BINA is strategically expanding its research activities and continuously increasing its remarkable achievements. These are the result of determination, persistence and extensive effort invested in building a scientific community in which excellence and perfectionism are a way of life. Over the past decade, BINA researchers have published more than 4,350 papers in leading academic journals, including Nature, Nano Letters, ACS Nano, Physical Review Letters, Nanoscale and Optics Letters. BINA has also continued to demonstrate its success in increasing the amount of grant funding through numerous applied-research and academic grants. These include grants from EU sources, such as the European Research Council (ERC) and Horizon 2020; from the German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development (GIF), the U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF), the Israel Science Foundation (ISF) and Israel’s Ministry of Science and Technology; and from industry-oriented funding programs, such as MAGNET, Nofar and Kamin. Over the past decade, research grants have totaled $200 million, averaging over $232,000 per researcher annually—a remarkable amount by any standard. In addition, as a research institute, BINA has itself received several international grants through ERASMUS+ projects for the promotion of nanotechnology education, and for three consecutive years BINA has won grants for advanced infrastructure equipment. For the first time, a BINA staff member, Dr. Olga Girshevitz, has received Personal Research Grants from the Israel Science Foundation (ISF). The broad aim of her research is to develop multimodal imaging of trace elements in tissues using a combination of microbeam particle-induced X-ray emission (PIXE) analysis and energy-dispersive X-ray (EDX) analysis. The study is being conducted in collaboration with Prof. Nitza Goldenberg-Cohen of Bnai Zion Hospital. BINA labs continue to produce patents and patent applications. Because of the costly and time-consuming Publications 500 450 400 350 300 250 200 150 100 50 0 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2016 2017 2018 2019 2015 2020 2021 359 358 394 399 331 266 219 206 191 197 180 201 173 445 456 (For a full list of BINA’s 2021 publications see the Appendix.) 53
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