Affiliations

• Materials Science and Engineering
• Electrical and Computer Engineering

Education Profile

• Ph.D., Material Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University, 1995
• M.S., Material Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University, 1992
• B.S., Ceramics Engineering, Alfred University, 1990

Research Interests

Professor Husam Alshareef is the Chair of the KAUST Center of Excellence for Renewable Energy and Storage Technologies (CREST) and the Principal Investigator of the KAUST Functional Nanomaterials & Devices Laboratory, with research interests in the development of nanoscale materials for energy and electronics applications. Alshareef’s work focuses on synthesizing advanced nanomaterials and translating them into practical solutions, contributing significantly to innovations in electronics, renewable energy and storage technologies. Husam is the author of 620 journal publications and holds 80 issued patents. With over 68,000 citations and an h-index of 142 (Google Scholar), he was recognized for the fifth consecutive year by the Web of Science and Clarivate Analytics as a highly cited researcher in material science, placing him in the top 1% of worldwide researchers in terms of research output. Professor Alshareef is a Fellow of several prestigious organizations, including the Materials Research Society (MRS), American Physical Society (APS), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the U.S. National Academy of Inventors (NAI), the UK Institute of Physics (IoP), the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), and the Institute of Materials, Minerals, and Mining (IMMM). These accolades reflect Husam’s extensive contributions to materials science, positioning him as a leader in the field.

Selected Publications

• Lei, Y.; Zhao, W.; Yin, J.; Ma, Y.; Zhao, Z.; Yin, J.; Khan, Y.; Hedhili, M. N.; Chen, L.; Wang, Q.; Yuan, Y.; Zhang, X.; Bakr, O. M.; Mohammed, O. F.; Alshareef, H. N. Discovery of a Three-Proton Insertion Mechanism in α-Molybdenum Trioxide Leading to Enhanced Charge Storage Capacity. Nature Communications 2023, 14 (1).

• Zhu, Y.; Guo, X.; Thomas, S.; Yin, J.; Yuan, Y.; Tian, Z.; Harrison, G. T.; Stefaan De Wolf; Bakr, O. M.; Mohammed, O. F.; Alshareef, H. N. An Ultrafast Na-Ion Battery Chemistry through Coupling Sustainable Organic Electrodes with Modulated Aqueous Electrolytes. Energy & Environmental Science 2024.

• Ming, F.; Zhu, Y.; Huang, G.; Abdul‐Hamid Emwas; Liang, H.; Cui, Y.; Alshareef, H. N. Co-Solvent Electrolyte Engineering for Stable Anode-Free Zinc Metal Batteries. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2022, 144 (16), 7160–7170.

• Zhao, Z.; Binbin Nian; Lei, Y.; Zhao, L.; Hedhili, M. N.; Guo, D.; Shi, Z.; Zhao, W.; El‐Demellawi, J. K.; Wang, Y.; Zhu, Y.; Xu, K.; Alshareef, H. N. Passivation Layers in Mg‐Metal Batteries: Robust Interphases for Li‐Metal Batteries. Advanced Materials 2024.

• Xu, X.; Zhang, C.; Yin, J.; Smajic, J.; Bahabri, M.; Lei, Y.; Mohamed Nejib Hedhili; Hota, M. K.; Shi, L.; Guo, T.; Zheng, D.; El‐Demellawi, J. K.; Lanza, M.; Pedro; Bakr, O. M.; Mohammed, O. F.; Zhang, X.; Alshareef, H. N. Anisotropic Superconducting Nb2CTx MXene Processed by Atomic Exchange at the Wafer Scale. Advanced Materials 2023, 36 (3).

• El-Demellawi, J. K.; Mansour, A. E.; El-Zohry, A. M.; Hedhili, M. N.; Yin, J.; Emwas, A.-H. M.; Partha Maity; Xu, X.; Bakr, O. M.; Mohammed, O. F.; Alshareef, H. N. Tuning the Work Function of Ti3c2Tx MXene by Molecular Doping without Changing Its Surface Functional Groups. ACS Materials Letters 2022, 4 (12), 2480–2490.

• Hong, S.; El-Demellawi, J. K.; Lei, Y.; Liu, Z.; Marzooqi, F. A.; Arafat, H. A.; Alshareef, H. N. Porous Ti3C2Tx MXene Membranes for Highly Efficient Salinity Gradient Energy Harvesting. ACS Nano 2022.

• Pazos, S.; Xu, X.; Guo, T.; Zhu, K.; Alshareef, H. N.; Lanza, M. Solution-Processed Memristors: Performance and Reliability. Nature Reviews Materials 2024, 9 (5), 358–373.