Panče Naumov

Panče Naumov is a Macedonian chemist and professor of chemistry at New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD). He holds a cross-appointment as a Global Network Professor at New York University in New York City. He is the founding director of the NYUAD Center for Smart Engineering Materials (CSEM) and leads its Smart Materials Lab.[1][2]

Early life and education

Naumov completed his Bachelor of Science in chemistry at Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje in 1997.[3] He earned his PhD in chemistry and materials science from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2004.[4]

Career

Naumov was a research fellow at the National Institute for Materials Science in Tsukuba, Japan, from 2004 to 2007, and joined Osaka University as an associate professor (2007–2012) before a brief tenure as associate professor at Kyoto University (2012–2013).[5]

In 2012, Naumov moved to New York University Abu Dhabi as an associate professor of chemistry.[1][6] He also founded the UAE International Chemical Sciences Chapter of the American Chemical Society (ACS) in 2016.[3] He additionally holds an appointment at the Molecular Design Institute at NYU's Department of Chemistry.[7]

He served on the International Advisory Board of Angewandte Chemie (2021–2024).[8]

Research

Naumov's research focuses on smart materials, crystal engineering, solid-state chemistry, crystallography, photochemistry, and mechanochemistry. In 2018, he introduced the term crystal adaptronics to describe molecular crystals capable of integrating sensing, information processing, and mechanical actuation, and later proposed the related concept of mechanophotonics.[9][10]

His group has investigated structural transitions associated with the thermosalient effect and reported related light-induced (photosalient) and force-induced (mechanosalient) phenomena in molecular crystals.[11] The group has also studied shape-memory and self-healing behavior in molecular crystals and later extended this work to hybrid perovskite single crystals.[12]

Naumov's group has examined molecular crystals as light-to-mechanical-work transducers,[13] the autonomous transport of water and particles across subliming crystal surfaces, [14] spiral-shaped crystal actuators inspired by natural morphologies[15] and thermosalient-crystal-embedded "smart" membranes for self-cleaning desalination.[16] His group's method for harvesting water from air was inspired by hygroscopic salt excretions of the desert shrub Tamarix aphylla.[17]

Awards and honors

  • Fellow, American Chemical Society (2021).[18]
  • Fellow, Royal Society of Chemistry (2022).[19]

Selected publications

  • Ding, C.; Tang, B.; Zhou, Y.; Jin, B.; Commins, P.; Al-Handawi, M. B.; Li, L.; Naumov, P.; Zhang, H. "Cryogenically Self-Healing Organic Crystals". Nature Materials 2026, 25, 285–293. doi:10.1038/s41563-025-02411-7
  • Mahmoud Halabi, J.; Al-Handawi, M. B.; Ceballos, R.; Naumov, P. "Intersectional Effects of Crystal Features on the Actuation Performance of Dynamic Molecular Crystals". Journal of the American Chemical Society 2023, 145, 12173–12180.doi:10.1021/jacs.3c02184
  • Panda, M. K.; Ghosh, S.; Yasuda, N.; Moriwaki, T.; Mukherjee, G. D.; Reddy, C. M.; Naumov, P. "Spatially Resolved Analysis of Short-Range Structure Perturbations in a Plastically Bent Molecular Crystal". Nature Chemistry 2015, 7, 65–72.doi:10.1038/nchem.2123
  • Mahmoud Halabi, J.; Ahmed, E.; Sofela, S.; Naumov, P. "Performance of Molecular Crystals in Conversion of Light to Mechanical Work". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2021, 118, e2020604118. doi:10.1073/pnas.2020604118
  • Al-Handawi, M. B.; Commins, P.; Dinnebier, R. E.; Abdellatief, M.; Li, L.; Naumov, P. "Harvesting of Aerial Humidity with Natural Hygroscopic Salt Excretions". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2023, 120, e2313134120. doi:10.1073/pnas.2313134120

