Materials

The Science Garden at the Davidson Institute for Science Education. Photo by Ido Kagan

The science garden at the Weizmann/Davidson Institute was inaugurated

The Klor Science Garden of the Davidson Institute for Science Education - the educational arm of the Weizmann Institute of Science, has undergone an upgrade in recent years so that it also reflects fields of knowledge that did not exist 25 years ago
The white cells in the shrimp tail. Photo: Ben Gurion University

The shrimp redefines the laws of optics

The shrimp has a particularly bright white color on its back and limbs that are intended to attract fish, which it 'cleanses' of pests it feeds on. A thorough examination of the white matter using special electron microscopes revealed
Namib desert beetle. Photo: Igor Karamlev, Paxel

Removes insects

Development of water collection and transport systems based on the characteristics of the desert beetle and the female beetle
Schematic description of rod-shaped photoactive virus stacks glued together following the reaction with the dye (upper right corner)

Dyes and viruses together create an innovative material

batteries. Photo: Oleksiy Mark/Shutterstock

They made you a battery / Catherine Burzak

A girl with CF is assisted by respiratory systems. From Wikipedia

Foam restores breath / Kathryn Harmon

Organic topological insulators capable of transmitting information at the speed of light and which consist of a thin molecular layer (on the left) that resembles a sort of chicken coop fence wire while conducting electricity along the right edge of this layer (the blue line) - when the electrons can also carry information in the form of "down" or "up" spin ". Image courtesy: Feng Liu and Zhengfei Wang, University of Utah.

Engineers demonstrate the capability of superfast materials

Researchers discovered that in the material TbFeO3 there is a magnetic field in which the change in the spin direction along a certain line of the atoms occurs suddenly. In the lower picture, a magnetic complex is depicted, the strength of which is obtained due to the large amount of complexes with the same direction. The top image depicts complexes that appear in more ordinary materials, where the spin rotates at a slower rate from up to down.

Revealing the properties of a magneto-electric material

Surface exploration. Illustration: KRUSS company

For the first time ever, a magnetic soap was developed

Materials that compose themselves. Image: NYU

Self-replication for the development of innovative materials

A polymer that repairs itself with the help of light

Self-healing polymeric material

This image shows clusters of the type MnxCl2x+1 The purple and green represent manganese and chlorine respectively. Photo courtesy of Doctor Puru Jena/VCU and Doctor Anil Kandalam/McNeese State University

Superhalogens: a new family of magnetic materials

Polymers with structural memory. Photo: Syracuse University

Polymers with structural memory

Engineered material or metamaterial. From Wikipedia

Electromagnetic General Relativity: Traveling with Metamaterials to Space

Solar cells, from Wikipedia

Incorporation of unsuitable elements for the development of solar cells

Dr. Eran Buchbinder. Cracks

breaking point

Comparison of a normal ceramic material (on the left) and a material treated with a method developed at the University of North Carolina

Electric fields to improve the production process of ceramic materials

Professor Lin Lu. Photo: Robin Block of the Chemical Engineering Department at Princeton

Plastic solar panels

Pulling a thin thread of material (above) out of the solution (below), the polymer filaments, becoming a tangled mass, align. Illustration courtesy of Gang Chen

Polymers that turn from insulators to conductors

Atoms that mimic the behavior of other atoms. Image: University of Pennsylvania

Superatoms mimic the behavior of elements

Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

New durable blue pigment

Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

New fireproof coatings

Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Self-repairing surfaces

Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

New materials change their color when exposed to a magnetic field

Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Metals with diamonds

Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Objects that clean themselves and robots that walk on water

Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Self-cleaning materials

Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

A possible mechanism for the origin of chirality of biological compounds

Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Bacteria from grasses produce oils for the cosmetics industry

Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Nitrogen is compressed to create energy-rich materials

Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Explosives are becoming "greener", cleaner and safer

Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

because of love

Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

A unique isotope laboratory was established at Ben-Gurion University