futuristic technologies « nano technologies « technology transfer « 

The tireless quest of early man for food, inspiring lives & philosophies of great philosophers, the poets have changed & influenced our lives in ways that are relevant even today, but mostly forgotten. These philosophers were a sort of social scientists who used their inspiring philosphies to inspire our lives. Their words entered our minds & souls and worked like the nano machines of future, we have yet to discover. Were they Nano scientists? No they were nano-nano social scientists, because only great philsophies have the power to become nano-nano matter.. -:). (you have the freedom not to agree on existence of nano-nano matter, as long as you love the philosophies of great philosophers).

The wheel & the industrial revolution has given us the wonders of Antibiotics, aircraft, satellites, nuclear weapons, television, mass production, computers,
a global petroleum driven economy. The revolutions of twentieth-century technology were the landmarks of precious human existence – with their growing influences on human life.
These revolutions have mostly touched the human life for providing for entertainment, comfort, fast travel, telecommunications with freedom and post-disease health care.

They have raised the standards of our physical world. With the exception of internet, these technologies barely impacted our mind domains. Great benefits are dimmed when you look at the great harm we are causing to the envirment. Today at least we are conscious of the harm to our environment, still unwilling to control the harm.

The second revolution in the making is likely to come from the applications of nano technology. The Hebrew University’s Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology takes an interdisciplinary approach to meet the challenges of this new and exciting field. Bringing together researchers from a number of departments, the Center begins with a unit for nanoscopic characterization to “see,” identify,
and describe the nanometric structure the researchers have created. These technologies hold great promise and future in almost every discipline of industry, medicine and science.

The University has commercialized many technologies in the past and offers Technology Transfer Services for commercial production of products developed at the university.

Wide-Ranging Nano-Applications

This unique interdisciplinary approach at the university labs leads to research that has applications in a number of industries:

Semiconductors:
Work is being carried out on nanostructured semiconductors, superconductors, and composite materials.

Medicine:
Systems are under development that trap single cells to study and quantify them down to the molecular level.

Telecommunications:
Research is being carried out in nanophotonics and on optofluidic components and devices to provide smaller, faster and more versatile options for telecomunication.

Through the efforts and resources of Yissum, Hebrew University’s active Technology Transfer Services organization, a number of these projects in nanotechnology are already on the path toward commercial success. A composite thin film composed of sol-gels with metals and nano-particles is at a stage where it is ready for testing as an anti-corrosion coating for the automotive industry and a non-viral delivery method for gene therapy is ready for testing for various applications.

Selected Researchers

Almost 30 researchers currently lead and develop cutting-edge projects for the Center. Cooperation between these multidisciplinary scientists enables development of a true understanding of the environment in which the 1-100 nanometer objects created by the researchers exist and operate.

The Center’s researchers are drawn from across the scientific spectrum at this Technology Transfer University.

Department of physical chemistry: Danny Porath and Uri Banin are studying DNA nanoelectronics and nanoparticles in a variety of applications, respectively.

Department of inorganic chemistry: Daniel Mandler and Shlomo Yitzchaik are involved in the production of sol-gel and ultra-thin films.

Faculty of medicine: Dan Gazit is working on nanotechnology-based skeletal tissue engineering and gene therapy.

Marketing and legal professionals from Yissum work together with all of the Center’s researchers to “transfer” the technologies developed by Technology Transfer University for introducing into the market by new age entrepreneurs.