Multi-year project: Development of new chemical sensors and optical technologies for fast and sensitive detection of improvised explosives

TY - JOUR

T1 - Multi-year project

T2 - Development of new chemical sensors and optical technologies for fast and sensitive detection of improvised explosives

AU - Torroba, Tomás

AU - Schechter, Israel

AU - García-Calvo, José

AU - Revilla-Cuesta, Andrea

N1 - Funding Information: Technion – Israel Institute of Technology is a public research university in Haifa, Israel. Founded in 1912, it is the oldest university in Israel. The Technion offers degrees in science and engineering, and related fields such as architecture, medicine, industrial management, and education. It has 18 academic faculties and 52 research centers. Since its founding, it has awarded 95,821 degrees, and its graduates are cited for providing the skills and education behind the creation and defence of the State of Israel. The Technion’s 616 Faculty members currently include three Nobel Laureates in chemistry. In 2012, the magazine Business Insider ranked the Technion among the World’s top 25 engineering schools. In 2011, the Technion partnered with Cornell University to submit a winning proposal to New York City to set up the Jacobs Technion Cornell Institute of Innovation (JTCII) on Roosevelt Island. In 2013, the Technion embarked on establishing the Technion Guangdong Institute of Technology (TGIT) in Shantou, Guangdong Province, China. In 2013, Technion was ranked in sixth place in the world for entrepreneurship and innovation, in the first comprehensive survey conducted by the MIT. In 2013, the Center for World University Rankings ranked the Technion 66th in the World. In 2013, the Shanghai Academic Ranking rated the Technion as 77th in its list of the World’s top 100 universities. In 2013, the Technion was the only school outside of the United States to make it into the top 10 on a new Bloomberg Rankings list of schools whose graduates are CEOs of top US technical companies. Technion graduate Arieh Warshel, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Southern California won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, together with Michael Levitt and Martin Karplus for “the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems”. Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel pioneered the use of computer models that mirror chemical reactions. The work also has applications in the use of complex processes in the development of drugs. In 2011, Prof. Dan Shechtman, a Technion professor, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of quasi-crystals, a new form of matter. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2004 was awarded jointly to Aaron Ciechanover, Avram Hershko, Technion professors, and Irwin Rose “for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation”. The Technion is the premier technological university in Israel – in fact, it is one of the top institutions of scientific and engineering learning and research in the world. Chemistry lies at the very center of research and study in the Technion, and the Schulich Faculty of Chemistry leads the way in both of these endeavours. Scientists and engineers in the Technion are moving more and more into the realm of the smallest devices possible – molecular devices. And for this reason the Faculty of Chemistry is central for all of the research and studies at the Technion. The Schulich Faculty of Chemistry at Technion is a vibrant academic unit, with dynamic research and teaching programs, active faculty members and modern research laboratories and facilities. It spans the full spectrum of disciplines within chemistry – physical, analytical, inorganic, organic, biochemical and theoretical – and overlaps the associated fields of physics, materials sciences, biology, medicine and electronics and nanotechnology. The Schulich Faculty of Chemistry at the Technion is ranked eighth in Europe, 38th in the world according to Shanghai Rankings ARWU 2013. At the forefront of the Faculty’s interests is the evolution of chemical research towards molecular materials engineering and life sciences, and many of the Faculty’s research projects, particularly the most exciting recent discoveries, are characterized by a highly multidisciplinary nature. Faculty members are cooperating with the local industry on various levels. This cooperation can take different forms, such as direct funding of research by partners in the industry, government funding of joint projects between academic researchers and industry, start-up companies in which academic staff are involved, consulting services provided to industry, patent applications and commercialization, and service work provided to industry by our service research laboratories. Some faculty members’ research projects are directly funded by Israeli companies. In these cases, very focused applied research is carried out in collaboration with industrial programs with financial support provided from the industrial side. Some of the faculty (i.e. I. Shechter) take part in joint academic-industrial research programs funded by government foundations. In these cases, several industrial partners and academic groups join a large project that includes research and development in several directions. Therefore the collaboration between both groups will bring the best success to the development of the project.

PY - 2019

Y1 - 2019

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AN - SCOPUS:85083047202

SN - 1874-6500

SP - 208

EP - 246

JO - NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics

JF - NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics

ER -