We are very delighted and proud to announce that Professors Mohamed Eddaoudi from the Advanced Membranes and Porous Materials Center at KAUST are listed as the world’s most-cited researchers for 2019.​​

Highly Cited Researchers 2015 represents some of world’s most influential scientific minds. About three thousand researchers earned this distinction by writing the greatest number of reports officially designated by Essential Science Indicators as Highly Cited Papers — ranking among the top 1% most cited for their subject field and year of publication, earning them the mark of exceptional impact.

Quest for anionic MOF membranes: continuous sod-ZMOF membrane with CO2 adsorption-driven selectivity
B.A. Al-Maythalony, O. Shekhah, R. Swaidan, Y. Belmabkhout, I. Pinnau, and M. Eddaoudi
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 137 (5), pp 1754–1757, (2015)

The Functional Materials Design Discovery and Development (FMD3) website is now online!

The FMD3 group is pleased to welcome two new PhD students, Valeriya Chernikova and Ayalew H Assen.

​FMD3 is now looking for qualified applicants to join our lab.

Scientists from KAUST and the University of South Florida (USF) have discovered and developed a unique, efficient, inexpensive, and reusable metal-organic framework (MOF) material for carbon capture and separation that could lead to new clean-air and energy saving technologies.

The FMD3 research group is pleased to welcome Dr. Karim Adil as a new research scientist.

Amy Cairns moved to a Post-Doc position in Pacific Northwest National Lab.

FMD3 hiring immediate post-doc to work on materials characterization, adsorption, gas separation