Professor Nadav Amdursky

School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences

Professor of Biophysical Chemistry

n.amdursky@sheffield.ac.uk
Dainton Building

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Professor Nadav Amdursky
School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Dainton Building
13 Brook Hill
Sheffield
S3 7HF
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Hello, my name is Nadav Amdursky.

My academic journey started at Tel Aviv University, where I completed my B.Sc in Biotechnology in 2006. I continued in Tel Aviv for my PhD studies in an intriguing collaboration between Biology and Electrical Engineering, working on the optoelectronic properties of peptide structures. After graduating in 2011, I joined the Weizmann Institute for my first post-doc, Dept. of Materials & Interfaces, working on electron transport across proteins. For my second post-doc, I joined Imperial College London, Dept. of Materials & Bioengineering, to work on charge conduction across biological scaffolds. Even though my education was in Biology, I started my independent academic career as a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Chemistry in the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in 2016.

In 2024, I decided to embark on a new adventure and joined the warm family of Chemistry within the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at Sheffield as a Prof. of Biophysical Chemistry. I have to thank my colleagues for tolerating my slight ignorance of organic chemistry, but at the same time, I believe that I was able to insert new and exciting multidisciplinary research into the School.

Research interests

Welcome to the research group of Nadav Amdursky for the study of charge transport across bioderived materials.

Biological charge transfer processes, such as the ones in the respiratory system, are the basis for our life, whereas proteins are Natures main choice for the translocation of charges. As such, we, as scientists, have the obligation to understand the fundamentals of natural charge transport. Understanding these processes also allows designing innovative protein-based conductive bioinspired materials based on natural concepts. In our research group, we explore various types of charge transfer properties across either natural protein systems or artificial ones, from the nm-scale all the way to macroscopic biopolymers, while distinguishing between electron and proton transfer.

Our approach to making novel conductive biopolymers is based on a sustainable nature of using natural byproducts for the formation of the biopolymer while adopting green chemistry principles.

Our group is equipped with two main experimental systems to study the charge transfer properties. The first is an environmental electrical system, where we can measure charge transfer upon applying bias in various configurations, from molecular junctions to macroscopic biopolymers and from electrical impedance measurements to field-effect transistors. The second system is a state-of-the-art ultrafast laser system that is used to follow light-induced charge transfer involving biological materials, and we are capable of observing individual charge transfer steps in the fs-ns time scales.

Our group is highly multidisciplinary, combining chemistry with materials, physics, biology, and electrical engineering. Our main two avenues involve fundamental basic research and application-oriented research. In our basic exploration, we target understanding how charges travel across various biological circuits and how we can influence dynamic processes with light-induced charge transfer. While we explore energy transfer, electron transfer, and proton transfer, our main speciality is the latter, where we introduced novel methodologies to follow proton transfer in bioinspired systems. For the applicative type of research, we target the development of innovative biopolymers while focusing both on the polymerization process itself for making new biodegradable bioplastics and also for making conductive biopolymers for several application routes, from sustainable energy and organic electronics to biomedical applications.

