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.
Principal Investigator
Principal Investigator, Professor of Chemistry
Panče Naumov leads the Smart Materials Lab and the Center for Smart Engineering Materials at NYUAD. His group is internationally recognized for pioneering crystal adaptronics and advancing adaptive molecular solids, with applications in sensing, robotics, optics, and energy systems.
Smart materials, adaptive molecular crystals, crystal adaptronics, dynamic organic solids
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Dynamic molecular crystals for mechanical actuators and responsive devices.
Effects of Electron Beam Damage to Crystalline Samples: A Review
Yörük, Emre; Naumov, Panče
Cryogenically Self-Healing Organic Crystals
Ding, Chengde; Tang, Baolei; Zhou, Yuxing; Jin, Bowen; Commins, Patrick; Al-Handawi, Marieh B.; Li, Liang; Naumov, Panče; Zhang, Hongyu
Atomistic Understanding of Self-Healing of a Ferroelastic Crystal
Fahim, Zarif; Commins, Patrick; Li, Liang; Naumov, Panče; Zhu, Qiang
Depression of the Melting Point in Naturally Grown Circular Crystals
Jia, Shengzhe; Su, Xin; Wang, Yonghui Wang; Liu, Jiaqiang; Ahmed, Ejaz; Li, Liang; Tang, Weiwei; Naumov, Panče; Cui, Xiaoyan, Gong, Junbo Gong
Photothermomechanically Efficient, Low-Cost, High-Cycle-Life, Hybrid MXene-Polymer Actuators
Iiyoshi, Ken; Korres, Georgios; Nagy, Orsolya; Roldán, Gabriel; Naumov, Panče; Schramm, Stefan; Eid, Mohamad
Interfacial Engineering of Iron-Cobalt Hydroxide Nanosheet on Nickel Oxide Heterostructure for Efficient Overall Water Splitting by Reducing Energy Barrier
Maduraiveeran, Govindhan; Egilmez, Mehmet; Awad, Wegood; Naumov, Panče; Alnaser, Ali
Unveiling the Origins of Toughness in Corymbia calophylla (Marri Tree) Nuts
Awad, Wegood M.; Dalaq, Ahmed S.; Al-Handawi, Marieh B.; Weston, James; Daqaq, Mohammed; Naumov, Panče
Perinone Isomerism Effect on Proton Insertion Chemistry
Lang, Qing; Zhang, Jian; Tian, Ziqi; Fan, Qi; Liang, Kun; Wang, Yunan; Dmitrieva, Evgenia; Chen, Liang; Liu, Congxue; Wang, Mingchao; AlNahyan, Maryam; Naumov, Panče; Wang, Gang
Organic Crystal-MXene Composites as Temperature-Tolerant Strain Sensors
Yang, Xuesong; Wang, Lijie; Liu, Shun; Zhang, Yuhan; Xu, Yongqiang; Mei, Haixia; Li, Liang; Tao, Ying; Yang, Quan-Hong; Naumov, Panče; Zhang, Hongyu
Crystallographic Observation of Reversible [2 + 2] Photocycloaddition and Photosalient Behavior in a Zinc(II) Coordination Polymer
Zhou, Jianmin; Tang, Shi; Lin, Jiawei; Li, Liang; Wu, Songgu; Naumov, Panče; Gong, Junbo