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Background
Eliaf Ahmed is a postdoctoral scholar at MIT. She received her PhD from the Department of Chemistry at the University of Washington in June 2011.
Interests
Her graduate work has focused on organic electronic materials directed at photovoltaics and thin film field- effect transistors. As an MLK visiting scholar in the Department of Chemistry, she worked with Professor Timothy Swager on DNA hybrid assemblies with carbon nanotubes.
Sample Work
Publication
New Finding on Interactions among the Yeast Oligosaccharyl Transferase Subunits Using a Chemical Cross-linker
Yan, A.; Ahmed, E.; Yan, Q.; and Lennarz, J. L. “New Finding on Interactions among the Yeast Oligosaccharyl Transferase Subunits Using a Chemical Cross-linker,” J. Bio. Chem. 2003, 278, 33078-33087.
Publication
A Highly Effective One-Pot Synthesis of Quinolines from o-Nitroarylcarbaldehydes
Li, A-H.; Ahmed, E.; Chen X.; Cox, M.; Crew, P. A.; Dong, H-Q.; Jin, M.; Ma, L.; Panicker, B.; Siu, W. K.; Steinig, G. A.; Stolz, M. K.; Tavares, A. R. P.; Volk, B.; Weng, Q.; Werner, D.; and Mulvihill, J. M. “A Highly Effective One-Pot Synthesis of Quinolines from o-Nitroarylcarbaldehydes,” Org. Biomol. Chem. 2007, 5, 61-64.
Publication
High Mobility Single-Crystal Field-Effect Transistors from Bisindoloquinoline Semiconductors
Ahmed, E.; Briseno, A. L.; Xia, Y.; Jenekhe, S. A. “High Mobility Single-Crystal Field-Effect Transistors from Bisindoloquinoline Semiconductors,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 1118-119.
Publication
Benzobisthiazole-Thiophene Copolymer Semiconductors: Synthesis, Enhanced Stability, Field-Effect Transistors, and Efficient Solar Cells
Ahmed, E.; Kim, F. S.; Xin, H.; Jenekhe, S. A. “Benzobisthiazole-Thiophene Copolymer Semiconductors: Synthesis, Enhanced Stability, Field-Effect Transistors, and Efficient Solar Cells,” Macromolecules 2009, 42, 8615-8618.