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Rakhi’s paper on the self-organization process of mesoporous cobalt oxide nanowires to improve supercapacitor performance has been accepted by Nano Letters.   The much-improved specific capacity, rate capability, energy density, and cycling stability is due to the organizing the cobalt oxide nanowires in a way that improves electron/ion transport and enhances the kinetics of redox reactions.  Congratulations Rakhi.  Please see http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nl300779a.

Fatimah Al-Ajaji, our summer intern from the Saudi Science Research Institute (SSRI), has earned second place (women) among 50,000 contestants in the National Olympiad for Scientific Innovation held in Riyadh on March 21, 2011.  The award is based on her work on Flexible Electronic Devices that was performed in our laboratory in the summer of 2011. Fatimah is heading to the USA to participate in the INTEL International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) to be held in May, 2012.  Good luck, Fatimah!

Adnan’s paper titled “High-Performance Non-Volatile Organic Ferroelectric Memory on Banknotes” has been published by Advanced Materials (impact factor = 10.88).  The paper shows the first ever demonstration of non-volatile organic ferroelectric memory on banknotes.   This work is significant since it shows that organic ferroelectric memory, whose performance is especially sensitive to surface roughness, was made on the rough Riyal surface with performance matching similar devices made on silicon.  This result showed that organic ferroelectric memory can replace traditional EEPROM memory used in RFID tags.   The paper has already been cited by the Royal Society of Chemistry journal, Chemistry World.​​

Professor Alshareef is co-organizing a special session on Thin Film Thermoelectrics at the Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting in Boston, Mass​achusetts (November 30, 2012)

Professor Alshareef is co-organizing a Symposium on Large-Area Electronics at Materials Research Society-International Materials Research Congress (MRS-IMRC) Conference in Cancun, Mexico (August 12-17, 2012)

Professor Alshareef  to deliver an invited talk at the International Meeting on Integrated Functionalities in Hong Kong (July 9-13, 2012)

Professor Alshareef to deliver an invited talk at the International Meeting on the Applications of Ferroelectricity (ISAF)  in Aviero, Portugal (June 18-21, 2012)​

Alfo​nso Caraveo will be delivering an oral presentation in the 2012 E-MRS Spring Meeting in Strasbourgh, France in the Symposium of Novel materials and fabrication methods for new emerging devices about his ongoing research on p-type transparent oxide semiconductors. ​​

Adnan’s recent paper which has been published in Advanced Materials continues to get the attention of many organizations.  Nanowerk just highlighted the paper on their website.  Please see http://www.nanowerk.com/spotlight/spotid=24982.php

​They will cover energy storage and flexible electronics in 3 different presentations at the 2012 MRS Spring Meeting to take place in San Francisco, in April this year.

Paper by Dr. Sarath to be published in Applied Physics Letters  Paper by Alfonso to be published also in Applied Physics Letters Dr. Rakhi to publish in Advance Energy Materials and J. of Materials Chemistry Wei´s paper to be published in Energy and Environmental Science

Article on supercapitors spotlights in Nanowerk magazine which is the premier and most popular source for nanotechnology information. ​

High performance supercapacitors using metal oxide anchored graphene nanosheet electrodesR. B. Rakhi, Wei Chen, Dongkyu Cha and H. N. AlshareefJ. Mater. Chem., 2011, 21, 16197-1620

 After a successful poster presentation of his research on supercapacitors, Wei Chen won the Dow Sustainability and Innovation Student Challenge ​at KAUST. The award included a cash prize as well as a fully paid attendance to the Global Recognition Ceremony to be held on October, 2011 in Berkeley, CA. ​

Alfonso's poster on Nanoscale Gadolinium Oxide Capping Layers on Compositionally Variant Gate Dielectrics awarded as the Best Student Poster Award during the 2011 International Materials Research Congress in Cancun, Mexico. ​

Wei Chen's paper on textile supercapacitors has been published in ACS Nano​​

Mohammad Adnan's paper on flexible and transparent memories has been accepted for publication in Organic Electronics

Rakhi's paper on nanostructured oxide/graphene electrodes for supercapacitors has been accepted​ by J. Materials Chemistry​

Dr. Pradipta Nayak has joined the Functional Nanomaterials and Devices group. He will work on transparent and nanowire transistors.  New PhD Student, Abeer Barasheed has joined the Functional Nanomaterials and Devices Group. She will work on thermoelectric materials and devices.  Welcome Dr. Pradipta and Abeer!