Publications
2024
Berkovich R, An R, Gnecco E. “Sliding Friction in Liquid Environments at the Nanoscale”. Fundamentals of Friction and Wear on the Nanoscale, 3rd edition, Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 381-402 (2024).
Dašić M, Almog R, Agmon L, Yehezkel S, Halfin T, Jopp J, Ya'akobovitz A, Berkovich R, Stranković I. Role of Trapped Molecules at Sliding Contacts in Lattice-Resolved Friction. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 16, 44249-44260 (2024).
Ben Shlomo D, Almog R, Klausner Z, Fattal E, Berkovich R. "Introducing surface roughness in adhesion for stochastic and Rock'n’Roll models to describe particle resuspension in turbulent flows". Surfaces and Interfaces, 104321, (2024).
2023
Elias-Mordechai M, David N, Oren S, Georgia Pelah M, Jopp J, Fichtman B, Harel A, Berkovich R, Sal-Man N. "A single filament biomechanical study of the enteropathogenic Escherichia coli Type III secretion system reveals a high elastic aspect ratio". Nanoscale, 15, 15027-15037 (2023).
E-Book: Popa I, Berkovich R. "Mechanical Unfolding Response of Proteins". ACS in Focus, American Chemical Society. DOI: 10.1021/acs infocus.7e7015 (2023).
Ramos P, Chetrit E, Yehuda N, Kogan D, Miao Y, Nativ-Roth E, Kushmaro A, Berkovich R, Mahendra S, Gottlieb M. "Physical and Antimicrobial Properties of Chitosan/Silver Nanoparticle Composite Hydrogels: Role of the Crosslinker". ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 11, 1, 133–143 (2023).
Skuratovsky S, Agmon L, Gnecco E, Berkovich R. "Surroundings affect slip length dynamics in nanoscale friction through contact stiffness and damping". Friction 11, 216–227 (2023).
2022
Agmon L, Almog R, Gaspar D, Voscoboynik G, Choudhary M, Jopp J, Klausner Z, Ya'akobovitz A, Berkovich R. "Nanoscale contact mechanics of the interactions at monolayer MoS2 interfaces with Au and Si". Tribol. Int., 174, 107734 (2022).
Gnecco E, Agmon L, Berkovich R. "Friction and chaos: Influence of the damping coefficient on atomic-scale
stick-slip on hexagonal crystal lattices". Phys. Rev. B. 105, 235427 (2022).
Chetrit E, Sharma S, Maayan U, Pelah MG, Klausner Z, Popa I, Berkovich R. "Nonexponential kinetics in captured in sequential unfolding of polyproteins over a range of loads". Curr. Res. Struct. Biol., 4, 106-117 (2022).
2021
Ozer E, Yaniv K, Chetrit E, Boyarski A, Meijler MM, Berkovich R, Kushmaro A, Alfonta L. "An inside look at a biofilm: Pseudomonas aeruginosa flagella biotracking". Sci. Adv., 7, 24, eabg8581 (2021).
2020
Skuratovsky S, Agmon L, Berkovich R. "Comparative Study of Dimensionality and Symmetry Breaking on Nanoscale Friction in the Prandtl–Tomlinson Model with Varying Effective Stiffness". Tribol. Lett. 68:113 (2020).
Ochbaum G, Chetrit E, Berkovich R, Bitton R. "Effect of the C-terminal amino acid of the peptide on the structure and mechanical properties of alginate–peptide hydrogels across length-scales". Soft Matter, 16, 6155-6162 (2020).
Elias-Mordechai M, Chetrit E, Berkovich R. “Interplay between viscoelasticity and force rate affects sequential unfolding in polyproteins pulled at constant velocity”. Macromolecules, 53, 8, 3021-3029 (2020).
Chetrit E, Meroz Y, Klausner Z, Berkovich R. “Correlations within polyprotein forced unfolding dwell-times introduce sequential dependency”. J. Struct. Biol., 210, 107495 (2020).
2019
Agmon L, Shahar I, Birodker B, Skuratovsky S, Jopp J, Berkovich R. “Application of static disorder approach to friction force microscopy of catalyst nanoparticles to estimate corrugation energy amplitudes”. J. Phys. Chem. C, 123, 5, 3032-3038 (2019).
2018
Popa I, Berkovich R. "Mechanobiology: Protein refolding under force". Emerg Top Life Sci., ETLS20180044 (2018).
