Biography

Dr. Mohamed H. Hassan was born in Alexandria, Egypt, just minutes from the shores of the Mediterranean Sea. He earned a Bachelors degree in Chemistry and Biochemistry and a Masters degree in Chemistry from Alexandria University. In the fall of 2018, he moved to Upstate New York to begin his Ph.D. in Chemistry at Clarkson University. His graduate research focused on metal-organic materials and their applications in electrocatalysis, chemical sensing, and environmental remediation. Upon graduating in the summer of 2023, Dr. Hassan joined the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. At Penn, his work centered on developing highly efficient cathode materials for Na-ion batteries. The research of the Hassan Group now focuses on understanding ion diffusion behavior in novel molten electrolytes and developing alternative methods for the separation of critical elements.

Selected Publications

• Mohamed H. Hassan, Jintao Fu, Jiaxin Liu, Eric Detsi. Mitigating the P2–O2 phase transition complications in P2-Na_x[Ni_1/3Mn_2/3]O₂ Na-ion battery cathodes: To dope or not to dope, that is the question. Materials Horizons 2025, Advance Article.
• Mohamed H. Hassan, Reem Khan, Daniel Andreescu, Shreetu Shrestha, Mircea Cotlet, Silvana Andreescu. Atomically Precise Hexanuclear Ce(IV) Clusters as Functional Fluorescent Nanosensors for Rapid One-Step Detection of PFAS. Adv. Funct. Mater. 2024, 2403364.
• Mohamed H. Hassan, Silvana Andreescu. Tuning the Fluorometric Sensing of Phosphate on UiO-66-NH₂(Zr, Ce, Hf) Metal Nodes. Inorganic Chemistry 2023, 62, 20970–20979.
• Mohamed H. Hassan, Rana R. Haikal, Mohamed H. Alkordi. Synergistic compounding of carbon nanotubes and metal-organic frameworks for oxygen-evolving electrocatalysis. Materials Advances 2022, 3, 7212-7218.
• Mohamed H. Hassan, Robert Stanton, Jeremy Secora, Dhara Trivedi, Silvana Andreescu. Ultrafast Removal of Phosphate from Eutrophic Waters Using a Cerium-Based Metal–Organic Framework. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2020, 12, 52788–52796.
• Mohamed H. Hassan, Mohamed H. Alkordi, and Abdou Hassanien. Probing the conductivity of metal-organic framework-graphene nanocomposite. Materials Letters 2019, 246, 13-16.
• Mohamed H. Hassan, A. B. Soliman, W. A. Elmehelmey, A. A. Abugable, S. G. Karakalos, M. Elbahri, A. Hassanien and M. H. Alkordi. A Ni-loaded, metal–organic framework–graphene composite as a precursor for in situ electrochemical deposition of a highly active and durable water oxidation nanocatalyst. Chemical Communications, 2019, 55, 31-34.