Name: Taleb Mokari Date (12, 11, 2014)

CURRICULUM VITAE

• Personal Details

Name: Taleb Mokari

Address and telephone number at work: Department of , BGU, 08-6428615

Address and telephone number at home: Yalin More Natan 19, Beer-sheva, 0523404450

Education

B.Sc. studies in Chemistry 1998 – 2000: Hebrew University, Jerusalem,

M. Sc. Studies 10/2000–10/2002 : Department of Physical Chemistry - Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Master studies with Prof. Uri Banin: The thesis’ topic “Synthesis and characterization of nanocrystals quantum rods (CdSe) and rod/shell (CdSe/ZnS)”

Ph.D. studies in the Chemistry: 12/2003 –5/2006: graduated with distinction. Summa cum Laude Department of Physical Chemistry - Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Ph.D Studies with Prof. Uri Banin: the thesis’ topic “Development of composite of nanocrystals with Semiconductor-Insulator and Semiconductor- interfaces”

Professional Activities

A) Positions in academic administration:

10/2012- present: Member of the "Young Academy".

12/2011- present: Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

10/2009- 12/2011: Senior Lecturer, Department of Chemistry, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

9/2007-9/2009 : staff scientist at the Molecular Foundry, Material Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

09/2006-6/2007 : Fulbright-commercial and Industrial club -Ilan Ramon Postdoctoral Fellow, the group of Professor Peidong Yang, Department of Chemistry, University of California- Berkeley

1 B) Professional functions outside universities/institutions 1. 2008: Member of US Department of Energy Evaluation Committee of Brookhaven National Laboratory, 2. 2012: Member of the organizing committee of the Israel chemical Society conference 3. 2014: Member of Fulbright committee for Postdoctoral fellowships 4. 2008-present: The conference chairperson of SPIE.

Awards, Citations, Honors, Fellowships 1. Chorofas Award: The best doctorate student in the Hebrew University (HU) in 2004 for the best academic and research results 2. The Israel Vacuum Society Award: for an excellent science work 2004 3. An excellent research work for Ph.D student at the Hebrew University 2004 4. Clara and Danny Klein Scholarship for Ph.D. students 2003, 2004, 2005 5. Eshkol Scholarship, Ministry of Science-Israel, 2005, 2006 6. Eshkol Scholarship, Ministry of Science-Israel 2007 (declined) 7. Intel-Dean prize for excellent Ph.D. student in the Hebrew University 2005 . 8. The Kaye Award for innovation, Hebrew University 2005 9. The Israel Chemical Society award for outstanding research student 2006 10. Schlomiuk prize for outstanding Ph.D. thesis, 2007 11. Postdoctoral Fellowship, The Hebrew University fellowships committee, 2006-2007 12. Fulbright Fellowship for Postdoctoral studies 2006-2007 13. Ilan Ramon Fellowship for the best Fulbright Fellow 2007, Commercial & Industrial Club. 14. IUPAC Prize for Young , awards for the best 5 Ph.D. thesis in the world in Chemical Sciences 2006 15. Dean's Honors for Excellent Researcher, the Faculty of Natural Science, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 2010 16. Ma’of fellowship: Established by the Kahanoff Foundation. The fellowship covers three consecutive years of the university salary + research budget 2011. 17. Krill Award for Excellence in Scientific Research -Wolf Foundation-2011. 18. Appointed Member of the new "Young Israel Academy" (2012) 19. Dean's Honors for Excellent Researcher, the Faculty of Natural Science, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 2013

2 Scientific Publications.

Publications: 51 . Total citations: 3,391 . h-index: 23

51. "Coating and Enhanced Photocurrent of Vertically Aligned Zinc Oxide Nanowire Arrays with Metal Sulfide Materials" Volokh, M.; Diab, M.; Magen, O.; Jen-La Plante, I.; Flomin, K.; Rukenstein, P.; Tessler, N.; Mokari. T. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 6 , 13594. 2014 .

50. "Insight into the formation mechanism of PtCu alloy nanoparticles" Rubinov, E.; Diab, M.; Volokh, M.; Mokari, T.; CrysEngComm , 16, 9493. 2014

49. "Electrochromic Active Layers from Ultrathin Nanowires of Tungsten Oxide" Moshofsky, B.; Mokari, T. J. Mater. Chem. C ., 2, 3556 , 2014 .

