The Center for Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials, the largest of its kind in Israel and one of the most advanced in the world, was launched yesterday (May 9, 2010) at Bar-Ilan University. More than 150 million dollars were invested in the establishment of the center, most of it from donations from friends of the university, mainly from the USA
The 9-story building covers an area of 7000 square meters, contains 39 sophisticated laboratories, the average investment in each of which is about one million dollars. 38 research groups with 340 students, researchers and technicians will operate in the center. In total, there are 13 returning scientists that Bar-Ilan University recruited from top universities in the USA.
The president of Bar-Ilan University, Prof. Moshe Koa said at the press conference that "the global economic crisis gives an opportunity to Bar-Ilan University as well as to the general academy in general to bring back to the country scientists who are leaving. Koa said these things at a press conference on the occasion of the inauguration of the Center for Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials.
Prof. Koh said that 150 million dollars have been invested in the center and 13 returning scientists have already been absorbed and many more may be absorbed in the future. The average cost to bring back a scientist in the fields of experimental sciences amounts to between half and a million dollars." Prof. Koa also added that "the majority of the funds for the establishment of the center for the return of the scientists came from donations from friends of the university, mainly from the USA, and called on the government to prepare a five-year plan for the return of scientists that will respond by allocating appropriate resources."
Prof. Aryeh Tsavan, director of the center, said that today the center already has 170 academic collaborations with academic institutions and with leading companies from Israel and abroad and new companies have already been established based on the technology developed at the center. Prof. Tsavan also noted that the center's uniqueness is reflected in interdisciplinary work, since the center brings together researchers from different disciplines such as chemistry, physics, biology, engineering, and more.
Inside the building, a large equipment center was built on an area of 1100 square meters, with sophisticated devices that are the latest in technology, including penetrating and scanning electron microscopy, cutting, welding, drilling and joining devices at the nano level, i.e. on the order of a millionth of a millimeter. According to Prof. Tsavan, this equipment opens up research possibilities that did not exist before.
Among the subjects investigated at the center: design and synthesis of nanometric carbon tubes, for applications in energy and medical devices or the discovery of nanoparticles that inhibit the action of the herpes virus. Absorption, conversion, storage and management of solar energy while entering the next generation of solar cells, batteries and super cables that will be based on nano particles that will lower the cost of energy and more. In the field of nanomagnetism, the focus is on the development of a new type of electronics with a more intelligent use of electrons. In addition, the center is developing the field of nanomedicine, nanophotonics and nanoenvironment. The institute is in close contact with the industry in Israel. Some of the developments have already moved to industrial stages.
The center opened a special program for gifted high school students for further training in the fields of nanotechnology and advanced materials. The first cohort in this framework began its studies these days in collaboration with the Ramat Gan Municipality.
The dedication ceremony of the building will be held on Monday 10 Bayer (May 2010, XNUMX) in the presence of the Minister of Mountain Science Prof. Daniel Hershkowitz and the families of the donors.
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Bar Ilan is mainly good at public relations.
It is indeed a large, impressive and beautiful building (I was inside).
It really does not contain advanced equipment. There is no clean room, no fabrication center. There is barely one penetrating and scanning electron microscope.
Doubtless with high resolution and doubtless with many detectors. (All the things he noted exist at the Hebrew University).
The researchers are not bad at all, but the publications are still not up to standard.
This university is bursting with money!!! It's a shame for the public relations, put out good studies and just be successful enough for the cheap press releases...
Good luck, go up and succeed...
Say are you kidding? No Bible study at Bar Ilan? If there are already too many.
There are also advanced faculties in the university in the other fields you mentioned. I suggest you don't comment before you have minimal knowledge of the subject your comment is about.
On the side of the compliments and wishes of success, one skeptical thought also sticks out to her...
In my opinion, it is not for nothing that the religious university focuses on applied technological research.
Because of this, there are no main "collision paths" with the religious school and it allows the existence of religion and technological science in one subordination
Other areas of scientific research have the greatest potential for conflict between religion and science. For example:
A]. Astrophysics - life may still be found outside the universe and this does not really go together with the story of creation in its current form.
B]. The study of the Bible and the history of the people of Israel in the Land of Israel - Oh, oh, oh... Excavations, graves, putting inconsistencies in the historical story of the people of Israel as told in the Bible. It's a headache that won't go away, please, not at home, we said.
C]. Biology, genetics, evolution - as a religious person (let's say...) just the ringing sound of these obscene and disgusting words makes me sick to my stomach. What do you really want me to think that my father was a monkey?
D]. The study of Semitic languages - what? Hebrew the sacred language consists of the combination of the Aramaic, Persian, Ugric, Babylonian and Greek languages? Who knows what else you'll want to add to this salad?
Art and philosophy - well, this already borders on foreign work.
and]. Education, sociology, psychology - we really don't need that. We have no such problems. We go to the light of our rabbis, the geniuses of the generation, and to the light of the Holy Torah, which illuminates and clarifies all the darkness of our lives. Psychology is for the secular heretics.
What's left ???
Talmud is our specialty.
Law and technology - for a living. And in the future maybe also medicine.
Whatever.
All the laboratories are built, with the exception of the laboratory in the basement which is supposed to contain the sensitive equipment and place it on floating concrete tables so that every truck that passes on a steep road does not cause displacement and disrupt the results.
According to the image launched this is a bit of a strong word. We are in Israel and not in China, it takes more than two days to finish the job.
It's strange that they built a 7,000 square meter building to deal with nano. 😉
Congratulations and good luck. As someone who grew up and was educated with my first two degrees at Bar Ilan, I actually remember a very, very modest university with low budgets in the early XNUMXs. It is gratifying to hear that within ten years they were able to set up such a formidable body for such a promising purpose.
Now all that remains is for Roye Cezana to finish his doctorate, put on a kippah and open a laboratory at Bar Ilan.
Greetings friends,
Ami Bachar