Carbon-based hybrid materials: growth, characterization and investigation of properties
Arshad, Muhammad
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Curriculum Vitae of Muhammad Arshad
Professional positions
Since 2007 Senior Scientific Officer at the Nanosciences and Technology Department, National Centre for Physics (NCP), Quaid-i-Azam University Campus Islamabad, Pakistan; responsible for the Surface Science Laboratory.
2006/2007 Lecturer of Physics for one year at the University of Wah, Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
Education
2009-2018 Ph.D. research in the group of Surfaces and Thin Films, Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen, the Netherlands and Istituto Officina dei Materiali CNR, Basovizza 34149 Trieste, Italy.
2004-2006 M.Phil. (Physics), Department of Physics, Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad, Pakistan. MPhil thesis: Study of New Physics in Leptonic B-decays, at the National Centre for Physics, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad (under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Riazuddin).
2002-2004 M.Sc. (Physics), Department of Physics, Govt. College University Lahore, Lahore Pakistan.
1997-2000 B.S.Ed. Govt. College of Education for Science, University of the Punjab, Lahore-Pakistan.
List of Publications
[1] G. Galimberti, S. Pagliara, S. Ponzoni, S. Dal Conte, F. Cilento, G. Ferrini, S. Hofmann, M. Arshad, C. Cepek, and F. Parmigiani, “The photoinduced charge transfer mechanism in aligned and unaligned carbon nanotubes”, Carbon 2011, 49, 5246-5252.
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[2] G. Galimberti, S. Ponzoni, G. Ferrin, S. Hofmann, M. Arshad, C. Cepek, and S. Pagliara, “Transient reflectivity on vertically aligned single-wall carbon nanotubes” Thin Solid Films 2013, 543, 51-55. [3] Saqlain A. Shah, M. U. Aslam Khan, M. Arshad, S. U. Awan, M. U.
Hashmi, and N. Ahmad, “Doxorubicin-loaded photosensitive magnetic liposomes for multi-modal cancer therapy”, Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces 2016, 148, 157–164.
[4] A.-Ur-Rehman, G. Ali, A. Badshah, K. Y. Chung, K.-W. Nam, M. Jawad, M. Arshad, and S. M. Abbas, “Superior shuttling of lithium and sodium ions in manganese-doped titania @ functionalized multiwall carbon nanotube anodes”, Nanoscale 2017, 9, 9859-9871. [5] M. M. uz Zaman, M. Imran, A. Saleem, A. H. Kamboh, M. Arshad, N.
A. Khan, and P. Akhter, “Potassium doped methylammonium lead iodide (MAPbI3) thin films as a potential absorber for perovskite
solar cells; structural, morphological, electronic and optoelectric properties”, Physica B: Condensed Matter 2017, 522, 57-65.
[6] M. Younas, C. Xu, M. Arshad, L. P. Ho, S. Zhou, F. Azad, M. J. Akhtar, S. Su, W. Azeem, and F. C. Ling, “Reversible Tuning of Ferromagnetism and Resistive Switching in ZnO/Cu Thin Films”, ACS Omega 2017, 12, 8810-8817.
[7] Z. A. Umar, N. Ahmed, R. Ahmed, M. Arshad, A. Anwar-Ul-Haq, T. Hussain, and M. A. Baig, “Substrate temperature effects on the structural, compositional, and electrical properties of VO2 thin films
deposited by pulsed laser deposition”, Surface and Interface Analysis 2018, 50, 297-303.
[8] S. Batool, R. Gill, M. Arshad, H. M. Siddiqi, and S. S. Qureshi, “Layer-by layer fabrication of nacre inspired epoxy/MMT multilayered composites”, Journal of Applied Polymer Science 2018, 135(14), 46079-46091.
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[9] M. I. Shahzad, K. Rajan, N. Shahzad, M. Arshad, D. Perrone, M. Giorcelli, and A. Tagliaferro, “Extensive growth of MWCNTs on copper substrates using various diffusion barrier layers”, Diamond and Related Materials 2018, 82, 124-131.
[10] M. Usman, M. Arshad, S. S. Suvanam, and A. Hallén, “Influence of annealing environment on the ALD-Al2O3/4H-SiC interface studied through XPS” Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 2018, 51(10), 105111-105118.
[11] J. Rashid, S. Saleem, S. U. Awan, A. Iqbal, R. Kumar, M. A. Barakat,
M. Arshad, M. Zaheer, M. Rafique, and M. Awad, “Stabilized
fabrication of anatase-TiO2/FeS2 (pyrite) semiconductor composite nanocrystals for enhanced solar light-mediated photocatalytic degradation of methylene blue”, RSC Advances 2018, 8(22), 11935-11945.
[12] A. Saleem, N. Ullah, K. Khursheed, T. Iqbal S. A. Shah, M. Asjad, N. Sarwar, M. Saleem, and M. Arshad*, “Graphene Oxide–TiO2
Nanocomposite Films for Electron Transport Applications”, Journal of Electronic Materials 2018, 47(7), 3749-3756.
[13] M. A. Khan, Z. U. Rehman, J. A. Nasir, M. Hafeez, M. Arshad, N. Z. Ali, I. F. Teixieira, and I. McPherson, “Photocatalytic Dehydrogenation of Formic Acid on CdS Nanorods through Ni and Co Redox Mediation under Mild Conditions” ChemSusChem 2018. Published on line May 30th. doi: 10.1002/cssc.201800583
[14] M. Arshad, L. Sorba, P. Rudolf and C. Cepek “Growth and
Characterization of Carbon Nanofibers Grown on Vertically Aligned InAs Nanowires via Chemical Vapour Deposition” (Ready for submission).
[15] M. Arshad, A. Khan, Saqlain A. Shah, S. K. Husnain, C. Cepek, and P.
Rudolf * “Interface study of High Quality Reduced Graphene
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[16] M. K. Alamgir, G. H. Mughal, , T. Hussain, H. Ahmad and S. W. Hussain, and M. Arshad* “In-situ XPS Study of Newly Synthesized non-Evaporable Getters with Enhanced Performance” (corresponding author, under review at Adv. Nat. Sci.: Nanosci. Nanotechnol, ID#401).
[17] M. Asjad, S. Nafeesa, N. Z. Ali, A. Saleem, M. Saleem. K. Khurshid, M. A. Khan, and M. Arshad* “Improved Photocatalytic Hydrogen
Production with Mixed Phase Anatase/Rutile TiO2 Nanostructures”
(corresponding author, in preparation).
[18] M. Arshad*, Maaza Malek, Ishaq Ahmd, and M. Asjad “In-situ XPS
and STM Study of Vanadium Oxide Thin Films: Metal Insulator Transition” (corresponding author, in preparation).