48. "Cadmium Sulfide-Copper Sulfide Hybrid Nanorods: Effect of Copper Diffusion on Charge Dynamics and Photo catalytic Activity" Jen-La Plante, I.; Teitelbiom, A.; Pinkas, I.; Oron, D.; Mokari, T. J. Phys. Chem. Lett ., 5, 590, 2014 .

47. "Thermal Decomposition Approach for the Formation of Fe2O3 Mesoporous Photoanodes and Fe2O3/CoO Hybrid Structure for Enhanced Water Oxidation" Diab, M.; Mokari, T. Inorganic Chemistry , 53, 2304, 2014 .

46. "Selective Growth of Metal Particles on ZnO Nanopyramids via a One-Pot Synthesis" Flomin, K.; Jen-La Plante, I.; Moshofsky, B.; Diab, M.; Mokari, T. Nanoscale , 6, 1335, 2014 .

45. "Studying Blinking Through the Addition of an Engineered Inorganic Hole Trap" Tenne, R.; Teitelboim, A.; Rukenstein, P.; Dyshel, M.; Mokari, T.; Oron, D. ACS Nano , 7, 5084, 2013 .

44. "Studying the chemical, optical and catalytic properties of noble metal (Pt, Pd, Ag, Au)–Cu2O core–shell nanostructures grown via a general approach"

3 Meir, N.; Jen-La Plante, I.; Flomin, K.; Chockler, E.; Moshofsky, B.; Diab, M.; Volokh, M.; Mokari. T. J. Mater. Chem. A. 1, 1763, 2013 .

43. "Harnessing Thermal Expansion Mismatch to Form Hollow Nanoparticles" Jen-La Plante, I.; Mokari, T. Small , 9, 56, 2013 .

42. "Length and Diameter Control of Ultrathin Nanowires of Substoichiometric Tungsten Oxide with Insights into the Growth Mechanism" Moshofsky, B.; Mokari, T. Chem. Mater. , 25, 1384, 2013 .

41. "Rational Design of Hybrid Nanostructures for Advanced " Rawalekar, S.; Mokari, T. Adv. Energy Mater., 3, 12, 2013 .

40. "Selective Growth of Metal Sulfide Tips onto Cadmium Chalcogenide Nanostructures" Rukenstein, P.; Jen-La Plante, I.; Diab, M.; Chockler, E.; Flomin, K.; Moshofsky, B.; Mokari, T. CrystEngComm , 14, 7590, 2012 .

39. "A Simple Approach for the Formation of Oxides, Sulfides and Oxide-Sulfide Hybrid Nanostructures " Diab, M.‡; Volokh, M.‡, Moshofsky, B.; Jen-La Plante, I.; Flomin, K.; Chockler, E.; Mokari, T. Israel Journal of Chemistry , (Special issue on Nanochemistry, honoring the Wolf Prize laureates 2012, Prof. Alivisatos and Prof. Lieber), 52, 1081, 2012 .

38. "A facile one-step approach for the synthesis and assembly of copper and copper- oxide nanocrystals" Diab, M.; Moshofsky, B.; Jen-La Plante, I.; Mokari, T. J. Mater. Chem ., 21, 11626, 2011 .

37. "Synthesis and Characterization of Hybrid Nanostructures" Mokari, T., Nano Reviews , 2, 5983, 2011 .

36. "Influence of Size, Shape and Surface Coating on the Stability of Aqueous Suspensions of CdSe Nanoparticles" Mulvihill, M.; Habas, S.; Jen-La Plante, I.; Wan, J.; Mokari, T. Chem. Mater ., 22, 5251, 2010.

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35. "Synthesis of Metal Sulfide Nanomaterials via Thermal Decomposition of Single- Source Precursors" Jen-La Plante, I.; Zeid, T.W.; Yang, P.; Mokari, T. J. Mater. Chem., 20, 6612, 2010 .

34. "Enhanced Semiconductor Nanocrystal Conductance via Solution Grown Contacts" Sheldon, M.;Trudeau, P.; Mokari, T.; Wang, L.; Alivisatos A. P. Nano Letters , 9, 3676, 2009 . Featured in Research Highlights, “Chemistry: Going for Gold”, Nature , 461, 149, 2009.

