Thank you Dr. Santanu for all your hard work and dedication, we wish you the best of luck on your next adventure!

Optimizing Host–Guest Selectivity for Ethylbenzene Capture Toward Superior Styrene Purification; Chemistry of Materials 2022, 34, 1, 197-202

N.M. Khashab, J.L. Sessler, B. Hua, Y. Ding, L. Alimi, B. Moosa, G. Zhang and W. Baslyman; Tuning the Porosity of Triangular Supramolecular Adsorbents for Superior Haloalkane Isomer Separations; Chem. Sci., 2021, 12

We are delighted to welcome Andrew Cohen from Brigham Young University (Utah, USA) to our group.

N.M. Khashab, J.L. Sessler, B. Hua, Y. Ding, L. Alimi, B. Moosa, G. Zhang and W. Baslyman; Tuning the Porosity of Triangular Supramolecular Adsorbents for Superior Haloalkane Isomer Separations; Chem. Sci., 2021

N.M. Khashab, S.E. Skrabalak, L. Adler-Abramovich, S.F. Bent, F. El-Mellouhi, E. Kumacheva, D.J. Milliron, J. Neu, E. Rezasoltani, Q. Shen, and S. Sicolo; Resilient Women and the Resiliency of Science; Chem. Mater. 2021

Biocompatibility and biodegradability of Metal Organic Frameworks for biomedical applications; J. Mater. Chem. B, 2021

We are thrilled to congratulate, Prof. Niveen Khashab with promotion to full Professor of Chemical Science at PSE Division. Prof. Khashab has also been named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. All members of our laboratory wish Professor many more wonderful achievements ahead!

Our alumna Shahad Alsairi, PhD recognized by the MIT Technology Review as one of 10 under-35 innovators from the MENA region "producing technical work that promises to change the world". Congratulations, Shahad!

Coordination-based self-assembled capsules (SACs) for protein, CRISPR–Cas9, DNA and RNA delivery. Chemical Science, 2021

A reverse form of host-guest chemistry could upend the way the chemical industry approaches challenging, energy-intensive molecular separations.

From capsule to helix: guest-induced superstructures of chiral macrocycle crystals. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020

Professor Niveen Khashab's paper had been recognized as one of the most read on Advanced Therapeutics Journal.

Shape-Induced Selective Separation of Ortho-substituted Benzene Isomers Enabled by Cucurbit[7]uril Host Macrocycles; Chem, March 30, 2020

A molecule with a hollow center proves ideal for separating a common industrial chemical mixture

Large cylindrical ligands increase stability and enhance light emission of silver nanoclusters

Professor Mitsuhiko Shionoya from University of Tokyo visited our group.

Professor Nabeshima Tatsuya from University of Tsukuba visited our group.

Professor Partha Sarathi Mukherjee from Inorganic and Physical Chemistry Dept., Indian Institute of Science visited our group.

​Dr. Peng Yang started his own career after two years of hard work in SHMs research group, acquired a full professor position at Hunan University.

​M. Muhammed, L. Cruz, A.‐H. Emwas, A. El-Zohry, B. Moosa, O. Mohammed, N.M. Khashab. Pillar[5]arene Stabilized Silver Nanoclusters: Immense Stability and Luminescence Enhancement Induced by Host-Guest Interactions. Angewandte Chemie, Accepted Article, 2019

​Our paper "Trianglamine-based supramolecular organic framework with permanent intrinsic porosity and tunable selectivity" has been featured in 2019 JACS Young Investigators Virtual Issue

​Our work was highlighted as one of the best in 10 years in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces!
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L. Zhang, W. Baslyman, P. Yang, N.M. Khashab. Customized mesoporous metal organic frameworks engender stable enzymatic nanoreactors. Chemical Communications 55 (5), 620-623, 2019

Haneen received her Ph.D. degree .. congratulation Haneen​​

Safa'a received her Ph.D. degree .. Congratulations Safa'a!

Shahad received her Ph.D. degree .. Congratulations Shahad! ​

Chaix, Arnaud; Mouchaham, Georges; Shkurenko, Aleksander; Hoang, Phuong​; Moosa, Basem; Bhatt, Prashant M.; Adil, Karim; Salama, Khaled N.; Eddaoudi, Mohamed; Khashab, Niveen M. Journal of the American Chemical Society (2018), 140, 14571−14575.

