Research Chemist

PHILIP TAUBMAN KALISMAN

***** ***** **** ****** **********, SC 296**-***-*** 3337 *******@*******.*** Education

University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, California) (2006 – 2012) Ph.D. in Chemistry

Study of the Electrochemical System of Antimony-Tellurium in Dimethyl Sulfoxide for Growth of Nanowire Arrays, and an Innovative Method for Single Nanowire Measurements (Advisor: Professor Angelica Stacy)

Cumulative GPA: 3.94

Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island) (2002 – 2006) Bachelor of Science in Chemistry

Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics (formal commendation for completion of requirements)

Co-President, Chemistry Department Undergraduate Group (2004 – 2006)

Chemistry GPA: 3.60 (Cumulative GPA: 3.50)

Research Experience

Clemson University (COMSET Postdoctoral Fellow)

Working on formulation development for flexographic printing of new materials for electronic devices (Feb 2017-current) QD Vision, Inc. (Senior Chemist)

Working on stabilization of quantum dots in on-chip environments for direct use as LED fluorophores (Jan 2016 - Dec 2016) Department of Chemistry, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (Schulich Postdoctoral Fellow)

Investigating cocatalyst growth on heterostructure photocatalyst nanoparticles for water splitting (2012 –2015) Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley

Investigating electrodeposition of thermoelectric nanowire arrays (2006 – 2012)

Member of Marvell Nanofabrication Laboratory (2009 – 2012)

Collaborative work on contacting single nanowires done at the Sandia National Laboratories Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (2011 – 2012) Department of Chemistry, Brown University

Identifying novel approaches to organometallic nanoball synthesis and functionalization (2005 – 2006)

Researching effect of heavy water on specific metallo-organic reactions (2003 – 2004) NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology (Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship)

Investigating means to improve thermoelectric properties and synthesis of thermoelectric materials (2004) Publications (*First Author)

Charge-transfer Dynamics in Nanorod Photocatalysts with Bimetallic Metal Tips (J. Phy. Chem C., 2016, 120 (42), 24491-97)

*Photochemical Oxidative Growth Of Iridium Oxide Nanoparticles On CdSe@CdS Nanorods (J. Vis. Exp., 2016, 108, e53675)

The Stability of Seeded Rod Photocatalysts: Atomic Scale View (Chem. Mater., 2016, 28 (5), 1546-1552)

*Perfect Photon-to-Hydrogen Conversion Efficiency (Nano Lett., 2016, 16 (3), 1776-1781) Listed as one of the most read articles in 2016 by ACS, Highlighted by over 20 media outlets including forbes.com, Chemical & Engineering News, and Israel HaYom (links to these and other articles available at request)

Designing Bimetallic Co-catalysts: A Party of Two (J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2015, 6, 3760-64)

*The Golden Gate to Hydrogen Production (J. Mat. Chem. A., 2015, 3, 196**-*****)

Less is More: The Case of Metal Cocatalysts (J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2015, 6 (12), 2265-2268)

*Photochemical Oxidation on Nanorod Photocatalysts (J. Mat. Chem. A., 2015, 3, 3261-3265) Recent Talks

Sculpting Photocatalysts on the Nanoscale (PERPECT-H2O, Sept 4th, 2015)

Photodeposition of Metal and Metal Oxide Co-Catalysts for Water Splitting (Invited seminar at San Francisco State University, Nov 20th, 2015)

Improved Efficiency and Stability of Cadmium Chalcogenide Nanoparticles by Photodeposition of Co-Catalysts (MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, MA. Dec 3rd, 2015)

Photodeposition of Metal and Metal Oxide Co-Catalysts for Water Splitting (Invited seminar at Simmons College, Feb 11th, 2016)

Photodeposition of Metal and Metal Oxide Co-Catalysts for Water Splitting (Invited seminar at Converse College, Mar 11th, 2016)

Quantum Dot Based Nanoparticles for Photocatalytic Water Splitting (Invited seminar at Furman University, Feb 28th, 2017) Additional Information

Founding Board Member of the non-profit organization Racquet Up Detroit (2010 – pres)

Native English speaker; proficient in Spanish; intermediate proficiency in Hebrew

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