Vibrant, Efficient, Low-Cost Emitters:   Background Perovskite nanoparticles are revolutionizing display technologies by down-converting some of the light from the blue LED backlight to narrow-band red and green components which results in ...

Background Basic taste qualities like sweet, bitter, sour, salty and umami serve specific functions in identifying food components found in the diet of humans and animals, and are recognized by bitter taste receptors in the oral cavity. It is ...

Background Depositing conductive material on uneven and complex topographies is challenging while printing conductive patterns onto 3D structures. Available solutions to this need are complicated, require costly printers that are not suitable ...

Background There are many areas contaminated soil all over the world and especially in industrialized countries. There is a constant demand for cost effective remediation solutions, in particular for Oil contamination. Existing ozone ...

Reches Meital, HUJI, Faculty of Science, The Institute of Chemistry Background The surface chemistry and topography of implants are very important to their design. This is because the interface between the implant and the human body will ...

Background Critical utilities and transportation infrastructure have demanding requirements to maintain high operational loads. It is essential that these sites will be free from encroaching vegetation which interferes with performance and ...

  Categories Biofilm, anti-biofilm, anti-biofilm peptides, antiseptic agent, disinfectant agents, antibacterial agents, antimicrobial agent, chemical disinfectants, biocides. Development Stage Pre-clinical proof of concept and initial ...

Background Sensors for the detection of explosives are important for humanitarian de-mining, remediation of explosives waste sites, homeland security, and forensic applications. Different sensors for analyzing explosives have developed ...

Background One of the key problems facing the tampons industry is the fact that all too often, used tampons are flushed down the toilet. Contrary to toilet paper, tampons do not disintegrate in water. As a matter of fact, they are designed to do ...

Background The human skin is the largest organ of the body, designed as the primary interface of interaction between us and our environment. The complexity of the multilayered skin morphology provides an extremely broad range of features of ...

Background Printed Electronics (PE) offers an attractive low cost alternative for the fabrication of electrical and optoelectronic devices which can be applied on large areas, and either on flexible or rigid surfaces. While metallic inks have ...

Oxygen-deficient films prove to be highly photo-reactive, efficient for decontaminating water, harnessing solar energy, and self-cleaning surfaces     Background Notably, metal oxides, particularly titanium oxides, often exhibit high chemical ...

Background Micro- and nano-electronics underpin a significant part of the global economy. The global turnover of the sector was $310 billion in 2012. The value of products comprising micro- and nanoelectronics components represents around $215 ...

  Background Organic and inorganic materials are being widely used for development of semi-transparent solar cells that may be integrated in office buildings and replacement windows to enable harvesting of low-cost solar energy over wide ...

Production process for reduced graphene oxide-metal sulfide composite for Li-ion batteries and Na-ion batteries Background  There is a continuous market demand to increase the energy density of Lithium ion batteries (LIB) to meet the increasing ...

Background Large scale application of solar cells depends on attaining high solar radiation conversion efficiency, AND on further substantially reducing production costs. Solar cells are typically constructed of multilayer ...

Harnesses the self-assembly capabilities of cellulose binding domain (CBD)   Background There is a great demand in the field of nano-biotechnology and material science for a reliable, highly stable building block that can self-assemble to form ...

This method enables tight control of electronic properties:   Background Intentionally inserting impurity atoms into a crystal, or doping, is the basis for the widespread application of semiconductors in electronic and electro-optic ...

Our Innovation Device for disinfecting re-circulating water system utilizing new biocidal silver composite, Using a new materials-technology which enables the entrapment of organic biocidal compounds within biocidal silver, resulting in a ...

Background Antimony tin oxide is one of the most widely used transparent conducting oxides, mainly because of its two chief properties: electrical conductivity and optical transparency, which are important for optoelectronic devices, such as in ...