Congratulations !!!
Dong's paper on low trap-state density and long carrier diffusion in organolead trihalide
perovskite single crystals just published in Science !
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/347/6221/519.abstract

Prof. Osman gave two invited talks in 3rd Saudi International Nanotechnology Conference and
workshops (3SINC 2014) and Solid State Lighting Program Workshop Riyadh.
http://events.kacst.edu.sa/ar/nano14/Documents/BrochureNano2014En.pdf

The KAUST Solar Future 2014 Meeting collect some of the main contributors in PV Research across the scientific community to
focus on “Emerging PV”: a set of potentially low-cost and disruptive thin film PV technologies that could transform the
landscape of solar energy conversion in the next 10-20 years.
http://www.kaust.edu.sa/events/sperc-symposium/index.html

Congratulations Dr. Abulikemu !

Neat and Complete: Thiolate-Ligand Exchange on a Silver Molecular Nanoparticle

KAUST's Osman Bakr , Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, was elected as one of the first 50 members of the Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA) this June.

http://www.kaust.edu.sa/latest-stories/kaust-professor-elected-as-member-of-agya.html

Size makes a dramatic difference in tuning electron injection in quantum dot solar cells#

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ja413254g

Nano Assembly (Low-Cost & High-Quality Quantum Dots). Team members: Jun Pan, Ala'a El-Ballouli, Osman Bakr, Edward Sargent

The Complete In-Gap Electronic Structure of Colloidal Quantum Dot Solids and Its Correlation with Electronic Transport and Photovoltaic Performance
K. Katsiev, A. H. Ip, A. Fischer, I. Tanabe, X. Zhang, A. R. Kirmani, O. Voznyy, L. R. Rollny, K. W. Chou, S. M. Thon, G. H. Carey, X. ​​Cui, A.Amassian, P. Dowben, E. H. Sargent, O. M. Bakr (2013). DOI: 10.1002/adma.201304166

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.201304166/abstract

Automated Synthesis of Photovoltaic-Quality Colloidal Quantum Dots Using Separate Nucleation and Growth Stages​
J. Pan, A. O. El-Ballouli, L. Rollny, O. Voznyy, V. M. Burlakov, A. Goriely, E. H. Sargent, O. M. Bakr
ACS Nano, Article ASAP, (2013).
​Image courtesy of Olga Zausalina.

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nn404397d

Ag44(SR)304-: a silver–thiolate superatom complex
K. M. Harkness, Y. Tang, A. Dass, J. Pan, N. Kothalawala, V. J. Reddy, D. E. Cliffel, B.
Demeler, F. Stellacci, O. M. Bakr, J. A. McLean
a, (2012)

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2012/nr/c2nr30773a

Long-lived charge-separated states in ligand-stabilized silver clusters
M. Pelton, Y. Tang, O. M. Bakr and F. Stellacci
J. Am. Chem. Soc., DOI: 10.1021/ja303682m

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/ja303682m

Prof. Bakr and Dr. Hakim Mehenni published a full article in Nature Communications
with collaborators from EPFL, Carnegie Mellon, and MIT on a new method to
haracterize the size and density of nanoparticles with analytical ultracentrifugation.
The work has been highlighted in Nature Middle East.

http://www.nature.com/ncomms/journal/v2/n6/full/ncomms1338.html