Faculty

Name: Zain H. Yamani
Title: Director of the KFUPM Interdisciplinary Research Center for Hydrogen and Energy Storage
Brief Research Interests: Development of ‘energy’ related materials, especially for applications like batteries, supercapacitors, chemical sensors and gas separation membranes.
Research Areas: Condensed Matter Physics
Office: 15-3100 (and 6/227)
Tel: 966-13-860-4363
Email: zhyamani@kfupm.edu.sa
Website: Zain Yamani Home-Page (kfupm.edu.sa)
Affiliated Center(s): Interdisciplinary Research Center for Hydrogen and Energy Storage

Research InterestsThe Yamani Group works on functionalizing materials for improved qualities in energy applications. Electrodes are developed for low over-potential, stable, cheap water splitting. Other applications include improving redox flow battery materials as well as selective high permeability H2 separation membranes.

Biographical Sketch 
A graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Ph.D., 1999), professor Zain Yamani is currently the Director of the KFUPM Interdisciplinary Research Center for Hydrogen Technologies and Carbon Management. Professor Yamani had been appointed as Director of the KFUPM Academic Improvement Program in 2005. In 2007, he was appointed as the founding Director of the Center of Excellence in Nanotechnology. In 2021, professor Yamani was appointed as the first Director of KFUPM’s Interdisciplinary Research Center for Hydrogen and Energy Storage. Professor Yamani enjoys “popularizing” science and had introduced a course into the KFUPM curriculum about “The Physics of How Things Work”. Professor Yamani has over two hundred and thirty publications in refereed international scientific journals, in addition to forty patents issued from the USPTO, with others in the pipeline.

AWARDS & HONORS:
Dr. Yamani received a number of awards amongst which was The King Abdul-Aziz Medal of the First Type for his scientific accomplishment, in 2006, and The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Award for Honoring the Inventors and Gifted Ones, in 2017.

 

KEY PUBLICATIONS 

1-Yuda Prima Hardiantoa, Mostafa M. Mohamed, Md. Abdul Aziz, Zain H. Yamani. Identification of Suitable Mesh Size of Commercial Stainless-Steel for Electrochemical Oxygen Evolution Reaction. Chemistry - An Asian Journal (2024). https://doi.org/10.1002/asia.202400118

2-Syed Shaheen Shah, Md. Abdul Aziz, Mansour Al Marzooqi, Abdul Zeeshan Khan, Zain H. Yamani. Enhanced light-responsive supercapacitor utilizing BiVO4 and date leaves-derived carbon: A leap towards sustainable energy harvesting and storage. Journal of Power Sources. 602, 15 May 2024, 234334

3-Amar K. Salih, Abdul Zeeshan Khan, Qasem Drmosh, Tarek Kandiel, Mohammad Qamar, Tahir Jahangir, Cuong Ton-That, Zain Yamani. “Nanostructured BiVO4 Photoanodes Fabricated by Vanadium-Infused Interaction for Efficient Solar Water Splitting”. ACS Appl. Nano Mater. 2024, 7, 12, 14115–14122 (https://doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.4c01527)

4-Mostafa M. Mohamed, Syed Shaheen Shah, Abbas Hakeem, Mohamed Javid, Md. Abdul Aziz, and Zain Yamani, "A Comprehensive Evaluation of Biomass-Derived Activated Carbon Materials for Electrochemical Applications in Zinc-ion Hybrid Supercapacitors" ACS Applied Energy Materials. Vol 7/Issue 17 doi: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.4c01828

5-Mostafa M. Mohamed, Md . Abdu Aziz, Arshad Hussain, Yuda Prima Hardianto, Zain H. Yamani. Dendrite-free zinc-ion hybrid supercapacitor with jute-derived carbon and nanostructured zinc on steel mesh for EVs. Journal of Energy Storage . Journal of Energy Storage, Volume 100, Part B, 20 October 2024, 113635

Dr. Zain Hassan Yamani Professor 15/3102, 6/227 966-1-860-4363/4328 zhyamani@kfupm.edu.sa Website