4th Minerva Student Symposium (co-organized with Schmidt Center WIS)

Mashabei Sadeh, April 2001.

 

 

Program

Sunday, 01 April - Schmidt Auditorium, Weizmann Institute of Science

08:30 - 18:30 SUPRAMOLECULAR ARCHITECTURES
Symposium Celebrating the 65th Birthday of
Prof. Meir Lahav

19:30 - 22:30 Social gathering and dinner at the Science Park of the
Weizmann Institute of Science

J.M. McBride, Yale
Distributions: Maxwell, Boltzmann, Planck, Pareto & Bush

Monday, 02 April - Schmidt Auditorium, Weizmann Institute of Science

08:30 - 08:45 Opening Remarks David Cahen, Meir Lahav, Moshe Gottlieb and
Ronith Buller D. Margulies, Chair

08:45 - 09:25 M. Schmidt, Mainz
Single Nanostructured Macromolecules.

09:25 - 09:45 T. Stephan, Mainz
Synthesis and properties of “Patched Brushes”.

09:45 - 10:05 S. Rosselli, Mainz
Coil-ring-coil block copolymers as building blocks of hollow
Supramolecular cylindrical brushes.

10:05 - 10:25 N. H. Volk, Mainz
Phase Diagrams and Phase transitions of Polyelelctrolytes in
Solution.
10:25-10:45 S. Loi, Siegen
Self Assembly of Alkyl Substituted Polyphenylene Dendrimers on
Graphite.

10:45 - 11:15 Coffee break

S. Rühle, Chair

11:15 - 11:55 U. Banin, Jerusalem
Semiconductor Clusters and Nanocrystals: building blocks of future
devices in nanotechnology?

11:55 - 12:15 A. Salomon / A. Vilan, Rehovot
Functional Modifications of Metal/Semiconductor Interfaces as a Molecular Tool to Fine-tune Schottky Diodes.
Molecular Tool to Fine-tune Schottky Diodes.

12:15 - 12:35 L. Sheeney Haj-Ichia, Jerusalem
Thermo-Switchable Nanoparticles/Polymer Composite of New
Electronic Functions

12:35 - 12:55 Q. Zhao, Rehovot
Detection of Stress Fields in Polymers Using Carbon Nanotubes as
Raman Sensors.

12:55 –13:15 P. Kral, Rehovot
Tribo-effects in Nanotubes.

13:15 - 17:00 An excursion to Beit-Gubrin Archeological Site

17:00 - 19:00 Ride to Kibbutz Mashabey-Sade

19:30 - 20:30 Dinner

21:00 - 22:30 Poster Session.

Tuesday, 03 April – Mashabey-Sade

J. Uhde, Chair
09:00 - 09:40 E. Sackmann, München On Micromechanics of Cells

09:40 - 10:00 M. Tristl, München
Biofunctionalization of Solids through Rcombinant Bacterial Enzyme
Lumazine Synthease and Reversible Adsorption of Actin Filaments.

10:00 - 10:20 M. Geva, Rehovot
Antibody Recognition of Enantiomorphous Organized Surfaces.

10:20 –10:40 S. Schiller, Mainz
Glycolipids, Surface Structuring and Model Membranes.

10:40 –11:00 G. Frenkel, Tel-Aviv
Diffusion of a Deformable Body in a Randomly Stirred Host Fluid.
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break

B. Schöler, Chair

11:30 - 12:10 H.W. Spiess, Mainz
Probing Polymer Nanostructures by Advanced NMR and EPR
Spectroscopy.

12:10 - 12:30 I. Goldbourt, Rehovot
27Al MQMAS NMR of inorganic materials.

12:30 - 12:50 A. Zilman, Rehovot
Thermodynamics and structure of self-assembled network.
12:50-13:10 O. Farago, Tel-Aviv
Elasticity of Entropy-Dominated Systems.
13:10 - 14:10 Lunch
J. Rodriguez Hernandez, Chair

14:10 –14:50 M. Gottlieb, Beer-Sheva
The strange world of Amphiphilic-Block-Copolymer solutions.

