Bar-Ilan University

The Sequence of the Human Genome

A 2.91-billion base pair (bp) consensus sequence of the euchromatic portion of the human genome was generated by the whole-genome shotgun sequencing method. The 14.8-billion bp ...

On the Surface Chemical Aspects of Very High Energy Density, Rechargeable Li–Sulfur Batteries

Li(metal)–sulfur (Li–S) systems are among the rechargeable batteries of the highest possible energy density due to the high capacity of both electrodes. The surface chemistry de...

Design of electrolyte solutions for Li and Li-ion batteries: a review

Physical Chemical Principles of Photovoltaic Conversion with Nanoparticulate, Mesoporous Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

We review the status of the understanding of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC), emphasizing clear physical models with predictive power, and discuss them in terms of the chemica...

A local search approximation algorithm for k-means clustering

In k-means clustering we are given a set of n data points in d-dimensional space ℜd and an integer k, and the problem is to determine a set of k points in ℜd, called centers, to...

Crumpled Globule Model of the Three-Dimensional Structure of DNA

We argue that in order to maintain the biological function of DNA confined inside the cell nucleus, its spatial structure has to be unknotted, of the so-called "crumpled globule...

On the possibility of using ionic liquids as electrolyte solutions for rechargeable 5V Li ion batteries

Relativistic effects in <i>a</i> <i>b</i> <i>i</i> <i>n</i> <i>i</i> <i>t</i> <i>i</i> <i>o</i> effective core potential studies of heavy metal compounds. Application to HgCl2, AuCl, and PtH

A method is described for obtaining l-dependent relativistic effective core potentials (ECPs) from Dirac–Fock self-consistent field atomic wave functions. These potentials are d...