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Yael Kapon

Yael Kapon

Incoming Postdoc (2026 - )

Yael is an expert on chiral-induced spin selectivity and she will be working on heterogenous systems, exploring their physical and chemical properties in relation to origins of life.

Publications

  1. Fransson, J., Kapon, Y., Brann, L., Yochelis, S., Sasselov, D. D., Paltiel, Y., & Ozturk, S. F. (2025). Chiral Phonons Enhance Ferromagnetism. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 16(8), 2001-2007.
  2. Kapon, Y., Brann, L., Yochelis, S., Fransson, J., Sasselov, D. D., Paltiel, Y., & Ozturk, S. F. (2024). Non-classical Temperature Dependence of Chirality-Induced Magnetization and Its Implications for RNA's Homochirality. arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.05720.