2026 Bader Ghanem: Materials Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Materials Science	44	11916	11521	69	69	78	11423

Overview

Bader Ghanem is affiliated with King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia. Their research primarily spans fields such as Engineering and Materials Science, with notable subfields including Mechanical Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Water Science and Technology, Inorganic Chemistry, and Polymers and Plastics.

The scientist's work centers on topics including:

Membrane Separation and Gas Transport
Graphene research and applications
Membrane Separation Technologies
Covalent Organic Framework Applications
Synthesis and properties of polymers
Muon and positron interactions and applications
Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications

Bader Ghanem has published extensively in several scientific venues. The most frequent publication outlets include:

Journal of Membrane Science
Advanced Materials
Angewandte Chemie International Edition
Small Structures
Angewandte Chemie

Notable publications by this researcher include:

"Finely Tuned Submicroporous Thin-Film Molecular Sieve Membranes for Highly Efficient Fluid Separations", 2020, Advanced Materials
"Defect Engineering in Metal-Organic Frameworks Towards Advanced Mixed Matrix Membranes for Efficient Propylene/Propane Separation", 2021, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
"Recent Progress on Polymers of Intrinsic Microporosity and Thermally Modified Analogue Materials for Membrane-Based Fluid Separations", 2021, Small Structures
"State-of-the-art polymers of intrinsic microporosity for high-performance gas separation membranes", 2021, Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering
"Precise molecular sieving of ethylene from ethane using triptycene-derived submicroporous carbon membranes", 2023, Nature Materials

Frequent collaborators include:

Ingo Pinnau
Yu Han
Yingge Wang
Xiaofan Hu
Zain Ali

Best Publications

Polymers of intrinsic microporosity (PIMs): robust, solution-processable, organic nanoporous materials.

Peter M. Budd;Bader S. Ghanem;Saad Makhseed;Neil B. McKeown

1284
Citations
Solution-Processed, Organophilic Membrane Derived from a Polymer of Intrinsic Microporosity

Peter M. Budd;Elssalhen S. Elabas;Bader S. Ghanem;Saad Makhseed

1004
Citations
Gas separation membranes from polymers of intrinsic microporosity

Peter M. Budd;Kadhum J. Msayib;Carin E. Tattershall;Bader S. Ghanem

983
Citations
Polymers of intrinsic microporosity (PIMs): bridging the void between microporous and polymeric materials.

Neil B. McKeown;Peter M. Budd;Kadhum J. Msayib;Bader S. Ghanem

600
Citations
Gas permeation parameters and other physicochemical properties of a polymer of intrinsic microporosity: Polybenzodioxane PIM-1

Peter M. Budd;Neil B. McKeown;Bader S. Ghanem;Kadhum J. Msayib

598
Citations
Fine-Tuned Intrinsically Ultramicroporous Polymers Redefine the Permeability/Selectivity Upper Bounds of Membrane-Based Air and Hydrogen Separations

Raja Swaidan;Bader Ghanem;Ingo Pinnau

458
Citations
Ultra-microporous triptycene-based polyimide membranes for high-performance gas separation.

Bader S. Ghanem;Raja Swaidan;Eric Litwiller;Ingo Pinnau

412
Citations
High-Performance Membranes from Polyimides with Intrinsic Microporosity

Bader S. Ghanem;Neil B. McKeown;Peter M. Budd;James D. Selbie

378
Citations
Physical Aging, Plasticization and Their Effects on Gas Permeation in "Rigid" Polymers of Intrinsic Microporosity

Raja Swaidan;Bader Ghanem;Eric Litwiller;Ingo Pinnau

360
Citations
Triptycene-based polymers of intrinsic microporosity: organic materials that can be tailored for gas adsorption

Bader Ghanem;Bader Ghanem;Mohammed Hashem;Kenneth David Maclean Harris;Kadhum Msayib

337
Citations
Polymers of intrinsic microporosity for energy-intensive membrane-based gas separations

Y. Wang;X. Ma;B.S. Ghanem;F. Alghunaimi

326
Citations
Synthesis, Characterization, and Gas Permeation Properties of a Novel Group of Polymers with Intrinsic Microporosity: PIM-Polyimides

Bader S. Ghanem;Bader S. Ghanem;Neil B. McKeown;Peter M. Budd;Nasser M. Al-Harbi

312
Citations
Pure- and mixed-gas CO2/CH4 separation properties of PIM-1 and an amidoxime-functionalized PIM-1

Raja Swaidan;Bader S. Ghanem;Eric Litwiller;Ingo Pinnau

298
Citations
A triptycene-based polymer of intrinsic microposity that displays enhanced surface area and hydrogen adsorption

Bader S. Ghanem;Kadhum Msayib;Neil B. McKeown;Kenneth David Maclean Harris

287
Citations
The potential of organic polymer-based hydrogen storage materials

Peter M. Budd;Anna Butler;James Selbie;Khalid Mahmood

248
Citations
Energy-Efficient Hydrogen Separation by AB-Type Ladder-Polymer Molecular Sieves

Bader S. Ghanem;Raja Swaidan;Xiaohua Ma;Eric Litwiller

211
Citations
Polymers of Intrinsic Microporosity Derived from Bis(phenazyl) Monomers

Bader S. Ghanem;Neil B. McKeown;Peter M. Budd;Detlev Fritsch

206
Citations
Rational Design of Intrinsically Ultramicroporous Polyimides Containing Bridgehead-Substituted Triptycene for Highly Selective and Permeable Gas Separation Membranes

Raja Swaidan;Majed Al-Saeedi;Bader Ghanem;Eric Litwiller

197
Citations
A nanoporous network polymer derived from hexaazatrinaphthylene with potential as an adsorbent and catalyst support

Peter M. Budd;Bader Ghanem;Kadhum Msayib;Neil B. McKeown

176
Citations
Ultraselective glassy polymer membranes with unprecedented performance for energy-efficient sour gas separation.

Shouliang Yi;Bader Ghanem;Yang Liu;Ingo Pinnau

163
Citations
Effects of hydroxyl-functionalization and sub-Tg thermal annealing on high pressure pure- and mixed-gas CO2/CH4 separation by polyimide membranes based on 6FDA and triptycene-containing dianhydrides

Raja Swaidan;Bader Ghanem;Eric Litwiller;Ingo Pinnau

132
Citations