Ph.D. Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India

Dr. Khan’s research interests include design, development and properties of advanced materials including functional nanomaterials with applications in chemical sensing, energy storage, and biomedical usage, and as catalysts for detection and removal of toxic gases from industrial exhaust and flue gas streams, selective oxidation (of hydrocarbons into useful industrial feed-stocks) and hydrotreating catalysis. His research work has been published in the form of 85 research papers in refereed top tier international journals, six Monograph Chapters and review articles, and three US Patents. It has been highlighted in Science, Science News, and Chemical and Engineering News. Some of the work has also been incorporated in premier chemistry textbooks.

M. I. Khan and L.Swenson Open-Framework Hybrid Materials and Composites from Polyoxometalates In “New and Future Developments in Catalysis. Hybrid Materials, Composites, and Organocatalysts”; S. Suib; Ed., Elsevier: Dordrecht, 2013. Chapter 2, pp 27-54

M. I. Khan, N. R. Putrevu, S. Ayesh, E. H. Yohannes, B. Cage, R. J. Doedens Crystalline Framework Material Containing Arrays of Vanadium Oxide Nanoclusters: A Polyoxovanadate Framework with Room Temperature NOx Sensing Properties. Crystal Growth & Design, 2013, 13, 4667-4672. DOI: 10.1021/cg4007444

M. I. Khan, K. Aydemir, M. R. H. Siddiqui, A. A. Alwarthan, J. A. Kaduk, C. L. Marshall Effect of γ-Ray Irradiation on the Properties of Nanostructured Oxovanadate Based Oxidative Dehydrogenation Catalysts. Radiation Physics and Chemistry, 2013, 88, pp 56-59. DOI: 10.1016/j.radphyschem.2013.02.040

M. I. Khan, K. Aydemir, J. McNeely, B. Cage, R. J. Doedens A Mixed-Valence Vanadate as Model for the Vanadium Mineral Melanovanadite: Hydrothermal Synthesis, Crystal Structure and Magnetic Properties of MgVV2VIV2O10•4H2O Crystal Growth & Design, 2012, 12, 3656-3660.

M. I. Khan, K. Aydemir, M. R. Siddiqui, A. A. Alwarthan, C. L. Marshall Oxidative Dehydrogenation Properties of Novel Nanostructured Polyoxovanadate Based Materials. Catalysis Letters, 2011, 141, 538.

M. I. Khan, S. Deb, K. Aydemir, A. Alwarthan, S. Chattopadhyay, J. T. Miller C. L. Marshall. "Vanadium oxide based nanostructured materials for catalytic oxidative dehydrogenation of propane: Effect of heterometallic centers on the catalyst performance", Catalysis Letters, 2010, 135, 282-290.

M. I. Khan, S.Deb, C. L. Marshall. "Vanadium Oxide Based Nanostructured Materials: Novel Oxidative Dehydrogenation Catalysts", Catalysis Letters, 2009, 128, 256.

M. I. Khan, E. Yohannes, V. O. Golub, C. J. O'Connor, R. J. Doedens, "Mixed-Valence and Neutral Framework Inorganic-Organic Hybrid Materials: Synthesis, Characterization and Magnetic Properties of [{Co(N(CH)4N)}(V2O5)2] and [{Co(N(CH)4N)}V2O6]", Chem. Mater. 2007, 19, 4890-95.

M. I. Khan, S. Tabussum, C. Marshall, M. Neyleon, "Catalytic deNOx properties of novel vanadium oxide based open framework materials", Catalysis Letters. 2006, 112, 1-12.

M. I. Khan, E. Yohannes, R. J. Doedens, V. O. Golub, C. J. O'Connor, "Templated synthesis of a chiral solid: Synthesis and characterization of {Co(H2N(CH2)2NH2) 3}[V3O9]·H2O, containing a new type of chiral vanadium oxide chain", Inorg. Chem. Commun. 2005, 8, 841-845.

M. I. Khan, S. Ayesh, R. J. Doedens, M. Yu, C. J. O'Connor, "Synthesis and characterization of a polyoxovanadate cluster representing a new topology", Chem. Commun. 2005, 4658-4660.

M. I. Khan, S. Tabussum, R. J. Doedens, V. O. Golub, C. J. O'Connor, "Functionalized Metal Oxide Clusters: Synthesis, Characterization, Crystal Structures, and Magnetic Properties of a Novel Series of Fully Reduced Heteropolyoxovanadium Cationic Clusters Decorated with Organic Ligands- [MV6O6{(OCH2CH2) 2N(CH2CH2OH)}6]X", Inorg. Chem. 2004, 43, 5850-5859.

M. I. Khan, "Novel Extended Solids Composed of Transition Metal Oxide Cluster", J. Solid State Chem. 2000, 152, 105. (For highlights of this work see perspective articles "The Simplicity of Complexity- Rational Design of Giant Pores". Science, February 9, 2001, 291,994-995. "Living Through Holey Chemistry". Science News, June 23, 2001, 59, p. 398-402.)