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Overview

Sanford Ruhman is affiliated with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel, focusing primarily on research that intersects engineering and materials science. Their expertise spans various subfields including electrical and electronic engineering, materials chemistry, cellular and molecular neuroscience, organic chemistry, as well as atomic and molecular physics and optics.

The research topics covered in Ruhman's work include quantum dots synthesis and properties, chalcogenide semiconductor thin films, photoreceptor and optogenetics research, perovskite materials and applications, synthesis and properties of aromatic compounds, photosynthetic processes and mechanisms, and retinal development and disorders.

Ruhman has published in several scientific journals with a frequent presence in:

  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • Nature
  • ACS Nano

Selected recent papers include:

  • Phototrophy by antenna-containing rhodopsin pumps in aquatic environments, 2023, Nature
  • Unusually Strong Biexciton Repulsion Detected in Quantum Confined CsPbBr3 Nanocrystals with Two and Three Pulse Femtosecond Spectroscopy, 2021, ACS Nano
  • Testing the fate of nascent holes in CdSe nanocrystals with sub-10 fs pump-probe spectroscopy, 2020, Nanoscale
  • Ring Size Determines the Conformation, Global Aromaticity and Photophysical Properties of Macrocyclic Oligofurans, 2021, Chemistry - A European Journal
  • The elusive dynamics of aqueous permanganate photochemistry, 2020, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Frequent coauthors in Ruhman's collaborative research include:

  • Partha Malakar
  • Mordechai Sheves
  • Omer S. Haggag
  • Ishita Das
  • Jayanta Dana

The diversity of topics and frequent interdisciplinary collaborations indicate Ruhman's research embraces both fundamental and applied aspects of materials chemistry and engineering, with particular attention to nanoscale materials and their photophysical properties. Their work addresses the mechanistic understanding of light-driven processes, nanocrystal behavior, and molecular properties relevant to optical and electronic applications.

Best Publications

  • Impulsive excitation of coherent vibrational motion ground surface dynamics induced by intense short pulses

    Uri Banin;Allon Bartana;Sanford Ruhman;Ronnie Kosloff

  • Spectroscopic tracking of structural evolution in ultrafast stilbene photoisomerization.

    Satoshi Takeuchi;Sanford Ruhman;Takao Tsuneda;Mahito Chiba

  • Ultrafast photodissociation of I3. Coherent photochemistry in solution

    Uri Banin;Sanford Ruhman

  • Coherent molecular vibrational motion observed in the time domain through impulsive stimulated Raman scattering

    S. Ruhman;A.G. Joly;K.A. Nelson

  • Carrier Multiplication and Its Reduction by Photodoping in Colloidal InAs Quantum Dots

    J. J. H. Pijpers;E. Hendry;M.T.W. Milder;R. Fanciulli

  • Time‐resolved observations of coherent molecular vibrational motion and the general occurrence of impulsive stimulated scattering

    S. Ruhman;Alan G. Joly;Keith A. Nelson

  • Nonrelaxational inertial motion in carbon disulfide liquid observed by femtosecond time-resolved impulsive stimulated scattering

    S. Ruhman;Leah R. Williams;Alan G. Joly;Bern. Kohler

  • On the absence of detectable carrier multiplication in a transient absorption study of InAs/CdSe/ZnSe core/Shell1/Shell2 quantum dots.

    Meirav Ben-Lulu;David Mocatta;Mischa Bonn;Uri Banin

  • Ultrafast photodissociation of I3− in solution: Direct observation of coherent product vibrations

    Uri Banin;Amir Waldman;Sanford Ruhman

  • Application of chirped ultrashort pulses for generating large-amplitude ground-state vibrational coherence: a computer simulation

    S. Ruhman;R. Kosloff

  • Large amplitude ground state vibrational coherence induced by impulsive absorption in CsI. A computer simulation

    B. Hartke;R. Kosloff;S. Ruhman

  • Following evolution of bacteriorhodopsin in its reactive excited state via stimulated emission pumping.

    Sanford Ruhman;Bixue Hou;Noga Friedman;Michael Ottolenghi

  • Free Carrier Emergence and Onset of Electron–Phonon Coupling in Methylammonium Lead Halide Perovskite Films

    Tufan Ghosh;Sigalit Aharon;Lioz Etgar;Sanford Ruhman

  • Following photoinduced dynamics in bacteriorhodopsin with 7-fs impulsive vibrational spectroscopy.

    Anat Kahan;Omer Nahmias;Noga Friedman;Mordechai Sheves

  • Intermolecular vibrational motion in CS2 liquid at 165 ⩽ T⩾ 300 K observed by femtosecond time-resolved impulsive stimulated scattering

    S. Ruhman;Bern Kohler;Alan G. Joly;Keith A. Nelson

  • Ultrafast photodissociation of I3− in ethanol: A molecular dynamics study

    Ilan Benjamin;Uri Banin;Sanford Ruhman

  • Intramolecular and intermolecular dynamics in molecular liquids through femtosecond time-resolved impulsive stimulated scattering

    S. Ruhman;A.G. Joly;B. Kohler;L.R. Williams

  • Newtonian propagation methods applied to the photodissociation dynamics of I3

    Guy Ashkenazi;Ronnie Kosloff;Sanford Ruhman;Hillel Tal‐Ezer

  • On the Nature of the Primary Light-Induced Events in Bacteriorhodopsin: Ultrafast Spectroscopy of Native and C13=C14 Locked Pigments

    T. Ye;N. Friedman;Y. Gat;G. H. Atkinson

  • Molecular dynamics in liquids from femtosecond time-resolved impulsive stimulated scattering

    S. Ruhman;B. Kohler;A.G. Joly;K.A. Nelson

  • Vibrational relaxation of nascent diiodide ions studied by femtosecond transient resonance impulsive stimulated Raman scattering (TRISRS); experiment and simulation

    Uri Banin;Ronnie Kosloff;Sanford Ruhman

  • Ultrafast vibrational dynamics of nascent diiodide fragments studied by femtosecond transient resonance impulsive stimulated Raman scattering

    Uri Banin;Sanford Ruhman

Frequent Co-Authors

Mordechai Sheves
Mordechai Sheves Weizmann Institute of Science
Uri Banin
Uri Banin Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ronnie Kosloff
Ronnie Kosloff Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Bern Kohler
Bern Kohler The Ohio State University
Efrat Lifshitz
Efrat Lifshitz Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Lioz Etgar
Lioz Etgar Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Michael Ottolenghi
Michael Ottolenghi Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Giulio Cerullo
Giulio Cerullo Polytechnic University of Milan
Mischa Bonn
Mischa Bonn Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research

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