Boaz Pokroy

Assoc. Professor
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Phone +972 4 8294584
Postal address Department of Materials Science and Engineering Technion Haifa 32000 Israel

Background and interest

I am an associate Proffesor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel. Previously I was a postdoctoral fellow and a Fulbright scholar in the laboratory of Prof. Joanna Aizenberg at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Harvard University and Bell Labs.

My research focuses on biomineralization and bio-inspired surface engineering. I study the structure of biominerals on the atomic, nano and meso-scales using state-of-the-art high-resolution characterization techniques such as high-resolution synchrotron diffraction and aberration corrected TEM. Based on the strategies that organisms use to produce natural materials, his lab also develops novel bio-inspired materials, such as semiconductors whose band gap can be tuned by the incorporation of intracrystalline biological molecules; controlling the short range order of nano-amorphous materials and fabrication of superhydrophobic/superoleophobic surfaces for various applications. 

Description of research in NanoHeal:

I will work with ESR7 to study the incorporation of different biological molecule and small organic molecules into the structure of calcite in a similar way one observes in natural materials. We will study the properties, structure and meachniams of formation of these nano-hybrid composites.

Together with ESR8 we will study the microstructure and nano-structure of grain contacts of cements and step formation on particle surfaces. Both ESRs will collaborate with other partners and other work packages: (WP1 and WP2).

Roles in NanoHeal:

  • Partner
  • Supervisor of ESR7 and ESR8
  • Leader of work package 4
Published Jan. 27, 2015 12:57 PM - Last modified Nov. 8, 2019 2:25 PM