Publications

Referred Journal Publications

30. Basant A. Ali, Charles B. Musgrave. "Tuning Rashba Splitting for Bright Ground-State Excitons in 2D CsPbBr3 Perovskites through Structural Distortions". ACS Nano, (2025).

29.   Ahmed H. Biby, Basant A. Ali, and Charles B. Musgrave. “Beyond Lithium Lanthanum Titanate: Toward Metal-Stable Perovskite Electrolytes”. EES Batteries, (2025).

28.       Basant A. Ali, Suxuen Yew, and Charles B. Musgrave "Elucidating the Interplay Between Symmetry Distortions in Passivated MAPbI3 and the Rashba Splitting Effect", ACS Nano, (2024)

27.       Basant A. Ali†, Nashaat Ahmed†, and Nageh K. Allam " Deciphering the hype effect of Ni-foam substrate in electrochemical supercapacitors: Is there a way out?", Materials Today Communications, 103972. (2022)

26.       Mohamed F. Sanad, Hannah M. Franklin, Basant A Ali, Alain R. Puente Santiago, Aruna N. Nair, Venkata SN Chava, Olivia Fernandez-Delgado, Nageh K. Allam, Steven Stevenson, Sreeprasad T. Sreenivasan, and Luis Echegoyen "Cylindrical C96 Fullertubes: A Highly Active Metal Free O2‐Reduction Electrocatalyst", Angewandte Chemie. (2022)

25.       Nashaat Ahmed, Basant A. Ali, and Nageh K. Allam "Optimized electrosynthesis approach of Manganese-Nickel- Cobalt chalcogenide nanosheet arrays as binder-free battery materials for asymmetric electrochemical supercapacitors", Electrochemica Acta, 396, 139191. (2021)

24.       Basant A. Ali, Ahmed H. Biby, and Nageh K. Allam. "Towards the Proper Selection of Carbon Electrodes for Energy Storage Applications: Experimental and Theoretical Insights." Energy & Fuels, 35 (16), 13426-13437. (2021)

23.       Basant A. Ali, Ahmed H. Biby, and Nageh K. Allam. “Rb Intercalation Extraordinarily Enhances the Electrochemical Capacitance Performance of 2D-based Electrode Materials” Materials Advances, 2, 5052-5056. (2021)

22.       Basant A. Ali, Ahmed H. Biby, and Nageh K. Allam. “Towards Cs-ion Supercapacitors: Cs Intercalation in 2D Electrode Materials.” Chemcomm, 57, 3231-3234. (2021)

21.            Ahmed H. Biby, Basant A. Ali, and Nageh K. Allam. “Interplay of quantum capacitance with Van der Waals forces, intercalation, co-intercalation, and the number of MoS2 layers” Materials Today Energy, 100677. (2021)

 20.   Ibrahim M. Badawy, Basant A. Ali, Walaa A. Abbas, and Nageh K. Allam " Natural silk for energy and sensing applications: a review" Environmental Chemistry Letters, 2141–2155. (2021)

19.   Walid Sharmoukh, Sherief A. Al Kiey, Basant A. Ali, Latika Menon, and Nageh K. Allam. "Recent progress in the development of hole-transport materials to boost the power conversion efficiency of perovskite solar cells." Sustainable Materials and Technologies (2020): e00210.

18.   Nashaat Ahmed, Aya Amer, Basant A. Ali, Ahmed H. Biby, Yasmine I. Mesbah, and Nageh K. Allam. "Boosting the cyclic stability and supercapacitive performance of graphene hydrogels via excessive nitrogen doping: Experimental and DFT insights." Sustainable Materials and Technologies (2020): e00206.

17.   Walid Sharmoukh, Jiayan Cong, Basant A. Ali, Nageh K. Allam, and Lars Kloo. "Comparison between Benzothiadizole–Thiophene-and Benzothiadizole–Furan-Based D–A−π–A Dyes Applied in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: Experimental and Theoretical Insights." ACS omega 5, no. 27 (2020): 16856-16864.

16.   Farah A. El Diwany, Basant A. Ali, Ehab N. El Sawy, Nageh K. Allam. "Fullerene C76 as a novel electrocatalyst for VO2+/VO2+ and chlorine evolution inhibitor in all-vanadium redox flow batteries." Chemical Communications, 56 (2020): 7569 - 7572.

15.   Asad A. Thahe, Basant A. Ali, Hazri Bakhtiar, M. B. Uday, Z. Hassan, Mundzir Abdullah, M. A. Qaeed, Hasan Alqaraghuli, Hussein Abd Zaidan, and Nageh K. Allam. "Laser annealing enhanced the photophysical performance of Pt/n-PSi/ZnO/Pt-based photodetectors." Solid-State Electronics 171 (2020): 107821.

14.   Yasmine I. Mesbah, Nashaat Ahmed, Basant A. Ali, Nageh K. Allam. "Recycling of Li−Ni−Mn−Co Hydroxide from Spent Batteries to Produce High‐Performance Supercapacitors with Exceptional Stability." ChemElectroChem 7, no. 4 (2020): 975-982.

13.   Basant A. Ali, Ahmed H. Biby, Nageh K. Allam. "Fullerene C76: An unexplored superior electrode material with wide operating potential window for high‐performance supercapacitors." ChemElectroChem 7, no. 7(2020): 1672-1678.

12.   Basant A. Ali, and Nageh K. Allam. "Silkworms as a factory of functional wearable energy storage fabrics." Scientific reports 9, no. 1 (2019): 1-8.

