78 Prof. Gedanken Aharon Department of Chemistry Presidant of Givat Washington Academic College of Education Member of BINA Nano-Materials Center Research Areas • Developing new methods (sonochemistry, microwave dielectric heating, sonoelectrochemistry, and RAPET) for the fabrication of nano materials. • Developing nano materials for various applications Abstract Nanochemistry The following topics are currently studied by Gedanken’s group: 1) metal@C-dots their synthesis and applications TZ2) a new polymerization method using carbon dots as initiators 3) solar aided conversion of algae to ethanol 4) nanoparticles fighting sensitive and resistance bacteria 5) antiviral nanoparticles Ultrafine and Stable Fluorescent N@C-dots: A-0h; B-24h Publications 2020 and 2021 • Amruta Mutalikdesai, Sudhakar Pagidi, Alfred Hassner, Aharon Gedanken. “Microspheres of biomolecules/ macromolecules for enantioseparation applications”. European Polymer Journal 142, 110145, 2021. • Aleksandra Ivanova, Kristina Ivanova, Ilana Perelshtein, Aharon Gedanken, Katerina Todorova, Rositsa Milcheva, We study the electric properties of different nanosystems in which the electrons feel a random potential and exhibit unique quantum behavior. Publications 2020 and 2021 • R Cohen, M Nikolaevsky, R Salem, A Frydman. “Setup for pressurizing thin films through the superconductor– insulator transition”. Review of Scientific Instruments, 2021. • T. D. Nguyen, A. Frydman, and O. Bourgeois. “Investigation of specific heat in ultrathin two- dimensional superconducting Pb”. Phys. Rev B 101, 014509, 2020. • Y. Wu, S. Dutta, J. Jesudasan, A. Frydman, and A. Roy. “AC measurement of the Nernst effect of thin films at low temperatures”. Rev. Sci. Instrum. 91, 095112, 2020. • A. Roy, Y. Wu, R. Berkovits and A. Frydman. “Universal voltage fluctuations in disordered superconductors”. Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 147002, 2020. Petar Dimitrov, Teodora Popova, Tzanko Tzanov. “Sonochemically engineered nano-enabled zinc oxide/amylase coatings prevent the occurrence of catheter-associated urinary tract infections”. Materials Science and Engineering: C, 2021. • Moorthy Maruthapandi, Arumugam Saravanan, Poushali Das, John HT Luong, Aharon Gedanken. “Microbial inhibition and biosensing with multifunctional carbon dots: Progress and perspectives”. Biotechnology Advances, 107843, 2021. • Moorthy Maruthapandi, Arumugam Saravanan, Shanmugasundaram Manoj, John HT Luong, Aharon Gedanken. “Facile ultrasonic preparation of a polypyrrole membrane as an absorbent for efficient oil-water separation and as an antimicrobial agent”. Ultrasonics Sonochemistry, 2021. • T Iline-Vul, S Bretler, S Cohen, I Perelshtein, N Perkas, A Gedanken, S Margel. “Engineering of superhydrophobic silica microparticles and thin coatings on polymeric films by ultrasound irradiation”. Materials Today Chemistry, 2021. • Kusha Sharma, Hari Krishna Sadhanala, Yitzhak Mastai, Ze’ev Porat, Aharon Gedanken. “Sonochemically Prepared BSA Microspheres as Adsorbents for the Removal of Organic Pollutants from Water”. Langmuir, 2021. • Archana R Deokar, Ilana Perelshtein, Melissa Saibene, Nina Perkas, Paride Mantecca, Yeshayahu Nitzan, Aharon Gedanken. “Antibacterial and In Vivo Studies of a Green, One-Pot Preparation of Copper/Zinc Oxide NanoparticleCoated Bandages”. Membranes, 2021. • Lama Jabareen, Moorthy Maruthapandi, Arumugam Saravanan, Aharon Gedanken. “Effective degradation of cellulose by Microwave irradiation in alkaline solution”. Cellulose, 1-11, 2021. • Qiyu Luo, Zhitong Yao, Wei Qi, Jianyuan Sun, Aharon Gedanken, Xinyang Chen, Yuhang Sun, Jie Liu, Shaodan Xu, Weihong Wu. “A comprehensive study on the combustion kinetic modeling of typical electronic plastic waste—television set (TV) plastic shell”. Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association, 2021. • P Das, S Ganguly, A Saha, M Noked, S Margel, A Gedanken. “Carbon-DotsInitiated Photopolymerization: An In Situ Synthetic Approach for MXene/ Poly(norepinephrine)/Copper Hybrid and its Application for Mitigating Water Pollution”. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2021. • Yael N Slavin, Kristina Ivanova, Javier Hoyo, Ilana Perelshtein, Gethin Owen, Anne Haegert, Yen-Yi Lin, Stephane
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