Biography

1979: Engineer in Organic Chemistry (7th/52), ESCIL (Ecole Supérieure de Chimie Industrielle de Lyon), Claude Bernard University, La Doua, Lyon (France) 1981: Engineer-Doctor in Organic Chemistry (Diplôme d' Ingénieur-Docteur), Claude Bernard University, La Doua, Lyon (France) 1997: Guastalla Fellowship (Rachi Foundation), Associate Professor, the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, the Institute for Applied Biosciences, Beer-Sheva, Israel 2000: Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Nanomaterials Research Center, Institute of Nanotechnology & Advanced Materials, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel 2008-onwards: Full Professor, Department of Chemistry, Nanomaterials Research Center, Institute of Nanotechnology & Advanced Materials, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel

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Research Interest

Magnetic and non-magnetic nanoscale materials, conducting polymers, hybrid silica nanoparticles including UV-photoreactive nanosized composite materials, anti-bacterial nanoscale formulations, functional carbon nanotubes and controlled assemblies, surface modifications of nanomaterials using metal cation doping. morphology and chemical composition towards transparent conductive surfaces/polymeric coatings # Templated synthesis of polypyrrolyl/polycarbazolyl functional polyCOOH nanorods for DNA sensing # Chemically modified SiO2, SiC, TiO2, and SnO2 nanoparticles and related nanocomposites for scratch-resistant/super-hydrophobic sol-gel and polymeric surfaces/matrices # Bimodal SiO2 nanoparticles for simultaneous FT-IR and fluorescence-based in vitro and in vivo imaging - Application to bimodal cancer imaging # Nanotechnology-based surface chemistries for assembling of solid planar surfaces (SiO2, Au, and other noble metals)