Ahmed F. M. EL-Mahdy is an Associate Professor at the Department of Materials and Optoelectronic Science, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, 80424, Taiwan. He got his Ph.D. degree in pharmaceutical sciences (Chemistry of Biofunctional Molecules) from the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Japan in 2014. His work focuses on the synthesis of new polypeptide polymers, conjugated microporous polymers, and covalent organic networks and then applies them to various applications such as green applications. In addition to the utilization of the functionalized-porous polymers for bio-related applications, energy storage, and conversion.

After working for nearly four years (from 2020 to now), Ahmed F. M. EL-Mahdy has published more than 70 SCI international journals. Among them, 40 are the first or corresponding authors. Contains 2 Appl. Catal. B: Environ., 6 J. Mater. Chem. A, 3 Chem. Eng. J., 2 Macromolecules, 3 Polymer Chemistry, 3 Chem. Commun., 1 J. Mater. Chem. C, 2 ACS Appl. Polym. Mater., 2 J. Colloid Interface Sci., 5 Micropor. Mesopor. Mat., 5 Polymers, 1 Journal of Water Process Engineering, 1 Materials Today Sustainability. The articles published in recent years have a total of more than 2825 citations. Generally speaking, almost all the papers published by the later students are published in important journals of polymer science and material chemistry.

** Ahmed F. M. EL-Mahdy belongs to the world’s top 2% of most important scientists across all fields have been by Stanford University.

** Ahmed F. M. EL-Mahdy was awarded Outstanding Academic Research in 2023 from the National Sun Yat-sen University (NSYSU), Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

** Ahmed F. M. EL-Mahdy received the 2023 National Sun Yat-Sen University Award for Academic Journal Papers and Highly Cited Papers

The last decade has seen major developments in the polymer industry in Taiwan. Most of these polymers were produced from commercial polymers and engineering plastic. Polymers have been widely used in Taiwan for the last century, which has played a very important role in raising the values of the electronic and optoelectronic industries during the last few decades. However, to the best of our knowledge, there is no study on the very new crystalline polymers “Covalent organic frameworks” and their applications have been done in Taiwan. Therefore, my laboratory led the first laboratory in Taiwan to successfully prepare covalent organic frameworks (COFs) and porous organic polymers and study how to apply these materials. In my recent works, I proposed the synthesis of different kinds of covalent organic frameworks and porous organic polymers and applied them in various applications such as energy storage, carbon dioxide absorption, solar cells, energy production from hydrogen extracted from water, and many other fields. I believe that these related applications are quite important for overcoming and developing Taiwan industries recently.