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

7 Stretching the Limits Rubber bands and Mixed media, 2019 Artist Vardi Bobrow and Prof. Orit Shefi from the Bar Ilan University’s Faculty of Engineering, observe the recovery processes of damaged neurons, which comprise stretching and growing. Prof. Shefi utilizes nanometric structures in an attempt to influence the directions and forms in which neuronal trees grow for rehabilitation and healing purposes. Bobrow explores in her creative work, the properties and uses of everyday industrial materials such as office elastic bands. This dialogue between the two led to a joint investigation into the properties that enable networks and knots to stretch, grow, and develop, in the brain and in different materials.