​Yang, Peng; Alsufyani, Maryam; Emwas, Abdul‐Hamid; Chen, Chaoqin; Khasha, Niveen M. Angewandte Chemie International Edition​ (2018), 57, 1-6.​​

SHMs team is participating in ISMSC 2018 Conference​

​Our paper is the Most Read by Advanced Science News
https:// www.advancedsciencenews.com/most-read-featuring-antimicrobial-nanomedicine-silica-nanoparticles-glucose-sensors/​;

​​Congrats yang and Kuikun on The JACS publication

Our new paper in Advanced Functional Materials in Collaboration with JO- Durand is now available online

​Our new paper in JACS in collaboration with Prof. Sessler is now online (2018), 140(8), 2777-2780.

Nanomaterial coating enables efficient delivery of CRISPR-Cas9 machinery into the cell

​Our Cover in the first issue of JACS 2018

​JACS Communication is published

​Our Invited review in Advanced Healthcare Materials is available online

​Yang's paper is published in ACS-AMI

​Widad graduates from Chimie-paristech with best intership at SHMs lab-KAUST

​Prof. Jong Seung Kim delivers the Chemistry Seminar at KAUST

​Science for Peace, Amman-Jordan

​Professor Katharina Fromm from University of Fribourg visited our group.​​​

​Prof. Khashab delivers a Key Note lecture highlighting the research SHMs group

Congrats Prof. Niveen Khashab. She received the interview from Nature News. ​

Spiky-shaped additives help antimicrobial coatings sense and inhibit bacteria growth on dental devices

​Professor Jonathan Sessler visited our group.​

​Professor Emilie Ringe visited our group.

​Professor Miguel Garcia-Garibay visited our group.

​Professor Niveen M. Khashab

​Thank you, Dr. Khashab, for being nominated and the Council for being selected for the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting 2017 #LiNo17.
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​Professor Ali Coskun visited our group.

​Congrats Phuong! Her article has been published online in the Chemistry of Materials journal.

​Congrats Shahad and Amen! Their article has been published online in the Advanced Healthcare Materials journal.

​Congrats Jonas! His article has been published online in the Atlas of Science.

​Read about our toroids on KAUST Discovery news.

​Congrats Jonas! His review has been published online in the Advanced Materials journal.

Congrats Yevhen! His article has been published online in the ChemPlusChem journal.

​​Congrats Patricia! Her article has been published online in the Chemical Communications.

​Congrats Amen! His article has been published online in the ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces.

Professor Mark E. Davis visited our group.

​​Professor Catherine J. Murphy visited our group.

​Prof. Khashab receives global honor

​Professor Xiaoyuan (Shawn) Chen visited our group.

​Congrats Prof. Khashab with recognition of her work at SIPCD 2016!

​Professor Shinji Inagaki visited our group.

​Prof. Khashab attends GRC on Nobel Metal Nanoparticles as a discussion leader.

​The achievements of our members were twice highlighted on the scientific portal Nature Middle East. Read more about "Nano anticancer drug delivery" and "Light-triggered drug release and delivery".

Congrats to our internship student Rahaf AlBathi! Her poster won the third place award in the 7th Annual Scientific & Research Poster Competition at AlFaisal University.

​​Professor Helmuth Möhwald visited our group.

Congratulations to Dr. Fhayli who recently defended his PhD theses and got degree. We wish him luck and commitment in finding job!

​Professor Christine Payne visited our group.

Professor Mostafa A. El-Sayed visited our group.

​Read about SHMs lab in KAUST news.

​Our smart-drug research in KAUST news.

She receieved third prize for the best poster presentation award in International Symposium: "Advances in nanoparticulate carriers - Applications in diseases and infections", Pasteur Institute in Paris, France.

​​Professor Jeroen Cornelissen visited our group.