Publications

Journal articles

  • Kuila A, Dassouki K, Cabanes VD, Grinberg D, Fr矇gnaux M, Dumas E, Menguy N, Variyam AR, Shere I, Amdursky N , Steunou N et al (2026) . Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry, 472, 116738-116738.
  • Basu S & Amdursky N (2025) . ACS Nano, 19(38), 33717-33733.
  • Nassar M, Bogomolov K, Grishina E, Ein-Eli Y & Amdursky N (2025) . Journal of Solid State Electrochemistry.
  • Ramanthrikkovil Variyam A, Menc穩a M & Amdursky N (2025) . Biophysical Journal, 124(16), 2677-2685.
  • Ramanthrikkovil Variyam A, Rzycki M, Nandi R, Stuchebrukhov AA, Drabik D & Amdursky N (2025) . Chemical Science, 16(12), 5194-5204.
  • Yucknovsky A & Amdursky N (2025) . Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 64(9).
  • Yucknovsky A & Amdursky N (2025) . Angewandte Chemie, 137(9).
  • Sarkar AK, Yang Z, Astruc T & Amdursky N (2025) . ChemSusChem, 18(5).
  • Yer H, Pasaogullari U, Amdursky N & Bliznakov S (2024) . ECS Meeting Abstracts, MA2024-02(43), 2871-2871.
  • Amdursky N (2024) . Current Opinion in Electrochemistry, 47, 101551-101551.
  • Ramanthrikkovil Variyam A, Rzycki M, Yucknovsky A, Stuchebrukhov AA, Drabik D & Amdursky N (2024) . Biophysical Journal, 123(24), 4200-4210.
  • Ramanthrikkovil Variyam A, Stolov M, Feng J & Amdursky N (2024) . ACS Nano, 18(6), 5101-5112.
  • Gilad Barzilay Y, Yucknovsky A & Amdursky N (2024) . Nano Letters, 24(6), 1936-1943.
  • Yang Z, Nandi R, Orieshyna A, Gershoni-Poranne R, Zhang S & Amdursky N (2024) . The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 15(1), 136-141.
  • Yucknovsky A & Amdursky N (2024) . Chemistry A European Journal, 30(9).
  • Orieshyna A, Puetzer JL & Amdursky N (2023) . Biomacromolecules, 24(11), 4653-4662.
  • Paradisi A, Berto M, Di Giosia M, Mazzali S, Borsari M, Marforio TD, Zerbetto F, Calvaresi M, Orieshyna A, Amdursky N , Bortolotti CA et al (2023) . Chemistry A European Journal, 29(55).
  • Agam Y & Amdursky N (2023) . The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 127(36), 17939-17947.
  • Basu S, Peri Bakuli M, Sanader Mar禳i 鬚, Bonai-Kouteck羸 V & Amdursky N (2023) . ACS Nano, 17(17), 16644-16655.
  • Nandi R, Orieshyna A & Amdursky N (2023) . ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 15(30), 36771-36780.
  • Yucknovsky A, Shlosberg Y, Adir N & Amdursky N (2023) . Angewandte Chemie, 135(28).
  • Yucknovsky A, Shlosberg Y, Adir N & Amdursky N (2023) . Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 62(28).
  • Toren Y, Vilan A & Amdursky N (2023) . Small, 19(26).
  • Yang Z, Sarkar AK & Amdursky N (2023) . Biomacromolecules, 24(3), 1111-1120.
  • Basu S & Amdursky N (2023) . Small, 19(8).
  • Nandi R & Amdursky N (2022) . Accounts of Chemical Research, 55(18), 2728-2739.
  • Yucknovsky A, Rich BB, Gutkin S, Ramanthrikkovil Variyam A, Shabat D, Pokroy B & Amdursky N (2022) . The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 126(33), 6331-6337.
  • Stuchebrukhov AA, Variyam AR & Amdursky N (2022) . The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 126(32), 6026-6038.
  • Meirovich MM, Bachar O, Nandi R, Amdursky N & Yehezkeli O (2021) . ChemSusChem, 14(24), 5338-5338.
  • Meirovich MM, Bachar O, Nandi R, Amdursky N & Yehezkeli O (2021) . ChemSusChem, 14(24), 5410-5416.
  • Yucknovsky A, Rich BB, Westfried A, Pokroy B & Amdursky N (2021) . Advanced Materials Interfaces, 8(22).
  • BurnstineTownley A, Mondal S, Agam Y, Nandi R & Amdursky N (2021) . Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 60(46), 24676-24685.
  • BurnstineTownley A, Mondal S, Agam Y, Nandi R & Amdursky N (2021) . Angewandte Chemie, 133(46), 24881-24890.
  • Nandi R, Agam Y & Amdursky N (2021) . Advanced Materials, 33(32).
  • Mondal S, Agam Y & Amdursky N (2020) . Small, 16(50).
  • Das S, Martin P, Vasilyev G, Nandi R, Amdursky N & Zussman E (2020) . Macromolecules, 53(24), 11130-11141.
  • Agam Y, Nandi R, Kaushansky A, Peskin U & Amdursky N (2020) . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(51), 32260-32266.
  • Benisti I, Nandi R, Amdursky N & Paz Y (2020) . Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 278, 119351-119351.