Schönfelder J, De Sancho D, Berkovich R, Best RB, Muñoz V, Perez-Jimenez R. "Reversible two-state folding of the ultrafast protein gpW under mechanical force". Commun. Chem., 1, 59 (2018).
Berkovich R, Fernandez VI, Stirnemann G, Valle-Orero J, Fernandez JM. "Segmentation and the Entropic Elasticity of Modular Proteins". J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 9, 4707−4713 (2018).
Nadler H, Shaulov L, Blitsman Y, Mordechai M, Jopp J, Sal-Man N, Berkovich R. "Deciphering the Mechanical Properties of Type III Secretion System EspA Protein by Single Molecule Force Spectroscopy". Langmuir, 34 (21), 6261−6270 (2018).
Agmon L, Shahar I, Yosufov D, Pimentel C, Pina CM, Gnecco E, Berkovich R. "Estimation of interaction energy and contact stifness in atomic-scale sliding on a model sodium chloride surface in ethanol". Sci. Rep., 8:4681 (2018).
Nir G, Chetrit E, Vivante A, Garini Y, Berkovich R. "The role of near-wall drag effects in the dynamics of tethered DNA under shear flow". Soft Matter, 14, 2219 - 2226 (2018).
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2017
Srinivasan K, Banerjee S, Parimal S, Sejergaard L, Berkovich R, Barquera B, Garde S, Cramer SM. "Single Molecule Force Spectroscopy and Molecular Dynamics Simulations as a Combined Platform for Probing Protein Face-Specific Binding". Langmuir, 33, 10851−10860, (2017).
Berkovich R, Mondal J, Paster I, Berne BJ. "Simulated Force Quench Dynamics Shows GB1 Protein Is Not a Two State Folder". J. Phys. Chem. B., 121, 5162−5173, (2017).
2015
Valle-Orero J, Eckels EC, Stirnemann G, Popa I, Berkovich R, Fernandez JM. “The elastic free energy of a tandem modular protein under force”. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun., 460:434-438 (2015).
2014
Perez-Jimenez R, Alonso-Caballero R, Berkovich R, Franco D, Chen MW, Richard P, Badilla CL, Fernandez JM. ”Probing the Effect of Force on HIV-1 Receptor CD4”. ACS Nano, 8, 10: 10313–10320 (2014).
2013
Popa I, Berkovich R, Allegre-Cebollada J, Badilla CL, Rivas-Pardo JA, Taniguchi Y, Kawakami M, Fernandez JM. “Nanomechanics of HaloTag Tethers”. J. Am. Chem. Soc.., 135, 34, 12762-12771 (2013).
2012
Berkovich R, Klafter J, Urbakh M. “Reconstruction of Energy Surfaces from Friction Force Microscopy Measurements with the Jarzynski Equality.”Scanning Probe Microscopy in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 3, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg,317-334 (2012).
Berkovich R, Hermans RI, Popa I, Stirnemann G, Garcia-Manyes S, Berne BJ, Fernandez JM. “Rate limit of protein elastic response is tether dependent.”Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 109, 36: 14416–14421 (2012).
2011
Berkovich R, Wolfenson H, Eisenberg S, Erlich M, Weiss M, Henis YI, Klafter J, Urbakh M. “Accurate Quantification of Diffusion and Binding Kinetics of Non-integral Membrane Proteins by FRAP.”Traffic, 12:1648-1657 (2011).
2010
Berkovich R, Garcia-Manyes S, Klafter J, Urbakh M, Fernandez JM. “Hopping around an entropic barrier created by force”, Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun., 403:133-137 (2010).
Berkovich R, Garcia-Manyes S, Klafter J, Urbakh M Fernandez JM. “Collapse dynamics of single proteins extended by force.” Biophys. J., 98: 2692-2701 (2010).
2008
Berkovich R, Klafter J, Urbakh M. “Analyzing friction forces with the Jarzynski equality.”J. Phys.: Condens. Matter.,20:354008 (2008).
2002
Kesselman E, Ramon O, Berkovici R, Paz Y. “ATR-FTIR studies on the effect of strong salting-out salts on the phase separation scenario in aqueous solutions of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide).” Polym. Adv. Technol., 13:982-991 (2002).
2001
Ramon O, Kesselman E, Berkovici R, Cohen Y, Paz Y. “Attenuated total reflectance/Fourier transform infrared studies on the phase-separation process of aqueous solutions of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide).” J. Polym. Sci., Part B: Polym. Phys., 39:1665-1677 (2001).
