Publications

Scientific Publications

1. Investigating the molecular structure of plasma in type 2 diabetes mellitus and diabetic nephropathy by synchrotron Fourier-transform infrared microspectroscopy
   Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, Vol. 264, pp. 120259 (2022)
   R. Nimer, G. Kamel, MA. Obeidat, LA. Dahabiyeh
   doi: 10.1016/j.saa.2021.120259
   Beamline: IR
   
   
2. Synthesis and Characterization of a Carbon-Supported Cobalt Nitride Nano-Catalyst
   ChemNanoMat, Vol. 8 - 2, pp. e202100428-17 (2022)
   A Rubab, N Baig, M Sher, M Ali, A Ul-Hamid, N Jabeen, LU Khan, M Sohail
   doi: 10.1002/cnma.202100428
   Beamline: XAFS/XRF
   
   
3. Synchrotron radiation infrared microspectroscopy: Insights on biomedicine
   Applied Spectroscopy Reviews, Vol. , pp. 1-20 (2022)
   A. Refaat, G. Kamel
   doi: 10.1080/05704928.2022.2052308
   Beamline: IR
   
   
4. Wide visible-range activatable fluorescence ZnSe:Eu3+/Mn2+@ZnS quantum dots: local atomic structure order and application as a nanoprobe for bioimaging
   J. Mater. Chem. B, Vol. 10 - 2, pp. 247-261 (2022)
   ZU Khan, MK Uchiyama, LU Khan, K Araki, H Goto, MCFC Felinto, AO de Souza, HF de Brito, M Gidlund
   doi: 10.1039/D1TB01870A
   Beamline: XAFS/XRF
   
   
5. Synchrotron Radiation Fourier Transform Infrared (SR-FTIR) spectroscopy in exploring ancient human hair from Roman period Juliopolis: Preservation status and alterations of organic compounds
   Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, Vol. , pp. 121026 (2022)
   K.O. Lorentz, G. Kamel, S.AM. Lemmers, Y. Miyauchi, E. Cubukcu, A. Alpagut, AM. Buyukkarakaya
   doi: 10.1016/j.saa.2022.121026
   Beamline: IR
   
   
6. Effect of vanadium and tungsten doping on the structural, optical, and electronic characteristics of TiO2 nanoparticles
   Journal of Materials Science, Vol. , pp. (2022)
   Z.K. Heiba, M. B.Mohamed, A. Badawi, M. Abdellatief
   doi: 10.1007/s10854-022-08027-w
   Beamline: MS
   
   
7. Operational status of the X-ray powder diffraction beamline at the SESAME synchrotron
   Journal of Synchrotron Radiation, Vol. 29, pp. (2022)
   M. Abdellatief, M. A. Najdawi, Y. Momani, B. Aljamal, A. Abbadi, M. Harfouche, G. Paolucci
   doi: 10.1107/S1600577521012820
   Beamline: MS
   
   
8. Electronic and crystal structure analyses of boron doped LiFeO2 cathode material by the XAFS spectroscopy
   Materials Today Communications, Vol. 31, pp. 103571 (2022)
   S Gunaydin, M Harfouche, OM Ozkendir
   doi: 10.1016/j.mtcomm.2022.103571
   Beamline: XAFS/XRF
   
   
9. Ag/AgCl Clusters Derived from AgCu Alloy Nanoparticles as Electrocatalyst for Oxygen Reduction Reaction
   Sustainable Energy Fuels, Vol. , pp. (2022)
   T. Balkan, H. Küçükkeçeci, D. Aksoy, M. Harfouche, O. Metin, K. Sarp
   doi: 10.1039/D2SE00472K
   Beamline: XAFS/XRF
   
   

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1. Fabrication and Exploration of Efficacious Transition Metal Oxides (TMO) based Nano-catalysts: Headway to Green Energy, (2021)
   S. JAMIL
   doi:
   Beamline: XAFS/XRF
   
