Tomer Zidki
Ariel University, Israel
Biography
Tomer Zidki has completed his PhD in 2009 at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and has his expertise in “Mechanistic studies of catalytic reactions at nanoparticles surfaces”. His studies show that radicals react extremely fast with metal and supported metal nanoparticles. The products of these reactions are long-lived metalcarbon intermediates in which their lifetime depends on the metal nature. He also has interest in “Catalytic water splitting reactions” and developed very efficient water oxidation catalysts based on co-hydrous-oxide nanoparticles supported on SiO2 nanoparticles. Recently, he developed new metal-alloys nanoparticles which show superior catalytic activity as well as TiO2 based nanocomposites which will be used for various catalytic and photocatalytic reactions.