  • Mondal S, Agam Y & Amdursky N (2020) . Small, 16(50).
  • Amdursky N & Lin Y (2020) . ChemPhotoChem, 4(8), 536-536.
  • Eshel Y, Peskin U & Amdursky N (2020) . Nanotechnology, 31(31), 314002-314002.
  • Amdursky N & Lin Y (2020) . ChemPhotoChem, 4(8), 592-600.
  • BurnstineTownley A, Eshel Y & Amdursky N (2020) . Advanced Functional Materials, 30(18).
  • Mondal S, Yucknovsky A, Akulov K, Ghorai N, Schwartz T, Ghosh HN & Amdursky N (2019) . Journal of the American Chemical Society, 141(38), 15413-15422.
  • Yucknovsky A, Mondal S, Burnstine-Townley A, Foqara M & Amdursky N (2019) . Nano Letters, 19(6), 3804-3810.
  • Amdursky N, Lin Y, Aho N & Groenhof G (2019) . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(7), 2443-2451.
  • Lapshina N, Shishkin II, Nandi R, Noskov RE, Barhom H, Joseph S, Apter B, Ellenbogen T, Natan A, Ginzburg P , Amdursky N et al (2019) . Advanced Optical Materials, 7(5).
  • Amdursky N, Gowacki ED & Meredith P (2019) . Advanced Materials, 31(3).
  • Hsu C-C, Serio A, Amdursky N, Besnard C & Stevens MM (2018) . ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 10(6), 5305-5317.
  • Wang S-T, Lin Y, Spencer RK, Thomas MR, Nguyen AI, Amdursky N, Pashuck ET, Skaalure SC, Song CY, Parmar PA , Morgan RM et al (2017) . ACS Nano, 11(9), 8579-8589.
  • Amdursky N, Wang X, Meredith P, Riley DJ, Payne DJ, Bradley DDC & Stevens MM (2017) . Advanced Materials, 29(27).
  • Wang S-T, Lin Y, Hsu C-C, Amdursky N, Spicer CD & Stevens MM (2017) . Talanta, 173, 44-50.
  • Wang S-T, Lin Y, Todorova N, Xu Y, Mazo M, Rana S, Leonardo V, Amdursky N, Spicer CD, Alexander BD , Edwards AA et al (2017) . Chemistry of Materials, 29(4), 1550-1560.
  • Lin Y, Pashuck ET, Thomas MR, Amdursky N, Wang S, Chow LW & Stevens MM (2017) . Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 56(9), 2361-2365.
  • Lin Y, Pashuck ET, Thomas MR, Amdursky N, Wang S, Chow LW & Stevens MM (2017) . Angewandte Chemie, 129(9), 2401-2405.
  • Amdursky N, Wang X, Meredith P, Bradley DDC & Stevens MM (2016) . Advanced Materials, 28(14), 2692-2698.
  • Amdursky N, Kundu PK, Ahrens J, Huppert D & Klajn R (2016) . ChemPlusChem, 81(1), 44-48.
  • Santos L, Fuhrmann G, Juenet M, Amdursky N, Horejs C, Campagnolo P & Stevens MM (2015) . Advanced Healthcare Materials, 4(14), 2056-2063.
  • Amdursky N & Stevens MM (2015) . ChemPhysChem, 16(13), 2768-2774.
  • Amdursky N (2015) . ChemInform, 46(34).
  • Amdursky N (2015) . ChemPlusChem, 80(7), 1075-1095.
  • Amdursky N, Sepunaru L, Raichlin S, Pecht I, Sheves M & Cahen D (2015) . Advanced Science, 2(4).
  • Semin S, van Etteger A, Cattaneo L, Amdursky N, Kulyuk L, Lavrov S, Sigov A, Mishina E, Rosenman G & Rasing T (2015) . Small, 11(9-10), 1156-1160.
  • Amdursky N, Simkovitch R & Huppert D (2014) . The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 118(48), 13859-13869.
  • Amdursky N, Marchak D, Sepunaru L, Pecht I, Sheves M & Cahen D (2014) . Advanced Materials, 26(42), 7142-7161.
  • Amdursky N, Ferber D, Bortolotti CA, Dolgikh DA, Chertkova RV, Pecht I, Sheves M & Cahen D (2014) . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(15), 5556-5561.
  • Amdursky N, Shalev G, Handelman A, Litsyn S, Natan A, Roizin Y, Rosenwaks Y, Szwarcman D & Rosenman G (2013) . APL Materials, 1(6).
  • Amdursky N, Ferber D, Pecht I, Sheves M & Cahen D (2013) . Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 15(40), 17142-17142.
  • Amdursky N (2013) . Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 15(32), 13479-13479.
  • Presiado I, Shomer S, Erez Y, Gepshtein R, Amdursky N & Huppert D (2013) . Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry, 258, 30-40.
  • Amdursky N, Pecht I, Sheves M & Cahen D (2013) . Journal of the American Chemical Society, 135(16), 6300-6306.
  • Amdursky N, Pecht I, Sheves M & Cahen D (2013) . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 110(2), 507-512.
  • Erez Y, Amdursky N, Gepshtein R & Huppert D (2012) . The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 116(49), 12056-12064.
  • Li W, Sepunaru L, Amdursky N, Cohen SR, Pecht I, Sheves M & Cahen D (2012) . ACS Nano, 6(12), 10816-10824.
