Ivan Aprahamian
Professor of Chemistry
The Aprahamian group uses modular and tunable hydrazone-based building blocks in the development of fucntional adaptive materials. To this end we use synthetic, physical organic, and supramolecular chemistry in conjunction with advanced spectroscopic methods.
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Department(s)
Chemistry
Education
- B.Sc. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- M.Sc. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Ph.D. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Selected Publications
B. Balamut, I. Bala, B. P. Benke, J. Jose, M. Mastalerz, I. Aprahamian, C3-Symmetric Photoresponsive Chiral Dopants Based on Tribenzotriquinacene, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2026, 148, 7887–7894
D. Komáromy, A. N. Bismillah, V. A. Puranik, H. Fu, A. S. Y. Wong, I. Aprahamian, Coupling synthetic negative feedback loops, Chem 2026, 12, 102692
B. Balamut, K. Hanke, I. Aprahamian, Azobenzene/Triptycene–Based Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Dopants, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2025, 64, e20563
Highlighted as a Hot Topic by Advanced Optical Materials
D. Sosnin, S. A. A. Abedi, M. Izadyar, Y. Ünal, X. Liu, I. Aprahamian, Hetero-Hydrazone Photoswitches, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2025, 64, e202515136
Highlighted as a HOT paper
H. Wang, I. Bala, R. A. Wiscons, I. Aprahamian, Color Tuning in Ferroelectric Nematic Liquid Crystals using Triptycene/Hydrazone Chiral Photoswitches, Adv. Mater. 2025, e09125
A. Ryabchun, Y. Florida, Q. Li, R. Plamont, N. Katsonis, I. Aprahamian, Photo-Controlled Dynamics of Cholesteric Polymer Coatings via Hydrazone Crosslinking, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2025, e202507358.
Highlighted as a HOT paper
B. Balamut, I. Aprahamian, Molecular Steganography Using Multistate Photoswitchable Hydrazones, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025, 147, 19444–19449.
Q. Qi, Y. Liu, V. Puranik, S. Patra, Z. Svindrych, X. Gong, Z. She, Y. Zhang, I. Aprahamian, Photoswitchable Fluorescent Hydrazone for Super-Resolution Cell Membrane Imaging, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025, 147, 16404–16411.
1) B. Balamut, R. Hughes, I. Aprahamian, Tuning the Properties of Hydrazone/Isosorbide-Based Switchable Chiral Dopants, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 24561–24569
2) Q. Qi, J. T. Plank, A. R. Lippert, I. Aprahamian, A photoswitchable handheld volumetric 3D display, Chem 2024, 10, 1–11
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