Newsletter Issue 7 - October 2017

Could someone please do something about the resolution?

Yes; someone can: A team of physicists, chemists, engineers, and biologists at BINA has developed a novel imaging method, based on trapping nanoparticles and actively manipulating them in samples using optical tweezers, thereby shedding light on living samples and molecular structures down to 100 nm resolution in visible light.

Rejuvenation!

Aging is an inevitable biological process, not a pathological condition. Still, the search for an anti-aging skin-care product that stops sagging – or at least delays or lessens wrinkles – drives the cosmetics industry and consumers to spend vast amounts of money on anti-aging techniques and products.

The Center for Scientific Instrumentation

The Center for Scientific Instrumentation is more than just an equipment facility; it is a hub of research, providing state-of-the-art tools and technology and expert advice to scientists from BINA, Bar-Ilan University, as well as other academic institutions and the industry. Its unique instrumentation systems enable addressing a wide range of research questions and topics in the nano-realm.

Awards 2017

Awards

Nanotech Global

Postdoctoral research experience overseas is a valued part of training on the academic track. Both the postdoc and the hosting institution benefit from the exchange. Dr. Meital Shviro is a is a BIU graduate conducting postdoctoral research in Peter Grünberg Institute (PGI), Germany and Dr. Vijay Bhooshan Kumar came from India to do his postdoctoral research at BIU.

A national scientific 'show and tell': Putting the 'fun' into the fundamental science behind innovative technologies

The 2017 Israel Science Day, coordinated nation-wide by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Space, was dedicated to innovative technologies. BINA opened its home, the nine-floor Gonda (Goldschmied) Nanotechnology Triplex, to the public, and gave its scientists and students an opportunity to share their excitement about their work with the potential researchers of tomorrow

Towards a Quantum Leap, One Qubit at a Time

QNano, short for Quantum Nanoelectronics Laboratory, is a new lab at BIU. The lab team formed around a young PI, Dr. Michael Stern, to investigate the quantum behavior of superconducting electrical circuits and their coupling with nanosystems like spins in semiconductors. QNano (http://qnano.biu.ac.il/) is part of both the Bar-Ilan Institute of Nanotechnology & Advanced Materials (BINA) and of the recently inaugurated BIU Research Center for Quantum Entanglement in Science and Technology – or QUEST, whose objective is to study how to create, characterize, store, and use entanglement in different macroscopic quantum devices.

Newsletter greetings

Summer is nearly over, and with the high holidays approaching, we are delighted to present you with the Bar-Ilan Institute for Nanotechnology and Advanced materials (BINA) summer 2017 issue of our newsletter.