   
2. Seed-mediated synthesis and characterization of ZnO-Fe2O3 nanospheres: Building up the core-shell model
   Journal of Crystal Growth, Vol. 572, pp. 126279 (2021)
   S.I. Ahmed
   doi: 10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2021.126279
   Beamline: XAFS/XRF
   
   
3. Synchrotron XANES and EXAFS evidences for Cr+6 and V+5 reduction within the oil shale ashes through mixing with natural additives and hydration process
   Heliyon, Vol. 7 - 4, pp. e06769 (2021)
   T. El-Hasan, M. Harfouche, A. Aldrabee, N. Abdelhadi, N. Abu-Jaber, G. Aquilanti
   doi: 10..1016/j.heliyon.2021.e06769
   Beamline: XAFS/XRF
   
   
4. Carbide-Supported PtRu Catalysts for Hydrogen Oxidation Reaction in Alkaline Electrolyte
   ACS Catal., Vol. 11 - 2, pp. 932-947 (2021)
   ER Hamo, RK Singh, JC Douglin, S Chen, MB Hassine, E Carbo-Argibay, S Lu, H Wang, PJ Ferreira, BA Rosen, DR Dekel
   doi: 10.1021/acscatal.0c03973
   Beamline: XAFS/XRF
   
   
5. Synchrotron X-ray fluorescence and X-ray absorption near edge structure of low concentration arsenic in ambient air particulates
   J. Anal. At. Spectrom., Vol. 36 - 5, pp. 981-992 (2021)
   AA Shaltout, M Harfouche, FAS Hassan, D Eichert
   doi: 10.1039/D0JA00504E
   Beamline: XAFS/XRF
   
   
6. Transcriptional modulations induced by proton irradiation in mice skin in function of adsorbed dose and distance
   Journal of Radiation Research and Applied Sciences, Vol. 14 - 1, pp. 260-270 (2021)
   V. Licursi, W. Wang, E. Di Nisio, F.P. Cammarata, R. Acquaviva, G. Russo, L. Manti, M. Cestelli Guidi, E. Fratini, G. Kamel, R. Amendola, P. Pisciotta, R. Negri
   doi: 10.1080/16878507.2021.1949675
   Beamline: IR
   
   
7. Study on crystallographic and electronic structure of micrometre-scale ZnO and ZnO:B rods via X-ray absorption fine-structure spectroscopy
   Journal of Synchrotron Radiation, Vol. 28, pp. 448-454 (2021)
   S. Erat, O.M. Ozkendir, S. Yildirimcan, S. Gunaydin, M. Harfouche, B. Demir, A. Braun
   doi: 10.1107/S1600577520015866
   Beamline: XAFS/XRF
   
   
8. Characterization of Insulin Mucoadhesive Buccal Films: Spectroscopic Analysis and In Vivo Evaluation
   Symmetry, Vol. 13 - 1, pp. 1-17 (2021)
   M Diab, A Sallam, I Hamdan, R Mansour, R Hussain, G Siligardi, N Qinna, E Khalil
   doi: 10.3390/sym13010088
   Beamline: IR
   
   
9. Magnetic Properties and Environmental Temperature Effects on Battery Performance of Na0.67Mn0.5Fe0.5O2
   Energy Technology, Vol. 9 - 5, pp. 2001130 (2021)
   S. Altin, A. Bayri, E. Altin, E. Oz, S. Yasar, S. AltundaAY, M. Harfouche, S. Avci
   doi: 10.1002/ente.202001130
   Beamline: XAFS/XRF
   
   
10. Robust Barium Phosphate Metal Organic Frameworks Synthesized under Aqueous Conditions
    ACS Materials Lett., Vol. , pp. 1010-1015 (2021)
    K.A. Salmeia, S. Dolabella, D. Parida, T.J. Frankcombe, A.T. Afaneh, K.E. Cordova, B. Al-Maythalony, S. Zhao, R. Civioc, A. Marashdeh, B. Spingler, R. Frison, A. Neels
    doi: 10.1021/acsmaterialslett.1c00275
    Beamline: MS
    
