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Israeli chemist and materials scientist
David Zitoun
Born(1975-06-29)June 29, 1975
France
CitizenshipIsraeli
Alma materUniversity Toulouse III
Scientific career
FieldsChemistry, Nano-materials
InstitutionsBar Ilan University
Doctoral advisorBruno Chaudret
Other academic advisorsPeidong Yang (University of California, Berkeley)

David Zitoun (Hebrew: דוד זיתון) is an Israeli chemist and materials scientist.

Biography

David Zitoun obtained his M.Sc. (1999) in Physical chemistry from Ecole Normale Superieure, France, and a Ph.D. (2003) from the University Toulouse III, France, under the supervision of Bruno Chaudret, with a dissertation on the magnetism of clusters. In 2003 he was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley with Prof. Peidong Yang, investigating the diluted magnetic semiconducting nanowires. Between 2004 and 2009 he was a senior lecturer at Montpellier 2 University, France, and in 2009 he joined the Department of Chemistry at Bar-Ilan University (BIU) where he is currently a full professor and holds the position of the Head of the department. Zitoun is a member of the Bar-Ilan Institute for Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials (BINA), a member of the Israel National Research Center for Electrochemical Propulsion (INREP), an associate editor of the Journal of Nanoparticle Research (Springer), a Panel Member of the FORMAS Funding Agency (Sweden), and an Expert for the Horizon 2020 research program. He has also been a consultant for ICL-IP, PVNanoCell, and CENS Materials.

Scientific interests and publications

His current research focuses on the investigation of the chemical synthesis of materials to promote renewable and green energies. Zitoun's lab has 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. He developed new chemical routes using soluble organometallic or metal-organic precursors as an alternative to conventional colloidal chemistry and gas phase thin film deposition. The nanomaterials exhibit high activity for electrocatalysis in alkaline medium. Zitoun and colleagues 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. These in-situ measurements allowed proposing a new electrochemical mechanism for the high energy density anodic materials. David Zitoun has an active scientific collaboration with many world-renowned scientists, among which are Prof. Doron Aurbach, Prof. Zeev Zalevsky and Prof. Nicola Pinna.

Personal life

David Zitoun is married to Keren Zitoun, a pharmacist with a thesis in music therapy. They immigrated to Israel in 2009 and have four children.

References

  1. ^ Department of Chemistry, Bar Ilan University
  2. David Zitoun's Nanomaterials on Surfaces Lab
  3. Muñoz-Navia, M.; Dorantes-Dávila, J.; Zitoun, D.; Amiens, C.; Chaudret, B.; Casanove, M.-J.; Lecante, P.; Jaouen, N.; Rogalev, A.; Respaud, M.; Pastor, G. M. (2008). "Magnetic properties of CoNRhMnanoparticles: experiment and theory". Faraday Discuss. 138: 181–192. doi:10.1039/B705122K. ISSN 1359-6640. PMID 18447016.
  4. Yuhas, Benjamin D.; Zitoun, David O.; Pauzauskie, Peter J.; He, Rongrui; Yang, Peidong (2006). "Transition-Metal Doped Zinc Oxide Nanowires". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 45 (3): 420–423. doi:10.1002/anie.200503172. ISSN 1433-7851. PMID 16342314.
  5. Department of Chemistry, Bar-Ilan University
  6. Bar Ilan's Institute for Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials (BINA)
  7. Israel National Research Center for Electrochemical Propulsion
  8. Formas - a government research council for sustainable development
  9. David Zitoun's Nanomaterials on Surfaces Lab - List of Publications
  10. Shviro, Meital; Zitoun, David (2012). "Low temperature, template-free route to nickel thin films and nanowires". Nanoscale. 4 (3): 762–767. doi:10.1039/C1NR11177A. ISSN 2040-3364.
  11. Shviro, Meital; Polani, Shlomi; Zitoun, David (2015). "Hollow octahedral and cuboctahedral nanocrystals of ternary Pt–Ni–Au alloys". Nanoscale. 7 (32): 13521–13529. doi:10.1039/C5NR03522H. ISSN 2040-3364.
  12. Bakos, István; Paszternák, András; Zitoun, David (2015). "Pd/Ni Synergestic Activity for Hydrogen Oxidation Reaction in Alkaline Conditions" (PDF). Electrochimica Acta. 176: 1074–1082. doi:10.1016/j.electacta.2015.07.109. ISSN 0013-4686.
  13. Alesker, Maria; Page, Miles; Shviro, Meital; Paska, Yair; Gershinsky, Gregory; Dekel, Dario R.; Zitoun, David (2016). "Palladium/nickel bifunctional electrocatalyst for hydrogen oxidation reaction in alkaline membrane fuel cell". Journal of Power Sources. 304: 332–339. doi:10.1016/j.jpowsour.2015.11.026. ISSN 0378-7753.
  14. Boyanov, S.; Womes, M.; Monconduit, L.; Zitoun, D. (2009). "Mössbauer Spectroscopy and Magnetic Measurements As Complementary Techniques for the Phase Analysis of FeP Electrodes Cycling in Li-Ion Batteries". Chemistry of Materials. 21 (15): 3684–3692. doi:10.1021/cm901243a. ISSN 0897-4756.
  15. Gershinsky, Gregory; Bar, Elad; Monconduit, Laure; Zitoun, David (2014). "Operando electron magnetic measurements of Li-ion batteries". Energy Environ. Sci. 7 (6): 2012–2016. doi:10.1039/C4EE00490F. ISSN 1754-5692.
  16. French success, The Jerusalem Post
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