Journal of Nanoscience and Nanomaterials

Prof. Aharon Gedanken is an Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at Bar-Ilan University, Israel, and an internationally recognized scientist in the fields of physical chemistry, materials science, nanotechnology, polymers, surface chemistry, and energy-related materials. With a distinguished academic and research career spanning more than five decades, he has made significant contributions to sonochemistry, nanomaterials synthesis, advanced functional materials, and chemical technologies. Prof. Gedanken earned his B.Sc. (Magna Cum Laude) and M.Sc. degrees from Bar-Ilan University before completing his Ph.D. in Chemistry at Tel Aviv University in 1972 under the supervision of Prof. Joshua Jortner. His doctoral research on the electronic excitation of impurity states in solid rare gases received the prestigious Landau Prize for Scientific Research. Following his Ph.D., he conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Southern California and subsequently held research appointments at renowned institutions, including Bell Laboratories (USA), Drexel University, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), DESY (Germany), BESSY (Germany), and City University of Hong Kong.

• Surface chemistry
• Material science & Nano-technology
• Physical chemistry