Publications

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Selected

  • AA Maarouf, CL Kane, EJ Mele. Electronic structure of carbon-nanotube ropes. Physical Review B 61(16), 11156 (2000).
  • AA Maarouf, EJ Mele. Low-energy coherent transport in metallic carbon-nanotube junctions. Physical Review B 83(4), 045402 (2011).
  • RA Nistor, MA Kuroda, AA Maarouf, GJ Martyna. Doping of adsorbed graphene from defects and impurities in SiO₂ substrates. Physical Review B 86(4), 041409 (2012).
  • AA Maarouf, RA Nistor, A Afzali-Ardakani, MA Kuroda, DM Newns, et al. Crown graphene nanomeshes: highly stable chelation-doped semiconducting materials. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 9(5), 2398 (2013).
  • A Maarouf, A Kasry, B Chandra, G Martyna. A graphene–carbon-nanotube hybrid material for photovoltaic applications. Carbon 102, 74 (2016).
  • AA Maarouf. Modeling STM images of chiral metallic carbon nanotubes. Diamond and Related Materials 85, 63 (2018).
  • AA Maarouf. Graphene nanomeshes (book chapter). In 21st Century Nanoscience — A Handbook (2020).
  • AA Maarouf, D Gogova, MM Fadlallah. Metal-doped KNbO₃ for visible-light photocatalytic water splitting: a first-principles investigation. Applied Physics Letters 119(6) (2021).

All publications

2025

  • R Abd-Alkader, A Hassen, AA Maarouf, MM Fadlallah. Transition-metal substitutional doping of graphene nanomeshes: structural, electronic and magnetic properties. Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing 191, 109355 (2025).
  • NM Alghamdi, HM Al-Qahtani, A Alkhaldi, MM Fadlallah, AA Maarouf. Investigating the electronic and molecular adsorption properties of Ti/Co-doped boron carbon nitride. Molecules 30(9), 1873 (2025).
  • S Gamal, GE Khedr, M Nashaat, LM Salah, AA Maarouf, NK Allam. Nitrogen-passivated germanium carbide nanomeshes as potential catalysts for photocatalytic water splitting. Scientific Reports 15, 26329 (2025).

2024

  • NM Alghamdi, MM Fadlallah, HM Al-Qahtani, AA Maarouf. Electronic and molecular adsorption properties of Pt-doped BC₆N: an ab-initio investigation. Nanomaterials 14(9), 762 (2024).
  • S Gamal, M Nashaat, LM Salah, NK Allam, AA Maarouf. Electronic properties of pristine and doped graphitic germanium carbide nanomeshes. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 26(33), 22031 (2024).

2023

  • D Almohazey, V Ravinayagam, W Alamoudi, S Akhtar, H Dafalla, et al. Insights of platinum drug interaction with spinel magnetic nanocomposites for targeted anti-cancer effect. Cancers 15(3), 695 (2023).

2022

  • MA Abdelati, AA Maarouf, MM Fadlallah. Substitutional transition-metal doping in MoSi₂N₄ monolayer: structural, electronic and magnetic properties. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 24(5), 3035 (2022).
  • F Alhajri, MM Fadlallah, A Alkhaldi, AA Maarouf. Hybrid MXene-graphene/hexagonal boron nitride structures: electronic and molecular adsorption properties. Nanomaterials 12(16), 2739 (2022).
  • A Al-Khaldi, MM Fadlallah, F Alhajri, AA Maarouf. Hybrid G/BN@2H-MoS₂ nanomaterial composites: structural, electronic and molecular adsorption properties. Nanomaterials 12(24), 4351 (2022).

2021

  • AM Sawy, A Barhoum, SAA Gaber, SM El-Hallouty, WG Shousha, et al. Insights of doxorubicin-loaded graphene quantum dots: synthesis, DFT drug interactions, and cytotoxicity. Materials Science and Engineering: C 122, 111921 (2021).
  • MA Helal, HM El-Sayed, AA Maarouf, MM Fadlallah. Metal dichalcogenide nanomeshes: structural, electronic and magnetic properties. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 23(37), 21183 (2021).
  • AA Maarouf, D Gogova, MM Fadlallah. Metal-doped KNbO₃ for visible-light photocatalytic water splitting: a first-principles investigation. Applied Physics Letters 119(6) (2021).
  • MA Abdelati, MM Fadlallah, YEED Gamal, AA Maarouf. Pristine and holey graphene quantum dots: optical properties using time-independent and -dependent density-functional theory. Physica E 128, 114602 (2021).

2020

  • MA Almessiere, Y Slimani, AD Korkmaz, S Güner, AA Maarouf, A Baykal. Comparative study of sonochemically synthesized Co-Zr and Ni-Zr substituted Sr-hexaferrites. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 497, 165996 (2020).
  • MEA Safy, RR Haikal, B Elshazly, A Hamdy, F Ali, AA Maarouf, MH Alkordi. Charge percolation in metal–organic framework (HKUST-1)–graphene nanocomposites. Applied Materials Today 19, 100604 (2020).
  • S Gamal, MM Fadlallah, LM Salah, AA Maarouf. Effect of pore-size disorder on the electronic properties of semiconducting graphene nanomeshes. Nanotechnology 31(48), 485710 (2020).

