IL – TechConnect Briefs

Quantitative Electrolateral Flow Immunosensor (ELLI): Dengue Triage and Stroke Prognosis Case Studies

Fajs L., Marks R.S., Sinawang P.D., Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, IL

The development of a rapid, affordable, and sensitive diagnostic kit for point-of-care is important in most healthcare settings; however, only a few exhibit the needed quantitative capability. Our technology, ELLI, is a patented diagnostic device [...]

Smart windows for passive control of solar radiation as a function of external ambient temperature

Donval A., Golding K., Gross N., Nevo D., Oron M., KiloLambda Technologies Ltd., IL

A well-known fact is that nearly half of the energy consumed throughout the developed world is used for heating, cooling and lighting of buildings. Buildings are huge energy consumers, since their functions like cooling, heating, [...]

Interaction of Beta-Casein with Kappa-Casein Fibrils

Avni S., Cogan U., Danino D., Kesselman E., Portnaya I., Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, IL

Amyloid protein fibrils are associated with numerous degenerative diseases. Kappa casein (kCN) at physiological conditions is known to form amyloid-like fibrils. Although these are not considered disease-related, understanding fibrillization and inhibition of this process may [...]

Segmented inkjet print head experiment

Einat M., Ariel University Center of Samaria, IL

Inkjet print heads are commonly designed as a device having single ink reservoir distributed to all the nozzles of the same ink. For limited number of nozzles and head size this solution works well, but [...]

Calculation of Nanoparticle Filler Content in Solid or Liquid Dispersions

Cohen Y., Khalfin R.L., Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, IL

Nano composites have unique properties which depend to a large extent on the quality of the nanoparticle dispersion. An outstanding issue is the quantitative measure of fillers that are actually dispersed to dimensions below a [...]

Novel supported catalytic materials based on multiwalls carbon nanotubes

Gedanken A., Koltypin Y., Landau M.V., Savilov S.V., Bar-Ilan University, IL

We present a method that allows proper control of the nanoscale curvature of the external surface in multiwall carbon nanotubes (MWCNT) and shown its effect on the properties of Ni/MWCNT catalyst. After removal of residual [...]

beta-casein micelles and nanocapsules in drug delivery

Bachar M., Danino D., Khalfin R.L., Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, IL

β-casein, the main protein found in milk, is an amphiphilic molecule that forms micelles both above and below the pI. In the presented work we investigated the possible use of β-casein micelles as a vehicle [...]

Synergistic effects in mixed micellization between natural and synthetic block copolymers

Danino D., Kesselman E., Khalfin R., Portnaya I., Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, IL

Amphiphilic block copolymers and mixtures of amphiphiles find broad applications in numerous nano-technologies. In our previous study, we showed that interactions between a biological charged diblock copolymer, beta-casein, and a synthetic uncharged triblock copolymer, Lutrol [...]

Cryostructuration of latexes

Portnaya I., Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, IL

The presented study concerns with structurization of dispersed phase of polymer latexes during their freezing-thawing. It is known that freezing might have disturbed the latexes aggregate stability. In the presented work it was established that [...]

Fluoropolymer Nanofibers (VDF-TFE 5 mol%) by Electrospinning

Cohen Y., Khalfin R., Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, IL

Poly(vinylidene fluoride) with 5 mol % of tetrafluoroethylene copolymer (VDF-TFE), is known to have the same crystal structure as pure PVDF as well as similar unique electrical properties. The β-phase of this polymers has strong [...]