Publications

Commins, Patrick, Marieh B. Al-Handawi, and Panče Naumov. "Self-healing crystals." Nature Reviews Chemistry (2025): 1-13. (Equal contribution as first author.)

Al-Handawi, Marieh B., Patrick Commins, Ahmed S. Dalaq, Pedro A. Santos-Florez, Srujana Polavaram, Pascal Didier, Durga Prasad Karothu et al. "Ferroelastic ionic organic crystals that self-heal to 95%." Nature Communications 15, no. 1 (2024): 8095.

Guo, Yicheng, Qitong He, Marieh B. Al‐Handawi, Tao Chen, Panče Naumov, and Lidong Zhang. "Regulating Supramolecular Assembly and Disassembly of Chitosan toward Efficiently Antibacterial Lubricous and Biodegradable Hydrogel Urinary Catheters." Advanced Healthcare Materials (2025): 2404856.

Liang, Shumin, Marieh B. Al‐Handawi, Tao Chen, Panče Naumov, and Lidong Zhang. "Hollow Hydrogels for Excellent Aerial Water Collection and Autonomous Release." Angewandte Chemie 137, no. 3 (2025): e202415936.

Commins, Patrick, Marieh B. Al-Handawi, Caner Deger, Srujana Polavaram, Ilhan Yavuz, Rachid Rezgui, Liang Li, K. N. Houk, and Pance Naumov. "Ferroelastic control of the multicolor emission from a triply doped organic crystal." Journal of the American Chemical Society 146, no. 24 (2024): 16540-16548. (Equal contribution as first author.)

Di, Qi, Marieh B. Al‐Handawi, Liang Li, Panče Naumov, and Hongyu Zhang. "A thermosalient and mechanically compliant organic crystalline optical waveguide switcher." Angewandte Chemie 136, no. 28 (2024): e202403914.

Yang, Xuesong, Marieh B. Al-Handawi, Liang Li, Panče Naumov, and Hongyu Zhang. "Hybrid and composite materials of organic crystals." Chemical Science 15, no. 8 (2024): 2684-2696.

Yu, Chunjiao, Xiaofan Jiang, Marieh B. Al‐Handawi, Panče Naumov, Liang Li, Qi Yu, and Guoming Wang. "Bending, twisting, and propulsion of photoreactive crystals by controlled gas release." Angewandte Chemie International Edition 63, no. 22 (2024): e202403397.

Pathan, Javed R., Haripriya Balan, Patrick Commins, Arthi Ravi, Marieh B. Al-Handawi, Ian Cheng-Yi Hou, Panče Naumov, and Kana M. Sureshan. "A self-healing crystal that repairs multiple cracks." Journal of the American Chemical Society 146, no. 39 (2024): 27100-27108.

Al-Handawi, Marieh B., Patrick Commins, Robert E. Dinnebier, Mahmoud Abdellatief, Liang Li, and Panče Naumov. "Harvesting of aerial humidity with natural hygroscopic salt excretions." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120, no. 45 (2023): e2313134120.

Awad, Wegood M., Daniel W. Davies, Daichi Kitagawa, Jad Mahmoud Halabi, Marieh B. Al-Handawi, Ibrahim Tahir, Fei Tong et al. "Mechanical properties and peculiarities of molecular crystals." Chemical Society Reviews 52, no. 9 (2023): 3098-3169.

Commins, Patrick, Marieh B. Al-Handawi, Rachid Rezgui, Liang Li, Mark McNamara, and Panče Naumov. "Autonomous and directional flow of water and transport of particles across a subliming dynamic crystal surface." Nature Chemistry 15, no. 5 (2023): 677-684.

Liang, Xiao, Dawei Duan, Marieh B. Al-Handawi, Fei Wang, Xianfang Zhou, Chuang-ye Ge, Haoran Lin et al. "The role of ionic liquids in performance enhancement of two‐step perovskite photovoltaics." Solar RRL 7, no. 1 (2023): 2200856.

Al‐Handawi, Marieh B., Ghada Dushaq, Patrick Commins, Durga Prasad Karothu, Mahmoud Rasras, Luca Catalano, and Panče Naumov. "Autonomous reconstitution of fractured hybrid perovskite single crystals." Advanced Materials 34, no. 19 (2022): 2109374.

Al-Handawi, Marieh B., Srujana Polavaram, Anastasiya Kurlevskaya, Patrick Commins, Stefan Schramm, César Carrasco-López, Nathan M. Lui et al. "Spectrochemistry of firefly bioluminescence." Chemical reviews 122, no. 16 (2022): 13207-13234.

Al-Handawi, Marieh B., John P. Graham, Hany A. Eldeab, and Na'il Saleh. "Efficient fluorescent detection of mercuric ions based on 2-thienyl benzimidazole/cucurbit [7] uril complexes." Current Chinese Science 2, no. 2 (2022): 89-96.

Commins, Patrick, Marieh B. Al-Handawi, Durga Prasad Karothu, Gijo Raj, and Panče Naumov. "Efficiently self-healing boronic ester crystals." Chemical science 11, no. 10 (2020): 2606-2613.

Naumov, Pance, Durga Prasad Karothu, Ejaz Ahmed, Luca Catalano, Patrick Commins, Jad Mahmoud Halabi, Marieh B. Al-Handawi, and Liang Li. "The rise of the dynamic crystals." Journal of the American Chemical Society 142, no. 31 (2020): 13256-13272.

Schramm, Stefan, Marieh B. Al‐Handawi, Durga Prasad Karothu, Anastasiya Kurlevskaya, Patrick Commins, Yasuo Mitani, Chun Wu, Yoshihiro Ohmiya, and Panče Naumov. "Mechanically assisted bioluminescence with natural luciferase." Angewandte Chemie 132, no. 38 (2020): 16627-16631. (Equal contribution as first author.)

Li, Liang, Patrick Commins, Marieh B. Al-Handawi, Durga Prasad Karothu, Jad Mahmoud Halabi, Stefan Schramm, James Weston, Rachid Rezgui, and Panče Naumov. "Martensitic organic crystals as soft actuators." Chemical Science 10, no. 31 (2019): 7327-7332.

Al‐Handawi, Marieh B., Patrick Commins, Durga Prasad Karothu, Gijo Raj, Liang Li, and Panče Naumov. "Mechanical and crystallographic analysis of cholesterol crystals puncturing biological membranes." Chemistry–A European Journal 24, no. 44 (2018): 11493-11497.

Al‐Handawi, Marieh B., Patrick Commins, Sourabh Shukla, Pascal Didier, Masahiko Tanaka, Gijo Raj, Frank A. Veliz, Renu Pasricha, Nicole F. Steinmetz, and Panče Naumov. "Encapsulation of plant viral particles in calcite crystals." Advanced biosystems 2, no. 5 (2018): 1700176.

Saleh, Na'il, Marieh B. Al‐Handawi, Muna S. Bufaroosha, Khaleel I. Assaf, and Werner M. Nau. "Tuning protonation states of tripelennamine antihistamines by cucurbit [7] uril." Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry 29, no. 2 (2016): 101-106.

Saleh, Na’il, Marieh B. Al-Handawi, Leena Al-Kaabi, Liaquat Ali, S. Salman Ashraf, Thies Thiemann, Bassam Al-Hindawi, and Mohammed Meetani. "Intermolecular interactions between cucurbit [7] uril and pilocarpine." International Journal of Pharmaceutics 460, no. 1-2 (2014): 53-62.

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