2019

  • AM Omar, OI Metwalli, MR Saber, G Khabiri, MEM Ali, et al. Revealing the role of the 1T phase on the adsorption of organic dyes on MoS₂ nanosheets. RSC Advances 9(49), 28345 (2019).
  • AA Darwish, MH Hassan, MA Abou Mandour, AA Maarouf. Mechanical properties of defective double-walled boron nitride nanotubes for radiation-shielding applications. Computational Materials Science 156, 142 (2019).
  • A Kasry, MM Fadlallah, NH Voelcker, AA Maarouf. Experimental and theoretical demonstrations of ultraviolet absorption enhancement in porous nano-membrane graphene. Carbon 155, 65 (2019).
  • MM Fadlallah, AG Abdelrahman, U Schwingenschlögl, AA Maarouf. Graphene and graphene-nanomesh-supported nickel clusters: electronic, magnetic, and hydrogen-storage properties. Nanotechnology 30(8), 085709 (2019).
  • MM Fadlallah, AA Maarouf, KA Soliman. Boron-nitride nanocones as a template for adsorbing NO₂ and SO₂: an ab-initio investigation. Physica E 113, 188 (2019).

2018

  • MR Saber, G Khabiri, AA Maarouf, M Ulbricht, ASG Khalil. A comparative study on the photocatalytic degradation of organic dyes using hybridized 1T/2H, 1T/3R and 2H MoS₂ nanosheets. RSC Advances 8(46), 26364 (2018).
  • MS Eldeeb, MM Fadlallah, GJ Martyna, AA Maarouf. Doping of large-pore crown graphene nanomesh. Carbon 133, 369 (2018).
  • AA Maarouf. Modeling STM images of chiral metallic carbon nanotubes. Diamond and Related Materials 85, 63 (2018).

2017

  • MM Fadlallah, AA Maarouf, U Schwingenschlögl, U Eckern. Unravelling the interplay of geometrical, magnetic and electronic properties of metal-doped graphene nanomeshes. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 29(5), 055301 (2017).

2016

  • A Maarouf, A Kasry, B Chandra, G Martyna. A graphene–carbon-nanotube hybrid material for photovoltaic applications. Carbon 102, 74 (2016).
  • A Darwish, M Fadlallah, A Badawi, A Maarouf. Adsorption of sugars on Al- and Ga-doped boron-nitride surfaces: a computational study. Applied Surface Science 377, 9 (2016).

2011–2013

  • AA Maarouf, RA Nistor, A Afzali-Ardakani, MA Kuroda, DM Newns, et al. Crown graphene nanomeshes: highly stable chelation-doped semiconducting materials. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 9(5), 2398 (2013).
  • RA Nistor, MA Kuroda, AA Maarouf, GJ Martyna. Doping of adsorbed graphene from defects and impurities in SiO₂ substrates. Physical Review B 86(4), 041409 (2012).
  • AA Elzatahry, AM Abdullah, TAS El-Din, AM Al-Enizi, AA Maarouf, et al. Nanocomposite graphene-based material for fuel-cell applications. International Journal of Electrochemical Science 7(4), 3115 (2012).
  • B Chandra, H Park, A Maarouf, GJ Martyna, GS Tulevski. Carbon-nanotube thin-film transistors on flexible substrates. Applied Physics Letters 99(7) (2011).
  • AA Maarouf, EJ Mele. Low-energy coherent transport in metallic carbon-nanotube junctions. Physical Review B 83(4), 045402 (2011).

Earlier

  • AA Maarouf, CL Kane, EJ Mele. Electronic structure of carbon-nanotube ropes. Physical Review B 61(16), 11156 (2000).
  • MM El Kheishen, AA Shafik, AA Aboshousha. Analytic formulas for the neutralino masses and the neutralino mixing matrix. Physical Review D 45(11), 4345 (1992).

Book chapters

  • AA Maarouf. Graphene Nanomeshes. In 21st Century Nanoscience — A Handbook: Low-Dimensional Materials and Morphologies (2020).
  • AM Sawy, A Barhoum, W Shousha, AA Maarouf, ASG Khalil. Carbon-Nanomaterials-Based Drug-Delivery Systems: Synthesis, DFT Drug Interactions, and Cancer Therapy. In Supramolecular Nanotechnology (2023).
  • AA Maarouf, A Kasry. Graphene and Graphene-Nanomesh-Based Platforms for Sensing, Transparent Electrodes, and Catalysis Templates. In 2D and 3D Graphene Nanocomposites (2019).
  • A Kasry, AA Maarouf. Strategies towards Carbon-Nanomaterials-Based Transparent Electrodes. In Critical Materials (2019).