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Dr. Zohar Arnon is a researcher in the fields of bioinspired materials engineering and nanotechnology, joining our department following his postdoctoral training in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Columbia University under the supervision of Prof. Oleg Gang. His research focuses on the design and fabrication of programmable materials using DNA, peptides, and nanoparticles, with an emphasis on creating hierarchical organization from the nanoscale to macroscopic structures with unique mechanical, optical, and biological properties.

Dr. Arnon completed his Ph.D. through the fast-track doctoral program at Tel Aviv University under the supervision of Prof. Ehud Gazit. He is the recipient of several international fellowships and awards, including the Clore Scholars Program, Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) Fellowship and an EMBO Fellowship. His work has been published in leading journals, including Nature, Nature Communications, ACS Nano, and Angewandte Chemie.

 

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  • Effect of solvent-induced packing transitions on N-capped diphenylalanine peptide crystal growth

    Dan, Y., Arnon, Z. A., Tang, Y., Kravikass, M., Zhou, Y., Misra, R., Tiwari, O. S., Shimon, L. J. W., Beck, R., Gazit, E., Wei, G. & Adler-Abramovich, L., 1 Dec 2025, In: Nature Communications. 16, 1, 6106.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

    Open Access
    6 Scopus citations
  • Volumetric Shaping of Nanoparticle-DNA Crystals by Light-Induced Milling

    Chmielewska, J. M., Redeker, D. C., Szustakiewicz, P., Arnon, Z., Powala, F., Paterczyk, B., Michelson, A., Gang, O. & Majewski, P. W., 27 Aug 2025, In: Nano Letters. 25, 34, p. 12884-12891 8 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

    Open Access
    1 Scopus citations
  • Acoustically shaped DNA-programmable materials

    Arnon, Z. A., Piperno, S., Redeker, D. C., Randall, E., Tkachenko, A. V., Shpaisman, H. & Gang, O., 1 Dec 2024, In: Nature Communications. 15, 1, 6875.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

    Open Access
    21 Scopus citations
  • A self-healing multispectral transparent adhesive peptide glass

    Finkelstein-Zuta, G., Arnon, Z. A., Vijayakanth, T., Messer, O., Lusky, O. S., Wagner, A., Zilberman, G., Aizen, R., Michaeli, L., Rencus-Lazar, S., Gilead, S., Shankar, S., Pavan, M. J., Goldstein, D. A., Kutchinsky, S., Ellenbogen, T., Palmer, B. A., Goldbourt, A., Sokol, M. & Gazit, E., 13 Jun 2024, In: Nature. 630, 8016, p. 368-374 7 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

    80 Scopus citations
  • Inhibitor-Mediated Structural Transition in a Minimal Amyloid Model

    Chakraborty, P., Bera, S., Mickel, P., Paul, A., Shimon, L. J. W., Arnon, Z. A., Segal, D., Král, P. & Gazit, E., 17 Jan 2022, In: Angewandte Chemie - International Edition. 61, 3, e202113845.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

    9 Scopus citations
  • Intrinsic fluorescence of nucleobase crystals

    Aizen, R., Arnon, Z. A., Berger, O., Ruggiero, A., Zaguri, D., Brown, N., Shirshin, E., Slutsky, I. & Gazit, E., 29 Nov 2022, In: Nanoscale Advances. 5, 2, p. 344-348 5 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

    Open Access
    1 Scopus citations
  • Tunable Self-Assembled Peptide Hydrogel Sensor for Pharma Cold Supply Chain

    Tikhonova, T. N., Cohen-Gerassi, D., Arnon, Z. A., Efremov, Y., Timashev, P., Adler-Abramovich, L. & Shirshin, E. A., 21 Dec 2022, In: ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces. 14, 50, p. 55392-55401 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

    Open Access
    15 Scopus citations
  • Mechanical Enhancement and Kinetics Regulation of Fmoc-Diphenylalanine Hydrogels by Thioflavin T

    Tikhonova, T. N., Rovnyagina, N. N., Arnon, Z. A., Yakimov, B. P., Efremov, Y. M., Cohen-Gerassi, D., Halperin-Sternfeld, M., Kosheleva, N. V., Drachev, V. P., Svistunov, A. A., Timashev, P. S., Adler-Abramovich, L. & Shirshin, E. A., 22 Nov 2021, In: Angewandte Chemie - International Edition. 60, 48, p. 25339-25345 7 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

    35 Scopus citations
  • Modification of a single atom affects the physical properties of double fluorinated fmoc-phe derivatives

    Aviv, M., Cohen-Gerassi, D., Orr, A. A., Misra, R., Arnon, Z. A., Shimon, L. J. W., Shacham-Diamand, Y., Tamamis, P. & Adler-Abramovich, L., 1 Sep 2021, In: International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 22, 17, 9634.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

    Open Access
    17 Scopus citations
  • On-off transition and ultrafast decay of amino acid luminescence driven by modulation of supramolecular packing

    Arnon, Z. A., Kreiser, T., Yakimov, B., Brown, N., Aizen, R., Shaham-Niv, S., Makam, P., Qaisrani, M. N., Poli, E., Ruggiero, A., Slutsky, I., Hassanali, A., Shirshin, E., Levy, D. & Gazit, E., 23 Jul 2021, In: iScience. 24, 7, 102695.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

    Open Access
    37 Scopus citations