Prof. Husam to give invited talk at the Nanostructured Materials for Rechargeable and for Supercapacitors Symposium at the TMS Annual Meeting in San Diego, California on February, 2014.

​Alfo​nso's research work in collaboration with Dr. Hala Aljawhari on p-type transparent oxide semiconductor SnO, resulted in a paper published in ACS Nano.
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​Adnan receives Student Talent in Plastics Award from the Gulf Petrochemicals and Chemicals Association (GPCA), for his research work on low-cost printed electronics using functional polymeric materials and devices.
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Prof. Alshareef has been invited to give a talk on transparent electronics at the Materials Research Society Fall Meeting (2013) in Boston, USA.

Prof. Alshareef will give an invited talk on Nanoscale Thermoelectric Material Design at the 10th Pacific Rim Conference on Ceramic Technology​ in San Diego, USA (June, 2013)

​Prof. Alshareef will give an invited talk on Energy Storage at the American Chemical Society Meeting (April, 2013) in New Orleans, USA.​

​Dr. Hala, visiting Saudi Professor, and Alfonso give talks and posters at the Transparent Conducting Oxide Conference in Crete, Greece​

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.

​Prof. Alshareef was interviewed recently by IEEE Spectrum Techwise Radio to discuss the group’s recent publication in Advanced Materials on Ferroelectric Memory on Banknotes. Click the link below to listen​

​Prof. Alshareef has been appointed to the Materials Research Society Meetings Subcommittee. The subcommittee will be responsible for the review of all new meeting initiatives brought to MRS via any means (including workshops, special sessions, and topical meetings.) This includes meetings peer-generated meetings, grass-roots initiatives, and Board-initiated efforts.​

​Prof. Alshareef will deliver an invited talk at the 11th Asian High Security Printing Conference in Dubai on September 26, 2012.

The lecture will cover the group’s work on transparent and printing electronics for currency an security applications

Fatimah Al-Ajaji our student intern from last summer won the third place grand award (in Materials Category) at Intel’s International Science Fair ( ISEF) in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, May 2012. Congratulations, Fatimah!​

Pradipta’s paper for homojunction ferroelectric field effect transistor has been published in Applied Physics Letters. Congratulations Dr. Pradipta!​

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.​​

Wei’s J. Materials of Chemistry paper has been accepted and highlighted on the web page of the Royal Scociety of Chemistry (RSC) blog at http://blogs.rsc.org/jm/. Congratulations, Wei!

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)​

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!​​

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)​