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introduction/brief CV
Professor Ayman Nafady is a leading research scientist of Nanomaterials/Inorganic electrochemistry and renewable energy at the Chemistry Department, College of Science, King Saud University (KSU), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He also holds a permanent position as a full professor of physical chemistry at Sohag University, Egypt & visiting professor at the Centre for Advanced Materials and Industrial Chemistry (CAMIC) and Ian Potter NanoBioSensing Facility at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. Regional consultant/trainer at London Institute of Skills Development (LISD); Fellow of the International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM), Stockholm, Sweden; Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Nanomaterials and Chemistry and Associate Editor for King Saud University Science Journal. Prominently featured scientist among the world’s top 2% of the most influential and highly cited researchers by the prestigious Sanford University ranking since 2022.
Prof. Nafady did his Ph.D. (2000-2004) under the supervision of Prof. William Geiger at the University of Vermont, USA, and has been a Research Fellow at Monash University (2005-2011), Melbourne, Australia, working with Prof. Alan Bond. He has made significant contributions to the fields of inorganic/organometallic electrochemistry and nanomaterial science and has been a pioneer in the development of novel electrochemical and photochemical approaches for controlling the synthesis and fabrication of a wide range of metal-organic frameworks and nanostructured materials for applications in water splitting, supercapacitors, biosensors, catalysis, and other energy-related applications. He also participated in the development of flow cell technology for electrochemical applications using Synchrotron Radiation. He has published one book chapter, 12 review articles, one USA patent, and more than 400 papers in top peer-reviewed international journals. He has an h-index of 61, and the total number of citations for his publications exceeds 12,700. He also presented his work at many national and international conferences, and acted as an academic advisor and educational motivator for the College of Science’s students at KSU. Recipient of King’s Award for Excellence in Chemistry of Life (2024), London UK and IAAM Scientist Medal (2024) in functional materials, Stockholm, Sweden, and Distinguished Research Excellent Award (2025), College of Science, KSU.
areas of expertise
- Intimate knowledge of electrochemical theory and methodology including cyclic voltammetry, chronoamperometry, chronocoulometry, square wave voltammetry, differential pulse voltammetry, bulk electrolysis and galvnostatic techniques.
- Solid-state electrochemistry and its applications in synthesis of nanostructured and nanocomposite materials.
- Electrocrystallization of semiconducting and magnetic network coordination polymers
- Electrodeposition of metals from organic solvents and ionic liquids for wide range of electroanalytical applications.
- Excellent practical experience in electrodeposition and fabrication of polymeric organic thin films for solar cells and organic field effect transistors.
- Professional of all mechanistic aspects of electron transfer reactions.
- Expert in electrochemistry of inorganic and organometallic compounds in nonconventional media such as ionic liquids, fluorous solvents and weakly coordinating anions.
- Professional of using modeling and digital simulation software for many electrochemical and ESR techniques.
- Expert in photo-electrochemical water splitting using semiconductors and sunlight
- Electrochemical synthesis of flexible materials for super capacitance and storage materials
- Using of Sunlight/photoelectrochemistry and silicon for water splitting and hydrogen production from aprotic ionic liquids
- Using Ni-foam as substrate and flexible carbon cloth with catalysts electrochemical for water splitting
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This General Chemistry course contains 8 Chapters with the details as outlines in the Syllabus attached.
This course covers the following subjects -Types of solids and their external structure -Introduction to symmetry in crystalline solids, 7 unit cell shapes…
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