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Maytal Caspary Toroker

Maytal Caspary Toroker is an associate professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.[1] She is recognized for her significant contributions in the field of computational materials science, particularly in its applications to catalysis, charge transport, and energy conversion devices.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]

Maytal Caspary Toroker
מיטל כספרי – טורוקר
Maytal Caspary Toroker at the Nanocrystal Conference (2023), Technion
Born
Israel
NationalityIsrael
CitizenshipIsrael
Alma materTechnion-Israel Institute of Technology
OccupationAssociate Professor
Known forStudies on catalysis, charge transport through materials
Scientific career
FieldsComputational Materials Science, Density functional Theory, Catalysis
InstitutionsTechnion-Israel Institute of Technology, Princeton University
ThesisNew rate expressions: formulation and applications to electron transfer processes (2009)
Doctoral advisorUri Peskin
Websitehttps://computationalmaterials.net.technion.ac.il/

Early life and education

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Maytal was born in Israel in a Jewish family. She completed her BA degree in molecular biochemistry (2004) from the Department of Chemistry at Technion.[1] Later, she pursued her direct Ph.D. (2009) from the same department.[10]

Research and career

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Prof. Maytal Caspary Toroker at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa (2023)

After receiving her Ph.D., she started working with Prof. Emily A. Carter at Princeton University[11] during the period of 2010–13, funded by the Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship from the European Union. In 2013, she joined the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, as an assistant professor, and she is currently working as an associate professor.

Her research at Technion mainly involves development of density functional theory (DFT) and its application. She has extensively worked on developing a method for charge transport calculation through heterostructures using wave propagation method.[12][13][8] Her research on doped NiOOH (Nickel oxy-hydroxide) has explained the reason for the material's remarkable success in the oxygen evolution reaction. Her results show that it is the iron's ability to change its oxidation state that facilitates oxygen evolution.[14][15] This work was published in the journal Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics and was featured on the front cover of Issue 11, 2017.[15] She has also conducted research on transition metal oxides for their applications as photocatalysts and photoelectrodes.[16][17][18] She developed a method to calculate the band edge positions using first principles quantum mechanics calculations.[9] These band edge positions play a crucial role in determining the suitability of these materials for various applications. Apart from this, she also works on metal organic frameworks (MOFs) and covalent organic frameworks (COFs) for their application in photocatalysis and electrocatalysis.[3][2][19][20][21][22]

Currently she is the chair of European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) action on Computational materials sciences for efficient water splitting with nanocrystals from abundant elements[23]. She is in the editorial advisory board of the journal Advanced Theory and Simulation, Wiley[24]

