Dr. Mohamed Barakat Zakaria Mohamed

Profile

Academic position	Associate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fields	Synthesis and Properties of Functional Materials,Electrochemistry
Keywords	Metal carbides, sulfides and phosphides, Heterostructures, Energy storage and conversion, Nanohybrids, Electrocatalysis
Honours and awards	2024: Best poster award at the Kilpatrick Lecture Symposium, 1st Midwest MOF Conference, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA 2024: Outstanding reviewer award for journal of Materials Chemistry A in 2023, RSC 2023: Humboldt Return Fellowship (1211515), Humboldt Foundation (AvH), Germany 2021: Web of Science mentoring in peer review award, WOS 2020: Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship (GOIPD/2020/283), IRC, Ireland 2020: Humboldt Research Fellowship 2019: Award of outstanding reviewer in 2018 of journal of Materials Chemistry A by RSC 2018: Award of outstanding reviewer of Electrochimica Acta journal by Elsevier Editorial board 2018: Award of 2018 International Postdoctoral Exchange Program, Chinese Government 2018: The prestigious IAAM Young Scientist Medal for 2018 2016: JSPS postdoctoral fellowship award for two years, Japanese Government 2015: APL Materials best poster award, 2015 International Conference of the Nanospace Materials 2015: Energy & Environmental Science journal best poster award, 2015 MANA-RSC symposium 2008: Student Promotion Award of the Faculty of Science, University of Tanta, Egypt 2007: Student Promotion Award of the Egyptian Syndicate of Scientific Professions, Tanta, Egypt

Current contact address

Country	Egypt
City	Tanta
Institution	Tanta University
Institute	Faculty of Science, Chemistry Department

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Ulf-Peter Apfel	Lehrstuhl für Anorganische Chemie I, Bioanorganische Chemie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum
Prof. Dr. Ulf-Peter Apfel	Lehrstuhl für Anorganische Chemie I, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum
Start of initial sponsorship	01/09/2020

Programme(s)

2020	Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2025	Mohamed Barakat Zakaria Hegazy, Mohamed S. Mohamed, Ahmed A. Abokifa, Ulf-Peter Apfel: Reduced Graphene Oxide Sheet-Wrapped Heterotrimetallic Sulfide Nanoparticles for Efficient Alkaline Hydrogen Evolution. In: ACS Catalysis, 15/21, 2025, 18544–18555
2024	Haitham M. El-Bery, Manar M. Abdel Naby, Gehad G. Mohamed, Mohamed E. El-Khouly, Mohamed B. Zakaria: Enhancing photocatalytic hydrogen generation on TiO2 using thermally derived nickel-based cocatalysts from Hofmann-type cyanide coordination polymer flakes. In: International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 78, 2024, 470-480
2024	Mohamed Barakat Zakaria Hegazy, Judith Zander, Morten Weiss, Christopher Simon, Philipp Gerschel, Sebastian A. Sanden, Mathias Smialkowski, David Tetzlaff, Tobias Kull, Roland Marschall, Ulf-Peter Apfel: FeNi2S4–A Potent Bifunctional Efficient Electrocatalyst for the Overall Electrochemical Water Splitting in Alkaline Electrolyte. In: Small, 2024,
2024	Mohamed Barakat Zakaria Hegazy, Fathy Hassan, Ming Hu: Hofmann‐Type Cyanide Bridged Coordination Polymers for Advanced Functional Nanomaterials. In: Small, 2024, 2306709
2024	Eslam Aboelazm, Cheng Seong Khe, Kwok Feng Chong, Mohamed Shuaib Mohamed Saheed, Mohamed Barakat Zakaria Hegazy: Interconnected CoNi-Se Hollow Flakes through Reduced Graphene Oxide Sheets as a Cathode Material for Hybrid Supercapacitors. In: ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2024,
2024	Eslam Aboelazm, Cheng Seong Khe, Sven Grätz, Kwok Feng Chong, Mohamed Shuaib Mohamed Saheed, Mohamed Barakat Zakaria Hegazy: Layered construction of integrated sulfur-bridged CoNi-S/rGO architecture for enhanced electrochemical energy storage. In: Chemical Engineering Journal, 490, 2024, 151557
2023	Mohamed Barakat Zakaria Hegazy, Leila Bahri, David Tetzlaff, Sebastian A. Sanden and Ulf-Peter Apfel Silicon atom doping in heterotrimetallic sulfides for non-noble metal alkaline water electrolysis. In: Energy Adv, 2, 2023, 1190-1203
2023	Eslam Aboelazm, Cheng Seong Khe, MF Shukur, Kwok Feng Chong, Mohamed Shuaib Mohamed Saheed, Mohamed Barakat Zakaria Hegazy: Synergistic nanostructuring of CoNi-carbide/reduced graphene oxide derived from porous coordination polymers for high-performance hybrid supercapacitors. In: Journal of Energy Storage, 72, 2023, 108580
2023	Manar M Abdel Naby, Mohamed B Zakaria, Haitham M El-Bery, Gehad G Mohamed, Mohamed E El-Khouly: Two-dimensional nickel cyano-bridged coordination polymer thermally derived potent electrocatalysts for alkaline hydrogen evolution reaction. In: Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 11, 2023, 24261-24271
2022	Mohamed Barakat Zakaria Hegazy, Karim Harrath, David Tetzlaff, Mathias Smialkowski, Daniel Siegmund, Jun Li, Rui Cao, Ulf-Peter Apfel: Boosting the overall electrochemical water splitting performance of pentlandites through non-metallic heteroatom incorporation. In: iScience, 25, 2022, 105148
2021	Christopher Simon, Mohamed Barakat Zakaria, Hannah Kurz, David Tetzlaff, André Blösser, Morten Weiss, Jana Timm, Birgit Weber, Ulf‐Peter Apfel, Roland Marschall: Magnetic NiFe2O4 Nanoparticles Prepared via Non‐Aqueous Microwave‐Assisted Synthesis for Application in Electrocatalytic Water Oxidation. In: Chemistry–A European Journal, 27, 2021, 16990-17001
2021	Mohamed R Berber, MS Ismail, M Pourkashanian, Mohamed Barakat Zakaria Hegazy, Ulf-Peter Apfel: Promising Membrane for Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells Shows Remarkable Proton Conduction over Wide Temperature and Humidity Ranges. In: ACS Applied Polymer Materials, 3, 2021, 4275-4286
2021	Mohamed Barakat Zakaria Hegazy, Mohamed Reda Berber, Yusuke Yamauchi, Amir Pakdel, Rui Cao, Ulf-Peter Apfel: Synergistic electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution in Ni/NiS nanoparticles wrapped in multi-heteroatom-doped reduced graphene oxide nanosheets. In: ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 13, 2021, 34043-34052
2021	El-Zeiny Ebeid, Mohamed Barakat Zakaria: Thermal analysis: from introductory fundamentals to advanced applications. Kathryn Eryilmaz, 2021