Ahmed El-Harairy

El-Harairy joined the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, College of Engineering of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), in January 2022. Before joining UNL, El-Harairy worked as a Research Assistant Fellow at the Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale and the School of Chemistry and Materials Science, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). El-Harairy obtained his M.Sc. in physical chemistry from the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), China. El-Harairy is doing research in chemical engineering, materials chemistry, green chemistry, organic physical chemistry, catalysis, and its application in energy and the environment. Currently, El-Harairy focuses on the synthesis of multifunctional electrocatalysts toward water splitting, carbon dioxide reduction reactions to hydrocarbons, oxygen reduction reaction, nitrogen reduction reaction, urea oxidation reaction, and hydrogen evaluation reaction through the synthesis of new materials that have excellent catalytic performance, which allows him to investigate the methods and materials that enhance and create more sustainable approaches to fight climate change and environmental problems.

Please contact El-Harairy via LinkedIn profile. You may also keep up with the current research activity by visiting his ResearchGate or Google Scholar profiles.

Publications:

[1] S. I. Gnani Peer Mohamed, S. Ismail, A. El-Harairy, M. Bavarian and S. Nejati, ACS Appl. Eng. Mater., 2024, 2, 1743–1747.

[2] A. El-Harairy, A. El-Harairy, A. Mahfouz, Agriculture, 2024, 14, 529.

[3] A. Abou-Shady, A. El-Harairy, Review Article,  S. Afr. J. Chem. Eng., 2024, 52,75-88

[4] G. Kaufman, A. El-Harairy, S. Sarin, S. Nejati, J. E. Shield and C. Zuhlke, Proc. SPIE, 2024, 12873, 128730O.

[5] A. Abou-Shady, A. El-Harairy, Review Article, South African Journal of Chemical Engineering, 2023, Part 2

[6] A. Abou-Shady, A. El-Harairy, Review Article, South African Journal of Chemical Engineering 45 (2023): 182-200, Part 1

[7] J. Gao, G. Wang, W. Wang, L. Yu, B. Peng, A. El-Harairy, J. Li, G. Zhang, ACS Nano, 2022, 16, 6255-6265.

[8] J. Zhang, Y. Liu, J. Li, X. Jin, Y. Li, Q. Qian, Y. Wang, A. El-Harairy, Z. Li, Y. Zhu, H. Zhang, M. Cheng, S. Zeng, G. Zhang, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2021, 13, 3881–3890.

[9] Q. Qian, J. Zhang,  J. Li,  Y. Li,  X. Jin,  Y. Zhu,  Y. Liu,  Z. Li,  A. El-Harairy,  C. Xiao,  G. Zhang, Y. Xie Angewandte Chemie, 2021, 60, 5984–5993.

[10] A. El-Harairy*, X. Wang, Review Article, In preparation . Corresponding author

[11] A. El-Harairy*, M. Shaheen, J. Li, Y. Wu, M. Li, Y. Gu, RSC Advances, 2020, 10, 13507-13516. Corresponding author

[12] A. El-Harairy, Y-, B. Lai, L. Vaccaro, M. Li, Y. Gu, Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis. 2019, 361, 3342-3350. #VIP-Paper

[13] A. El-Harairy, Y-, B. Lai, L. Vaccaro, M. Li, Y. Gu, Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis (14/2019). #Front Cover.

[14] A. El‐Harairy, M. Yue, W. Fan, F. Popowycz, Y. Queneau, M. Li, Y. Gu, ChemCatChem, 2019, 11, 4403-4410.

[15] J. Yang¹, X. Wang¹, A. El-Harairy², R. Bai, Y. Gu, Molecular Catalysis, 2019, 468, 36-43.

[16] S. Chen, P. Ravichandiran, A. El-Harairy, Y. Queneau, M. Li, Y. Gu, Organic & biomolecular chemistry, 2019, 17. 5982-5989.

[17] W. Huang, S. Chen, J. Yang, A. El-Harairy, X. Wang, Y. Gu, Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis, 2019, 361, 4369-4378.

Conference presentations (incl. posters, invitation talk):

[1] Ahmed El-Harairy, Yiliqi, and Yanlong Gu: A sulfone-containing imidazolium-based Brønsted acid ionic liquid catalyst enables replacing dipolar and aprotic solvents with butyl acetate. Wuhan International Conference on Green Chemistry and Sustainable Catalysis, Nov.2018, Wuhan, China.

[2] Ahmed El-Harairy, and Yanlong Gu: A Sulfone-Containing Brønsted Acid Ionic Liquid Catalyst Enables Replacing Dipolar Aprotic Solvents with Butyl Acetate for Transformations of Indoles and Anilines. ISGC - International Symposium on Green Chemistry, May.2019, La Rochelle, France.

[3] Ahmed El-Harairy, Synthesis of trimetallic NiCoFe-MOF nanocomposite grown on nickel foam as highly efficient, durable bifunctional electrocatalysts toward urea electrolysis. École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Valais/Wallis Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering (ISIC), Lausanne, Switzerland. Invitation Talk.

[4] Graham Kaufman, Ahmed El-Harairy, Suchit Sarinc, Siamak Nejati, Jeffrey E. Shield, and Craig Zuhlke: Functionalization of copper for enhanced electrocatalytic reduction of carbon dioxide via ultrashort pulse laser surface processing. SPIE. Photonics West

[5] Ahmed El-Harairy, Siamak Nejati: Synthesis and characterization of porous organic polymers for converting nitrate to ammonia. ACS Fall 2024

[6] Ahmed El-Harairy, Siamak Nejati: Exploring porphyrin-based thin films for electrosynthesis of hydrogen peroxide. ACS Fall 2024.

[7] Sarang Ismail, Syed Ibrahim Gnani Peer Mohamed, Ahmed El-Harairy, Siamak Nejati, Mona Bavarian: Thermodynamics of CO₂ Adsorption into Porphyrin-Based Covalent Organic Frameworks. AIChE 2024