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Pictured Above / ( L-R): Professor Yehonadav Bekenstein, Sasha Khalfin, and Noam Veber (Credit : Rami Shelush) What if damaged solar panels or even the cracked screen of your cell phone could heal themselves overnight? Technion scientists have developed self-repairing nanocrystals that might make that scenario a reality. Led by Assistant Professor Yehonadav Bekenstein of the Faculty of Material Sciences and Engineering, the researchers happily stumbled upon the discovery while searching for an environmentally friendly alternative to toxic lead-based perovskites, materials that are commonly used in solar panels. The scientists were using a transmission electron microscope (TEM) to take videos…
The joy of a baby coming into the world is accompanied by anxiety for this helpless little being, completely reliant on outside help to survive. This is magnified for a baby born preterm. Many premature babies with underdeveloped lungs require mechanical ventilation. The more prematurely the baby is born, the longer they will need artificial breathing. Using a 3D model of the babies’ upper airways, the research team of Professor Josué Sznitman, of the Technion Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, discovered that shear forces caused by the air jet from the mechanical ventilator can create stress and inflammation in the airway…
Pictured Above / 2021 GTEP Research Day participants. Every year, the Nancy and Stephen Grand Technion Energy Program (GTEP) invites graduate students to share their research during its Research Day. Prizes were awarded for the most innovative findings. Eliyahu Farber, who developed new methods for the precise production of porous carbon materials, shared the first prize. These porous carbon materials can be used in a variety of applications, including batteries, supercapacitators, and fuel cells. Inbal Offen-Polak also won first prize for research on low cost catalysts for urea oxidation, a useful process with applications in water treatment, hydrogen production, and…
Technion researchers have developed a way to make optical lenses in a cost-effective way. It’s an innovation that could be a gamechanger for 2.5 billion people. It could transform space research. And it all started with a whiteboard and a marker. Although eyeglasses are cheap to make, in many parts of the world, they’re hard to come by. Yet without glasses, children find themselves struggling to follow along in the classroom. Adults lose their jobs because their vision has deteriorated so badly. Faculty of Mechanical Engineering members Professor Moran Bercovici and Dr. Valeri Frumkin became obsessed with this problem. How…
For newly minted Ph.D.s, choosing where to plant their academic roots can be an overwhelming decision. It shapes the direction of their research, where they live, and with whom they collaborate. The choice is also key for universities, which rely on recruiting top faculty to attract the best students. That’s why the Technion has long […]
Pictured Above / Astrophysicist Dr. Efrat Sabach served as the host for TechWomen2021 1,000 outstanding female high school students from all over Israel participated in TechWomen2021, an event to encourage them to continue, and invest in, their studies in math and science. The event, now in its seventh year, took place online and was broadcast from the Technion’s studio to dozens of classrooms across the country. TechWomen events are held thanks to the generous support of the Rosalyn August Girls Empowerment Mission (GEM). As a girl, August wanted to run the family business, but her father told her that business…
Pictured Above / Dr. Shira Landau Researchers at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and Sheba Medical Center have developed a technology that can efficiently make custom-made functional aesthetic implants for patients with microtia, or congenitally deformed ears. Microtia is a birth defect that occurs when the external ear fails to develop normally, and as a result, is small and improperly formed. Microtia occurs in 0.1 to 0.3 percent of births. Occasionally, besides the aesthetic issue, microtia also involves hearing loss. Since the “bones” of the outer ear — the auricle — are in fact flexible cartilage and not…
We all push the boundaries and cut corners, whether it’s using our cellphone while driving, jaywalking, wearing a mask under our nose or chin, or some other transgression. These minor behavioral violations never make the headlines. Yet even these small infractions can, cumulatively, cause extensive damage to society — with life or death consequences. For example, if no one wears their mask properly, COVID-19 could spread unabated, endangering countless lives. How can society crack down on these behaviors? More frequent enforcement requires more resources like security cameras. More severe punishment for such infractions may lead to public opposition. There’s no…
Are you a morning lark or a night owl? Whether you’re a “morning person” or a “night person” may have something to do with your gut bacteria. A collaborative research project between the University of Haifa and the Technion has found that “morning people” and “night people” differ from each other in their gut microbiome – the bacterial populations that inhabit our digestive tract. The study was conducted in collaboration between researchers and a number of research groups at the two universities: Assistant Professor Naama Geva-Zatorsky, head of the Microbiome Research Lab of the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine at the…
“Sutures? That’s practically medieval!” It is a staple of science fiction to mock sutures as outdated. After all, the technique has been in use for at least 5,000 years. Professor Hossam Haick from the Wolfson Department of Chemical Engineering at the Technion has finally turned science fiction into reality. His lab created a smart, sutureless dressing that binds the wound together, wards off infection, and reports on the wound’s condition directly to the doctors’ computers. “I was watching a movie on futuristic robotics with my kids late one night,” said Prof. Haick, “and I thought, what if we could really…
The technology, based on the Nano-Ghosts platform, makes it possible to reduce the drug dose a million-fold without reducing its efficacy. Researchers in the Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Engineering at the Technion developed a technology that inhibits development of melanoma using one-millionth of the active ingredient. The study, published in Advanced Functional Materials, was led by Professor Marcelle Machluf, dean of the faculty, and Ph.D. student Lior Levy. This development is a significant breakthrough in the field of immunotherapy — an innovative medical approach that uses the body’s own immune system to destroy cancer cells. Immunotherapy can destroy cancer…
Amnon Leibowitz, head of the Technion Construction & Maintenance Division, is also a Lt. Col. with the Israeli Home Front Command who has been helping with global rescue and recovery missions for 20+ years. As part of the Israeli delegation helping with search and rescue after the Surfside, FL condo collapse, he met and befriended Micaela Naibryf, whose brother, Ilan, perished in the tragedy. Amnon and Micaela ran the 2021 NYC Marathon together, in tribute to Ilan, and in honor of first responders all over the world.