Dr. Ran Drori Finds a New Supramolecular Inhibitor
Sep 20, 2021 By: yunews
Dr. Ran Drori
Dr. Ran Drori, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, collaborated with Tamar Nicole Soussana 鈥21S (who is currently working in the lab of Dr. Josefa Steinhauer) and Dr. Haim Weissman and Dr. Boris Rybtchinski of the Department of Organic Chemistry at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel to publish 鈥溾 in ChemPhysChem (2021, 22, 1 鈥9).
The researchers found a new supramolecular inhibitor of clathrate hydrate crystals named safranine O (SFO). This inhibitor forms nano sheets that bind to the surface of the crystal and inhibit its growth. Dr. Drori noted that their findings 鈥渟uggest that SFO assembles in solution, binds to and inhibits further growth of THF hydrates as well as ice...Future experiments and simulations will clarify the structures of the surface bound SFO assemblies and the role of clathrate waters in ice/hydrates binding.鈥
Dr. Ran Drori