33. "Efficient Multiple Exciton Generation Observed in Colloidal PbSe Quantum Dots with Temporally and Spectrally Resolved Intraband Excitation" Ji, M.; Park, S.; Connor, S.; Mokari, T.; Cui, Y.; Gaffney, K. J . Nano Letters , 9, 1217, 2009 .

32. "Probing Compositional Variation within Hybrid Nanostructures" Yuhas, B. D.; Habas, S. E.; Fakra, S.; Mokari, T. ACS Nano , 3, 3369, 2009 .

31. "Interfacing Metallic Nanoparticles with Semiconductor Nanowires" Jen-La Plante, I.; Habas, S.; Yuhas, B.; Gargas, D.; Mokari, T. Chem. Mater., 21, 3662, 2009 .

30. "Growth of GaN@InGaN Core-Shell and Au-GaN Hybrid Nanostructures for Energy Applications" Kuykendell, T.; Aloni, S; Jen-La Plante, I.; Mokari, T. International Journal of Photoenergy , 2009 . Special issue on "Solar Energy and Nanomaterials for Clean Energy Development"

29. "Formation of Hybrid Nanomaterials for Photonic and Energy Applications" Habas, S.E. and Mokari, T. SPIE (invited paper), 2008 .

28. "Selective Growth of Metal and Binary Metal Tips on CdS Nanorods" Habas, S. E.; Yang, P.; Mokari, T. J. Am. Chem. Soc ., 130, 3294, 2008 .

27. "Caged Quantum Dots" Han, G.; Mokari, T.; Ajo-Franklin C.; Cohen B. E . J. Am. Chem. Soc., 130,15811, 2008 .

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26. "Synthesis of Lead Chalcogenide Alloy and Core/Shell Nanowires" Mokari, T.; Habas, S.; Zhang, M.; Yang, P. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 47, 5605, 2008 .

25. "Shape, Size and Assembly Control of PbTe Nanoparticles" Mokari, T.; Zhang, M.; Yang, P. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 129, 9864, 2007 .

24. "Diffusion of Gold in InAs Nanocrystals" T. Mokari, A. Aharoni, I. Popov, U. Banin. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 45, 8001, 2006.

23. "Formation of Symmetric and Asymmetric Metal Semiconductor Hybrid Nanoparticles" Mokari, T.; R. Costi., Sztrum, C. Rabani, E, Banin, U. Phys. Stat. Sol. (b), 1, 2006 .

22. "Synthesis of InAs/CdSe/ZnSe CSS (Core/Shell1/Shell2) with Bright and Stable Near- Infrared Fluorescence" Aharoni, A.; Mokari, T.; Popov, I.; Banin, U. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 128, 257, 2006 .

21. "Seeded Growth of InP and InAs Quantum Rods Using Indium Acetate and Myristic Acid" Shweky, I. Aharoni, A.; T. Mokari, E. Rothenberg, M. Nadler, I. Popov, U. Banin. Materials Science and Engineering C, 26, 788, 2006 .

20. "Synthesis of InP and InAs Quantum Rods Using Indium Acetate and Myristic Acid” I. Shweky, A. Aharoni, T. Mokari, M. Nadler, E. Rothenberg, I. Popov, U. Banin Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc., Vol. 848 FF8.3.1, 2005 .

19. "Formation of one-sided metal tipped semiconductor nanocrystal dots and rods" T. Mokari, C. G. Sztrum, A. Salant, E. Rabani and U. Banin. Nature Materials , 4, 855, 2005 .

18. "Electronic Structure of Metal-Semiconductor Nanojunctions in Gold-CdSe NanoDumbbells" D. Stienr, T. Mokari, U. Banin, O. Millo. Phys. Rev. Lett., 95, 056805, 2005 .

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17. "Transition from Zero-Dimensional to One-Dimensional behavior in InAs and CdSe Nanorods", O. Millo, D. Steiner, D. Katz, A. Aharoni, S. Kan, T. Mokari, U. Banin. Physica E., 26, 1, 2005 .

