Dr' Yitzhak Mastai

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• Dr. Yitzhak Mastai
• biomimetic chemistry, water structure,
  molecular recognition
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  mastai_at_mail.biu.ac.il
• http//www.biu.ac.il/ESC/ch/faculty/mastai/masta
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• Biography
• B.Sc. (BIU, 1989)
• Ph.D. (Weizmann 1998, w/Professor Gary Hodes)
  sono-electro chemical synthesis of semiconductors
  and fullerene-like nanoparticles
• postdoc (Max-Planck-Institute of Colloids and
  Interfaces, Golm, Germany, with Prof. Markus
  Antonietti) biomimetic chemistry.
• Joined BIU Chemistry Department, October 2002
• Research Overview
• Biomimetic chemistry water structure and
  behavior, antifreeze proteins, hydration of
  proteins molecular recognition chiral
  discrimination in crystallization.

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Miniemulsions - liquid/liquid nanoreactors
Ironoxide nanoparticles made by
miniemulsification
Polyacrylonitrile latex particles
Crystallization kinetics of hexadecane in
miniemulsion
Crystallization in miniemulsion droplets
X-ray of hexadecane crystalized in miniemulsions
of different sizes
M. Antonietti, K. Landfester, Y. Mastai, Israel
J. Chem, 41,1, (2001). R. Montenegro, M.
Antonietti, Y. Mastai, K. Landfester, J. Phys.
Chem. B. 2003 ASAP Article
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Silica Carbon Nanocomposites New Concept for the
Design of Solar Absorbers
Schematic representation of nano-sized carbon
particles confined in porous silica.
Electromagnetic radiation is absorbed without
re-emission in the IR-region.
TEM of porous silica carbon nanocomposites (inset-
schematic representation of the pore morphology )
Y. Mastai, S. Polarz, M. Antonietti, Adv. Funct.
Mater. 12, 197-202, (2002).