Ariel-university Research and Development Company Ltd.

Ariel Scientific Innovations Ltd.

Artel-university Research and Development Company Ltd.

Edward Bormashenko

Yelena Bormashenko

Alex Schechter

Olga Krichevski

Elyashiv Drori

Gene Vaiman

Tamir Stein

Roman Grynyov

Disclosed are selectively-permeable membranes and components configured for selective permeation of a specified gas, such as oxygen, therethrough, methods for making the same and methods for using the same, for example, to implement fuel cells and electrochemical cells.

Selectively-permeable membrane

Disclosed are methods for making emulsions and emulsions, that in some embodiments can be considered to be Pickering emulsions.

Emulsions and methods of making emulsions

A method of decreasing a water contact angle and/or increasing a surface energy of a liquid is disclosed herein, the method comprising exposing the liquid to a plasma treatment. Further disclosed is a plasma-treated liquid exhibiting a decreased water contact angle and/or increased surface energy, compared to the water contact angle and/or surface energy, respectively, of a non-treated corresponding liquid. Methods for combining a first liquid and a second liquid, or for enhancing an adhesion between a liquid and a surface of another substance, the methods comprising exposing a liquid to plasma treatment, are further disclose herein, as well as a method of predicting an apparent contact angle of a liquid droplet on a surface of a substance.

Plasma treatment of liquid surfaces

A method of manufacturing a multiscale (hierarchical) superhydrophobic surface is provided. The method includes texturing a polymer surface at three size scales, in a fractal-like or pseudo-fractal-like manner, the lowest scale being nanoscale and the highest microscale. The hydrophobic polymer surface may be converted to hydrophobic metal surface by subsequent deposition of a metal layer onto the polymer surface.

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Edward Bormashenko