16. "Nano@Micro – General Method for Entrapment of Nanocrystals in Sol-Gel-Derived Composite Hydrophobic Silica Spheres" T. Mokari, H. Sertchook, A. Aharoni, D. Avnir, U. Banin. Chem. Mater., 17, 251, 2005 .

15. "Zero-Dimensional and Quasi One-Dimensional Effects in Semiconductor Nanorods" D. Steiner, D. Katz, O. Millo, A. Aharoni, S. Kan, T. Mokari, U. Banin. Nano Lett , 4, 1073, 2004 .

14. "Selective Growth of Metal Tips onto Semiconductor Rods and Tetrapods" T. Mokari, E. Rothenberg; Popov; R. Costi, U. Banin. Science , 304, 1787, 2004 .

13. "Transport and Charging in Single Semiconductor Nanocrystals Studied by Conductance Atomic Force Microscopy" Nahum, E.; Ebenstein, Y.; Aharoni, A.; Mokari, T.; Banin,U.; Millo, O. Nano Lett. 4; 103, 2004 .

12. "Charging and Quantum Size Effects in Tunneling and Optical Spectroscopy of CdSe Nanorods" O. Millo, D. Katz, D. Steiner, E. Rothenberg, T. Mokari, M. Kazes, and U. Banin. , 15 R1-R6, Topical Review, 2004 .

11. "Quantum Dot Functionalized Scanning Probes for Fluorescence Energy Transfer Based Microscopy" Y. Ebenstein, T. Mokari, and U. Banin J. Phys. Chem. B., 108, 93, 2004 .

10. "Electronic Level Structure of CdSe Quantum Rods: Investigating Size and Shape Dependence"

7 E. Rothenberg, T. Mokari, M. Kazes, U. Banin, D. Katz, D. Steiner, T. Wizansky, O. Millo. Israel Journal of Chemistry , 44, 391, 2004 .

9. "Lighting –Up the Dynamics of Telomerization and DNA Replication by CdSe-ZnS Quantum Dots" F. Patolsky, R. Gill, Y. Weizmann, T. Mokari, U. Banin, I. Willner J. Am. Chem. Soc., 125, 13918, 2003 .

8. "Shape Control of III-V Semiconductor Nanocrystals: Synthesis and Properties of InAs Quantum Rods" S. H. Kan, A. Aharoni, T. Mokari, U. Banin. Faraday Discussion , 125, 2003.

7. "Synthesis and Properties of CdSe/ZnS Rod/Shell Nanocrystals" T. Mokari and U. Banin, Chem. Mater. 15, 3955, 2003 .

6. "Size and Shape Dependent Level Structure in CdSe Quantum Rods" E. Rothenberg, T. Mokari, U. Banin, D. Katz, T. Wizansky, O. Millo. Mat. Res. Soc. Symp.Proc. , Vol. 737, 2003.

5. "Synthesis and Size-Dependent Properties of Zinc-Blend Semiconductor Quantum Rods" S. H. Kan; T. Mokari; E. Rotenberg; U. Banin, Nature Materials , 2, 155, 2003 .

4. "Size-Dependent Tunneling and Optical Spectroscopy of CdSe Quantum Rods" Katz, D; Wizansky, T; Millo, O; Rothenberg, E; Mokari, T.; Banin, U. Phys. Rev. Lett., 89, 086801-1, 2002 .

3. "Lasing From Semiconductor Quantum Rods in a Cylindrical Microcavity" M. Kazes, D. Y. Lewis, Y. Ebenstein, T. Mokari, U. Banin, Adv. Mater., 14, 317, 2002 .

2. "Fluorescence Quantum Yield of CdSe/ZnS Nanocrystals Investigated by Correlated Atomic-Force and Single-Particle Fluorescence Microscopy" Y. Ebenstein, T. Mokari, and U. Banin Appl. Phys. Lett., 80, 21, 4033 , 2002 .

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1. "Surface Exchange Effect on Hyper Rayleigh Scattering in CdSe Nanocrystals" Eilon M. J., Mokari, T., Banin U. J. Phys. Chem. B., 105, 51, 12726, 2001 .

• Selected Presentations at international Meetings and Invited Seminars :

2014: Italian Institute of Technology (iit)- Nanochemistry Department- Genoa, Italy- Invited seminar

2014: SPIE- Nanophotonic Materials XI-San Diego- USA- Plenary talk.

