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Maher F. El-Kady is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Materials Science and Engineering, with a focus on various subfields including Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, and Biomedical Engineering.

The scientist's work addresses key topics such as Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication, Advanced Battery Technologies Research, Conducting Polymers and Applications, Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion, Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials, Advancements in Battery Materials, and Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies.

Maher F. El-Kady has published extensively in several prominent venues. The frequent publication venues include:

  • Advanced Energy Materials
  • Advanced Functional Materials
  • Nano Energy
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Nano Letters

The scientist has collaborated frequently with co-authors such as Richard B. Kaner, Abolhassan Noori, Mir F. Mousavi, Mohammad S. Rahmanifar, and Xueying Chang.

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Maher F. El-Kady include:

  • "Trilayer Metal-Organic Frameworks as Multifunctional Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion and Storage Applications," 2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Triboelectric Nanogenerator versus Piezoelectric Generator at Low Frequency (<4 Hz): A Quantitative Comparison," 2020, iScience
  • "Layered Double Hydroxide Templated Synthesis of Amorphous NiCoFeB as a Multifunctional Electrocatalyst for Overall Water Splitting and Rechargeable Zinc-Air Batteries," 2022, Advanced Energy Materials
  • "An ultra-high mass-loading transition metal phosphide electrocatalyst for efficient water splitting and ultra-durable zinc-air batteries," 2024, Energy & Environmental Science
  • "Polyaniline-Lignin Interpenetrating Network for Supercapacitive Energy Storage," 2021, Nano Letters

Best Publications

  • Laser Scribing of High-Performance and Flexible Graphene-Based Electrochemical Capacitors

    Maher F. El-Kady;Maher F. El-Kady;Veronica Strong;Sergey Dubin;Richard B. Kaner

  • Design and Mechanisms of Asymmetric Supercapacitors.

    Yuanlong Shao;Maher F. El-Kady;Jingyu Sun;Yaogang Li

  • Scalable fabrication of high-power graphene micro-supercapacitors for flexible and on-chip energy storage

    Maher F. El-Kady;Richard B. Kaner

  • Graphene for batteries, supercapacitors and beyond

    Maher F. El-Kady;Maher F. El-Kady;Yuanlong Shao;Yuanlong Shao;Richard B. Kaner

  • Graphene-based materials for flexible supercapacitors

    Yuanlong Shao;Maher F. El-Kady;Maher F. El-Kady;Lisa J. Wang;Qinghong Zhang

  • Towards establishing standard performance metrics for batteries, supercapacitors and beyond.

    Abolhassan Noori;Maher F. El-Kady;Mohammad S. Rahmanifar;Richard B. Kaner

  • Engineering three-dimensional hybrid supercapacitors and microsupercapacitors for high-performance integrated energy storage

    Maher F. El-Kady;Maher F. El-Kady;Melanie Ihns;Mengping Li;Jee Youn Hwang

  • Patterning and Electronic Tuning of Laser Scribed Graphene for Flexible All-Carbon Devices

    Veronica Strong;Sergey Dubin;Maher F. El-Kady;Maher F. El-Kady;Andrew Lech

  • 3D Freeze‐Casting of Cellular Graphene Films for Ultrahigh‐Power‐Density Supercapacitors

    Yuanlong Shao;Yuanlong Shao;Maher F. El-Kady;Maher F. El-Kady;Cheng-Wei Lin;Guanzhou Zhu

  • Highly Ordered Mesoporous CuCo2O4 Nanowires, a Promising Solution for High-Performance Supercapacitors

    Afshin Pendashteh;Afshin Pendashteh;Seyyed Ebrahim Moosavifard;Mohammad S. Rahmanifar;Yue Wang

  • Designing 3D highly ordered nanoporous CuO electrodes for high-performance asymmetric supercapacitors.

    Seyyed E. Moosavifard;Maher F. El-Kady;Mohammad S. Rahmanifar;Richard B. Kaner

  • Trilayer Metal-Organic Frameworks as Multifunctional Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion and Storage Applications.

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  • A Simple Route to Porous Graphene from Carbon Nanodots for Supercapacitor Applications

    Volker Strauss;Kris Marsh;Matthew D. Kowal;Maher El-Kady;Maher El-Kady

  • Next-Generation Activated Carbon Supercapacitors: A Simple Step in Electrode Processing Leads to Remarkable Gains in Energy Density

    Jee Y. Hwang;Mengping Li;Maher F. El-Kady;Maher F. El-Kady;Richard B. Kaner

  • Integrated Triboelectric Nanogenerators in the Era of the Internet of Things

    Abdelsalam Ahmed;Abdelsalam Ahmed;Islam Hassan;Maher F. El-Kady;Ali Radhi

  • Direct preparation and processing of graphene/RuO2 nanocomposite electrodes for high-performance capacitive energy storage

    Jee Y. Hwang;Maher F. El-Kady;Maher F. El-Kady;Yue Wang;Lisa Wang

  • Vapor-phase polymerization of nanofibrillar poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) for supercapacitors.

    Julio M D'Arcy;Maher F El-Kady;Maher F El-Kady;Pwint P Khine;Linghong Zhang

  • Simultaneous determination of catecholamines, uric acid and ascorbic acid at physiological levels using poly(N-methylpyrrole)/Pd-nanoclusters sensor

    Nada F. Atta;Maher F. El-Kady;Ahmed Galal

  • Thionine Functionalized 3D Graphene Aerogel: Combining Simplicity and Efficiency in Fabrication of a Metal-Free Redox Supercapacitor

    Yasin Shabangoli;Mohammad S. Rahmanifar;Maher F. El-Kady;Abolhassan Noori

  • Novel poly(3-methylthiophene)/Pd, Pt nanoparticle sensor: Synthesis, characterization and its application to the simultaneous analysis of dopamine and ascorbic acid in biological fluids

    Nada F. Atta;Maher F. El-Kady

  • Palladium nanoclusters-coated polyfuran as a novel sensor for catecholamine neurotransmitters and paracetamol

    Nada F. Atta;Maher F. El-Kady;Ahmed Galal

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard B. Kaner
Richard B. Kaner University of California, Los Angeles
Mir Fazlollah Mousavi
Mir Fazlollah Mousavi Tarbiat Modares University
Yuanlong Shao
Yuanlong Shao Soochow University
James F. Rusling
James F. Rusling University of Connecticut
Nada F. Atta
Nada F. Atta Cairo University
Jun Ma
Jun Ma Harbin Institute of Technology
Hongzhi Wang
Hongzhi Wang Donghua University
Alexander M. Spokoyny
Alexander M. Spokoyny University of California, Los Angeles
Jeffrey I. Zink
Jeffrey I. Zink University of California, Los Angeles
Bradley F. Chmelka
Bradley F. Chmelka University of California, Santa Barbara

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