14:50 - 15:10 H. Dvir, Beer-Sheva
Imaging the Distribution of a Brominated Acrylate FR in
Polypropylene.

15:10 –15:30 F. Tiarks, Golm
The Formation of Structured Particles By Miniemulsions
Polymerization.

15:30 - 15:50 A. Knoll, Bayeuth
Confinement Induced Reconstruction of Cylindrical ABA Block
copolymer microdomains.

15:50 - 16:05 Coffee Break

J. H. Schattka, Chair

16:05 - 16:25 C. Krüger, Mainz
Controlled Object Assembly on Patterned Surface Layers.

16:25 - 16:45 H. Schollmeyer, Potsdam
Long Chained Alkanes at Si/SiO2/Air Interfaces: Molecular Ordering
and Wetting Behavior.

16:45 - 17:05 M. Schneider, Potsdam
Chemical Force Imaging.

17:05 - 17:25 S. Krämer, Mainz
Investigation of Thin Films by Spontaneous Desorption time-of-flight
mass spectrometry.

17:25 - 17:45 Shenhav B., Rehovot.
The molecular roots of compositional inheritance.

17:45 - 19:30 Second Poster Session

19:30 - 22:00 Bedouin Dinner

Wednesday, 04 April – Mashabey-Sade

M. Zayats, Chair

08:30-09:10 A. Shanzer, Rehovot
Surface Architecture and Molecular Devices

09:10-09:30 E. Yavin, Rehovot
The Study of Electron and Energy Transfer in a Novel Ruthenium
Complex and its Application in Photocleavage of DNA.

09:30-09:50 M.M. Meijler , Rehovot
Synthesis and Evaluation of pro-Hydrophilic Iron Chelators.

09:50-10:10 S. Pevzner, Beer-Sheva
Mesoporous crystalline materials: production,
characterization and mechanism of formation investigation.

10:10-10:30 R. Bandyopadhyaya, Beer-Sheva
Thin mesoporous SiO2 films.

10:30-11:10 M. D. Ward, Minnesota
Engineering Topology, Porosity, and Metrics in Flexible Hydrogen-
Bonded Molecular Frameworks.

11:10 - 11:25 M. Gottlieb, Beer-Sheva
Concluding Remarks.

Posters

1. Alfonta, L. Jerusalem Liposomes labeled with biotin and horseradish
peroxidase: a new probe.

2. Berman, A. Beer-Sheva
Nucleobase derivatized monolayers of conjugated
polymers for nucleotide recognition.

3. Bhattacharyya, A. Beer-Sheva Single Molecule Study of DNA-Formamide Reaction
Kinetics.

4. Bonifazi, D. Rehovot Tuning Semiconductor Diodes by Fullerene
Derivatives.

5. Carl, P., Rehovot
The effect of Si/Al ratio in zeolites X and Y on the
locations and interactions of Cu2+ ions

6. Chai, L. Rehovot Electric Signal transfer through nm-thick molecular
bilayers.

7. del Campo, Mainz
Micro- and nanoassembly using molecular glue.

8. Dimitrova, T. D. Mainz AFM-Noise Measurements of Polymer Adhesives.

9. Evrard, D. Beer-Sheva Colorimetric Biosensors for screening and detection
of membrane penetration enhancers.

10. Fischbach, I. Solid-state NMR of reorientation dynamics in
hexabenzocoronenes.

11. Fradkin, L. Haifa Novel Spectrometer for Identification of Impurities
and Mobility in Semiconductors.

12. Fuchs, S. Berlin Synthesis of dendrimer/cytostatic conjugates for antitumor
therapy.

13. Gabai, R. Jerusalem Functional Polymers for the Assembly of
Micromachines and Sensor Devices.

14. Ginzburg, I.
Effect of molecular structure on the thermal gelation of
methylcellulose.

15. Gohr, K. Mainz Dynamics of Copolymer Micelles in a Homopolymer
Melt.

16. Golan, R. Beer-Sheva DNA Toroids: Stages in Condensation.

17. Gross, T. Beer-Sheva Structural Changes in Lung Surfactant after exposure
to Meconium.
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18. Halevy, R. Beer-Sheva A novel bio-mimetic colorimetric membrane
assay forstudying antimicrobial peptides.