11.   Basant A. Ali, Asmaa M. Omar, Ahmed SG Khalil, and Nageh K. Allam. "Untapped potential of polymorph MoS2: Tuned cationic intercalation for high-performance symmetric supercapacitors." ACS applied materials & interfaces 11, no. 37 (2019): 33955-33965.

10.   Nashaat Ahmed, Basant A. Ali, Mohamed Ramadan, and Nageh K. Allam. "Three-Dimensional Interconnected Binder-Free Mn–Ni–S Nanosheets for High Performance Asymmetric Supercapacitor Devices with Exceptional Cyclic Stability." ACS Applied Energy Materials 2, no. 5 (2019): 3717-3725.

9.   Basant A. Ali, and Nageh K. Allam. "A first-principles roadmap and limits to design efficient supercapacitor electrode materials." Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 21, no. 32 (2019): 17494-17511.

8.   Walaa A. Abbas, Ibrahim H. Abdullah, Basant A. Ali, Nashaat Ahmed, Aya M. Mohamed, Marwan Y. Rezk, Noha Ismail, Mona A. Mohamed, and Nageh K. Allam. "Recent advances in the use of TiO2 nanotube powder in biological, environmental, and energy applications." Nanoscale Advances 1, no. 8 (2019): 2801-2816.

7.   Basant A Ali, Walid Sharmoukh, Mohamed M Elnagar, Zeinab M Hassan, Nageh K Allam, “Experimental and density functional theory insights into the effect of withdrawing ligands on the fluorescence yield of Ru (II)‐based complexes” Applied Organometallic Chemistry, 33 (2019): e4677.

6.   Walid Sharmoukh, Zeinab M. Hassan, Basant A. Ali, Mohamed M. Elnagar, Hanan A. Mousa, Ammar A. Labib. “Molecular Engineering of D-π-A Based on 1, 3-Dimethoxybenzene π Spacer for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells” Egyptian Journal of Chemistry, 62 (2019): 97-108.

5.   Asad A. Thahe, Hazri Bakhtiar, Basant A. Ali, Z Hassan, Nroiah Bidin, Mohamed Bououdina, M A. Qaeed, Zainal A Talib, Mohammed A Al-Azawia, Hasan Alqaraghuli, Asmiet Ramizyi, M B Uday, M.S.Al-Ghamdi, Dauda Abubakar, Nageh K. Allam, “Photophysical Performance of Radio Frequency Sputtered Pt/n-PSi/ZnO NCs/Pt Photovoltaic Photodetectors”, Optical Materials, 84 (2018): 830-842.

4.   Walid Sharmoukh, Zeinab M. Hassan, Basant A. Ali, Mohamed M. Elnagar, Rayhan M. Abdo, and Nageh K. Allam. "Position of the anchoring group determined the sensitization efficiency of metal-free D-π-A dyes: Combined experimental and TD–DFT insights." Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry, 367 (2018): 128-136.

3.   Basant A. Ali, Ossama I. Metwalli, Ahmed S. G. Khalil, Nageh K. Allam, “Unveiling the Effect of the Structure of Carbon Material on the Charge Storage Mechanism in MoS2-Based Supercapacitors”, ACS Omega, 11 (2018):16301–16308.

2.   Basant A. Ali, and Nageh K. Allam. "Propping the optical and electronic properties of potential photo-sensitizers with different π-spacers: TD-DFT insights." Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 188 (2018): 237-243.

1.   Ahmed A. Hassanein, Yasser R. Elmarassi, and Basant A. Ali. "TD-DFT study of charge transfer excitation in D-π-A metal complex dyes as sensitizers in DSSCs." Journal of Computational Methods in Molecular Design, 5.4 (2015): 109-119.

Book Chapters

The DFT+U: Approaches, Accuracy, and Applications (DFT Calculation); Sarah A. Tolba, Kareem M. Gameel, Basant A. Ali, Hossam A. Almossalami, Nageh K. Allam, Density Functional Calculations - Recent Progresses of Theory and Application, InTech publication.

Patent

Basant A. Ali and Nageh K. Allam, Electrical Circuit Components Made from Silkworm Silk with Silkworm-Digested Structured Materials and Methods for Manufacturing Same, US 12,283,392 B2, EU: 3955749. (2025)

Conference Presentations

• Tuning Rashba-Splitting to Brighten Ground State Exciton Via Structural Distortion in 2D Cs2PbBr4, MRS Fall 2024 (Boston), Oral Presentation.

• Unraveling the relationship between the symmetry of ligand-passivated MAPbI3 perovskite surfaces and the Rashba-Dresselhaus effect, ACS Fall 2024 (Denver), Oral Presentation.

• Effect of electrolyte and carbon morphology for a high-performance supercapacitor device: Comparative experimental and theoretical insights, ACS Fall 2021 (Atlanta), Oral Presentation.

• Tuning cation intercalation and carbon additives for high-performance MoS2-based supercapacitor devices, ACS Fall 2021 (Atlanta), Oral Presentation.

NextGen Voices, Science Magazine (AAAS)

• Full speed ahead to the city on the hill, Science, 2016, 352(6288), 886-889.

• Prejudgment call, Science, 2017, 355(6320):22-23.

• Education for the future, Science, 2018, 360(6396): 1409-1412

• Defining events: 2020 in hindsight, Science, 2021, 371 (6524): 22-24