Elena
Meirzadeh
Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science, Weizmann Institute of Science
Dr. Elena Meirzadeh is a new faculty member in the Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science at the Weizmann Institute of Science.
Her research centres on the synthesis of novel nanomaterials and holds great promise for cutting-edge technologies like clean energy and new optical and electronic devices.
As an Azrieli Fellow, Elena will explore how superatoms, namely, atomically precise nanoscale building blocks, interact in the gas phase, form intermolecular covalent bonds, and crystallize as infinite extended structures.
Elena completed her PhD under the supervision of Prof. Meir Lahav and Prof. Igor Lubomirsky at the Weizmann Institute of Science and developed an extremely sensitive technique for detecting deviations from symmetry in crystals. Using pyroelectric measurement, she was able to improve our fundamental understanding of crystal structure, function, and different growth mechanisms. During her postdoctoral research as a Rothschild Fellow at Columbia University in New York City, she created a new form of carbon, named graphullerene, which consists of layers of fullerene molecules peeled into two-dimensional sheets as thin as a single molecular carbon
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