117 Abstract The current research focuses on the investigation of the chemical synthesis of materials to promote renewable and green energies. We have a high expertise in the wet synthesis of Nano-scale materials with the accent on the transition metals, their complexes, organometallic, metallic, and metal-oxide compounds. We developed new chemical routes using soluble organometallic or metal-organic precursors as an alternative to conventional colloidal chemistry and gas phase thin film deposition. These nanoparticles and their assemblies display high activity as catalysts for fuel cells, electrolyzers and redox flow batteries. We were the first to introduce the use of electron magnetic measurements in post-mortem analyses of Li-ion batteries and the first group to publish the operando electron magnetic measurements. The encapsulation of platinum (blue) in carbon nanotubes protects it from corrosion in redox-flow batteries. Publications 2020 and 2021 • Kobby Saadi, Michael Kuettinger, Peter Fischer*, David Zitoun*. “HydrogenBromine Redox- Flow Battery Cycling with Bromine Complexing Agent: the Membrane Challenge”. Energy Technology. 2021. • Maria Alesker, Istvan Bakos, Veronica Davies, Qingying Jia, Luba Burlaka, Valeria Yarmiayev, Anya Muzikansky, Anna Kitayev, Miles Page, Sanjeev Mukerjee, David Zitoun. “Operando X-ray absorption spectroscopy of a Pd/γ-NiOOH 2 nm cubes hydrogen oxidation catalyst in an alkaline membrane fuel cell”. Catalysis Science & Technology, 2021. • Brenda Berenice Martinez Cantu, Peter Fischer, David Zitoun, Jens Tübke, Karsten Pinkwart. “In Situ Measurement of Localized Current Distribution in H2-Br2 Redox Flow Batteries”. Energies, 2021. • Ben Dlugatch, Meera Mohankumar, Ran Attias, Balasubramoniam Murali Krishna, Yuval Elias, Yosef Gofer, David Zitoun, Doron Aurbach. “Evaluation of Mg[B(HFIP)4]2-Based Electrolyte Solutions for Rechargeable Mg Batteries”. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2021. • Y Mandelbaum, R Mottes, Z Zalevsky, D Zitoun, A Karsenty. “Investigations Prof. Zitoun David Head of Department of Chemistry Member of BINA Nano-Energy & Nano-Materials Center Research Areas • Photovoltaics and energy storage (batteries and capacitors) • Inorganic synthesis of semi-conductors, metals and oxides • Magnetic properties of materials • Nanostructures: from individual nanoparticles to functional materials speckle-analysis”. Journal of Biophotonics, 2020. • M. Karelits, Y. Mandelbaum, Z. Zalevsky and A. Karsenty. “Time-Spectral based Polarization- Encoding for SpatialTemporal Super-Resolved NSOM Readout”. Sci. Rep., Nature Publishing Group, 2020. • M. Golberg, R. Califa, J. Garcia and Z. Zalevsky. “Analyzing the requirements of Camera’s parameters for enhanced sensing of flow dynamics”. Engineering Research Express, 2020. • Y. Mandelbaum, R. Mottes, Z. Zalevsky, D. Zitoun and A. Karsenty. “Design of Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) Nanosensor Array”. Sensors, 2020. Invited paper. • H. Zafrir, S. Barbosa, E. Levintal, N. Weisbrod, Y. Ben Horin and Z. Zalevsky. “The impact of atmospheric and tectonic constraints on Rn-222 and CO2 flow in geological porous media - a dozen-year research summary”. Frontiers in Earth Science, Section Geochemistry, 2020. • Z. Wang, X. Dong, S. Zhou, X. Zheng and Z. Zalevsky. “Ultra-Narrow Bandwidth Graphene Quantum Dots for Super Resolved Spectral and Spatial Sensing”. NPG Asia Materials (accepted). • I. Orr, M. Cohen and Z. Zalevsky, “High resolution RADAR free-space segmentation using weakly supervised learning”. Nature Machine Intelligence, 2020. • S. Asraf, M. Fridman and Z. Zalevsky. “Fibers-based Temporal Super-Resolved Imaging”. Sci. Rep., Nature Publishing Group, 2020. • Y. Danan, D. Avraham and Z. Zalevsky. “Reduction in irradiation dose in aperture coded enhanced computed tomography imager using super-resolution techniques”. Sensors (Biosensors section), 2020. of Shape, Material and Excitation Wavelength Effects on Field Enhancement in SERS Advanced Tips”. Nanomaterials, 2021. • Shlomi Polani, Naftali Kanovsky, David Zitoun. “Correction to Leveraging Commercial Silver Inks as Oxidation Reduction Reaction Catalysts in Alkaline Medium”. ACS Applied Nano Materials, 2020. • Melina Zysler and David Zitoun*. “Octahedral to Cuboctahedral Shape Transition in 6 nm Pt3Ni Nanocrystals for Oxygen Reduction Reaction Electrocatalysis”. Part. Part. Syst. Charact, 2020, 37, 2000002. • Guy Rahamim, Michael Mirilashvili, Pilkhaz Nanikashvili, Ehud Greenberg, Hagay Shpaisman, Dan Grinstein, Shmuel Welner, David Zitoun*.”Hydrogen Sensors with High Humidity Tolerance based on Indium-Tin Oxide Colloids”. Sensors and Actuators B, 2020, 310, 127845 • Thazhe Veetil Vineesh, Valeria Yarmiayev, David Zitoun. “Tailoring the electrochemical hydrogen evolution activity of Cu3P through oxophilic surface modification”. Electrochem. Comm., 2020, 113, 106691 • Zhanna Tatus-Portnoy, Anna Kitayev, Thazhe Veettil Vineesh, Ervin TalGutelmacher, Miles Page and David Zitoun. “A low-loading Ru-rich anode catalyst for high-power anion exchange membrane fuel cells”. Chem. Comm., 2020, 56, 5669-5672. • Polani, M. Shviro, V. Shokhen, M. Carmo, A. Glüsen, R. Dunin-Borkowski, D. Zitoun*. “Size Dependence of the Atomic Distributions and Oxygen Reduction Reaction Catalytic Activity in PtCu Octahedral Nanocrystals”. Catal. Sci. Technol., 2020,10, 5501-5512. • Shokhen, M. Zysler, M. Shviro, D. Zitoun*, M. Chatenet*. “Carbon-Supported PtNi Nanocrystals for Alkaline Oxygen Reduction and Evolution Reactions; Electrochemical Activity and Durability upon Accelerated Stress Tests”. ACS Appl. Energ. Mater., 2020. • Chakraborty, S. Kunnikuruvan, D. Zitoun, D. T. Major*. “First Principle Study of Electrocatalytic Behavior of Olivine Phosphates with Mixed Alkali and Mixed Transition Metal Atoms”. RSC Adv, 2020, 10, 29175. • Rahamim, M. Mirilashvili, Y. Mandelbaum, D. Zitoun. “Signal Processing of Resistive Hydrogen Sensors for Fast Detection”. ACS Sensors (under review).
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