On August 20, Dr. Genrikh Shterk successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations on reaching this remarkable milestone!

Dr. Il Son Khan successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis on July 24. Congratulations on your accomplishment!

Congratulations to Faisal for being included on the 2023 dean's list!

The ACM group has developed an ammonia cracking catalyst to be used in the new ammonia cracking technology being developed by Aramco and Linde Engineering.

KAUST Insight magazine has featured in its last story our Research Scientist, Diego Mateo

Congratulations to Tuiana Shoinkhorova for being awarded by the PSE division with the Best Ph.D. Award for her doctoral thesis.

We are proud to announce that Anastasiya is listed in the 2022 Class of Influential Researchers. Congratulations on this achievement!

We are proud to announce that Professor Jorge Gascon is listed as the world’s most-cited researchers for the fifth consecutive year.

Dr. Mustafa Caglayan successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis on November 7. Congratulations on your accomplishment!

The University of Alicante has conferred an honorary doctorate to Jorge Gascon in a ceremony held on October 19, 2022.

ACM postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Diego Mateo, has been awarded with the BASF-ICIQ prize for the best Doctoral Thesis. Congratulation Diego for this achievement!

Dr. Abhay Dokania successfully defended his PhD thesis on February 17. Congratulations on your accomplishment!

Dr. Tuiana Shoinkhorova successfully defended her PhD thesis on Thursday, 10 February. Congratulations on your accomplishment!

This recognition aims to support and highlight his scientific research.

Congratulations Dr. Alabdullah on your accomplishment!

Prof. Gascon provides insights on the one-step process, the benefits of the technology and the next steps in implementing it.

Catalyst nanoparticles trap an unprecedented range of wavelengths of light to convert carbon dioxide into methane.

We are proud to announce that Professor Jorge Gascon is listed as the world’s most-cited researchers for 2020.

​This list recognizes world-class researchers selected for their exceptional research performance, demonstrated by production of multiple highly cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in Web of Science​​

​This list recognizes world-class researchers selected for their exceptional research performance, demonstrated by production of multiple highly cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in Web of Science

​The perspective article, entitled "Heterogeneous Catalysis for the Valorization of CO2: Role of Bifunctional Processes in the Production of Chemicals", by Abhay, Adrian, Nastya and Jorge, has been accepted for publication in ACS Energy Letters​​

​​The​ article by Nastya and Jorge, entitled "An efficient nanosieve", has been published in Nature Materials​​

​The art​icle by Abhishek and Jorge, entitled "The Curious Case of Ketene in Zeolite Chemistry and Catalysis" has been accepted in Angewandte Chemie International Edition and will soon be available online.

Rethinking industry-scale catalytic processes could slash global energy consumption and even turn carbon dioxide into a valuable commodity. You can read the full article in the link below.

​The work entitled "Nanosheets of non-layered aluminium Metal-Organic Frameworks through a surfactant-assisted method", summarizing our recent paper in Advanced Materials received one of the poster awards at ECM31.

​One year after the start of the group at KAUST, the first experimental publication fully produced at KCC has been published in ACS Catalysis. The paper deals with a new and exciting research topic in the group, the selective activation of carbon dioxide to useful chemical products: Metal Organic Framework derived iron catalysts for the direct hydrogenation of CO2 to short chain olefins. ACS Catal. (2018). A. Ramirez, L. Gevers, A. Bavykina, S. Ould-Chikh and J. Gascon​

The manuscript, entitled Illuminating the nature and behavior of the active center: the key for photocatalytic H2 production in Co@NH2-MIL-125(Ti), has been published in J. Mat. Chem. A

The article entitled "Benzimidazole linked polymers (BILPs) in mixed-matrix membranes: influence of filler porosity on the CO2/N2 separation performance" by Meixia Shan, Beatriz Seoane, Alexey Pustovarenko, Xuerui Wang, Xinlei Liu, Irina Yarulina, Edy Abou-Hamad, Freek Kapteijn and Jorge Gascon has been accepted in J.Mem.Sci.

EnergyChem will invite review articles in all areas of chemistry, chemical engineering and materials science related to the design, production and use of materials for energy applications in a chemistry context.​

Stay tuned for more news on this membrane paper ;-)

​The recent article from the group "Structure-performance descriptors and the role of Lewis acidity in the methanol-to-propylene process" by Irina et al. has been highlighted as front cover of the August issue of the journal.

The article, entitled "Unraveling reaction networks behind the catalytic oxidation of methane with H2O2 over a mixed-metal MIL-53(Al,Fe) MOF catalyst" by Ágnes Szécsényi, Guanna Li, Jorge Gascon and Evgeny A Pidko​ has been accepted in Chemical Science

The manuscript, entitled "The mechanistic complexity of methane oxidation with H2O2 by “single-site” Fe/ZSM-5 catalyst", by Ágnes Szécsényi, Guanna Li, Jorge Gascon and Evgeny A Pidko has been accepted in ACS Catalysis.

