Yossi Weizmann

Congratulations to Zuckerman Faculty Scholar Yossef Weizmann on his discovery of a polymer that emits heat when exposed to LED light. Together with their research groups, Weizmann, an expert in nanoparticles at Ben-Gurion University, and colleague Gabriel Lemcoff, an expert in polymer chemistry at Ben-Gurion University, conducted experiments and shared ideas for two years, until they succeeded in producing a light-responsive polymer, a material made of long chains of repeating units, that emits heat when exposed to LED light.

The discovery enables the creation of new materials and the acceleration of reactions that may even save energy. Their findings, “Plasmonic visible–near infrared photothermal activation of olefin metathesis enabling photoresponsive material,” were published in the journal Nature Chemistry