  • Amdursky N & Huppert D (2012) . The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 116(45), 13389-13395.
  • Amdursky N, Pecht I, Sheves M & Cahen D (2012) . Journal of the American Chemical Society, 134(44), 18221-18224.
  • Amdursky N, Erez Y & Huppert D (2012) . Accounts of Chemical Research, 45(9), 1548-1557.
  • Kudryavtsev AV, Shvyrkov KV, Mishina ED, Sigov AS, Handelman A, Amdursky N & Rosenman G (2012) . Physics of the Solid State, 54(6), 1263-1268.
  • Handelman A, Beker P, Amdursky N & Rosenman G (2012) . Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 14(18), 6391-6391.
  • Amdursky N, Handelman A & Rosenman G (2012) . Applied Physics Letters, 100(10).
  • Amdursky N, Gazit E & Rosenman G (2012) . Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 419(2), 232-237.
  • Erez Y, Liu Y-H, Amdursky N & Huppert D (2011) . The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 115(30), 8479-8487.
  • Hutter T, Amdursky N, Gepshtein R, Elliott SR & Huppert D (2011) . Langmuir, 27(12), 7587-7594.
  • Amdursky N, Gepshtein R, Erez Y, Koifman N & Huppert D (2011) . The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 115(24), 6481-6487.
  • Amdursky N, Beker P, Koren I, Bank-Srour B, Mishina E, Semin S, Rasing T, Rosenberg Y, Barkay Z, Gazit E & Rosenman G (2011) . Biomacromolecules, 12(4), 1349-1354.
  • Amdursky N, Gepshtein R, Erez Y & Huppert D (2011) . The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 115(12), 2540-2548.
  • Amdursky N, Molotskii M, Gazit E & Rosenman G (2010) . Journal of the American Chemical Society, 132(44), 15632-15636.
  • Amdursky N, Beker P, Schklovsky J, Gazit E & Rosenman G (2010) . Ferroelectrics, 399(1), 107-117.
  • Amdursky N, Gazit E & Rosenman G (2010) . Advanced Materials, 22(21), 2311-2315.
  • Shklovsky J, Beker P, Amdursky N, Gazit E & Rosenman G (2010) . Materials Science and Engineering: B, 169(1-3), 62-66.
  • Torchinsky I, Amdursky N, Inberg A & Rosenman G (2010) . Applied Physics Letters, 96(9).
  • Kholkin A, Amdursky N, Bdikin I, Gazit E & Rosenman G (2010) . ACS Nano, 4(2), 610-614.
  • Amdursky N, Orbach R, Gazit E & Huppert D (2009) . The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 113(45), 19500-19505.
  • Amdursky N, Molotskii M, Aronov D, Adler-Abramovich L, Gazit E & Rosenman G (2009) . Nano Letters, 9(9), 3111-3115.
  • Amdursky N, Molotskii M, Gazit E & Rosenman G (2009) . Applied Physics Letters, 94(26).
  • Gepshtein R, Huppert D, Lubitz I, Amdursky N & Kotlyar AB (2008) . The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 112(32), 12249-12258.
  • Foqara M, Nandi R & Amdursky N () . Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 10(27), 14529-14539.
  • Ramanthrikkovil Variyam A, Agam Y, Paradisi A, Bortolotti CA & Amdursky N () . Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 10(34), 12444-12450.
  • Mondal S, Ghorai N, Bhunia S, Ghosh HN & Amdursky N () . Chemical Science, 12(25), 8731-8739.
  • Agam Y, Nandi R, Bulava T & Amdursky N () . Materials Advances, 2(5), 1739-1746.
  • Mondal S, Agam Y, Nandi R & Amdursky N () . Chemical Science, 11(23), 6097-6097.
  • Mondal S, Agam Y, Nandi R & Amdursky N () . Chemical Science, 11(13), 3547-3556.
  • Nandi R, Yucknovsky A, Mazo MM & Amdursky N () . Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 8(31), 6964-6974.
  • Amdursky N, Mazo MM, Thomas MR, Humphrey EJ, Puetzer JL, St-Pierre J-P, Skaalure SC, Richardson RM, Terracciano CM & Stevens MM () . Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 6(35), 5604-5612.
  • Amdursky N, Rashid MH, Stevens MM & Yarovsky I () . Scientific Reports, 7(1).
  • Simkovitch R, Akulov K, Erez Y, Amdursky N, Gepshtein R, Schwartz T & Huppert D () . Methods and Applications in Fluorescence, 3(3), 034005-034005.
  • Amdursky N () . Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 17(47), 32023-32032.
  • Ma癟on ALB, Page SJ, Chung JJ, Amdursky N, Stevens MM, Weaver JVM, Hanna JV & Jones JR () . Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 17(43), 29124-29133.
  • Bram Y, Frydman-Marom A, Yanai I, Gilead S, Shaltiel-Karyo R, Amdursky N & Gazit E () . Scientific Reports, 4(1).

