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Maher El-Kady | |
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ماهر القاضي | |
 El-Kady in 2024 | |
| Education | Cairo University (BSc, MSc) University of California, Los Angeles (PhD) |
| Known for | Laser-scribed graphene and graphene micro-supercapacitors |
| Awards | C&EN Talented Twelve (2022) Energy Storage Materials Young Scientist Award (2023) Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (2025) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Materials science, electrochemistry, nanotechnology |
| Workplaces | University of California, Los Angeles Nanotech Energy |
| Richard Kaner | |
| Website | www |
Maher El-Kady is an Egyptian-American materials scientist, chemist, inventor and entrepreneur whose research focuses on graphene, electrochemistry and energy storage.[1] He is a research assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and a co-founder and chief science and technology officer of Nanotech Energy.[2][3]
El-Kady is known for developing laser-based methods for converting graphite oxide into porous graphene and for applying the resulting material to flexible supercapacitors and micro-supercapacitors.[1][4] He was selected for the C&EN Talented Twelve in 2022, received the 2023 Energy Storage Materials Young Scientist Award and was elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2025.[1][5][6][3]
Early life and education
[edit]El-Kady is from Giza, Egypt.[1] He earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Cairo University in 2004. After graduating, he joined the university's chemistry department as a teaching assistant and received a master's degree in physical chemistry in 2009.[7]
He subsequently pursued doctoral research at UCLA under materials chemist Richard Kaner, receiving his PhD in chemistry in 2013.[7][8]
Research and career
[edit]During his doctoral studies, El-Kady investigated light-driven methods for producing graphene from graphite oxide. He found that laser irradiation could rapidly remove oxygen from the material and transform its tightly stacked sheets into an electrically conductive, porous three-dimensional graphene network. The narrow laser beam also permitted the graphene to be patterned directly.[1][8]
El-Kady and his collaborators used the laser-scribed graphene as electrodes in flexible electrochemical capacitors.[4] El-Kady and Kaner subsequently demonstrated a scalable fabrication method in which a standard LightScribe DVD burner could produce more than 100 graphene micro-supercapacitors on a single disc in 30 minutes or less. The devices could be fabricated on flexible substrates and adapted for on-chip applications.[9]
The research led to subsequent work on flexible, wearable and implantable power sources and attracted interest in commercial applications of graphene-based energy storage.[1][8] El-Kady co-founded Nanotech Energy in August 2014 with Kaner and entrepreneur Jack Kavanaugh to commercialize graphene-based energy-storage technologies.[10] He serves as the company's chief science and technology officer while continuing his research at UCLA.[2]
Honors and awards
[edit]El-Kady was included in the 2022 C&EN Talented Twelve for his work on graphene-based energy-storage materials and the development of more powerful and safer batteries.[1][7]
He was one of three recipients of the 2023 Energy Storage Materials Young Scientist Award. The awards were presented at the International Conference on Energy Storage Materials in Shenzhen, China, in April 2024.[5][11]
In 2025, El-Kady was elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.[6]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Jacoby, Mitch (July 15, 2022). "Maher El-Kady". Chemical & Engineering News. Vol. 100, no. 25. American Chemical Society. Retrieved August 11, 2026.
- 1 2 "Dr. Maher El-Kady". Kaner Lab. University of California, Los Angeles. Retrieved August 11, 2026.
- 1 2 "UCLA researchers Maher El-Kady and Dennis Slamon elected as National Academy of Inventors fellows". West LA Times. December 11, 2025. Retrieved August 11, 2026.
- 1 2 El-Kady, Maher F.; Strong, Veronica; Dubin, Sergey; Kaner, Richard B. (March 16, 2012). "Laser Scribing of High-Performance and Flexible Graphene-Based Electrochemical Capacitors". Science. 335 (6074): 1326–1330. doi:10.1126/science.1216744.
- 1 2 "3 Winners of the 2023 EnSM Young Scientist Award Announced". Energy Storage Materials. Elsevier. January 16, 2024. Retrieved August 11, 2026.
- 1 2 "Fellows". National Academy of Inventors. Retrieved August 11, 2026.
- 1 2 3 Qabil, Tarek (August 24, 2022). لتطويره بطاريات أكثر قوة وأمانا.. المصري ماهر القاضي بالقائمة الأميركية للموهوبين لعام 2022 [For developing stronger and safer batteries, Egyptian Maher El-Kady joins the American Talented Twelve list for 2022]. Al Jazeera (in Arabic). Retrieved August 11, 2026.
- 1 2 3 Jacoby, Mitch (September 2, 2022). "From the lab to the battery start-up". Chemical & Engineering News. Vol. 100, no. 31. American Chemical Society. Retrieved August 11, 2026.
- ↑ El-Kady, Maher F.; Kaner, Richard B. (February 12, 2013). "Scalable fabrication of high-power graphene micro-supercapacitors for flexible and on-chip energy storage". Nature Communications. 4: 1475. doi:10.1038/ncomms2446. PMID 23403576.
- ↑ "Nanotech Energy Raises More Than $3M in Funding Round". Los Angeles Business Journal. April 3, 2018. Retrieved August 11, 2026.
- ↑ "Federico Bella wins the Energy Storage Materials Young Scientist Award". Polytechnic University of Turin. April 15, 2024. Retrieved August 11, 2026.
External links
[edit]- Official website
- Maher El-Kady at UCLA's Kaner Laboratory
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