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Overview

Osama Shekhah is affiliated with King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia. Their research primarily focuses on materials science, engineering, and chemistry, with a particular emphasis on materials chemistry, electrical and electronic engineering, and inorganic chemistry.

The main topics of their research include:

  • Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications
  • Covalent Organic Framework Applications
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • Membrane Separation and Gas Transport
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Advanced battery technologies research
  • Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors

Osama Shekhah has contributed to multiple recent publications across several scientific venues. Notable papers include:

  • "Molecular enhancement of heterogeneous CO2 reduction," 2020, Nature Materials
  • "Asymmetric pore windows in MOF membranes for natural gas valorization," 2022, Nature
  • "Advances in metal-organic framework-based membranes," 2022, Chemical Society Reviews
  • "Molecular Engineering of Covalent Organic Framework Cathodes for Enhanced Zinc-Ion Batteries," 2021, Advanced Materials
  • "Phenanthroline Covalent Organic Framework Electrodes for High-Performance Zinc-Ion Supercapattery," 2020, ACS Energy Letters

Their frequent co-authors include Mohamed Eddaoudi, Prashant M. Bhatt, Omar F. Mohammed, Aleksander Shkurenko, and Guillaume Maurin. Collaborations with these researchers have been significant, with Mohamed Eddaoudi appearing as a co-author on 98 publications.

Osama Shekhah has published extensively in several scientific journals. Some of the primary publication venues are The Cambridge Structural Database, Journal of the American Chemical Society, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Advanced Materials, and Advanced Energy Materials.

Best Publications

  • MOF thin films: existing and future applications

    O. Shekhah;J. Liu;R. A. Fischer;Ch. Wöll

  • Step-by-Step Route for the Synthesis of Metal−Organic Frameworks

    Osama Shekhah;Hui Wang;Stefan Kowarik;Frank Schreiber

  • Thin films of metal–organic frameworks

    Denise Zacher;Osama Shekhah;Christof Wöll;Roland A. Fischer

  • Made-to-order metal-organic frameworks for trace carbon dioxide removal and air capture

    Osama Shekhah;Youssef Belmabkhout;Zhijie Chen;Vincent Guillerm

  • Molecular enhancement of heterogeneous CO 2 reduction.

    Dae-Hyun Nam;Phil De Luna;Phil De Luna;Alonso Rosas-Hernández;Arnaud Thevenon

  • Controlling interpenetration in metal-organic frameworks by liquid-phase epitaxy.

    Osama Shekhah;Hui Wang;Markos Paradinas;Carmen Ocal

  • Mixed matrix formulations with MOF molecular sieving for key energy-intensive separations.

    Gongping Liu;Gongping Liu;Valeriya Chernikova;Yang Liu;Kuang Zhang

  • A Fine-Tuned Fluorinated MOF Addresses the Needs for Trace CO2 Removal and Air Capture Using Physisorption

    Prashant M. Bhatt;Youssef Belmabkhout;Amandine Cadiau;Karim Adil

  • Asymmetric pore windows in MOF membranes for natural gas valorization

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  • Metal-Organic Frameworks Mediate Cu Coordination for Selective CO2 Electroreduction.

    Dae Hyun Nam;Oleksandr S. Bushuyev;Jun Li;Phil De Luna

  • Growth Mechanism of Metal–Organic Frameworks: Insights into the Nucleation by Employing a Step-by-Step Route

    Osama Shekhah;Hui Wang;Denise Zacher;Roland A. Fischer

  • Advances in metal-organic framework-based membranes.

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  • Tunable Rare Earth fcu-MOF Platform: Access to Adsorption Kinetics Driven Gas/Vapor Separations via Pore Size Contraction.

    Dong-Xu Xue;Youssef Belmabkhout;Osama Shekhah;Hao Jiang

  • Energy Transfer in Metal–Organic Frameworks for Fluorescence Sensing

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  • Molecular Engineering of Covalent Organic Framework Cathodes for Enhanced Zinc-Ion Batteries

    Wenxi Wang;Vinayak Swamirao Kale;Zhen Cao;Yougjiu Lei

  • MOFs for the Sensitive Detection of Ammonia: Deployment of fcu-MOF Thin Films as Effective Chemical Capacitive Sensors

    Ayalew Hussen Assen Assen;Omar Yassine;Osama Shekhah;Mohamed Eddaoudi

  • High-Throughput Fabrication of Uniform and Homogenous MOF Coatings

    Hasan K. Arslan;Osama Shekhah;Jonas Wohlgemuth;Matthias Franzreb

  • Phenanthroline Covalent Organic Framework Electrodes for High-Performance Zinc-Ion Supercapattery

    Wenxi Wang;Vinayak Swamirao Kale;Zhen Cao;Sharath Kandambeth

  • H2S Sensors: Fumarate-Based fcu-MOF Thin Film Grown on a Capacitive Interdigitated Electrode

    Omar Yassine;Osama Shekhah;Ayalew Hussen Assen Assen;Youssef Belmabkhout

  • Unprecedented Ultralow Detection Limit of Amines using a Thiadiazole-Functionalized Zr(IV)-Based Metal-Organic Framework.

    Arijit Mallick;Ahmed M. El-Zohry;Osama Shekhah;Jun Yin

  • A novel series of isoreticular metal organic frameworks: realizing metastable structures by liquid phase epitaxy.

    Jinxuan Liu;Binit Lukose;Osama Shekhah;Osama Shekhah;Hasan Kemal Arslan

  • Enantiopure metal-organic framework thin films: oriented SURMOF growth and enantioselective adsorption.

    Bo Liu;Osama Shekhah;Hasan K. Arslan;Jinxuan Liu

  • Thin Films of Metal—Organic Frameworks

    Denise Zacher;Osama Shekhah;Christof Woell;Roland A. Fischer

  • MOF Thin Films: Existing and Future Applications

    O. Shekhah;J. Liu;R. A. Fischer;Ch. Woell

Frequent Co-Authors

Mohamed Eddaoudi
Mohamed Eddaoudi King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Youssef Belmabkhout
Youssef Belmabkhout Mohammed VI Polytechnic University
Christof Wöll
Christof Wöll Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Roland A. Fischer
Roland A. Fischer Technical University of Munich
Karim Adil
Karim Adil King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Khaled N. Salama
Khaled N. Salama King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Prashant M. Bhatt
Prashant M. Bhatt King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Husam N. Alshareef
Husam N. Alshareef King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Mohammad I. Younis
Mohammad I. Younis King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Gongping Liu
Gongping Liu Nanjing Tech University

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