Publications

Project publications

Polishchuk I, Prudnikov E, Abu Hamad H, Ben-Arie N, Sklar J, Kellermeier M, Schneider C, Rueckel M, Tauber F, Ibanez Revert M, Brannetti A, Filippetti I, Fermani S, Chantelot E, Dreze V, Segal E, Baraldi E, Falini G, Ratti C and Pokroy B. SafeWax: A Bio-Inspired Multifunctional Coating for Sustainable Crop Protection. Small 2025; e05360.
Ibanez M, Filippetti I, Ratti C, Brannetti A. SafeWax e la superidrofobicità, un fenomeno naturale al servizio della protezione della vite. Agronotizie 23 December 2024.

Prudnikov E, Abu Hamad H, Polishchuk I, Kastman A, Segal E* and Pokroy B*. Superhydrophobic Fatty Acid-Based Spray Coatings with Dual-Mode Antifungal Activity. ACS Applied Bio Materials, 2025; 8, 7, 5970–5983.
Prudnikov E, Polishchuk I, Sand A, Abu Hamad H, Massad-Ivanir N, Segal E* and Pokroy B*. Self-assembled fatty acid crystalline coatings display superhydrophobic antimicrobial properties. Mater Today Bio, 2023; 18:100516.

Ostrov I, Polishchuk I, Shemesh M and Pokroy B*. Superhydrophobic wax coatings to improve dairy food quality. Appl Bio Mater 2019; 11:4932.

Gorb E, Böhm S, Jacky N, Maier L P, Dening K, Pechook S, Pokroy B and Gorb S. Insect attachment on bioinspired wax crystalline surfaces formed by alkanes of varying chain lengths. Beilstein J Nanotech 2014; 15:1031.

Pechook S, Kornblum N, Pokroy B*. Bio-Inspired Superoleophobic Fluorinated Wax Crystalline Surfaces.  Adv Funct Mater 2013; 36:4572.