    
11. Synthesis and comparative evaluation of optical and electrochemical properties of efficacious heterostructured-nanocatalysts of ZnSe with commercial and reduced titania
    Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Vol. 879, pp. 160449 (2021)
    S Jamil, N Jabeen, LU Khan, A Bashir, N Janjua, M Harfouche, M Sohail, AH Siddique, A Iqbal, N Qadeer, Z Akhter
    doi: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2021.160449
    Beamline: XAFS/XRF
    
    
12. Geochemical changes of Mn in contaminated agricultural soils nearby historical mine tailings: Insights from XAS, XRD and, SEP
    Chemical Geology, Vol. 573, pp. 120217 (2021)
    A Morales-Pérez, V Moreno-Rodríguez, R Del Rio-Salas, NG Imam, B González-Méndez, T Pi-Puig, F Molina-Freaner, R Loredo-Portales
    doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2021.120217
    Beamline: XAFS/XRF
    
    
13. Synchrotron Fourier transform infrared microspectroscopy (sFTIRM) analysis of unfolding behavior of electrospun collagen nanofibers
    Spectrochimica Acta - Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, Vol. 251, pp. (2021)
    M. Kazanci, K. Selcuk Haciosmanoglu, G. Kamel
    doi: 10.1016/j.saa.2020.119420
    Beamline: IR
    
    
14. The first infrared beamline at the Middle East SESAME synchrotron facility.
    Journal of Synchrotron Radiation, Vol. 28 - 6, pp. (2021)
    G. Kamel, S. Lefrancois, T. Moreno, M. Al-Najdawi, Y. Momani, A. Abbadi, G. Paolucci, P. Dumas
    doi: 10.1107/S1600577521008778
    Beamline: IR
    
    
15. The significance of the local structure of cobalt-based catalysts on the photoelectrochemical water oxidation activity of BiVO4
    Electrochimica Acta, Vol. 366, pp. 137467 (2021)
    M Barzgar Vishlaghi, A Kahraman, S Apaydin, E Usman, D Aksoy, T Balkan, S Munir, M Harfouche, H Ogasawara, S Kaya
    doi: 10.1016/j.electacta.2020.137467
    Beamline: XAFS/XRF
    
    
16. Data Acquisition and Analysis at the X-ray Computed Tomography Beamline of SESAME
    2021 IEEE Jordan International Joint Conference on Electrical Engineering and Information Technology (JEEIT), Vol. , pp. 134-139 (2021)
    G. Iori, S. Matalgah, C. Chrysostomou, A. Al-Dalleh, M. Alzu'bi
    doi: 10.1109/JEEIT53412.2021.9634151
    Beamline: BEATS
    
    
17. Mummified Embalmed Head Skin: SR-FTIR Microspectroscopic Exploration
    Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, Vol. , pp. 120073 (2021)
    D. Moissidou, H. Derricott, G. Kamel
    doi: 10.1016/j.saa.2021.120073
    Beamline: IR
    
    
18. Investigating Local Structure of Ion-Implanted (Ni2+) and Thermally Annealed Rock Salt CoO Film by EXAFS Simulation Using Evolutionary Algorithm
    ACS Appl. Energy Mater., Vol. 4 - 3, pp. 2049-2055 (2021)
    LU Khan, N Jabeen, I Jabbar, S Jamil, A Kanwal, Z Akhter, M Usman, MZ Abid, M Harfouche
    doi: 10.1021/acsaem.0c02676
    Beamline: XAFS/XRF
    
    

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1. Investigating the molecular structure of placenta and plasma in pre-eclampsia by infrared microspectroscopy
   Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis, Vol. 184, pp. 113186 (2020)
   L.A. Dahabiyeh, R.S.H. Mansour, S.S. Saleh, G. Kamel
   doi: 10.1016/j.jpba.2020.113186
   Beamline: IR
   
