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  • 2026 - Research.com Chemistry in United States Leader Award
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  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Materials Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2009 - SPIE Fellow
  • 1984 - Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences
  • 1980 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1965 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Mostafa A. El-Sayed is affiliated with the Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on materials science, with a significant concentration on electronic, optical, and magnetic materials.

The scientist's work spans several subfields of study, including:

  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Materials Chemistry
  • Biomaterials

Within these areas, the main topics of their research include:

  • Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
  • Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications
  • Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery
  • Ammonia Synthesis and Nitrogen Reduction
  • Nanoplatforms for Cancer Theranostics
  • Advanced Biosensing and Bioanalysis Techniques
  • Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications

Several frequent coauthors have collaborated with Mostafa A. El-Sayed, including:

  • Nasrin Hooshmand
  • Mohammadreza Nazemi
  • Hagar I. Labouta
  • Sajjad Abdollahramezani
  • Omid Hemmatyar

The scientist's recent publications cover various aspects of nanomaterials and their applications. Notable papers include:

  • "Electrically driven reprogrammable phase-change metasurface reaching 80% efficiency," 2022, Nature Communications
  • "Dynamic Hybrid Metasurfaces," 2021, Nano Letters
  • "Plasmonic and chiroplasmonic nanobiosensors based on gold nanoparticles," 2020, Talanta
  • "Ambient Ammonia Electrosynthesis from Nitrogen and Water by Incorporating Palladium in Bimetallic Gold-Silver Nanocages," 2020, Journal of The Electrochemical Society
  • "Electrosynthesis of Ammonia Using Porous Bimetallic Pd-Ag Nanocatalysts in Liquid- and Gas-Phase Systems," 2020, ACS Catalysis

Publication venues that frequently feature Mostafa A. El-Sayed's work include:

  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
  • ACS Nano
  • ECS Meeting Abstracts
  • Nature Communications
  • Nano Letters

The scientist has received several recognitions throughout their career, such as:

  • SPIE Fellow (2009)
  • Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences (1984)
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1980)
  • Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (1965)

Best Publications

  • Chemistry and properties of nanocrystals of different shapes.

    Clemens Burda;Xiaobo Chen;Radha Narayanan;Mostafa A. El-Sayed

  • Cancer Cell Imaging and Photothermal Therapy in the Near-Infrared Region by Using Gold Nanorods

    Xiaohua Huang;Ivan H. El-Sayed;Wei Qian;Mostafa A. El-Sayed

  • Preparation and Growth Mechanism of Gold Nanorods (NRs) Using Seed-Mediated Growth Method

    Babak Nikoobakht and;Mostafa A. El-Sayed

  • Spectral properties and relaxation dynamics of surface plasmon electronic oscillations in gold and silver nanodots and nanorods

    Stephan Link and;Mostafa A. El-Sayed

  • Calculated Absorption and Scattering Properties of Gold Nanoparticles of Different Size, Shape, and Composition: Applications in Biological Imaging and Biomedicine

    Prashant K. Jain;Kyeong Seok Lee;Ivan H. El-Sayed;Mostafa A. El-Sayed

  • Noble Metals on the Nanoscale: Optical and Photothermal Properties and Some Applications in Imaging, Sensing, Biology, and Medicine

    Prashant K. Jain;Xiaohua Huang;Ivan H. El-Sayed;Mostafa A. El-Sayed

  • The golden age: gold nanoparticles for biomedicine

    Erik C. Dreaden;Alaaldin M. Alkilany;Xiaohua Huang;Catherine J. Murphy

  • Some interesting properties of metals confined in time and nanometer space of different shapes.

    Mostafa A. El-Sayed

  • Size and temperature dependence of the plasmon absorption of colloidal gold nanoparticles

    Stephan Link;Mostafa A. El-Sayed

  • Shape-Controlled Synthesis of Colloidal Platinum Nanoparticles

    Temer S. Ahmadi;Zhong L. Wang;Travis C. Green;Arnim Henglein

  • Shape and size dependence of radiative, non-radiative and photothermal properties of gold nanocrystals

    Stephan Link;Mostafa A. El-Sayed

  • Why gold nanoparticles are more precious than pretty gold: noble metal surface plasmon resonance and its enhancement of the radiative and nonradiative properties of nanocrystals of different shapes.

    Susie Eustis;Mostafa A. El-Sayed

  • Plasmonic photothermal therapy (PPTT) using gold nanoparticles

    Xiaohua Huang;Prashant K. Jain;Ivan H. El-Sayed;Mostafa A. El-Sayed;Mostafa A. El-Sayed

  • Gold and Silver Nanoparticles in Sensing and Imaging: Sensitivity of Plasmon Response to Size, Shape, and Metal Composition

    Kyeong-Seok Lee;Mostafa A El-Sayed

  • Gold nanoparticles: Optical properties and implementations in cancer diagnosis and photothermal therapy

    Xiaohua Huang;Mostafa A. El-Sayed

  • Surface plasmon resonance scattering and absorption of anti-EGFR antibody conjugated gold nanoparticles in cancer diagnostics: applications in oral cancer.

    Ivan H. El-Sayed;Xiaohua Huang;Mostafa A. El-Sayed

  • Gold Nanorods: From Synthesis and Properties to Biological and Biomedical Applications

    Xiaohua Huang;Svetlana Neretina;Mostafa A. El-Sayed

  • Simulation of the Optical Absorption Spectra of Gold Nanorods as a Function of Their Aspect Ratio and the Effect of the Medium Dielectric Constant

    and M. B. Mohamed;M. A. El-Sayed

  • On the Universal Scaling Behavior of the Distance Decay of Plasmon Coupling in Metal Nanoparticle Pairs: A Plasmon Ruler Equation

    Prashant K. Jain;Wenyu Huang;Mostafa A. El-Sayed

  • Catalysis with transition metal nanoparticles in colloidal solution: nanoparticle shape dependence and stability.

    Radha Narayanan;Mostafa A. El-Sayed

Frequent Co-Authors

Clemens Burda
Clemens Burda Case Western Reserve University
Vladimir V. Tsukruk
Vladimir V. Tsukruk Georgia Institute of Technology
Stephan Link
Stephan Link Rice University
Prashant K. Jain
Prashant K. Jain University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Zhong Lin Wang
Zhong Lin Wang Georgia Institute of Technology
Nageh K. Allam
Nageh K. Allam American University in Cairo
Wenyu Huang
Wenyu Huang Iowa State University
Meilin Liu
Meilin Liu Georgia Institute of Technology
Dong M. Shin
Dong M. Shin Emory University
Ali Adibi
Ali Adibi Georgia Institute of Technology

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