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Optical and environmental sensors

We have developed advanced sensors responding to external environmental and light stimuli. Specifically, we demonstrated innovative vapor sensors, towards organophosphates, VOCs, and molecules secreted by bacteria (“bacteria e-nose”). We also introduced innovative capacitive photodetectors based on dielectric – altering carbon dots
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
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Designing innovative ZnPc/N-CQDs hybrid material as efficient photocatalyst for environmental remediation, Bojana R. Vasiljević, Jovana R. Prekodravac, Sofiya Kolusheva, Raz Jelinek, Bernhard Fickl, Jakob Rath, Markus Hofer, Dominik Eder, Bernhard C. Bayer, Dragana Marinković, Ceramics International, 2025, 6, 2400533.
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Unlocking the potential of chlorophyll-based carbon dots towards water-splitting, white-light LED and encryption applications, R. Blessy Pricilla, Ali Can Guler, Pavel Urbanek, Michal Urbanek, Raz Jelinek, Barbora Hanulikova, Ivo Kuritka, Carbon, 2025, 120205.
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Physics and chemistry of nitrogen dioxide (NO 2 ) adsorption on gallium nitride (GaN) surface and its interaction with the yellow-luminescence-associated surface state, Yury Turkulets, Nitzan Shauloff, Or Haim Chaulker, Raz Jelinek, Ilan Shalish, Journal of Colloids and Interface Science, 2025, 678, 789-795.
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Resilient Sustainable Current and Emerging Technologies for Foodborne Pathogen Detection, Debarati Bhowmik, Jonathan James Stanely Rickard, Raz Jelinek, Pola Goldberg Oppenheimer, Sustainable Food Technology, 2025, 3, 10-31.
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Capacitive carbon dot electronic nose for bacterial detection, Vinoth Selvaraj, Nitzan Shauloff, Raz Jelinek, Inventions Disclosure, 2024, 4, 100031.
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Carbon dot / polylactic acid nanofibrous membranes for solar-mediated oil absorption/separation: performance, environmental sustainability, ecotoxicity and reusability, Monica Torsello, Shani Ben-Zichri, Lucia Pesenti, Sisira M. Kunnath, Chiara Samorì, Andrea Pasteris, Greta Bacchelli, Noa Prishkolnik, Uri Ben-Nun, Serena Righi, Maria L. Focarete, Sofiya Kolusheva, Raz Jelinek, Chiara Gualandi, Paola Galletti, Heliyon, 2024, 10, 4, e25417.
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Modulating the Optical Properties of Carbon Dots by Peptide Condensates, Dor Gaash, Simran Dewan, Avigail Baruch Leshem, Raz Jelinek, Ayala Lampel, ChemComm, 2023, 59, 12298-12301.
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Carbon dot / thermo-responsive polymer capacitive wavelength-specific photodetector, Nitzan Shauloff, Noa Prishkolnik, Seema Singh, Rajendran Manikandan, Uri Ben Nun, Raz Jelinek, Carbon, 2023, 213, 118211.
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Carbon nanomaterials in microbial sensing and bactericidal applications, Kumar Sagal Jaiswal, Nila Nandha Kadamannil, Raz Jelinek, Current Opinion in Colloid and Interface Science, 2023, 66, 101719.
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The GaN(0001) yellow-luminescence-related surface state and its interaction with air, Yury Turkulets, Nitzan Shauloff, Or Chaulker, Yoram Shapira, Raz Jelinek, Ilan Shalish, Surfaces and Interfaces, 2023, 38, 102834.
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Multispectral and circular polarization-sensitive carbon dot polydiacetylene capacitive photodetector, Nitzan Shauloff, Rajesh Bisht, Yury Turkulets, Rajendran Manikandan, Ahiud Morag, Avi Lehrer, Joshua H. Baraban, Ilan Shalish, Raz Jelinek, Small, 2023, 19 (31), 2206519.
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Size-selective detection of nanoparticles in solution and air by imprinting, Linoy Dery, Nitzan Shauloff, Yury Turkulets, Ilan Shalish, Raz Jelinek, ACS Sensors, 2022, 7, 296-303.
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Visual organophosphate vapor sensing by dibenzylidine derivatives exhibiting intramolecular charge transfer and aggregation induced emission, Rajendran Manikandan, Nitzan Shauloff, Ashim Nandi, Alexander Pevzner, Sharon Marx and Raz Jelinek, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2022, 10, 5458-5465.
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Sniffing Bacteria with a Carbon-Dot Artificial Nose, Nitzan Shaulof, Ahiud Morag, Karin Yaniv, Seema Singh, Ravit Malishev, Ofra Paz-Tal, Lior Rokach, Raz Jelinek, Nano-Micro Letters, 2021, 13 (1), 1-15.
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Aggregation-dependent chromism and photopolymerization of aminoanthraquinone-substituted diacetylenes, Rajesh Bisht, Vartika Dhyani, Raz Jelinek, Advanced Optical Materials, 2021, 9, 2001497.
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Porous graphene oxide-metal ion composite for selective sensing of organophosphate gases, Nitzan Shauloff, Nagappa Teradal, Raz Jelinek, ACS Sensors, 2020, 5, 1573-1581.
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Polydiacetylene capacitive artificial nose, V. Kesava Rao, Nagappa L. Teradal, Raz Jelinek, ACS Advanced Material and Interfaces, 2019, 11, 4470-4479.
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“On/off/on” hydrogen-peroxide sensor with hemoglobin-functionalized carbon dots, Susanta Kumar Bhunia, Susmita Dolai, Hongchen Sun, Raz Jelinek, Sensors & Actuators: B. Chemical, 2018, 270, 223-230.
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Porous graphene oxide chemi-capacitor vapor sensor array, Nagappa Teradal, Ahiud Morag, Sharon Marx, Raz Jelinek, Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2017, 5, 1128-1135.
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Colorimetric Polydiacetylene-Aerogel Detector for Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), Susmita Dolai, Susanta Kumar Bhunia, Stella Beglaryan, Sofiya Kolusheva, Leila Zeiri, Raz Jelinek, ACS Advanced Materials and Interfaces, 2017, 9, 2891-2898.
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Carbon-dot-aerogel sensor for aromatic volatile organic compounds, Susmita Dolai, Susanta Bhunia, Raz Jelinek, Sensors and Actuators B. Chemical, 2017, 241, 607-613.
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In vitro reactive oxygen species (ROS) sensing by a carbon-dot-ascorbic acid hydrogel, Sagarika Bhattacharya, Rhitajit Sarkar, Sukhendu Nandi, Angel Porgador, Raz Jelinek, Analytical Chemistry, 2017, 89, 830-836.