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  • 2003 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For exploration of reaction mechanisms in van der Waals clusters, development of Coulomb Explosion Imaging, and development of lowenergy photoelectron spectroscopic methods to establish the electronic properties of organized organic thin films

Overview

Ron Naaman is affiliated with the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on Engineering and Physics and Astronomy. Within these broad areas, Naaman has contributed extensively to subfields such as Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics; Electrical and Electronic Engineering; Molecular Biology; Materials Chemistry; and Spectroscopy.

Their scholarly output includes numerous studies in the domain of molecular junctions and nanostructures, quantum and electron transport phenomena, and spectroscopy combined with quantum chemical analyses. More specialized topics addressed by Naaman's research encompass electrochemical analysis and applications, surface chemistry and catalysis, photosynthetic processes and mechanisms, and advanced nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) techniques.

They have published significantly in several scientific journals, with frequent appearances in:

  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Advanced Materials
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society

Naaman has worked with a number of collaborators, notably:

  • Yossi Paltiel
  • Tapan Kumar Das
  • David H. Waldeck
  • Francesco Tassinari
  • Jonas Fransson

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Chiral spintronics," 2021, Nature Reviews Physics
  • "Chiral Induced Spin Selectivity," 2024, Chemical Reviews
  • "Theory of Chirality Induced Spin Selectivity: Progress and Challenges," 2022, Advanced Materials
  • "Highly Efficient and Tunable Filtering of Electrons' Spin by Supramolecular Chirality of Nanofiber-Based Materials," 2020, Advanced Materials
  • "Chiral Molecules and the Spin Selectivity Effect," 2020, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

In 2003, Naaman was recognized as a Fellow of the American Physical Society. The citation highlighted their work on exploring reaction mechanisms in van der Waals clusters, development of Coulomb Explosion Imaging, and techniques in low-energy photoelectron spectroscopy to elucidate the electronic properties of organized organic thin films.

Best Publications

  • Spin selectivity in electron transmission through self-assembled monolayers of double-stranded DNA.

    B. Göhler;V. Hamelbeck;T. Z. Markus;M. Kettner

  • Chiral molecules and the electron spin

    Ron Naaman;Yossi Paltiel;David H. Waldeck

  • Chiral-Induced Spin Selectivity Effect.

    R. Naaman;David H. Waldeck

  • Spintronics and Chirality: Spin Selectivity in Electron Transport Through Chiral Molecules

    Ron Naaman;David H. Waldeck

  • Asymmetric Scattering of Polarized Electrons by Organized Organic Films of Chiral Molecules

    K. Ray;S. P. Ananthavel;D. H. Waldeck;R. Naaman

  • New Magnetic Properties of Silicon/Silicon Oxide Interfaces

    Gregory Kopnov;Zeev Vager;Ron Naaman

  • The Origin of the Magnetism of Etched Silicon

    Patrick J. Grace;Munuswamy Venkatesan;Jonathan Alaria;J. Michael D. Coey

  • Spin Specific Electron Conduction through DNA Oligomers

    Zouti Xie;Tal Z. Markus;Sidney R. Cohen;Zeev Vager

  • Helicenes—A New Class of Organic Spin Filter

    Vankayala Kiran;Shinto P. Mathew;Sidney R. Cohen;Irene Hernández Delgado

  • Coulomb explosion imaging of small molecules.

    Z. Vager;R. Naaman;E. P. Kanter

  • The structure of small molecules and ions

    Ron Naaman;Zeev Vager

  • Separation of enantiomers by their enantiospecific interaction with achiral magnetic substrates

    Koyel Banerjee-Ghosh;Oren Ben Dor;Francesco Tassinari;Eyal Capua

  • Direct measurement of electrical transport through single DNA molecules of complex sequence.

    Hezy Cohen;Claude Nogues;Ron Naaman;Danny Porath

  • Control of Electrons’ Spin Eliminates Hydrogen Peroxide Formation During Water Splitting

    Wilbert Mtangi;Francesco Tassinari;Kiran Vankayala;Andreas Vargas Jentzsch

  • Theory of Chirality Induced Spin Selectivity: Progress and Challenges

    Ferdinand Evers;Amnon Aharony;Nir Bar-Gill;Ora Entin-Wohlman

  • The electron's spin and molecular chirality – how are they related and how do they affect life processes?

    Karen Michaeli;Nirit Kantor-Uriel;Ron Naaman;David H. Waldeck

  • Spin-selective transport through helical molecular systems

    R. Gutierrez;E. Díaz;E. Díaz;R. Naaman;G. Cuniberti;G. Cuniberti

  • High Circular Polarization of Electroluminescence Achieved via Self-Assembly of a Light-Emitting Chiral Conjugated Polymer into Multidomain Cholesteric Films.

    Daniele Di Nuzzo;Chidambar Kulkarni;Baodan Zhao;Eilam Smolinsky

  • The Chiral-Induced Spin Selectivity Effect

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  • Spin-dependent electron transmission through bacteriorhodopsin embedded in purple membrane

    Debabrata Mishra;Tal Z. Markus;Ron Naaman;Matthias Kettner

  • Thermally induced disorder in organized organic monolayers on solid substrates

    Sidney R. Cohen;Ron Naaman;Jacob Sagiv

  • Direct Measurements of Electrical Transport Through Single DNA Molecules of Complex Sequence

    Hezy Cohen;Danny Porath;Claude Nogues;Ron Naaman

Frequent Co-Authors

David H. Waldeck
David H. Waldeck University of Pittsburgh
David Cahen
David Cahen Weizmann Institute of Science
Leeor Kronik
Leeor Kronik Weizmann Institute of Science
Sidney R. Cohen
Sidney R. Cohen Weizmann Institute of Science
Hagai Cohen
Hagai Cohen Weizmann Institute of Science
Yinon Rudich
Yinon Rudich Weizmann Institute of Science
Abraham Shanzer
Abraham Shanzer Weizmann Institute of Science
Gregory Leitus
Gregory Leitus Weizmann Institute of Science
David N. Beratan
David N. Beratan Duke University
Veronica Vaida
Veronica Vaida University of Colorado Boulder

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