08 December, 2022
Three KCC Research Scientists on the 2022 Class of Influential Researchers ListThree of our research scientists have been selected on the Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research list of the 2022 Class of Influential Researchers.
16 November, 2022
Five KCC Researchers on Highly Cited Researchers 2022 ListWe are proud to announce that five of our academics have been named on the annual Highly Cited Researchers 2022 list from Clarivate.
26 October, 2022
Tapping into seawater's energetic potentialProf. Huabin Zhang is exploring ways to produce hydrogen fuel from seawater using a highly-efficient and stable molybdenum-based electrocatalysts.
26 October, 2022
A Shape-Shifting approach to industrial designIn the last KAUST Insight story, Prof. Carlos Grande explains to us how design and computer modeling play a key role in developing chemical reactors and new separation processes.
31 August, 2022
Giving Global Pollutants the Cold ShoulderA collaboration with Prof. Javier Ruiz-Martίnez helps a multinational company rethink ways to reduce nitrogen oxide emissions using catalysts.
04 August, 2022
Getting more out of lightProf. Omar Mohammed and KAUST alumnus Jun Yin have achieved impressive light-power conversion by synthesizing a semiconducting material containing tin-based nanoparticles.
02 August, 2022
Molybdenum caught holding the hydrogenProf. Magnus Rueping and the Research Scientist Jeremy Bau have demonstrated how a molybdenum-based catalyst can play a central role in a process pivotal to the sustainable production of fuels and chemicals.
05 June, 2022
Two prominent KCC faculty members promotedKCC Faculty Profs. Mani Sarathy and Omar Mohammed have been promoted to the rank of full professors. KAUST acknowledged their burgeoning progress in solar energy and sustainable fuel technologies.
05 June, 2022
Smog clears on car exhaust catalyst designThe latest KAUST Discovery story featured the recent work lead by Prof. Javier Ruiz-Martinez. “Unraveling the structure and role of Mn and Ce for NOx reduction in application-relevant catalysts”.
23 March, 2022
Prof. Nikos Hadjichristidis named a Fellow of the Royal Society of ChemistryProf. Nikos Hadjichristidis, Distinguished Professor of Chemical Science at KAUST, has been named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
10 March, 2022
Easing oxygen's evolutionProf. Cafer Yavuz and postdoc Pravin Babar have created a low-cost and highly active electrode that splits water molecules to release oxygen and hydrogen, a potential green fuel
23 January, 2022
One pot wonder for polymer diversityProf. Nikos Hadjichristidis and his team have developed a new catalyst that transforms a mixture of three monomers into diblock dialternating copolymers in one single step.
15 December, 2021
Picture perfect X-ray captureLayered nanomaterials shine for lossless light-energy conversion.
16 November, 2021
Four KCC Researchers on Highly Cited Researchers 2021 ListWe are proud to announce that 4 of our academics have been named on the annual Highly Cited Researchers 2020 list from Clarivate.
10 November, 2021
Recycling CO2 to fuel a carbon-neutral futureThe conversion of captured CO2 into fuels and other valuable hydrocarbons could enable a sustainable nonfossil-fuel-based economy.
10 October, 2021
Associate Professor Mani Sarathy has been awarded for the inaugural 2021 Energy and Fuels Rising StarsEnergy and Fuels have established an annual recognition for high influential researchers in early and mid-career (EMCRs). The Energy and Fuels Rising Stars intend to celebrate EMCRs "critical roles in driving knowledge discovery and technological advances in the increasingly globalized research landscape".
30 September, 2021
Prof. Jorge Gascon named Honorary Doctorate from University of AlicanteThis recognition aims to support and highlight his scientific research.
06 June, 2021
Prof. Osman M. Bakr has been awarded Kroll Medal and Prize of 2021The Kroll Medal & Prize is presented for significant contribution that has enhanced the scientific understanding of materials chemistry as applied to the industrial production of inorganic materials.