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Weizmann Institute Scientists Develop a Unique Approach for Splitting Water into Hydrogen and Oxygen

Weizmann Institute Scientists Develop a Unique Approach for Splitting Water into Hydrogen and Oxygen

06.04.2009
Energy, Organic Chemistry
The design of efficient systems for splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen, driven by sunlight is among the most important challenges facing...
Dr. Boris Rybtchinski.

Paint Power

01.10.2008
Energy, Organic Chemistry
The future of solar energy might lie in light-absorbing paints
What We Are Doing About: Alternative Energy

What We Are Doing About: Alternative Energy

01.07.2008
Space & Physics, Biochemistry, Environment, Energy, Plants and Agriculture, Climate, Materials Science, Organic Chemistry
Creating environmentally friendly fuel from trash might be the ultimate recycling feat  
Invasion Strategy of the World's Largest Virus

Invasion Strategy of the World's Largest Virus

29.05.2008
Viruses & Microorganisms, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Organic Chemistry
Weizmann Institute scientists reveal the invasion strategy of the world’s largest virus   A Weizmann Institute study provides important new...
Amram Masad, Dr. Boris Perlmutter, Dr. Alexander Shif, Prof. Valeri Krongauz and Drs. Judith Ratner, Lev Pinkin and Dmitry Fridland. Bright future

Local Color

01.05.2008
Organic Chemistry, Yeda Technology Transfer
Self-tinting glass has a bright future  
A New Technique May Speed the Development of Molecular Electronics

A New Technique May Speed the Development of Molecular Electronics

26.07.2007
Nanoscience, Materials Science, Organic Chemistry
THE INSIDE DOPE   Often, things can be improved by a little 'contamination.' Steel, for example is iron with a bit of carbon mixed in. To produce...
A certain sequence of letters, EBU, creates chemical conditions in which an iron atom disconnects itself from an organic molecule (on the right), activating it and causing it to emit green fluorescent light. The sequence EUB leads to the emission of blue light. Other sequences of letters do not cause light emission

The First Molecular Keypad Lock

02.05.2007
Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Nanoscience, Organic Chemistry
Organic molecules could form the basis of ultra-tiny security devices
Weizmann Institute scientists create: The First Molecular Keypad Lock

Weizmann Institute scientists create: The First Molecular Keypad Lock

23.01.2007
Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Organic Chemistry
Keypad locks, such as those for preventing auto theft, allow an action to take place only when the right password is entered: a series of numbers...
Sensing Trouble

Sensing Trouble

01.10.2006
Space & Physics, Materials Science, Organic Chemistry, Diagnostic Techniques and Drugs
A mini-sensor on a chip could detect everything from asthma to explosives
Bacteriorhodopsin-containing microorganisms give these evaporation ponds near San Francisco their color

Live Wire

01.10.2006
Viruses & Microorganisms, Evolution and Development, Organic Chemistry, Structural Biology
A bacterial protein for absorbing sunlight turns out conduct electricity much better than it should

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