   
2. Investigation of Ti-substitution effects on structural and electrochemical properties of Na0.67Mn0.5Fe0.5O2 battery cells
   International Journal of Energy Research, Vol. 44 - 14, pp. 11794-11806 (2020)
   S Altin, S Altundag, E Altin, E Oz, M Harfouche, A Bayri
   doi: 10.1002/er.5820
   Beamline: XAFS/XRF
   
   
3. Local lattice relaxation around Tl substitutional impurities in a NaI(Tl) scintillator crystal
   Radiation Physics and Chemistry, Vol. 177, pp. 108992 (2020)
   A Filipponi, G Profeta, N Di Marco, V Zema, K Schäffner, F Reindl, M Harfouche, A Trapananti, A Di Cicco
   doi: 10.1016/j.radphyschem.2020.108992
   Beamline: XAFS/XRF
   
   
4. An investigation of the improvement in energy storage performance of Na2/3Mn1/2Fe1/2O2 by systematic Al-substitution
   Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics, Vol. 31 - 17, pp. 14784-14794 (2020)
   S Altin, S AltundaAY, E Altin, M Harfouche, A Bayri
   doi: 10.1007/s10854-020-04042-x
   Beamline: XAFS/XRF
   
   
5. Electronic structure and electrochemical analysis of the Li2Mn1-xSexO3 materials on April 02, 2020.
   Solid State Ionics, Vol. 349, pp. 115299 (2020)
   O.M. Ozkendir, G. Celik, S. Ates, S. Aktas, S. Gunaydin, M. Harfouche, F. Bondino, E. Magnano, H. Baveghar, I. Ulfat
   doi: 10.1016/j.ssi.2020.115299
   Beamline: XAFS/XRF
   
   
6. Design and Ray-Tracing of the BEATS Beamline of SESAME, Conference: MEDSI2020, Chicago (US) 26/07/2021 (2020)
   A. Kaprolat, G. Iori, I. Cudin, J. Reyes-Herrera, M. AL-Najdawi, M. AL-Shehab, M. Altissimo, P. Van Vaerenbergh, T. Kolodziej
   doi: 10.18429/JACoW-MEDSI2020-WEPA10
   Beamline: BEATS
   
   
7. Synchrotron Fourier transform infrared microspectroscopy (sFTIRM) analysis of Al-induced Alzheimer's disease in rat brain cortical tissue
   Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, Vol. 239, pp. 118421 (2020)
   G.A. Ahmed, W. El Hotaby, L. Abbas, H.H.A. Sherif, G. Kamel, S.KH. Khalil
   doi: 10.1016/j.saa.2020.118421
   Beamline: IR
   
   
8. Highly efficient 3D-ZnO nanosheet photoelectrodes for solar-driven water splitting: Chalcogenide nanoparticle sensitization and mathematical modeling
   Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Vol. 828, pp. 154472 (2020)
   CT Altaf, M Faraji, A Kumtepe, N Abdullayeva, N Yilmaz, E Karagoz, A Bozbey, H Kurt, M Sankir, ND Sankir
   doi: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2020.154472
   Beamline: XAFS/XRF
   
   
9. LiNi0.8Co0.15Ti0.05O2: synthesis by solid state reaction and investigation of structural and electrochemical properties with enhanced battery performance
   Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics, Vol. 31 - 22, pp. 20527-20538 (2020)
   A Bayri, E Gocer, E Altin, S Altundag, E Oz, M Harfouche, S Altin, S Avci
   doi: 10.1007/s10854-020-04572-4
   Beamline: XAFS/XRF
   
   

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1. Synthesis and water oxidation electrocatalytic and electrochromic behaviours of mesoporous nickel oxide thin film electrodes
   Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Vol. 7 - 38, pp. 22012-22020 (2019)
   A. Amirzhanova, I. Karakaya, C. B. Uzundal, G. Karaoglu, F. Karadas, O. Dag
   doi: 10.1039/c9ta07693j
   Beamline: XAFS/XRF
   
