Pokroy Lab
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We study the basic principles that control the formation and growth of biominerals and translate these strategies to bioinspired smart materials.
Technion City, Haifa
Joined February 2021
Dedicated to the memory of Prof. Helmut Cölfen. New paper in Advanced Functional Materials reveals how small amino acids regulate Mg-ACC nanoparticle growth, narrowing size distribution. Led by @KuhrtsLucas&@Hadar Shaked in collaboration with @ESRF.🔗 https://t.co/FsVmna9mRx
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🪷Plants defend themselves with waxy, superhydrophobic cuticles. ✨ SafeWax mimics this natural defense: ✅Spray-on, biodegradable coating ✅Prevents fungal spores from attaching & germinating ✅Adds self-cleaning and water-repelling functions #BioInspired #AgTech
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Thrilled to share, the @SafeWax concept, born from a decade of research, is now published in Small @WileyGlobal ! 🌿💧 A fatty acid-based coating for sustainable crop protection. Rejected once. Funded later @EUeic . Worth it. 💪 https://t.co/tInbMFCaPC
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🎓 A proud moment! Congratulations to Dr. Elena Prudnikov on officially receiving her doctorate degree. Truly proud of your achievements and wish you continued success and fulfillment on the journey ahead.
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Exciting to see this work in Small highlighted with a cover feature! Grateful to my collaborators for making this work possible. #Science#Art#Small
A great piece of work on the controlled synthesis of gold-silver nanostars with unique thorn-like structures, just published in @Small. Congratulations @DanielaDobrynin and all involved! Stay tuned for an upcoming cover feature. #Nanotechnology
https://t.co/3n27KfLwlk
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Honored to contribute to this interdisciplinary review with Shahrouz Amini, Paul Zaslansky, and Peter Fratzl, now published in Advanced Materials, exploring how internal stresses in biological systems enable functional elastic energy storage. 🔗 https://t.co/g3Z1ZK9zQL
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🐚How do mollusks toughen their shells? In our collaborative @PNASNews study with Prof. Michio Suzuki from @UTokyo_News_en, we identify a protein that regulates crystal defects in the aragonite layers of the limpet shell. 🔗 https://t.co/KNdm3OnLtA
#PNAS#collaboration#aragonite
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Team Lunch Vibes 🍽️Nothing beats good food with great company! Today’s lunch gathering was a perfect break from the usual routine. Thank you, my group.
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Classical materials science remains essential to modern engineering insights—no wonder this study appears in one of the field’s most respected journals, Acta Materialia. Congrats @RotemZilberberg!🔗 https://t.co/QzfyqNcOZg
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It’s always rewarding to see hard work recognized — yet another paper published in @CGD_ACS ! Publications like this reflect the dedication, creativity, and teamwork behind every result. Congratulations @LotanPortal for your 4th first-authored paper! 🔗 https://t.co/rjd9gI8bQb
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Warm congratualtions to Dr. Elena Prudnikov on the publication of her research on the dual-mode fatty-acids based coatings in collaboration with @ester_segal lab. 🔗 https://t.co/tYu7Dei9Jm
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Leading the SafeWax project is a privilege — grateful for such a committed team. The progress we’re making together is just the beginning. #HorizonEU #EUProjects #SustainableAgriculture
A successful first day at the #SafeWax Consortium Meeting hosted by @Unibo Partners shared progress across all work packages, from formulation development to field trials. Grateful to our hosts and all participants for the great energy! #HorizonEU #CropProtection
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Congratulations to our PhD student ,Daniela Dobrynin, for her excellent talk at the ongoing in E-MRS 2025 in Strasbourg, France! #EMRS2025 #Technion #PokroyLab #Nanomaterials
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📰Our just-published @PNASNews study shows how Mg²⁺ and pH shifts impact ACC particle size distribution and growth—key to biomineralization. Led by @KuhrtsLucas during his postdoc. Special thanks to @esrfsynchrotron! #OceanAcidification #PNAS 🔗 https://t.co/rNgfzTCcWs
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Excited to share that our recent paper on bioinspired "writing crystallography" in Advanced Functional Materials has been featured in the @ESRF_eu News! 📽️Watch the science in action: https://t.co/6ThP1gas4Y 🔗 Read more: https://t.co/t0JhyfOlNN
#Crystallography #Materials #ESRF
esrf.fr
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🎓 Warm congratulations to the 2024 graduates! 📚 51 graduates across four study tracks, and 5 of them are continuing with @pokroylab as researchers. Good luck! #Academia #FutureScientists #ProudMoment
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🌟A proud moment from the Spring 2025 Final-Year Project Poster Session!🥇Best Poster Award and 2nd Place Prize awarded to undergraduate project students from our lab! Huge congratulations to young researchers and their mentors! #StudentSuccess #MaterialsScience #Intel
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Casino and Science? Yes! We are at @TMSSociety 154th Annual meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Great presentation, @RotemZilberberg! #TMSAnnualMeeting2025
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A great piece of work on the controlled synthesis of gold-silver nanostars with unique thorn-like structures, just published in @Small. Congratulations @DanielaDobrynin and all involved! Stay tuned for an upcoming cover feature. #Nanotechnology
https://t.co/3n27KfLwlk
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
A systematic study of gold-silver nanostars (GNSs) formation reveals the key role of silver and AgCl in directing GNSs growth. Using a rapid and green synthesis approach, temperature and AgNO₃...
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