2014: QD 30-celebration of 30 years of quantum dots-Paris-France-invited

2014: - Nanoseminar-Invited

2014: Materials Research Society-San Francisco, USA

2014: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory-USA-Invited talk

2014: The Israel Chemical Society -Invited talk

2013: ChinaNano Conference in Beijing-Invited talk

2012: A special Symposium in honor of the Wolf prizes laureates -Invited Talk

2012: The NanoIsrael Conference

2012: The Israel Chemical Society

2011: ChinaNano Conference in Beijing-Invited talk

2010: The NanoIsrael conference in Tel Aviv-Invited talk

2009: SPIE Meeting, Nanophotonic materials, San Diego, USA -Invited talk 2008: The Molecular Foundry and The Advanced Light Spectroscopy, joint meeting Berkeley, CA, USA. “Developing new nanomaterials for energy application” 2008 SPIE Meeting, Nanophotonic materials, San Diego-Invited talk 2008: The Materials Research Society, San Francisco, USA-invited talk 2007: The Department of Energy annual user meeting, Berkeley, CA, USA 2004: Gordon Research Conferences, Nanostructures and Fabrication, Tilton, NY, USA. “

9 • Patents: 1) Uri Banin, Yuval Ebenstein, Taleb Mokari : "Quantum dot functionalized scanning probes for fluorescence energy transfer based microscopy". U.S. patent application (first filing, July 2003). 2) Uri Banin, Taleb Mokari : "Selective growth of metal contacts onto semiconductor quantum rods and tetrapods", Provisional U.S. patent application (Feb. 2004) 3) Patolsky Fernando, Gill Ron, Weizmann Yossi, Willner Itamar, Banin Uri, Taleb Mokari ; " Optical detection of DNA, single base mismatches and telomeras activity by semiconductor nanoparticles". (US patent application, first filing, May 2004). 4) Uri Banin, David Avnir, Taleb Moakri , Hanan Sertchook: " nano@micro – general method for encapsulation of hydrophopic coated nanocrystals in silica spheres. U.S. patent application (first filing, July 2005). 5) Taleb Mokari and Peidong Yang “Shape, size and assembly control of PbTe nanoparticles. Toyota. (first filing, July 2008). 6) Taleb Mokari, and Peidong Yang, “Synthesis of lead chalcogenide alloy and core/shell nanowires” Toyota. first filing, July 2009). * 7) Taleb Mokari and Ilan Jen La-Plante “Thermal decomposition of single source precursors” U.S. patent application, (first filing, July 2010).

• Research Grants Years Funding Organization Title Role Size & duration of funding 2014 -2016 The Adelis Foundation for "Nanostructures of Metal PI 50,000$ renewable energy Oxide Chalcogenide as research. Active Material for Solution Processed Photovoltaic Solar Cells" 2011 -2016 The Council for Higher  Renew able En ergy - PI 150000 $ Education Israeli Centers of (my part) Research Excellence I- CORE 2011 -2016 ERC Starting Grant 2011  Nano@Energy PI 2,220,000 $

2011 Ilse Katz I nstitute for  X-Ray Diffraction for PI 300,000 $ Nanscale Science and Nanoscale Research technology-2011 2009 -2012 The Council for Higher  Personal Research PI 48,000 $ Education-Israel-2010 Award-Mao’f fellowship

10 2010 Major Institutional  Gatan Quantum Imaging PI 300,000 $ equipment Israel Science Filter for Transmission Foundation (ISF)-2010 Electron Microscopy 2010 -2014 Marie Curie International  Novel hybrid PI 140,000 $ Reintegration Grants (IRG) nanostructures for Call-2010 catalysis and fuel cell applications 2009 -2012 Israel Science Foundation  Nanomaterials for PI 620,000 $ (ISF)- Legacy Heritage Renewable Energy: Fund (Morasha) Fundamental Research and Applications 2007 -2009 Lawrence Berkeley * Understanding the PI 650,000 $ national Laboratory-2008 Electrical properties of nanocrystals 2007 -2010 US department of Energy * Predicting the PI 1,500,000 $ (DOE) 2007 Stability/Status and Mobility of Engineered Nanomaterials After Their Release into Soils and Groundwaters

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