Dr. Hicham Hamoudi

Joint faculty appointment, QEERI

Sustainable Development

College of Science and Engineering

Emailhhamoudi@hbku.edu.qa

Biography

Before joining Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute, one of Hamad Bin Khalifa University's three national research institutes, Dr. Hicham Hamoudi was a researcher at the International Center for Young Scientists (ICYS) International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA) within National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) in Japan. He has a PhD degree in chemistry from the Paris-11 (Orsay) University (2009). Dr Hamoudi has a multifaceted background: he developed many techniques and instruments for surface science characterization. He has published 30 publications in various international journals.

Research Interests

Self-assembly monolayer phenomena and interaction of ultra-thin organic films with metals, semiconductors, and insulator substrates
Interaction between metallic structures and ultra-thin metallic films on monomolecular organic support (SAMs)
The design of monomolecular films for different applications: sensors and catalytically active surfaces
Molecular electronics based on self-assembled monolayers (fabrication and design of the memory storage and transistors)
Carbone hybrids materials for energy storage/conversion
Surface science for medicines
Electrochemistry
Theoretical and Computational surface science

Experience

Senior Scientist

Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute QEERI. Hamad Bin Khalifa University

From March 2015

ICYS MANA researcher

Institute for Materials Science NIMS. Japan
March 2012-February 2015
Post-Doc

at the National Institute for Materials Science NIMS. JAPAN
December 2011-February 2012

Post-doc

Applied Physical Chemistry Heidelberg University Germany.
2009 - 2011

Education

PhD in Chemistry

Laboratory of atomic collision. University of Paris Sud (Orsay) France

2006-2009

Master Research quantum chemistry

University of Marne-la-Vallée and Ecole National Supérieure de Chimie Paris
2005-2006
Master's degree in chemical physics

University of Batna, Algeria
1996-2001

Baccalaureate in Exacts science

Batna, Algeria
1995

Selected Publications

Controlling the direction of rectification in a molecular diode, Li Yuan, Nisachol Nerngchamnong, Cao Liang, Hicham Hamoudi, Enrique del Barco, Max Roemer, Ravi K. Sriramula, Damien Thompson, and Christian A. Nijhuis. Nature communication

2015, doi: 10.1038/ncomms7324
2015
Orbital-dependent charge transfer dynamics in conjugated molecules arranged in self-assembled monolayer fashion.

Hicham Hamoudi, Stefan Neppl, Ping Kao, Björn Schüpbach, Peter Feulner, Andreas Terfort, David Allara, and Michael Zharnikov. Phys. Rev. Lett. 2011, 107, 027801
2011
Carbon–metal nanosheets from the water–hexane interface

Hicham Hamoudi. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2015, DOI: 10.1039/C5TC00228A
2015
Topochemical conversion of a dense metal–organic framework from a crystalline insulator to an amorphous semiconductor.

Satoshi Tominaka, Hicham Hamoudi, Takeo Suga, Thomas Douglas Bennett, Andrew B Cairns, AK Cheetham. Chemical Science, 2015, DOI: 10.1039/C4SC03295K
2015
Going Beyond The Self-Assembled Monolayer: Metal Intercalated Dithiol Multilayers and Their Conductance

Hicham Hamoudi, Vladimir A.Esaulov, Kohei Uosaki , Katsuhiko Ariga. RSC Advances, 2014, 4 (75), 39657-39666
2014
Crossbar Nanoarchitectonics of the Crosslinked Self Assembled Monolayer Hicham Hamoudi.

Nanoscale research letters, 2014, 9 (1), 1-7
2014
MOF-derived Nanoporous Carbon as Intracellular Drug Delivery Carriers.

Nagy L. Torad,Yunqi Li, Shinsuke Ishihara, Katsuhiko Ariga,1 Yuichiro Kamachi, Hong-Yuan Lian, Hicham Hamoudi, Yoshio Sakka, Watcharop Chaikittisilp, Kevin C.-W. Wu, and Yusuke Yamauchi. Chemistry Letters, 2014, 43 (5), 717-719.
2014
Bottom-Up Nanoarchitectonics of Two-Dimensional Freestanding Metal Doped Carbon Nanosheet

Hicham Hamoudi. RSC Advances, 2014, 4 (42), 22035-22041
2014
Electric double-layer capacitors based on highly graphitized nanoporous carbons derived from ZIF-67.

Nagy L. Torad, Rahul R. Salunkhe, Yunqi Li, Hicham Hamoudi, Masataka Imura, Yoshio Sakka, Chi-Chang Hu, and Yusuke Yamauchi., Chemistry-A European Journal, 2014, DOI: 10.1002/chem.201400089
2014
On the self assembly of 1,4-benzenedimethanethiol self on gold

. Hicham Hamoudi, Mirko Prato, Céline Dablemont, Maurizio Canepa and Vladimir A. Esaulov. Langmuir, 2010, 26, 7242–7247
2010

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