Awards and honours

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  • Alexander Goldberg Research Prize (2021)[25]
  • L’Oréal-Unesco-Israel Award (2010)[26]
  • New England Fund (2009)[26]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Assoc. Prof. Maytal Caspary Toroker". הפקולטה למדע והנדסה של חומרים, טכניון. Retrieved 2023-08-08.
  2. ^ a b "MOFs pour l'environnement et l'énergie : des matériaux poreux sur mesure | INC". www.inc.cnrs.fr (in French). 2022-03-29. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
  3. ^ a b "New catalysts for solar hydrogen production". ScienceDaily. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
  4. ^ "Technion (Israel): the success of doping iron for the best catalyst known today for splitting water". Israël Science Info. 2017-08-08. Retrieved 2023-08-08.
  5. ^ Zaffran, Jeremie; Stevens, Michaela Burke; Trang, Christina D. M.; Nagli, Michael; Shehadeh, Mahran; Boettcher, Shannon W.; Caspary Toroker, Maytal (2017-06-13). "Influence of Electrolyte Cations on Ni(Fe)OOH Catalyzed Oxygen Evolution Reaction". Chemistry of Materials. 29 (11): 4761–4767. doi:10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b00517. ISSN 0897-4756.
  6. ^ Bhargava, Anuj; Eppstein, Roni; Sun, Jiaxin; Smeaton, Michelle A.; Paik, Hanjong; Kourkoutis, Lena F.; Schlom, Darrell G.; Caspary Toroker, Maytal; Robinson, Richard D. (December 2020). "Breakdown of the Small-Polaron Hopping Model in Higher-Order Spinels". Advanced Materials. 32 (49): 2004490. doi:10.1002/adma.202004490. ISSN 0935-9648. PMID 33084168.
  7. ^ Teitz, Liora; Caspary Toroker, Maytal (May 2020). "Theoretical Investigation of Dielectric Materials for Two-Dimensional Field-Effect Transistors". Advanced Functional Materials. 30 (18): 1808544. doi:10.1002/adfm.201808544. ISSN 1616-301X.
  8. ^ a b Reichman, Yair; Caspary Toroker, Maytal (2023-06-08). "A Numeric Approach for Investigating Electron Dynamics in Zinc-Blende Semiconductor Heterostructures". Advanced Theory and Simulations. 6 (10). doi:10.1002/adts.202300155. ISSN 2513-0390.
  9. ^ a b Toroker, Maytal Caspary; Kanan, Dalal K.; Alidoust, Nima; Isseroff, Leah Y.; Liao, Peilin; Carter, Emily A. (2011-09-06). "First principles scheme to evaluate band edge positions in potential transition metal oxide photocatalysts and photoelectrodes". Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 13 (37): 16644–16654. Bibcode:2011PCCP...1316644T. doi:10.1039/C1CP22128K. ISSN 1463-9084. PMID 21853210.
  10. ^ "New rate expressions: formulation and applications to electron transfer processes / Maytal Caspary Toroker ; [supervision: Uri Peskin]". technion.primo.exlibrisgroup.com. Retrieved 2023-08-08.
  11. ^ "Former Group Members | Carter Group". Retrieved 2023-08-08.
  12. ^ Stan, Gabriela Ben-Melech; Dhaka, Kapil; Toroker, Maytal Caspary (August 2020). "Charge Transport Calculation along Two-Dimensional Metal/Semiconductor/Metal Systems". Israel Journal of Chemistry. 60 (8–9): 888–896. doi:10.1002/ijch.201900105. ISSN 0021-2148.
  13. ^ Ben-Melech Stan, Gabriela; Blyufer, Sofia; Volk, Maya; Caspary Toroker, Maytal (April 2023). "The Role of Electron–Electron Interaction in Charge Transport Calculations through Transition Metal Dichalcogenides Heterojunctions". Energy Technology. 11 (4). doi:10.1002/ente.202201287. ISSN 2194-4288.
  14. ^ "The Secret to Success". Grand Technion Energy Program. 20 July 2017. Retrieved 11 August 2023.
  15. ^ a b Fidelsky, Vicky; Toroker, Maytal Caspary (2017-03-15). "The secret behind the success of doping nickel oxyhydroxide with iron". Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 19 (11): 7491–7497. Bibcode:2017PCCP...19.7491F. doi:10.1039/C6CP08590C. ISSN 1463-9084. PMID 28197563.
  16. ^ Toroker, Maytal Caspary; Carter, Emily A. (2013-01-23). "Transition metal oxide alloys as potential solar energy conversion materials". Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 1 (7): 2474–2484. doi:10.1039/C2TA00816E. ISSN 2050-7496.
  17. ^ Neufeld, Ofer; Toroker, Maytal Caspary (2015-03-19). "Platinum-Doped α-Fe 2 O 3 for Enhanced Water Splitting Efficiency: A DFT+ U Study". The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 119 (11): 5836–5847. doi:10.1021/jp512002f. ISSN 1932-7447.
  18. ^ Grave, Daniel A.; Yatom, Natav; Ellis, David S.; Toroker, Maytal Caspary; Rothschild, Avner (October 2018). "The "Rust" Challenge: On the Correlations between Electronic Structure, Excited State Dynamics, and Photoelectrochemical Performance of Hematite Photoanodes for Solar Water Splitting". Advanced Materials. 30 (41): 1706577. arXiv:2012.05803. Bibcode:2018AdM....3006577G. doi:10.1002/adma.201706577.
  19. ^ Moschkowitsch, Wenjamin; Samanta, Bipasa; Zion, Noam; Honig, Hilah C.; Cullen, David A.; Toroker, Maytal Caspary; Elbaz, Lior (2022-12-15). "NiFe-mixed metal porphyrin aerogels as oxygen evolution reaction catalysts in alkaline electrolysers". Nanoscale. 14 (48): 18033–18040. doi:10.1039/D2NR05675E. ISSN 2040-3372. PMID 36445268.
  20. ^ Naghdi, Shaghayegh; Cherevan, Alexey; Giesriegl, Ariane; Guillet-Nicolas, Rémy; Biswas, Santu; Gupta, Tushar; Wang, Jia; Haunold, Thomas; Bayer, Bernhard Christian; Rupprechter, Günther; Toroker, Maytal Caspary; Kleitz, Freddy; Eder, Dominik (2022-01-12). "Selective ligand removal to improve accessibility of active sites in hierarchical MOFs for heterogeneous photocatalysis". Nature Communications. 13 (1): 282. Bibcode:2022NatCo..13..282N. doi:10.1038/s41467-021-27775-7. ISSN 2041-1723. PMC 8755752. PMID 35022390.
  21. ^ Ayala, Pablo; Naghdi, Shaghayegh; Nandan, Sreejith P.; Myakala, Stephen Nagaraju; Rath, Jakob; Saito, Hikaru; Guggenberger, Patrick; Lakhanlal, Lakhanlal; Kleitz, Freddy; Toroker, Maytal Caspary; Cherevan, Alexey; Eder, Dominik (2023-06-22). "The Emergence of 2D Building Units in Metal-Organic Frameworks for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution: A Case Study with COK-47". Advanced Energy Materials. 13 (31). Bibcode:2023AdEnM..1300961A. doi:10.1002/aenm.202300961. ISSN 1614-6832.
  22. ^ Naghdi, Shaghayegh; Brown, Emily; Zendehbad, Mohammad; Duong, Ann; Ipsmiller, Wolfgang; Biswas, Santu; Toroker, Maytal Caspary; Kazemian, Hossein; Eder, Dominik (May 2023). "Glyphosate Adsorption from Water Using Hierarchically Porous Metal–Organic Frameworks". Advanced Functional Materials. 33 (20). doi:10.1002/adfm.202213862. ISSN 1616-301X.
  23. ^ "About us | Computational materials sciences for efficient water splitting with nanocrystals from abundant elements". Retrieved 2023-08-08.
  24. ^ "Advisory Editorial Board", Hearing, Elsevier, pp. ii, 1978, doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-161904-6.50001-4, ISBN 9780121619046, retrieved 2023-08-08
  25. ^ "Research Prizes Awardees 2021 – Executive Vice President for Research". research.technion.ac.il. Retrieved 2023-08-08.
  26. ^ a b "Maytal Caspary Toroker | Gtep Grand Technion Energy Program". 2016-09-19. Retrieved 2023-08-08.
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