Mhamed Assebban

Master Thesis

Biomass-derived nanoporous activated carbons: from synthesis to the study of their adsorptive properties. (2011)

PhD Thesis

Catalytic oxidation of atmospheric pollutants by clay-based monoliths w/o CVD-deposited cobalt oxide. (2016)

Research Area

Functional Carbon Allotropes

Dr. Mhamed Assebban has studied Chemical engineering and materials science at the University of Abdelmalek Essaadi in Morocco where he obtained his bachelor in 2009 and his masters degree in 2011. In 2016 he graduted from his PhD program at the same university in a collaborative research project with the University of Bielefeld in Germany where he developed efficient heterogeneous catalysts for the removal of toxic atmospheric gases. He joined the Zentralinstitut für neue Materialien und Prozesstechnik (ZMP) in Germany as a postdoctoral researcher in 2018, and then he moved to the Institut de Ciència Molecular – ICMOL at the University of Valencia in Spain. In 2020 he returned back to occupy the same position at the ZMP in Fürth where he focuses his research work on the study of novel 2D materials of which he tries to tune their physical and chemical properties to make them even more suitable for applications in energy storage, catalysis and optoelectronics.

Publications

2023

Steiger F., Kaiser P., Assebban M., Hirsch A., Abellan G., Echegoyen L., Mayrhofer KJJ., Cherevko S., Perez-Ojeda Rodriguez ME., Lloret Segura VJ.:
Improving Oxygen Reduction Reaction ORR Fuel Cell Efficiency with Carbon Nano Onions
In: 243rd ECS Meeting with the Eighteenth International Symposium on Solid Oxide Fuel Cells 2023
DOI: 10.1149/MA2023-0181115mtgabs

2022

Ait Tamerd M., Marjaoui A., El Kasmi A., Assebban M., Diani M., Zanouni M.:
First-principles investigations of structural, electronic and thermoelectric properties of Sb/Bi2Se3 van der Waals heterostructure
In: Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing 142 (2022), Article No.: 106472
ISSN: 1369-8001
DOI: 10.1016/j.mssp.2022.106472
Bao L., Zhao B., Ali M., Assebban M., Yang B., Kohring M., Ryndyk DA., Heine T., Weber HB., Halik M., Hauke F., Hirsch A.:
Hierarchical Assembly and Sensing Activity of Patterned Graphene-Hamilton Receptor Nanostructures
In: Advanced Materials Interfaces (2022), Article No.: 2200425
ISSN: 2196-7350
DOI: 10.1002/admi.202200425
Chen X., Assebban M., Kohring M., Bao L., Weber HB., Knirsch K., Hirsch A.:
Laser-Triggered Bottom-Up Transcription of Chemical Information: Toward Patterned Graphene/MoS2 Heterostructures
In: Journal of the American Chemical Society 144 (2022), p. 9645-9650
ISSN: 1520-5126
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c00642
URL: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/jacs.2c00642
Marjaoui A., Ait tamerd M., Zanouni M., El Kasmi A., Assebban M., Diani M.:
High thermoelectric figure of merit for GeS/phosphorene 2D heterostructures: A first-principles study
In: Materials Science and Engineering B-Advanced Functional Solid-State Materials 281 (2022), Article No.: 115737
ISSN: 0921-5107
DOI: 10.1016/j.mseb.2022.115737

2021

Bao L., Zhao B., Assebban M., Halik M., Hauke F., Hirsch A.:
Covalent 2D Patterning, Local Electronic Structure and Polarization Switching of Graphene at the Nanometer Level
In: Chemistry - A European Journal (2021)
ISSN: 0947-6539
DOI: 10.1002/chem.202100941
Chen X., Kohring M., Assebban M., Tywoniuk B., Bartlam C., Moses Badlyan N., Maultzsch J., Duesberg GS., Weber HB., Knirsch K., Hirsch A.:
Covalent Patterning of 2D MoS2
In: Chemistry - A European Journal (2021)
ISSN: 0947-6539
DOI: 10.1002/chem.202102021
Fickert M., Assebban M., Canet-Ferrer J., Abellán G.:
Phonon properties and photo-thermal oxidation of micromechanically exfoliated antimonene nanosheets
In: 2D Materials 8 (2021)
ISSN: 2053-1583
DOI: 10.1088/2053-1583/abb877
Gibaja C., Rodríguez-San-Miguel D., Paz WS., Torres I., Salagre E., Segovia P., Michel EG., Assebban M., Ares P., Hernández-Maldonado D., Ramasse Q., Abellán G., Gómez-Herrero J., Varela M., Palacios JJ., Zamora F.:
Exfoliation of Alpha-Germanium: A Covalent Diamond-Like Structure
In: Advanced Materials (2021)
ISSN: 0935-9648
DOI: 10.1002/adma.202006826
Mitrovic A., Wild S., Lloret V., Fickert M., Assebban M., Markus BG., Simon F., Hauke F., Abellán G., Hirsch A.:
Interface Amorphization of Two-Dimensional Black Phosphorus upon Treatment with Diazonium Salts
In: Chemistry - A European Journal (2021)
ISSN: 0947-6539
DOI: 10.1002/chem.202003584
Torres I., Alcaraz M., Sanchis-Gual R., Carrasco JA., Fickert M., Assebban M., Gibaja C., Dolle C., Aldave DA., Gomez-Navarro C., Salagre E., Garcia Michel E., Varela M., Gomez-Herrero J., Abellan G., Zamora F.:
Continuous-Flow Synthesis of High-Quality Few-Layer Antimonene Hexagons
In: Advanced Functional Materials (2021)
ISSN: 1616-301X
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202101616