Name: Taleb Mokari Date (12, 11, 2014) CURRICULUM VITAE • Personal Details Name: Taleb Mokari Address and telephone number at work: Department of Chemistry, 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 semiconductor 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-Metal interfaces” Professional Activities A) Positions in academic administration: 10/2012- present: Member of the "Young Israel 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 Chemist, 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 Quantum Dot 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 Photocatalysis" 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. 4 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 . 5 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