Top-Notch Expert, Professor
1. Personal profile
2024/12-Present: Professor, Institute of Nanoscience and Engineering, Henan University.
2023/01-2024/11: Postdoctoral Researcher, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, China.
2020/01-2022/12: Assistant Professor, State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow in Power Engineering, School of Energy and Power Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China.
2018/12-2019/12: Postdoctoral Researcher, State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow in Power Engineering, School of Energy and Power Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China.
2014/09-2017/12: Doctor of Engineering, Waseda University and National Institute of Materials Science (NIMS) joint graduation program, Japan.
2011/09-2014/08: Master (Chemistry), Bahauddin Zakariya University, Pakistan.
He has published over 25 SCI papers, including 13 SCI papers as the first/corresponding author in well-known academic journals such as Small, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, and ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering. He has presided over 1 national and 1 provincial project including 1 National Natural Science Foundation of China, (International (Regional) Cooperation and Exchange Program), and 1 Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities. Moreover, Ministry of Science and Technology, China awarded him with “Foreign cultural and educational experts” award. During his PhD under the joint graduation program of the National Institute of Materials Sciences (NIMS) and Waseda University, he worked with world-renowned Prof. Minoru Osada (current affiliation Nagoya University) and Prof. Takayoshi Sasaki.
2. Research Fields
1. Two-dimensional materials.
2. Perovskite oxides, graphitic carbon nitride.
3. Photo(electro)catalytic water splitting.
3. Awards and Honors
1. “Foreign cultural and educational experts”, Ministry of Science and Technology, China.
2. “The Monbukagakusho Honors Scholarship”, Japan.
4. Scientific research projects
1. National Natural Science Foundation of China, International (Regional) Cooperation and Exchange Program, Principal Investigator, Project No. 52050410337, CNY:400K, 01-2021 to 12-2022.
2. Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, Principal Investigator, Project No. xzy012020103, CNY:60K, 12-2020 to 12-2022.
3. National Natural Science Foundation of China, MOST, Project Fund CNY:20M, Participant, 01-2022 to 12-2026.
5. Book Chapter
1. M. S. Khan, Shaohua Shen, Chapter Title: Low dimensional solid materials for direct fuel generation assisted by sunlight, Book Name: Conversion of Water and CO2 to Fuels using Solar Energy: Science, Technology and Materials. Editors: Oomman K. Varghese (Editor), Flavio L. Souza (Editor), Published by John Wiley & Sons, February 2024, pages 416.
6. Representative Papers
1. M. A. H. Shah, Z. Ahmad, K. Jabbour, K. Bibi, Z. Fareed, S. I. A. Shah, A. T. Alfagham, A. M. Elgorban, F. Aftab*, M. S. Khan*, Exploring multimetal interactions between FeNi3 alloy and Lu3Ga5O12 metal oxide for improved water splitting performance. Fuel, 381, (2025).
2. S.-ul Haq, C-L Dong, Y-C. Huang, R. M. U. Rehman, E. Djatoubai, Z. Lin, M. S. Khan*, S. Shen, Synergy of Nitrogen Dopants and Cobalt Single Atoms in Calcium Niobate Nanosheets for Photocatalytic Oxygen Evolution, Journal of Physics: Energy. 6 045002 (2024).
3. E. Djatoubai, M. S. Khan*, S.-ul Haq, G. Heidari, L. Ma, S. Shen, BiFeO3-Based All Perovskite Oxides Direct Z-Scheme Heterostructure for Efficient Oxygen evolution, ACS Applied Energy Materials, 6, 11, (2023).
4. E. Djatoubai, M. S. Khan*, S.-ul Haq, G. Heidari, C-L Dong, T. T. T. Nga, J-L. Chen, S. Shen, Engineered Cobalt Single-Atoms@BiFeO3 HeteroNanostructures for Highly Efficient Solar Water, Small, Wiley, 2206293, (2023).
5. S.-ul Haq, M. S. Khan*, E. Djatoubai, P. Guo, S. Shen, A Facile Approach for Pt Single Atoms Deposition on Two-Dimensional Calcium Niobate Nanosheets for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, Vol. 10, 28, (2022).
6. E. Djatoubai, M. S. Khan*, S.-ul Haq, P. Guo, S. Shen, Dopants and Defects Control in BiFeO3 to Tailor Band Structure for Efficient Photocatalytic Oxygen Evolution, Applied Catalysis. A: General, Vol. 643, 118737, (2022).
7. M. S. Khan,* M. Osada,* L. Dong, Y-H. Kim, Y. Ebina, and T. Sasaki, Rational Assembly of Two-Dimensional Perovskite Nanosheets as Building Blocks for New Ferroelectrics, ACS Applied Material & Interfaces, Vol. 13, 1, (2021).
8. M. S. Khan,* H-J. Kim, Y-H. Kim, Y. Ebina, W. Sugimoto, T. Sasaki, and M. Osada*, Scalable Design of Two-Dimensional Oxide Nanosheets for Construction of Ultrathin Multilayer Nanocapacitor, Small, Vol. 16, 2003485 (2020).
9. M. S. Khan, Z. Diao, M. Osada, S. Shen, Nitrogen Doped Ultrathin Calcium/Sodium Niobate Perovskite Nanosheets for Photocatalytic Water Oxidation, Solar Energy. Materials & Solar Cell, Vol. 205, 110283 (2020).
10. M. S. Khan, F. Zhang, M. Osada, S. S. Mao, and S. Shen, Graphitic Carbon Nitride-Based Low-Dimensional Heterostructures for Photocatalytic Applications, Solar RRL, 1900435 (2019).
7. Contact Information:
Correspondence address: Nanomaterials Engineering Research Center, Henan University, Jinming District, Kaifeng City, Henan Province
Zip code: 475004
Email : mshuaibkhan@henu.edu.cn
