On July 15, 2026, Prof. Omar F. Mohammed of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) visited the Institute of New Concept Sensors and Molecular Materials at Shaanxi Normal University and presented a report titled “Glassy X-ray Imaging Scintillators: From Laboratory Discovery to Market Translation”.

Prof. Mohammed provided an overview of the current state of development and application needs for X-ray imaging scintillator materials. He elaborated on the advantages of a new type of glassy copper-iodide cluster scintillator material in terms of high-efficiency luminescence, large-area fabrication, flexible processing, and high-resolution X-ray imaging, and also presented his team’s latest progress in advancing this new scintillator material from laboratory research to practical applications.

Prof. Mohammed is currently a professor of chemistry, materials science and engineering, and applied physics at KAUST, where he also serves as the principal investigator at the Laboratory of Ultrafast Laser Spectroscopy and Four-Dimensional (4D) Electron Imaging. He has published more than 400 papers in leading international journals, including Science, Nature, Nature Materials, Nature Energy, and Nature Photonics. His work has been cited more than 54,000 times, with an h-index of 109, and he has been listed among Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researchers for several consecutive years.

During the Q&A session, Prof. Mohammed discussed with faculty and students in attendance and answered their questions on topics such as the structural design, performance tuning, device applications, and future development directions of glassy scintillator materials.

The session was chaired by INCSMM vice dean Prof. Ding Liping, and was attended by faculty members and graduate students from the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering and the institute.