Dr. Farghaly is a scientist/chemist in the Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Materials Group in Argonne’s Chemical Sciences and Engineering division and a CASE (Consortium for Advanced Science and Engineering) scientist in the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago. He serves as the Associate Editor of the Springer Nature ​Nanotechnology for Environmental Engineering journal and Associate Editor of the ​Frontiers in Materials journal.

Dr. Farghaly’s current research interests focus on nanomaterials development and characterization for fuel cells and electrolysis applications. Specifically, he is interested in developing novel high-throughput materials synthesis methods, nanostructured porous electrocatalysts and catalyst support frameworks, machine learning (ML) driven electrocatalysts synthesis, high-throughput electrocatalysts characterization, and synchrotron X-ray characterization techniques.

Education

• Ph.D. Nanoscience & Nanotechnology (Electrochemistry Focus), Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
• M.Sc. Inorganic Chemistry, Assiut University, Egypt
• B.Sc. Chemistry with Honors Degree (Rank: Top Senior), Assiut University, Egypt       

Select Publications

• Rajib Sarkar, Ahmed A. Farghaly, and Indika U. Arachchige ​“Oxidative Self-Assembly of Au/Ag/Pt Alloy Nanoparticles into High Surface Area, Mesoporous, and Conductive Aerogels for Methanol Electro-Oxidation” Chemistry of Materials 2022, 34, 13, 5874–5887.
• Tim Van Cleve, Guanxiong Wang, Mason Mooney, C. Firat Cetinbas, Nancy Kariuki, Jaehyung Park, Ahmed A. Farghaly, Deborah Myers, K.C. Neyerlin ​“Tailoring Electrode Microstructure via Ink Content to Enable Improved Rated Power Performance for Platinum Cobalt/High Surface Area Carbon Based Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells” Journal of Power Sources 2021, 482, 228889.
• Rezaul K. Khan, Ahmed A. Farghaly, Tiago A. Silva, Dexian Ye, Maryanne M. Collinson, ​“Gold-Nanoparticle-Decorated Titanium Nitride Electrodes Prepared by Glancing-Angle Deposition for Sensing Applications”. ACS Applied Nano Materials 2019, 2 (3), 1562-1569 (Co-first author).
• Ahmed A. Farghaly, Rezaul K. Khan, Maryanne M. Collinson, ​“Biofouling-Resistant Platinum Bimetallic Alloys”. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2018, 10 (25), 21103–21112.
• Muslum Demir, Ahmed A. Farghaly, Matthew J. Decuir, Sushil K. Saraswat, Maryanne M. Collinson and Ram B. Gupta, ​“Supercapacitance and oxygen reduction characteristics of sulfur self-doped micro/mesoporous bio-carbon derived from lignin”. Materials Chemistry and Physics 2018, 216, 508-516. (Co-first author)
• Ahmed A. Farghaly and Maryanne M. Collinson, ​“Mesoporous Hybrid Polypyrrole-Silica Nanocomposite Films with a Strata-Like Structure”. Langmuir 2016, 32 (23), 5925–5936.
• Ramendra K. Pal, Ahmed A. Farghaly, Maryanne M. Collinson, Subhas C. Kundu, Vamsi K. Yadavalli, ​“Photolithographic Micropatterning of Conducting Polymers on Flexible Silk Matrices”. Advanced Materials 2016, 28 (7), 1406–1412.
• Ahmed A. Farghaly, Mai Lam, Christopher J. Freeman, Badharinadh Uppalapati and Maryanne M. Collinson, ​“Potentiometric Measurements in Biofouling Solutions: Comparison of Nanoporous Gold to Planar Gold”. Journal of The Electrochemical Society 2016, 163 (4), H3083-H3087.
• Ahmed A. Farghaly and Maryanne M. Collinson, ​“Electroassisted Codeposition of Sol–Gel Derived Silica Nanocomposite Directs the Fabrication of Coral-like Nanostructured Porous Gold”. Langmuir 2014, 30, (18), 5276-5286.
• S.A. El-Gyar, M.A. El-Gahami, A. Abd El-Sameh* and S.A. Ibrahim, ​“Synthesis, thermal decomposition, magnetic properties and biological activities of Co(II), Ni(II), Cu(II) and Cd(II) complexes of some triazole-3-thione Schiff bases”.  Polish Journal of Chemistry 2007, 81 (8), 1387-1402. Corresponding Author.