19. Hernández, J.R. Mainz Star-shaped Fluorescent Polypeptides.

20. Hirsch, R. Jerusalem Magneto-switchable bioelectrocatalysis.

21. Horvath, A. Bayreuth Annealing induced self assembly of di-block thin
films.
22. Jopp, J. Beer-Sheva Autophobic behavior of polymers.

23. Korenberg, O. Beer-Sheva Amphiphilic ABA copolymer as polymeric surfactant.

24. Lorz, B. Munich The Glycolipid Interaction as a Model for Cell
Adhesion.

25. Margulies, D. Rehovot Chromophoric Metal Complexes: Towards Molecular
– based Electroluminescent Devices.

26. Minkin, E., Haifa Spectroscopic properties of molecular
wire/semiconductor nanocrystals hybrid structures.

27. Naim, J. Beer-Sheva Entropic effect in surface-induced polymer
crystallization.

28. Neidhöfer, M. Mainz Local Order in Polymers via Double-Quantum NMR
Spectroscopy.

29. Neiser, M.W, Mainz Crystallizable Nanobrushes: synthesis and
charactrization.

30. Piccini, M. T. Mainz Redispersibility of Mica-based Pigments in Liquid
Media.

31. Rapp, A. Mainz Structure and Dynamics of Supramolecular Systems by
1H and 13C Multiple-Quantum MAS NMR
Spectroscopy.

32. Raviv, U. Rehovot Fluidity of pure water and aqueous solutions confined
to molecularly-thin gaps.

33. Rühle, S. Rehovot Adsorption kinetics of a Ru-dye on Mesoporous TiO2
films.

34. Samokhvalov, A. Rehovot. Two-photon photoemission spectroscopy of dye coated
silicon surface.

35. Sashchiuk. A. Haifa. Optical properties of PbSe, PbSe/PbS core/shell
Nanocrystals.

36. Schärtl, W. Mainz Structure and dynamics of speherical polymer brushes
in a homopolymer matrix.

37. Schattka, J.H. Golm. Template Coating to fabricate highly porous metal
oxide networks.

38. Schöler, B. Potsdam Polyelectrolyte multilayer films on planar and curved
surfaces.

39. Shenhav, B. Rehovot. The molecular roots of compositional inheritance.

40. Shmueli, L. Beer-Sheva Physical networks of Amphilic block-Copolymers in
Microemulsions.

41. Uhde, J. Munich New Experiments with Single Filaments in the 3D
Network.

42. Vandermeulen, G. W. M.
Mainz
Diblock Copolymers for Stimuli-Responsive
Reversible Hydrogels.

43. Volinsky, R., Beer-Sheva
Surface Studies of Colorimetric lipid/ polydiacetylene
LB films.

44. Wanunu, M., Rehovot
Coordination-Based Dendrimers Grown
on Metal Surfaces.

45. Weiss, I. M. Rehovot Mineralogy of Mollusc Larval Shells – New Insights.

46. Wu, D. G. Rehovot Effect of Conjugation on Molecular Tuning of Au/n-
GaAs Diode Behavior.

47. Zayats, M. Jerusalem Protein – based field – effect transistors for biosensor
applications.

48. Zepik, H.H. Rehovot Homochiral Peptides from a Racemic Mixture of
Amino Acids in 2D.

49. Zettl, H. Bayreuth Janus Micelles.