Congratulations to Dr. Ezzedine and Dr. Julfakyan who recently defended their PhD theses and got degree. We wish them luck and commitment in finding job. He received the French Society of Chemistry as well as the Balard Chemistry Foundation Thesis Awards for this his doctoral thesis entitled “Two-photon-actuated theranostic nanomedicine for cancer treatment”. Thanks to his Ph.D. work from 2011 to 2014, he so far published 13 peer-reviewed articles in high impact factor journals, with 10 as first author. These prizes were awarded for the best thesis in all areas of Chemistry for southern regional universities and institutes.
He was recently an invited speaker in the “3rd Mediterranean Young Researchers Days” conference (10/12/2015-10/14/2015), in which the 2014 Chemistry Nobel Laureate William Moerner was the honored guest. He presented his doctoral research in the event and received the Balard-Total prize.

Congratulations to Dr. Ezzedine and Dr. Julfakyan who recently defended their PhD theses and got degree. We wish them luck and commitment in finding job.

​Professor Karsten Haupt visited our group.

Congrats Khach! He won 2nd place for the Best Poster Award in Advances in Functional Materials - 2015 Conference in New York, USA, 2 Jul, 2015

The SHMs team would like to congratulate Song Li (PhD) and Afnan Mashat (PhD) for their graduation

​Professor Marek Urban visited our group.

Prof. Susumu Kitagawa visited our group.

​Professor Sarah Heilshorn visited our group.

Prof. Niveen M. Khashab gave a talk in Stanford university (chemistry seminar)​​

Prof. Niveen M. Khashab took a part as chair and gave a speech entitled "Magnetic microcapsule as a MRI-visible multifunctional theranostic platform for remote cancer therapy with synergistic antitumor effect" during SPIE conference in San Francisco, California, United States​.

Congratulation to Saleh Al-Hamad, He was qualified to the National Olympiad for Scientific Creativity (Ibdaa) for his project: Self-Assembly of Phospholipid/ Polymer on Carbon Nanotubes for a Stimuli Responsive Drug Release.

Prof. Niveen M. Khashab gave a talk in SICC-8 on December 17th 2014, Singapore

He received the French Society of Chemistry as well as the Balard Chemistry Foundation Thesis Awards for this his doctoral thesis entitled “Two-photon-actuated theranostic nanomedicine for cancer treatment”. Thanks to his Ph.D. work from 2011 to 2014, he so far published 13 peer-reviewed articles in high impact factor journals, with 10 as first author. These prizes were awarded for the best thesis in all areas of Chemistry for southern regional universities and institutes. He was recently an invited speaker in the “3rd Mediterranean Young Researchers Days” conference (10/12/2015-10/14/2015), in which the 2014 Chemistry Nobel Laureate William Moerner was the honored guest. He presented his doctoral research in the event and received the Balard-Total prize.

Prof. Niveen M. Khashab took a part as co-chair in MRS fall meeting on December 2nd 2014 (Boston, USA) and gave the speech about application of gold nanoparticles in biomedicine.

Alaa won the second place at the KAUST Research Conference: APPLIED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS CHEMISTRY poster competition​​​​

​Professor Lusia De Cola visited our group.

​Professor Thomas Bein visited our group.

Prof. Niveen M. Khashab took a part as chair and organizer of ACS on campus event on 26-30 October 2014.

​Professor Vincent Rotello visited our group.

"Electrostatic Self Assembly of Smart Nano carriers" was the title of Prof. Niveen Khashab's speech in Tsinghua University in China last Monday September 15th 2014.

Prof. Niveen M. Khashab took a part as chair in "Third Symposium on Innovative Polymers for Controlled Delivery" on 16th September 2014, Suzhou, China.

Prof. Richard Zare has visited SHMs Lab. and met the group members!​

Kholod and Wanyu graduated with a Master's Degree. Kholod will rejoin SHMs lab. next semester as a PhD student.​

SHMs members had attended the second Saudi international Nanotechnology 2012 at Riyadh​

Lin, Afnan and Wengang are back to KAUST after attending the second sypmposium on innovative polymers for controlled delivery, Garden Hotel, Suzuhou, China.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

SEMINAR - Assistant Professor Ognjen S. Miljanic: Benzazoles as Broad-Spectrum Fluorescent Sensors and Components of Self-Organizing Systems

Congratulations! Lifeng has got his master degree in Chemical Science.

David's paper titled pH-triggered micellar membrane for controlled release microchips has been published on Polymer Chemistry