, 2018 . • N Kantor-Uriel, P Roy, K Lerman, CN Sukenik, H Cohen, “Dark and photo- induced charge transport across molecular spacers”, Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B, Nanotechnology and Microelectronics: Materials, Processing, Measurement, and Phenomena, 36(4), 2018 . G.D. Nessim, “Digenite (Cu9S5): layered p-type semiconductor grown by reactive annealing of copper”, Chem. Mater., 30 (7) 2379-2388, 2018 . • S. Gonen, O. Lori, G. Cohen-Taguri and L. Elbaz, “Metal organic frameworks as a catalyst for oxygen reduction: an unexpected outcome of a highly active Mn-MOF-based catalyst incorporated in activated carbon”, Nanoscale, 10, 9634- 9641, 2018 .