Rachel Yerushalmi – Rozen
The Stanley D. and Nikki Waxberg
chair in Advanced Materials.
Full Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering,
Room 218, Building 59
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Beer-Sheva 84105
Israel
Phone: 972-8-6461272
Fax: 972- 8- 6472916
Email: rachely@bgu.ac.il
Born in Israel in 1962, Rachel grew up in Rehovot. She studied Chemistry at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and received her B.Sc. in 1985. Rachel completed her M.Sc (1987) and PhD (1994) at the Weizmann Institute of Science in the field of polymer physics, did postdoctoral research at the Weizmann Institute from 1994 to 1995 in the field of thin films and studies of wetting, and at the University of Minnesota throughout 1996, in the field of polymer adhesion. She joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at Ben-Gurion University on 1997 and was appointed a lecturer at in 1998 an Associate Professor in 2004, and a Full Professor in 2010. She was a Visiting Professor at Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra, Dept. of Applied Mathematics 2004-2005, and at the Technical University of Eindhoven (TUE) on 2012-2013. She is holding the Stanley D. and Nikki Waxberg professorial chair in Advanced Materials.
Céline Maud Bounioux, PhD
Department of Chemical Engineering,
Room 225, Building 59
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Beer-Sheva 84105
Israel
Email: zadie.elcleiya@gmail.com
mobile : 00972525335509
Céline is a Postdoc in the group since 2012. She joined the group following a one year post doc in the Department of Solar Energy and Environmental Physics, Blaustein where she also completed her PhD under the supervision of Prof Eugene Katz (2011). She was awarded the European Science Foundation (ESF) grant 1790- 2008, Women in Science in Israel 2007-2008 and JNF Fellow in Environmental Studies for the year 2006-2007 by the Riegger Foundation. She also holds a M.Sci. in Materials Engineering and B.A. in Physics from Paris Orsay University in FRANCE.
Here recent research projects are related to interactions between carbon nanotubes and polythiophenes in organic solvents, the degradation of Organic Solar cells by concentrated sun light ,thermoelectric of nanocomposite, electrospun fibers of conjugated polymer and fullerenes. In addition, she is she is developing copper nanoparticle ink for laser sintering in the framework of a Magnet consortium on 3D printing, PRINTEL.
Publications
1. Concentrated sunlight for accelerated stability testing of organic photovoltaic materials: towards decoupling light intensity and temperature, I. Visoly-Fishera, A. Mescheloffa, M. Gabay,C. Bounioux, L. Zeiri, M. Sansotera, A.E. Goryachev, A. Brauna,Y. Galagand, E.A. Katz, Materials and Solar Cells ,2014
2. Fullerene Nucleating Agents: A Route Towards Thermally Stable Photovoltaic Blends C. Lindqvist, J. Bergqvist, ,C. Feng,S. Gustafsson, O. Backe, N. D. Treat, ¨C. Bounioux, P. Henriksson, R. Kroon,E. Wang, A. Sanz-Velasco, P. M. Kristiansen, N. Stingelin, E. Olsson, O. In-ganas, M. R. Andersson, C. Muller . Advanced Energy Materials ,2014
3. Thermoelectric composites of poly(3-hexylthiophene) and carbon nanotubes with a large power factor C. Bounioux, P. Díaz-Chao, M. Campoy-Quiles, M.S. Martín-González, A.R. Goñi, R. Yerushalmi-Rozen C. Muller . Energy & Environmental Science, 2013, 6, 918–925.
4. Light-induced electron paramagnetic resonance evidence of charge transfer in electrospun fibers containing conjugated polymer / fullerene and conjugated polymer / fullerene / carbon nanotubes blends A. Shames, C. Bounioux, E. A. Katz, R. Yerushalmi–Rozen, and E. Zussman. APL, 2012, 100,
5. ESR and LESR X-band study of morphology and charge carrier interaction in blended P3HT- SWCNT and P3HT- PCBM-SWCNT solid thin films, A. Konkin, C. Bounioux, U. Ritter, P. Scharff , E. Katz, A. Aganov, G. Gobsch, H. Hoppe, G. Ecke, H.-K. Roth, Synthetic Metals2011,161, 2241-2248.
6. Electrospun fibers of functional nanocomposites composed of single-walled carbon nanotubes, fullerene derivatives, and poly(3-hexylthiophene)", Bounioux, C., Itzhak, R., Avrahami, R., Zussman, E., Frey, J., Katz, E. A. and Yerushalmi-Rozen, R., J.Polym Sci. B: Poly. Phys. 2011, 49, 1263-1268.
7. Physical Adsorption of Block Copolymers to SWNT and MWNT: A Nonwrapping Mechanism Nativ-Roth, E., Shvartzman-Cohen, R., Bounioux, C., Florent, M., Zhang, D., Szleifer, I., and Yerushalmi-Rozen, R. Macromolecules, 2007, 40 (10), 3676 -3685.
8. Book chapter: Interactions of Polymers with Carbon Nanotubes , R. Yerushalmi-Rozen, C. Bounioux and I. Szleifer in “Chemistry of Carbon Nanotubes” edited by V.A. Basiuk and E. Basiuk, by APS 2007.
Ms. Neta Cohen 
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Department of Chemical Engineering
P.O Box 653, 84105 Beer-Sheva Israel
Tel :+972 8 647 2142
Fax: +972 8 647 2916
Email: netaco@post.bgu.ac.il
Biography
Neta
Now she studies towards PhD in Chemical Engineering.
Mr. Evgeny Ekymov
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Department of Chemical Engineering
P.O Box 653, 84105 Beer-Sheva Israel
Tel :+972 8 647 2142
Fax: +972 8 647 2916
Email: ekymov@post.bgu.ac.il
Evgeny finished the Nanotechnology program in 2016, a dual degree Chemical Engineering and Chemistry in Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva (BGU). Now he studies towards M.Sc focusing on preparation and characterization of the structure and electronic properties of a hybrid array of carbon nanotubes and fullerenes as photovoltaic elements.
Ms. Efrat Ziv
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Department of Chemical Engineering
P.O Box 653, 84105 Beer-Sheva Israel
Tel :+972 8 647 2142
Fax: +972 8 647 2916
Email: efratz@post.bgu.ac.il
Efrat received her B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from the Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva (BGU) in 2016. Now she studies towards her M.Sc. focusing on the preparation and characterization of a colloidal ink for 3D printing of hybrids.
Mr. David Attia
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Department of Chemical Engineering
P.O Box 653, 84105 Beer-Sheva Israel
Tel :+972 8 647 2142
Fax: +972 8 647 2916
Email: attiad@post.bgu.ac.il
David received his B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering (2017) from Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva (BGU). Now he studies towards M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering investigating wetting and dewetting of complex fluids.
Undergraduates: currently one undergraduates carries out research work in our lab.
Liron Zaltsman:
zaltslir@post.bgu.ac.il
