Who we are
The people behind the lab
A multidisciplinary group of chemists, materials scientists, and engineers investigating how molecular crystals move, sense, and adapt.
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Who we are
A multidisciplinary group of chemists, materials scientists, and engineers investigating how molecular crystals move, sense, and adapt.
Postdoctoral Associates
post-doctoral associate
Ibrahim works on integrating light-driven actuators with soft materials to build micro-robots and adaptive structures.
Photo-responsive actuators, soft robotics, hybrid organic materials
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Photoinduced bending actuators.
The Ultrastiff Crystals of Mucic (Galactaric) Acid
Karothu, D. P.; Tahir, I.; Majhi, S. M.; Ahmed, E.; Catalano, L.; Hickey, N. T.; Weston, J.; Guerin, S.; Naumov, P.
A Thiophene Sulfone Single Crystal as a Reversible Thermoelastic Linear Actuator with an Extended Stroke and Second-Harmonic Generation Switching
Wang, Zhihua; Shi, Rongchao; Tahir, Ibrahim; Karothu, Durga Prasad; Cheng, Puxin; Han, Wenqing; Li, Liang; Zheng, Yongshen; Naumov, Panče*; Xu, Jialiang*; Bu, Xian-He
Reply to: On the giant deformation and ferroelectricity of guanidinium nitrate
Karothu, D. P.; Ferreira, R.; Dushaq, G.; Ahmed, E.; Catalano, L.; Halabi, J. M.; Alhaddad, Z.; Tahir, I.; Li, L.; Mohamed, S.; Rasras, M.; Naumov, P.
Highly Efficient in crystallo Energy Transduction of Light to Work
Lin, Jiawei; Zhou, Jianmin; Li, Liang; Tahir, Ibrahim; Wu, Songgu*; Naumov, Panče*; Gong, Junbo*
Distinct Mechanical Properties and Photomechanical Response from Isostructural, yet Chemically Different Molecular Crystal Actuator
Lin, Jiawei; Zhou, Jianmin; Li, Liang; Tahir, Ibrahim; Wu, Songgu*; Naumov, Panče*; Gong, Junbo*
Photomechanical Crystals as Light-Activated Organic Soft Microrobots
Tahir, Ibrahim; Ahmed, Ejaz; Karothu, Durga Prasad; Fsehaye, Filmon; Halabi, Jad Mahmoud; Naumov, Panče*
Logarithmic and Archimedean Organic Crystalline Spirals
Yang, Xuesong; Lan, Linfeng; Tahir, Ibrahim; Alhaddad, Zainab; Di, Qi; Li, Liang; Tang, Baolei; Naumov, Panče; Zhang, Hongyu
Elastic Organic Crystals as Bioinspired Hair-Like Sensors
Yousuf, Soha; Mahmoud Halabi, Jad; Tahir, Ibrahim; Ahmed, Ejaz; Rezgui, Rachid; Li, Liang; Laws, Praveen Laws; Daqaq, Mohammed; Naumov, Panče
Smart Dynamic Hybrid Membranes with Self-Cleaning Capability
Pantuso, Elvira; Ahmed, Ejaz; Fontananova, Enrica; Brunetti, Adele; Tahir, Ibrahim; Karothu, Durga Prasad; Amer Alnaji, Nisreen; Dushaq, Ghada; Rasrar, Mahmoud; Naumov, Panče; Di Profio, Gianluca
Mechanical Properties and Peculiarities of Molecular Crystals
Awad, Wegood M.; Davies, Daniel W.; Kitagawa, Daichi; Halabi, Jad Mahmoud; Al-Handawi, Marieh B.; Tahir, Ibrahim; Tong, Fei; Campillo-Alvarado, Gonzalo; Shtukenberg, Alexander G.; Alkhidir, Tamador; Hagiwara, Yuki; Almehairbi, Mubarak; Lan, Linfeng; Hasebe, Shodai; Prasad Karothu, Durga; Mohamed, Sharmarke; Koshima, Hideko; Kobatake, Seiya; Diao, Ying; Chandrasekar, Rajadurai; Zhang, Hongyu; Sun, Calvin C.; Bardeen, Christopher; Al-Kaysi, Rabih O.; Kahr, Bart; Naumov, Panče