KCC Professor Cafer Yavuz and research scientist Thien Nguyen have developed a porous organic polymer that can remove organic micropollutants and toxic mercury ions from water.

KCC Researches along with an international team of scientists discover a stable, clathrate structure for the solid capture of carbon dioxide.

Prof. Javier Ruiz–Martinez and research scientist Sang-Ho Chung have developed a renewable method for making a key component of synthetic rubber.

Aramco and Linde Engineering have teamed up to develop a new ammonia cracking technology. The technology will incorporate a unique ammonia cracking catalyst, which was jointly developed by Aramco and KCC researchers.

Congratulations to Dr. Tuiana Shoinkhorova from the ACM group for being awarded by the PSE Division with the Best Ph.D. Award 2022 for her doctoral thesis!

Three of our research scientists have been selected on the Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research list of the 2022 Class of Influential Researchers.

We are proud to announce that five of our academics have been named on the annual Highly Cited Researchers 2022 list from Clarivate.

Prof. Huabin Zhang is exploring ways to produce hydrogen fuel from seawater using a highly-efficient and stable molybdenum-based electrocatalysts.

In 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.

A collaboration with Prof. Javier Ruiz-Martίnez helps a multinational company rethink ways to reduce nitrogen oxide emissions using catalysts.

Prof. Omar Mohammed and KAUST alumnus Jun Yin have achieved impressive light-power conversion by synthesizing a semiconducting material containing tin-based nanoparticles.

Prof. 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.

KCC 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.

The 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”.

Prof. Nikos Hadjichristidis, Distinguished Professor of Chemical Science at KAUST, has been named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Prof. 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

Prof. 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.