References

  1. 1 2 "Prof. Dr. Pance Naumov". www.humboldt-foundation.de.
  2. ↑ Dhabi, NYU Abu. "Smart Materials Lab (SML)". New York University Abu Dhabi.
  3. 1 2 Dhabi, NYU Abu. "Panče Naumov". New York University Abu Dhabi.
  4. ↑ "Panče Naumov". Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.
  5. ↑ "Panče NAUMOV ｜ Kyoto University｜The Hakubi Project". www.hakubi.kyoto-u.ac.jp.
  6. ↑ Донев, Михаило (2020-05-02). "Pance Naumov from Stip conquers the world with science, the team he leads works on developing a vaccine against Covid-19 - Free Press". Слободен печат. Retrieved 2026-08-04.
  7. ↑ Mahmoud Halabi, Jad; Al-Handawi, Marieh B.; Ceballos, Rodrigo; Naumov, Panče (7 June 2023). "Intersectional Effects of Crystal Features on the Actuation Performance of Dynamic Molecular Crystals". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145 (22): 12173–12180. Bibcode:2023JAChS.14512173M. doi:10.1021/jacs.3c02184. ISSN 0002-7863. PMC 10251518. PMID 37235774.
  8. ↑ "Panče Naumov". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 58 (34): 11567. 2019. Bibcode:2019ACIE...5811567.. doi:10.1002/anie.201902943.
  9. ↑ Naumov, Panče; Karothu, Durga Prasad; Ahmed, Ejaz; Catalano, Luca; Commins, Patrick; Mahmoud Halabi, Jad; Al-Handawi, Marieh B.; Li, Liang (5 August 2020). "The Rise of the Dynamic Crystals". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 142 (31): 13256–13272. Bibcode:2020JAChS.14213256N. doi:10.1021/jacs.0c05440. hdl:11380/1329253. ISSN 0002-7863. PMID 32559073.
  10. ↑ Panda, Manas K.; Ghosh, Soumyajit; Yasuda, Nobuhiro; Moriwaki, Taro; Mukherjee, Goutam Dev; Reddy, C. Malla; Naumov, Panče (January 2015). "Spatially resolved analysis of short-range structure perturbations in a plastically bent molecular crystal". Nature Chemistry. 7 (1): 65–72. Bibcode:2015NatCh...7...65P. doi:10.1038/nchem.2123. ISSN 1755-4349. PMID 25515892.
  11. ↑ Al-Handawi, Marieh B.; Commins, Patrick; Dalaq, Ahmed S.; Santos-Florez, Pedro A.; Polavaram, Srujana; Didier, Pascal; Karothu, Durga Prasad; Zhu, Qiang; Daqaq, Mohammed; Li, Liang; Naumov, Panče (16 September 2024). "Ferroelastic ionic organic crystals that self-heal to 95%". Nature Communications. 15 (1) 8095. Bibcode:2024NatCo..15.8095A. doi:10.1038/s41467-024-51625-x. PMC 11405411. PMID 39285159.
  12. ↑ Ding, Chengde; Tang, Baolei; Zhou, Yuxing; Jin, Bowen; Commins, Patrick; Al-Handawi, Marieh B.; Li, Liang; Naumov, Panče; Zhang, Hongyu (February 2026). "Cryogenically self-healing organic crystals". Nature Materials. 25 (2): 285–293. Bibcode:2026NatMa..25..285D. doi:10.1038/s41563-025-02411-7. ISSN 1476-4660. PMID 41350428.
  13. ↑ Mahmoud Halabi, Jad; Ahmed, Ejaz; Sofela, Samuel; Naumov, Panče (2 February 2021). "Performance of molecular crystals in conversion of light to mechanical work". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118 (5) e2020604118. Bibcode:2021PNAS..11820604M. doi:10.1073/pnas.2020604118. PMC 7865161. PMID 33495317.
  14. ↑ Commins, Patrick; Al-Handawi, Marieh B.; Rezgui, Rachid; Li, Liang; McNamara, Mark; Naumov, Panče (May 2023). "Autonomous and directional flow of water and transport of particles across a subliming dynamic crystal surface". Nature Chemistry. 15 (5): 677–684. Bibcode:2023NatCh..15..677C. doi:10.1038/s41557-023-01158-5. ISSN 1755-4349. PMID 36927787.
  15. ↑ Yang, Xuesong; Lan, Linfeng; Tahir, Ibrahim; Alhaddad, Zainab; Di, Qi; Li, Liang; Tang, Baolei; Naumov, Panče; Zhang, Hongyu (18 October 2024). "Logarithmic and Archimedean organic crystalline spirals". Nature Communications. 15 (1): 9025. Bibcode:2024NatCo..15.9025Y. doi:10.1038/s41467-024-53196-3. ISSN 2041-1723. PMC 11489683. PMID 39424800.
  16. ↑ Pantuso, Elvira; Ahmed, Ejaz; Fontananova, Enrica; Brunetti, Adele; Tahir, Ibrahim; Karothu, Durga Prasad; Alnaji, Nisreen Amer; Dushaq, Ghada; Rasras, Mahmoud; Naumov, Panče; Di Profio, Gianluca (16 September 2023). "Smart dynamic hybrid membranes with self-cleaning capability". Nature Communications. 14 (1): 5751. Bibcode:2023NatCo..14.5751P. doi:10.1038/s41467-023-41446-9. ISSN 2041-1723. PMC 10505219. PMID 37717049.
  17. ↑ Al-Handawi, Marieh B.; Commins, Patrick; Dinnebier, Robert E.; Abdellatief, Mahmoud; Li, Liang; Naumov, Panče (7 November 2023). "Harvesting of aerial humidity with natural hygroscopic salt excretions". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 120 (45) e2313134120. Bibcode:2023PNAS..12013134A. doi:10.1073/pnas.2313134120. ISSN 1091-6490. PMC 10636306. PMID 37903263.
  18. ↑ Dhabi, NYU Abu. "NYU Abu Dhabi professor Panče Naumov named as Fellow of the American Chemical Society". New York University Abu Dhabi. Retrieved 2026-08-04.
  19. ↑ "Pance Naumov is Selected as Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences". as.nyu.edu. Retrieved 2026-08-04.
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