Xiaohua Ma

Postdoctoral Fellows

Professor

Alumni

Research Interests

My research interests at KAUST include the design and synthesis of highly performance polymers for gas separation and novel membrane for water treatment (including FO and RO).​

Selected Publications

Xiaohua Ma, Raja Swaidan, Youssef Belmabkhout, Yihan Zhu, Eric Litwiller, Mustapha Jouiad, Ingo Pinnau*, Yu Han*, Synthesis and Gas Transport Properties of Hydroxyl-Functionalized Polyimides with Intrinsic Microporosity, Macromolecules 45 (2012),3841

 XiaoHua Ma, Li-Min Fu, Yunfeng Zhao, Xi-Cheng Ai, Jian-Ping Zhang, Yu Han and Zhi-Xin Guo, Chiral Crystal of a C2v-Symmetric 1,3-Diazaaulene Derivative Showing Efficient Optical Second Harmonic Generation, J. Polym. Sci. Part. B, Poly. Phys2011, 49, 649.

Xiaohua MaFei Ma, Zhenhua Zhao, Naiheng Song and Jianping Zhang., Toward highly efficient NLO chromophores: Synthesis and properties of heterocycle-based electronically gradient dipolar NLO chromophores, J. Mater. Chem., 201020, 2369.

Xiaohua Ma, ​Fei Ma, Zhenhua Zhao, Naiheng Song and Jianping Zhang., Synthesis and Properties of NLO Chromophores with Fine-Tuned Gradient Electronic Structures,​ J. Mater. Chem., 200919, 297

Xiaohua Ma, Ran Liang, Fan Yang, Zhenhua Zhao, Aixin Zhang, Naiheng Song, Qifeng Zhou and Jianping Zhang., Synthesis and Properties of Novel Second-Order (NLO) Chromophores Containing Pyrrole as An Auxiliary Electron Donor., J. Mater. Chem., 200818, 1756.

Education

  • Postdoctoral Fellow, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Current
  • Ph.D., Department of Chemistry, Peking University, China, 2009
  • B.Sc., Department of  Polymer Science and Engineering, Sichuan University, China, 2004

Awards

  1. Outstanding Students’ Leader
  2. Corning Scholarship

KAUST Affiliations

​Advanced Menbranes and Porous Materials Center​

Non-KAUST Affiliations

Tiangong University

Research Interests Keywords

Gas/Water purification