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

Prof. Beena Kalisky Department of Physics Member of BINA, Nano-Materials & Magnetism Center Research Areas • Superconductivity • Nano-magnetism • Bio-magnetism • Scanning SQUID microscopy • Complex oxid interfaces • Nano-electronics Abstract Sensitive magnetic imaging Study of emergent electronic phenomena in advanced materials, by means of local magnetic imaging. We develop and use scanning superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) microscopy to map electronic properties such as conductivity, superconductivity and magnetism, near surfaces, interfaces and nanowires. We investigate the nature of the electronic states, track them across phase transitions, and image quantum phenomena. Sensitive magnetic imaging reveals stripy current flow at the interface between two oxides, which is related to the structure of strontium titanate. 68 Activating Gene 1 And 2 (RAG1 and RAG2)”, Molecular Therapy 26 (5), 90-91, 2018 . • A Lev, AJ Simon, O Barel, S Almashanu, A Hendel, YN Lee, R Somech, “Distinct Clinical and Immunologic Course in Two IL7Ra Deficient Patients Harboring the Same Mutation, Identified in the Israeli Newborn Screening Program for SCID”, Journal of Clinical Immunology 38 (3), 356-356, 2018 . Prof. Shmaryahu Hoz Department of Chemistry Member of BINA, Nano-Materials Center Research Areas • Computational nanotechnology • Young’s modulus • Auxetic effect • Mechanical engineering at the nano - molecular level Abstract Computational nanotechnology Hoz’s group is using quantummechanics to investigate the extent to which the laws of mechanical engineering apply at the nano – molecular level. The group discovered that the hardness of polyyne rods is 40 times that of diamonds – the hardest known material in nature. They have also shown that prismane rods demonstrate an “auxetic ” effect, and that carbon nanotubes Could be barcoded using electrical fields. How high will a polyyne rod jump when compressed and charged by 10 kcal/mol? QM and MD methods where employed to answer this question. Publications 2018 and 2019 • Efrat Pahima, Shmaryahu Hoz, Moshe Ben-Tzion and Dan Thomas Major, “Computational design of biofuels from terpenes and terpenoids”, Sustainable Energy & Fuels 3, 457-466, 2019 . • Sandeepan Maity, Amey Nimkar and Shmaryahu Hoz, “Task-Dependent Coordination Levels of SmI2”, J. Org. Chem., 84, 1994-1998, 2019 . • Amey Nimkar, Sandeepan Maity, Robert A Flowers and Shmaryahu Hoz, “Contrasting Effect of Additives on Photoinduced Reactions of SmI2”, Chem. Eur. J., 25,1–7. 2019 . • Amey Nimkar, Sandeepan Maity and Shmaryahu Hoz, “Coordination of Tridentate Ligands to SmI2: Cooperativity and Incremental Effect on Reduction Potential and on Reactivity”, Pure Appl. Chem. 2019 . • Efrat Pahima, Shmaryahu Hoz, Moshe Ben Tzion, Dan Thomas Major, “Computational design of biofuels from terpenes and terpenoids”, Sustainable Energy & Fuels, 2018 .