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Dr. Arava Zohar, Elings Postdoctoral Fellow

Arava

Education

Ph.D. Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel with Professor David Cahen (2020)
B.Sc. Chemical Engineering, Ben Gurion University 2008

Research interests

Materials for energy conversion and storage

Publications from UC Santa Barbara

  1. G. T. Kent, J. Zhuang, K. R. Albanese, A. Zohar, E. E. Morgan, A. Kallistova, L. Kautzsch, A. Mikhailovsky, P. Vishnoi, R. Seshadri, and A. K. Cheetham, Hybrid iodide perovskites of divalent alkaline earth and lanthanide elements.
  2. J. Chamorro, J. Zuo, E. Bassey, A. Watkins, G. Zhu, A. Zohar, K. Wyckoff, T. Kinnibrugh, S. Lapidus, S. Stemmer, R. Clément, S. Wilson, and R. Seshadri, Soft-chemical synthesis, structure evolution, and insulator-to-metal transition in a prototypical metal oxide, λ-RhO2.
  3. E. E. Morgan, A. Zohar, S. Lipkin, B. Monserrat, S. Vaidyanathan, D. Loeffler, R. I Zhang, K. Schierle-Arndt, A. K. Cheetham, and R. Seshadri, Screening aluminum-based compounds as low-κ dielectrics for high-frequency applications, Chem. Mater.. (equal first author).
  4. E. E. Morgan, G. T. Kent, A. Zohar, A. O'Dea, G. Wu, A. K.Cheetham, and R. Seshadri, Hybrid and inorganic vacancy-ordered double perovskites A2WCl6, Chem. Mater. 35 (2023) 7032–7038. DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.3c01300
  5. A. R. Patterson, R. Elizalde Segovia, K. E. Wyckoff, A. Zohar, S. Narayan, R. J. Clément, R. Seshadri, and K. J. Griffith, Rapid and reversible lithium cycling in the Wadlsey-Roth phase NaNb13O33, Chem. Mater. 35 (2023) 6364&ndahs;6373. DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.3c01066
  6. A. Zohar, K. E. Wyckoff, R. C. Vincent, T. E. Mates, and R. Seshadri, Controlling operating voltages in molybdenum oxide anodes through inductive effects, Chem. Mater. 35 (2023) 5009–5016. DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.3c0035410.1021/jacs.1c12070
  7. R. Vincent, Y. Luo, J. Andrews, A. Zohar, Y. Zhou, Q. Yan, E. Mozur, M. Preefer, J. Nelson Weker, A. K. Cheetham, J. Luo, L. Pilon, B. Melot, B. Dunn, and R. Seshadri, High-rate lithium cycling and structure evolution in Mo4O11, Chem. Mater. 34 (2022) 4122–4133. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c12070
  8. K. E. Wyckoff, J. Kaufman, S. W. Baek, C. Dolle, J. Zak, J. Bienz, L. Kautzsch, R. Vincent, A. Zohar, K. See, Y. Eggeler, L. Pilon, A. Van der Ven, and R. Seshadri, Metal-metal bonding as an electrode design principle in the low-strain cluster compound LiScMo3O8, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 144 (2022) 5841–5854. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c12070

Full list of publications on my Google Scholar page

About me

I was born and raised in Israel, and besides work, I enjoy nature and hiking with my family.

Contact

Dr. Arava Zohar, Postdoctoral Fellow
Materials Research Laboratory
California NanoSystems Institute
University of California, Santa Barbara CA 93106-5121
email: aravaz@ucsb.edu