​The research article "Structure-performance descriptors and the role of Lewis acidity in the methanol-to-propylene process" (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41557-018-0081-0 )by I. Yarulina, K. De Wispelaere, S. Bailleul, J Goetze, M. Radersma, E. Abou-Hamad, I. Vollmer, M. Goesten, B. Mezari, E.J.M. Hensen, J.S. Martínez-Espín, M. Morten, S. Mitchell, J. Perez-Ramirez, U. Olsbye, B.M. Weckhuysen, V. Van Speybroeck, F. Kapteijn and J. Gascon has been published in Nature Chemistry. More information about the paper can be found in this Nature Blog: https://chemistrycommunity.nature.com/users/110281-jorge-gascon/posts/34427-the-long-overlooked-role-of-lewis-acidity-in-high-temperature-zeolite-catalysis​​​​

The manuscript "Towards High Performance MOF – Microporous Polymer Mixed Matrix Membranes: Addressing Compatibility and Limiting Aging via Polymer Doping" by A. Sabetghadam, X. Liu, A. F. Orsi, M.M. Lozinska, T. Johnson, K.M. B. Jansen, P.A. Wright, M. Carta, N.B. McKeown, F. Kapteijn and J. Gascon has been accepted in Chemistry A European Journal

​​The review article "Progress in developing a structure-activity-relationship for the direct aromatization of methane" by I. Vollmer, I. Yarulina, F. Kapteijn and Jorge Gascon has been accepted for publication in the 10th aniversary issue of ChemCatChem​

The review article "Recent trends and fundamental insights in the methanol-to-hydrocarbons process​" is now online in Nature Catalysis: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41929-018-0078-5

​The manuscript "Molecular-Scale Hybrid Membranes Derived from Metal-Organic Polyhedra for Gas Separation​​​" by X. Liu, X. Wang, A. Bavykina, L. Chu, M. Shan, A. Sabetghadam, H. Miro, F. Kapteijn and J. Gascon has been accepted for publication in ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces

The manuscript "Isolated Fe sites in Metal Organic Framework catalyze the direct conversion of methane to methanol", by D. Osadchii, A.I. Olivos Suarez, A. Szécsényi, G. Li, M. Nasalevich, A. Dugulan, P. Serra-Crespo, E. Hensen, S. Veber, M. Fedin, G. Sankar, E. Pidko and J. Gascon has been accepted in ACS Catalysis

​The manuscript, entitled "On the dynamic nature of Mo sites for methane dehydroaromatization", by Ina Vollmer, Bart van der Linden, Samy Ould-Chikh, Antonio Aguilar-Tapia, Irina Yarulina, Edy Abou-Hamad, Yuri G. Sneider, Alma I. Olivos Suarez, Jean-Louis Hazemann, Freek Kapteijn and Jorge Gascon, has been accepted in Chemical Science.

Stay tuned for more news on these two publications from Irina

​​The manuscript entitled "Metal-organic Framework-mediated Nitrogen-doped Carbon for CO2 Electrochemical Reduction" by R. Wang, X. Sun, S. Ould-Chikh, D. Osadchii, F. Bai, F. Kapteijn and J. Gascon has been accepted in ACS AMI​

The manuscript entitled "Controlled Formation of Iron Carbides and their Performance in Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis" by T. Wezendonk, X. Sun, I. Dugulan, A. Hoof, E. Hensen, F. Kapteijn and J. Gascon has been accepted for publication in Journal of Catalysis​

​The manuscript entitled "Synthesis, characterization and properties of a glycol-coordinated ε-Keggin-type Al13 chloride" by B. Gu, C. Sun, J. C. Fettinger, W. H. Casey, A. Dikhtiarenko, J. Gascon, K. Koichumanova, K. B. S. S. Gupta, H. J. Heeres and S. He​ has been accepted for publication in ChemComm​​​

The manuscript entitled "Nanosheets of non-layered aluminium Metal-Organic Frameworks through a surfactant-assisted method" by A. Pustovarenko, M. G. Goesten, S. Sachdeva, M. Shan, Z. Amghouz, Y. Belmabkhout, A. Dikhtiarenko, T. Rodenas, D. Keskin, I. K. Voets, B. M. Weckhuysen, M. Eddaoudi, L. C.P.M. de Smet, E. J. R. Sudhölter, F. Kapteijn, B. Seoane and J. Gascon has been accepted for publication in Advanced Materials.

KAUST-TUDelft-Montpellier-Leipzig collaboration paper accepted in Angewandte Chemie Int. Ed.: Revealing Transient Concentration of CO2 in a Mixed Matrix Membrane by IR Microimaging and Molecular Modeling (doi:10.1002/anie.201713160)

Paper accepted in Nanoscale

KAUST-TUDelft-Montpellier-Leipzig collaboration paper accepted in Angewandte Chemie Int. Ed.: Revealing Transient Concentration of CO2 in a Mixed Matrix Membrane by IR Microimaging and Molecular Modeling (doi:10.1002/anie.201713160)

Welcome to Sivaranjani, Adrian and Abhay​

New zeolite catalysis articles accepted in ACS Catal. and Catal. Sci. Tech.​

Amandine Cadiau (Research Scientist), Nikita Kolobov (PhD student) and Il Son Khan (PhD student) have joined the group

Jorge has joined the Editorial Advisory Board of ACS Catalysis as per January 1st 2018.​

Jorge's hihglight published in Science on October 20th

​Single site Co catalyst from a Metal Organic Framework​

​Understanding nitrogen functionalities in covalent triazine frameworks​

​COF based Mixed Matrix Membranes

New CE-ACM publication in Nature Communications: Manufacture of highly loaded silica-supported cobalt Fischer–Tropsch catalysts from a metal organic framework​​​​

​​Formulation of MOF based FTS catalysts