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

Prof. Issai Shlimak Department of Physics Member of BINA, Head of Semiconductor laboratory Research Areas Experimental studies of transport phenomena and electronic properties of disordered solids: • Doped semiconductors • Impure metals • Conducting polymers • Hopping conductivity • Magnetoresistance • Metal-insulator transition • Electron-electron interactions Dr. Hagay Shpaisman Department of Chemistry Member of BINA, Nano-Materials Centers Research Areas • Directed assembly • Composites and hybrid materials • 3D Printing • Polymerization & phase separation processes • Holographic Optical Tweezers (HOT) • Standing acoustic waves • MicrofluidicsV Abstract Directed Materials Assembly by Optical and Acoustic Forces We develop novel concepts based on the idea that forces arising from light (as optical traps or photo-thermal based) and standing acoustic waves can be used to influence the products of ongoing chemical reactions. These forces dictate the spatial distribution of the materials, their mesoscopic structure and could allow the formation of new composite materials. These approaches have many benefits compared to other “bottom-up” methods for material assembly that conventionally rely on accumulation of preformed materials. A key feature of our methodology is its modularity, as it could be implemented on various material systems. Due to the flexibility in material choice, this innovative 87 Publications 2018 and 2019 • MC Strinati, R Berkovits, E Shimshoni, “Evidence of fermion-to-boson crossover in the fermionic two-leg flux ladder”, Phys. Rev. B 100, 245149, 2019 . • P Tikhonov, E Shimshoni, “Quantum thermal Hall effect of chiral spinons on a kagome strip”, Physical Review B 99 (17), 174429, 2019 . • D. Dentelski, A. Frydman, E. Shimshoni, and E. G. Dalla Torre, “Tunneling probe of fluctuating superconductivity in disordered thin films,” Phys. Rev. B, vol. 97, no. 10, 2018 . • A Roy, E Shimshoni, A Frydman “Quantum Criticality at the Superconductor-Insulator Transition Probed by the Nernst Effect”, Physical review letters 121 (4), 047003, 2018 . • G Murthy, E Shimshoni, H Fertig, “Spin- Valley Coherent Phases in Bilayer Graphene at Charge Neutrality”, Bulletin of the American Physical Society, 2018 . • A Roy, E Shimshoni, A Frydman, “The study of a Superconductor–Insulator quantum phase transition using Nernst effect”, Bulletin of the American Physical Society, 2018 . Publications 2018 and 2019 • I Shlimak, A Butenko, E Kogan, M Kaveh, “Irradiation-induced broadening of the Raman spectra in monolayer graphene”, Journal of Applied Physics 126 (19), 194302, 2019 . • I Shlimak, E Zion, A Butenko, Y Kaganovskii, V Richter, A Sharoni, E Kogan, M Kaveh, “Irradiation-induced metal-insulator transition in monolayer graphene”, FlatChem Volume 14, 100084, 2019 . approach will open the door to new ways to act upon materials, with envisioned applications in 3D printing, electronics and sensing. Publications 2018 and 2019 • N. Armon, E. Greenberg, A. Keninsberg, E. Edri, S. Piperno, O. Kapon, O. Fleker, I. Perelshtein, G. Cohen-Taguri, I. Hod & H. Shpaisman, “Simultaneous laser-induced synthesis and micro-patterning of a metal organic framework”, Chemical Communications, 55, 12773-12776, 2019 . • E. Lasnoy, O. Wagner, E. Edri & H. Shpaisman, “Drag Controlled Formation of Polymeric Colloids with Optical Traps”, Lab-on-a-Chip, 19, 3543-3551, 2019 . • G. Rahamim, E. Greenberg, K. Rajouâ, F. Favier, H. Shpaisman & D. Zitoun, “Laser Induced Colloidal Writing of Organometallic Precursor Based Repeatable and Fast Pd-Ni Hydrogen Sensor”, Advanced Materials Interfaces, 1900768, 2019 . • E. Greenberg, N. Armon, O. Kapon, M. Ben ѧ Ishai & H. Shpaisman, “Nanostructure and Mechanism of Metal Deposition by a Laser ѧ Induced Photothermal Reaction”, Advanced Materials Interfaces, 1900541, 2019 . • H. Sazan, S. Piperno, M. Layani, S. Magdassi & H. Shpaisman, “Silver microstructures formation using Standing Surface Acoustic Waves”,