   
2. Lyotropic Liquid Crystalline Mesophases Made of Salt-Acid-Surfactant Systems for the Synthesis of Novel Mesoporous Lithium Metal Phosphates
   ChemPlusChem, Vol. 84, pp. 1-11 (2019)
   I. Uzunok, J. Kim, T. O. Colak, D. S. Kim, H. Kim, M. Kim, Y. Yamauchi, O. Dag
   doi: 10.1002/cplu.201900435
   Beamline: XAFS/XRF
   
   
3. Boron activity in the inactive Li2MnO3 cathode material
   Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena, Vol. 235, pp. 23-28 (2019)
   O.M. Ozkendir, M. Harfouche, I. Ulfat, C. Kaya, G. Celik, S. Ates, S. Aktas, H. Bavigar, T. Colak
   doi: 10.1016/j.elspec.2019.06.011
   Beamline: XAFS/XRF
   
   
4. Exceptionally active and stable catalysts for CO2 reforming of glycerol to syngas
   Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, Vol. 256 - 117808, pp. (2019)
   S. Bac, Z. Say, Y. Kocak, K.E. Ercan, M. Harfouche, E. Ozensoy, A.K. Avci
   doi: 10.1016/j.apcatb.2019.117808
   Beamline: XAFS/XRF
   
   

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1. EMIRA: The Infrared Synchrotron Radiation Beamline at SESAME
   Synchrotron Radiation News, Vol. 30 - 4, pp. 8-10 (2017)
   G. Kamel, S. Lefrancois, M. Al-Najdawi, T. Abu-Hanieh, I. Saleh, Y. Momani, P. Dumas
   doi: 10.1080/08940886.2017.1338415
   Beamline: IR
   
   
2. Elucidation of penetration enhancement mechanism of Emu oil using FTIR microspectroscopy at EMIRA laboratory of SESAME synchrotron
   Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, Vol. 185, pp. 1-10 (2017)
   R.S.H. Mansour, A.A. Sallam, I.I. Hamdan, E.A. Khalil, I. Yousef
   doi: 10.1016/j.saa.2017.05.026
   Beamline: IR
   
   
3. The SESAME materials science beamline for XRD applications
   Powder Diffraction, Vol. 32 - S1, pp. S6-S12 (2017)
   M Abdellatief, L Rebuffi, H Khosroabadi, M Najdawi, T Abu-Hanieh, M Attal, G Paolucci
   doi: 10.1017/S0885715617000021
   Beamline: MS
   
   

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1. Study of the biochemical effects induced by X-ray irradiations in combination with gadolinium nanoparticles in F98 glioma cells: first FTIR studies at the Emira laboratory of the SESAME synchrotron
   Analyst, Vol. 141 - 7, pp. 2238-2249 (2016)
   I. Yousef, O. Seksek, S. Gil, Y. Prezado, J. Sule-Suso, I. Martinez-Rovira
   doi: 10.1039/C5AN02378E
   Beamline: IR
   
   
2. Optical and Micro-FTIR mapping: A new approach for structural evaluation of V2O5-lithium fluoroborate glasses
   Materials Design, Vol. 89, pp. 568-572 (2016)
   A.M. Abdelghany, H.A. ElBatal
   doi: 10.1016/j.matdes.2015.09.159
   Beamline: IR
   
   
3. Monosialoganglioside-GM1 triggers binding of the amyloid-protein salmon calcitonin to a Langmuir membrane model mimicking the occurrence of lipid-rafts
   Biochemistry and Biophysics Reports, Vol. 8, pp. 365-375 (2016)
   M. Diociaiuti, C. Giordani, G. Kamel, F. Brasili, S. Sennato, C. Bombelli, K. Meneses, M. Giraldo, F. Bordi
   doi: 10.1016/j.bbrep.2016.10.005
   Beamline: IR
   
   

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1. Simulation and design of an infrared beamline for SESAME (Synchrotron-Light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East)
   Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol. 673, pp. 73-81 (2012)
   I. Yousef, S. Lefrancois, T. Moreno, H. Hoorani, F. Makahleh, A. Nadji, P. Dumas
   doi: 10.1016/j.nima.2011.12.012
   Beamline: IR
   
   

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