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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

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David Zitoun[1][2] 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.[3] 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.[4] Between 2004 and 2009 he was a senior lecturer at Montpellier 2 University, France, and in 2009 he joined the Department of Chemistry[1] at Bar-Ilan University (BIU) where he is currently a full professor and holds the position of the Head of the department.[5] Zitoun is a member of the Bar-Ilan Institute for Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials (BINA),[6] a member of the Israel National Research Center for Electrochemical Propulsion (INREP),[7] an associate editor of the Journal of Nanoparticle Research (Springer), a Panel Member of the FORMAS Funding Agency (Sweden),[8] 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

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His current research[1][9] 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[10] or metal-organic precursors[11] as an alternative to conventional colloidal chemistry and gas phase thin film deposition. The nanomaterials exhibit high activity for electrocatalysis in alkaline medium.[12][13] Zitoun and colleagues were the first to introduce the use of electron magnetic measurements in post-mortem analyses of Li-ion batteries[14] and the first group to publish the operando electron magnetic measurements.[15] 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

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David Zitoun is married to Keren Zitoun, a pharmacist with a thesis in music therapy. They immigrated to Israel in 2009[16] and have four children.

References

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  1. ^ a b c 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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