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Avner Rothschild is affiliated with the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in Israel and has conducted extensive research in fields primarily related to energy and materials science. Their work includes a significant focus on renewable energy, sustainability, and environmental topics, supported by numerous publications and collaborations.

Rothschild's research contributions encompass a variety of subfields including:

  • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Materials Chemistry
  • Energy Engineering and Power Technology
  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials

The scientist's primary focus areas include topics such as:

  • Iron oxide chemistry and applications
  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
  • Advanced battery technologies research
  • Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems
  • Copper-based nanomaterials and applications
  • Mine drainage and remediation techniques

Avner Rothschild has published in multiple academic venues with frequent contributions to:

  • Nature Materials
  • Energy & Environmental Science
  • ECS Meeting Abstracts
  • Physical Review B
  • Langmuir

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Rothschild include:

  • Electrochemical and chemical cycle for high-efficiency decoupled water splitting in a near-neutral electrolyte (2024, Nature Materials)
  • Extraction of mobile charge carrier photogeneration yield spectrum of ultrathin-film metal oxide photoanodes for solar water splitting (2021, Nature Materials)
  • High Performance Core/Shell Ni/Ni(OH) 2 Electrospun Nanofiber Anodes for Decoupled Water Splitting (2021, Advanced Functional Materials)
  • Wasted photons: photogeneration yield and charge carrier collection efficiency of hematite photoanodes for photoelectrochemical water splitting (2021, Energy & Environmental Science)
  • Structural sensitivity of the spin Hall magnetoresistance in antiferromagnetic thin films (2020, Physical Review B)

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Daniel A. Grave
  • David S. Ellis
  • Yifat Piekner
  • Elena S. Davydova
  • Gideon S. Grader

Best Publications

  • Probing the photoelectrochemical properties of hematite (α-Fe2O3) electrodes using hydrogen peroxide as a hole scavenger

    Hen Dotan;Hen Dotan;Kevin Sivula;Michael Grätzel;Avner Rothschild

  • Ultrasensitive chemiresistors based on electrospun TiO2 nanofibers.

    Il-Doo Kim;Avner Rothschild;Byong Hong Lee;Dong Young Kim

  • The effect of grain size on the sensitivity of nanocrystalline metal-oxide gas sensors

    Avner Rothschild;Yigal Komem

  • Identifying champion nanostructures for solar water-splitting

    Scott C. Warren;Scott C. Warren;Kislon Voïtchovsky;Hen Dotan;Celine M. Leroy

  • Photoelectrochemical water splitting in separate oxygen and hydrogen cells

    Avigail Landman;Hen Dotan;Gennady E. Shter;Michael Wullenkord

  • Decoupled hydrogen and oxygen evolution by a two-step electrochemical–chemical cycle for efficient overall water splitting

    Hen Dotan;Avigail Landman;Stafford W. Sheehan;Kirtiman Deo Malviya

  • Ultrasensitive and Highly Selective Gas Sensors Based on Electrospun SnO2 Nanofibers Modified by Pd Loading

    Dae-Jin Yang;Itai Kamienchick;Doo Young Youn;Avner Rothschild

  • Selective Detection of Acetone and Hydrogen Sulfide for the Diagnosis of Diabetes and Halitosis Using SnO2 Nanofibers Functionalized with Reduced Graphene Oxide Nanosheets

    Seon Jin Choi;Bong Hoon Jang;Seo Jin Lee;Byoung Koun Min

  • Advances and new directions in gas-sensing devices

    Il-Doo Kim;Avner Rothschild;Harry L. Tuller

  • Resonant light trapping in ultrathin films for water splitting

    Hen Dotan;Ofer Kfir;Elad Sharlin;Oshri Blank

  • Electronic Structure, Defect Chemistry, and Transport Properties of SrTi1-xFexO3-y Solid Solutions

    Avner Rothschild;Wolfgang Menesklou;and Harry L. Tuller;Ellen Ivers-Tiffée‡

  • Enhancement in the Performance of Ultrathin Hematite Photoanode for Water Splitting by an Oxide Underlayer

    Takashi Hisatomi;Hen Dotan;Hen Dotan;Morgan Stefik;Kevin Sivula

  • Hollow ZnO nanofibers fabricated using electrospun polymer templates and their electronic transport properties.

    Seung-Hoon Choi;Guy Ankonina;Doo-Young Youn;Seong-Geun Oh

  • Transpiration Driven Electrokinetic Power Generator

    Tae Gwang Yun;Jaehyeong Bae;Avner Rothschild;Il-Doo Kim

  • Sensing behavior of TiO2 thin films exposed to air at low temperatures

    A. Rothschild;F. Edelman;Y. Komem;F. Cosandey

  • Microsphere templating as means of enhancing surface activity and gas sensitivity of CaCu3Ti4O12 thin films

    Il-Doo Kim;Avner Rothschild;Takeo Hyodo;Harry L. Tuller

  • On the Solar to Hydrogen Conversion Efficiency of Photoelectrodes for Water Splitting.

    Hen Dotan;Nripan Mathews;Takashi Hisatomi;Michael Grätzel

  • Thin-walled SnO₂ nanotubes functionalized with Pt and Au catalysts via the protein templating route and their selective detection of acetone and hydrogen sulfide molecules.

    Ji-Soo Jang;Sang-Joon Kim;Seon-Jin Choi;Nam-Hoon Kim

  • Empirical in operando analysis of the charge carrier dynamics in hematite photoanodes by PEIS, IMPS and IMVS.

    Dino Klotz;Dino Klotz;David Shai Ellis;Hen Dotan;Avner Rothschild

  • Systematic comparison of different dopants in thin film hematite (α-Fe2O3) photoanodes for solar water splitting

    Kirtiman Deo Malviya;Hen Dotan;Dmitry Shlenkevich;Anton Tsyganok

  • Temperature-independent resistive oxygen sensors based on SrTi1−xFexO3−δ solid solutions

    Avner Rothschild;Scott J. Litzelman;Harry L. Tuller;Wolfgang Menesklou

Frequent Co-Authors

Il-Doo Kim
Il-Doo Kim Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Michael Grätzel
Michael Grätzel École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Seong Mu Jo
Seong Mu Jo Korea Institute of Science and Technology
Ian D. Sharp
Ian D. Sharp Technical University of Munich
Nripan Mathews
Nripan Mathews Nanyang Technological University
Eyal Zussman
Eyal Zussman Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Gadi Schuster
Gadi Schuster Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Takashi Hisatomi
Takashi Hisatomi Shinshu University
Kevin Sivula
Kevin Sivula École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

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