Background Current manufacturing and processing of wood uses hazardous materials and traditional low-tech methods. The existing methods require significant manpower, but more importantly, limits the versatility and personalization of the products. Hazardous materials that are currently ...

Summary Phenol is an important industrial commodity used as a precursor to many useful compounds. It is being utilized in huge amounts in a wide range of industry sectors including the pharmaceuticals, plastic-related-products production, paints & coatings, electrical equipment, foams and ...

Background Current 3D printing processes for ceramic 3D structures is conducted mainly by printing an object, which is composed of a ceramic powder and an organic binder, then sintering the body at a high temperature (>1000 °C). The current ceramic 3D-printing processes are mainly ...

This novel invention presents a cost effective process for the fabrication of ceramics packed with metal. These cermets composites are based on Boron Carbides with infiltrated copper. The process addresses the design of B4C and Cu cermets with two interpenetrating and interconnected networks of B4C ...

This invention discusses a micro-scale optical device that includes a tunable micro disk resonator possessing a high quality factor. The device comprises of a waveguide and a micro-disk, optically coupled to the waveguide. The high quality factor allows for a single photon to interact several times ...

Summary Dedicated and highly efficient EPR analysis of small volume samples in a range of few µl is now made simple with a novel device invented at the Weizmann Institute of Science. This device features a new ejection mechanism and a unique cold trap which enables collection of all time ...

Summary A method to significantly shorten acquisition times of high-quality MRI images. Multidimensional nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is used nowadays in many applications (e.g., discovery of new pharmaceutical drugs, characterization of new catalysts, and investigation of the structure and ...

Membranes are an important technological component in the development of sustainable technologies. Membrane processes are inherently less energy consuming, more highly efficient in the required separation process and are significantly less polluting unit operations then competitive processes such ...

Summary Our technology provides a new type of oxidative cleavage reaction of organic compounds with highly selective product formation.Polyoxometalate (POM) catalysts have become well-known for their utility and diversity in specific reactions. Through the elucidation of POM catalytic pathways, ...

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 determine how well the implant would integrate in the ...

A tom Chips are solid state devices used for trapping and manipulating cold neutral atoms. The atom-chip creates a micro-trap for atoms by means of magnetic fields. Generally, the quality of an atom chip operation is characterized by three rates: loss rate, heating rate and decoherence rate. In ...

Summary THE NEED: It is estimated that approximately 80% of women in the developed world begin breastfeeding but half discontinue breastfeeding after less than two months because they are worried that the baby is not getting enough milk. Introduction of a simple and noninvasive means of ...

There are four main known families of macrocyclic host molecules based on specific host-guest reversible binding that are employed in a wide range of applications in chemistry, biology, the food industry, electronics or printing. Despite this, for more than a decade, no new family of macrocyclic ...

Background Light activation of neurons is a growing field with applications ranging from basic investigation of neuronal systems to the development of new therapeutic methods. Several light activation approaches have been demonstrated using light sensitive membrane proteins. A different ...

Summary Production of carbon nanotube based transistors through a process comprised of identification, selection, and placement of pristine carbon nanotubes in conjunction with standard electrical circuitry.Semiconductor devices are vital to everyday life, however conventional semiconducting ...

Encapsulation of a material inside of another has almost endless applications that include prolonging the shelf-life of a medicine, vitamin or chemical or causing its slow release, creating ‘self-healing’ materials, energy or thermal storage or insulation, or in automobile, airplane ...

Summary Computer memory and storage are among the most critical components of today’s consumer electronics and computer technology. Currently available memory and storage technologies have inherent limitations that confine the capacity and speed of access to memory devices. The present ...

Over the last decade, a significant interest has developed in applications of the dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) for generation of “cold” plasma (low-ionized and non-thermal atmospheric plasma) which can be used for different applications in medicine and industry. However, ...