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Self-Assembled Fatty Acid Crystalline Coatings Display Non-Toxic Superhydrophobic Antimicrobial Properties
Elena Prudnikov, Iryna Polishchuk, Andy Sand +4
Superhydrophobcity is a well-known wetting phenomenon found in numerous plants and insects. It is achieved by the combination of the surfaces chemical properties and its surface ro…
Tuning the Magnetization of Manganese (II) Carbonate by Intracrystalline Amino Acids
Arad Lang, Iryna Polishchuk, Giorgia Confalonieri +5
Incorporation of organic molecules into the lattice of inorganic crystalline hosts is a common phenomenon in biomineralization, and has been shown to alter various properties of th…
Adsorption of SARS CoV-2 Spike Proteins on Various Functionalized Surfaces Correlates with the Strong Infectivity of Delta and Omicron Variants
Daniela Dobrynin, Iryna Polishchuk, Lotan Portal +3
The SARS CoV-2 virus emerged at the end of 2019 and rapidly developed several mutated variants, specifically the Delta and Omicron, which demonstrate higher infectivity and escalat…
High-Mg Calcite Nanoparticles Within a Low-Mg Calcite Matrix via Spinodal Decomposition: A Widespread Phenomenon in Biomineralization
Nuphar Bianco-Stein, Iryna Polishchuk, Arad Lang +3
During the process of biomineralization, organisms utilize various biostrategies to enhance the mechanical durability of their skeletons. In this work, we establish that the presen…
Modifying Hydrophilic Properties of Polyurethane Acryl Paint Substrates by Atomic Layer Deposition and Self-Assembled Monolayers
Daniel Beitner, Iryna Polishchuk, Eric Asoline +1
A process of atomic layer deposition combined with self assembled monolayers was used to investigate the possible modification of polyurethane paint surfaces. First, we used an ALD…
A fungal mycelium templates the growth of aragonite needles
Achiya Livne, Sylwia Carolina Mijowska, Iryna Polishchuk +3
Fungi live within diverse environments and survive well under extreme conditions that are usually beyond the tolerance of most other organisms. In different environments fungi are…
Bioinspired Nanocomposites: 2D Materials Within a 3D Lattice
Matteo Di Giosia, Iryna Polishchuk, Eva Weber +8
Advanced composites are used in a variety of industrial applications and therefore attract much scientific interest. Here we describe the formation of novel carbon-based nanocompos…
Synthesis of calcium carbonate in trace water environments
Giulia Magnabosco, Iryna Polishchuk, Boaz Pokroy +3
Calcium carbonate (CaCO3) was synthesized from diverse water-free alcohol solutions, resulting in the formation of vaterite and calcite precipitates, or stable particle supensions,…
Hybrid gold single crystals incorporating amino acids
Linfeng Chen, Iryna Polishchuk, Eva Weber +2
Here we report on the formation of hybrid organic-metal composites via the incorporation of selected amino acids into the crystal lattice of single crystals of gold. We used electr…
Additives Influence the Phase Behavior of Calcium Car-bonate Solution by a Cooperative Ion-association Process
Zhaoyong Zou, Iryna Polishchuk, Luca Bertinetti +4
Amorphous calcium carbonate (ACC) has been widely found in biomineralization, both as a transient precursor and a stable phase, but how organisms accurately control its formation a…
Insights on the interaction of calcein with calcium carbonate and its implications in biomineralization studies
Giulia Magnabosco, Iryna Polishchuk, Jonathan Erez +3
The effects of calcein, a marker commonly used to assess mineral growth in calcifying organism, on calcite and aragonite structure have been investigated. Calcein is entrapped with…
Strong Quantum Confinement Effects and Chiral Excitons in Bio-Inspired ZnO-Amino Acid Co-Crystals
Madathumpady Abubaker Habeeb Muhammed, Marlene Lamers, Verena Baumann +10
Elucidating the underlying principles behind band gap engineering is paramount for the successful implementation of semiconductors in photonic and optoelectronic devices. Recently…
Effect of surface chemistry on incorporation of nanoparticles within calcite single crystals
Giulia Magnabosco, Iryna Polishchuk, Francesco Palomba +5
Inclusion of additives into calcite crystals allows one to embed non-native proprieties into the inorganic matrix and obtain new functional materials. Up to now, few parameters hav…
Photocatalytic activity of exfoliated graphite-TiO nanocomposites
Gloria Guidetti, Eva A. A. Pogna, Lucia Lombardi +16
We investigate the photocatalytic performance of nanocomposites prepared in a one-step process by liquid-phase exfoliation of graphite in the presence of TiO nanoparticles (NPs…
Formation and Stability of Ordered and Disordered Ba-substituted Calcite Phases
E. Seknazi, D. Levy, I. Polishchuk +2
Calcite has the ability to host large amounts of intracrystalline inclusions, a phenomenon that is known to be the case in biominerals and has been demonstrated in bio-inspired syn…
Calcite single crystals as hosts for atomic-scale entrapment and slow release of drugs
Giulia Magnabosco, Matteo Di Giosia, Iryna Polishchuk +8
This study presents a complete structural and biological characterization of Doxorubicin CaCO3 single crystals as a pH responsive drug carrier. Using a biomimetic approach, it was…
Narrowly distributed crystal orientation in biomineral vaterite
Boaz Pokroy, Lee Kabalah Amitai, Iryna Polishchuk +6
Biominerals formed by animals provide skeletal support, and many other functions. They were previously shown to grow by aggregation of amorphous nanoparticles, but never to grow io…
Hybrid gold single crystals incorporating amino acids
Linfeng Chen, Iryna Polishchuk, Eva Weber +2
Composite hybrid gold crystals are of profound interest in various research areas ranging from materials science to biology. Their importance is due to their unique properties and…