Book chapters

  • Rosenman G & Amdursky N (2012) (pp. 207-236). Wiley

Conference proceedings

  • Amdursky N (2021) . Organic and Hybrid Sensors and Bioelectronics XIV (pp 9-9), 1 August 2021 - 5 August 2021.
  • Humphrey EJ, Mazo MM, Amdursky N, Peters NS, Stevens MM & Terracciano CM (2017) . Circulation Research, Vol. 121(suppl_1)
  • Humphrey EJ, Mazo MM, Amdursky N, Peters NS, Stevens MM & Terracciano CM (2016) Serum albumin hydrogels prevent de-differentiation of neonatal cardiomyocytes. CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH, Vol. 111 (pp S80-S81)
  • Handelman A, Beker P, Mishina E, Semin S, Amdursky N & Rosenman G (2012) . Ferroelectrics, Vol. 430(1) (pp 84-91)
  • Handelman A, Mishina E, Kudriavstev A, Amdursky N & Rosenman G (2012) . Integrated Ferroelectrics, Vol. 134(1) (pp 48-49)
  • Amdursky N, Koren I, Gazit E & Rosenman G (2011) . Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Vol. 11(10) (pp 9282-9286)
  • Beker P, Koren I, Amdursky N, Gazit E & Rosenman G (2010) . Journal of Materials Science, Vol. 45(23) (pp 6374-6378)

Other

  • Amdursky N, Beker P & Rosenman G (2013) , 1-37.

Preprints

  • Nandi R, Vamisetti G, Sardar S, Florio D, Pieko T, Glaser F, DAndrea C, Cerullo G, Camargo F & Amdursky N (2025) , American Chemical Society (ACS).
  • Variyam AR, Rzycki M, Nandi R, Stuchebrukhov AA, Drabik D & Amdursky N (2024) , Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
  • Agam Y, Ramanthrikkovil Variyam A & Amdursky N (2024) , American Chemical Society (ACS).
  • Variyam AR, Rzycki M, Yucknovsky A, Stuchebrukhov AA, Drabik D & Amdursky N (2024) , Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
  • Ramanthrikkovil Variyam A, Stolov M, Feng J & Amdursky N (2023) , American Chemical Society (ACS).
  • Gilad Barzilay Y, Yucknovsky A & Amdursky N (2023) , American Chemical Society (ACS).
  • Yucknovsky A & Amdursky N (2023) , American Chemical Society (ACS).
  • Yuchnovsky A, Shlosberg Y, Adir N & Amdursky N (2023) , American Chemical Society (ACS).
  • Agam Y & Amdursky N (2022) , American Chemical Society (ACS).
  • Yuchnovsky A, Shlosberg Y, Adir N & Amdursky N (2022) , American Chemical Society (ACS).
  • Yucknovsky A, Rich BB, Westfried A, Pokroy B & Amdursky N (2021) , American Chemical Society (ACS).
  • Burnstine-Townley A, Mondal S, Agam Y, Nandi R & Amdursky N (2021) , American Chemical Society (ACS).
  • Yucknovsky A, Rich BB, Westfried A, Pokroy B & Amdursky N (2021) , American Chemical Society (ACS).
  • Burnstine-Townley A, Mondal S, Agam Y, Nandi R & Amdursky N (2021) , American Chemical Society (ACS).
  • Li W, Sepunaru L, Amdursky N, Cohen SR, Pecht I, Sheves M & Cahen D (2012) , arXiv.
  • Amdursky N, Pecht I, Sheves M & Cahen D (2012) , arXiv.
  • Amdursky N, Pecht I, Sheves M & Cahen D (2012) , arXiv.
Teaching interests

Physical chemistry, electrochemistry, biophysics.

Teaching activities

Support Teaching:

  • Tutorials: Level 2 Physical Chemistry