2021 ANNUAL REPORT | Bar-Ilan Institute of Nanotechnology & Advanced Materials

100 Prof. Rosenbluh Michael Department of Physics Member of BINA Nano-Photonics Center Research Areas • Laser spectroscopy • Propagation of short pulses in in homogeneously broadened media • Bulk and surface light scattering • Linear and non-linear optical properties • Heat and mass transfer during interaction of short laser pulses with optical nanocomposite materials Abstract We explore the interaction of light and matter in both the classical regime and in the quantum regime. Applications to sensing technology, secure communications and optical frequency standards are experimentally pursued in the lab. Closed cycle, 3.5 K, cryostat, with a built-in confocal microscope, for studying quantum emitters and superconducting single photon detectors. therapeutic or diagnostic compound is developed (based on the knowledge gained in the lab), all experiments until the mouse stage (included) are performed in house by my group members. The Copper cellular cycle in A. human cell. B. in E. coli cell. Publications 2020 and 2021 • Ira Litvak, Haim Cohen, Yaakov Anker, Sharon Ruthstein. “Nitrogen concentration and anisotropic effects on the EPR spectra of natural diamonds”. CrystEngComm, 2021. • Abderrahim Moumen, Rajashree Konar, Dario Zappa, Eti Teblum, Ilana Perelshtein, Ronit Lavi, Sharon Ruthstein, Gilbert Daniel Nessim, Elisabetta Comini. “Robust Room-Temperature NO₂ Sensors from Exfoliated 2D Few-Layered CVD-Grown Bulk Tungsten Di-selenide (2H-WSe₂)”. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2021, 13, 3, 4316–4329. • Madina Telkhozhayeva, Rajashree Konar, Ronit Lavi, Eti Teblum, Bibhudatta Malik, Sharon Ruthstein, Elisa Moretti, Gilbert Daniel Nessim. “Phase-Dependent Photocatalytic Activity of Bulk and Exfoliated Defect-Controlled Flakes of Layered Copper Sulfides under Simulated Solar Light”. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 2021. • Olav Schiemann, Caspar A Heubach, Dinar Abdullin, Katrin Ackermann, Mykhailo Azarkh, Elena G Bagryanskaya, Malte Drescher, Burkhard Endeward, Jack H Freed, Laura Galazzo, Daniella Goldfarb, Tobias Hett, Laura Esteban Hofer, Luis • A.Y. Grosberg and Y. Rabin. “Nonequilibrium interaction between catalytic colloids: boundary conditions and penetration depth”. Soft Matter 16, 7414, 2020. • I. Azizi and Y. Rabin. “Systems with size and energy polydispersity: from glasses to mosaic crystals”. Entropy 22, 570, 2020. • K. Singh and Y. R. “Sequence effects on internal structure of condensed droplets of associating polymers in poor solvent”. Biophys. J. 119, 1, 2020. Publications 2020 and 2021 • Ilan Hakimi, Naor Vardi, Amos Sharoni, Michael Rosenbluh, Yosef Yeshurun. “Enhancement of photon detection in superconducting nanowire single photon detector exposed to oscillating magnetic field”. Applied Physics Letters, 2021. • Yu. Kaganovskii, H. Genish, and M. Rosenbluh. “Laser recording in chalcogenide glass films: driving forces and kinetics of the mass transfer”. Physica Status Solidi A, 2020. • H. Genish, K. Ganesan, A. Stacey, S. Prawer, M. Rosenbluh. “Effect of radiation damage on the quantum optical properties of nitrogen vacancies in diamond”. Diamond and Related Materials, 109, 108049, 2020. Prof. Ruthstein Sharon Department of Chemistry Member of BINA Nano Materials & Nano Magnetism & Nano Medicine Research Areas • plasmonics • molecules-surface plasmons interaction • molecular dynamics • strong coupling systems • Near field spectroscopy • Second Harmonic Generation (SHG) Abstract Biomolecular EPR Spectroscopy lab Our work focuses on the cellular copper cycle. The knowledge gained by studying the copper cycle in eukaryotic and prokaryotic systems is then used to develop new biomarkers and therapeutic agents that are dependent on the copper cycle. We believe that a basic understanding of the chemical and biological systems is essential for developing the next generation of biomarkers and drugs that will be adopted in the clinic. Our group utilizes various spectroscopic (specifically EPR spectroscopy) and computational methods to resolve cellular metal transfer mechanisms in vitro and in cells at the molecular level. Moreover, when a

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