Member Name: Irshad Hussain

Title: Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Qualifications: Ph.D., University of Liverpool, UK
M.Sc., Quaid-i-Azam University

Phone: + 92 (42) 572 2670 Ext: 2414

Fax: + 92 (42) 572 2694

E-Mail: ihussain@lums.edu.pk Website

Research Interests: Nanotechnology – Nanomaterials Synthesis and Applications

Biography: Irshad Hussain received PhD degree from The University of Liverpool, UK, in 2005 on the synthesis of metal nanoparticles and their subsequent use as building blocks to design and fabricate new materials such as porous metals, nanocompsoites, nanochains and polyelectrolyte-metal nanoparticle films etc. Before his PhD, he has been working at National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering (NIBGE), Faisalabad, to workout biotechnological solutions to various environmental problems. He had also worked in the group of Professor Dr. Atta-ur-Rehman and Professor Dr. M. Iqbal Chaudhary at HEJ Research Institute of Chemistry (HEJRIC) during 1994-95, immediately after his MSc from Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad.

Dr. Hussain is the pioneer to develop nanobiotech research in Pakistan and has already established a nanobiotech group at NIBGE to develop the synthesis of metal nanoparticles and explore their applications in biotechnology and advanced materials fabrication. He has published several research articles in prominent journals including Nature Materials, Advanced Materials, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Small, ChemCommun and Langmuir etc. He has delivered several lectures at national and international forums to highlight the potentials of nanotechnology in various disciplines with particular reference to his own research achievements in this emerging field. His current research interests include synthesis and applications of metal/semi-conductor nanoparticles/quantum dots in disease diagnostics and treatment, catalysis and new materials fabrication.

Distinctions: Professor Atta-ur-Rehman Gold Medal/Award in Chemistry (2007) by Pakistan Academy of Sciences

Publications & Patents:

2008
Roger Ristau, Ramchandra Tiruvalam, Patrick L. Clasen, Edward P. Gorskowski, Martin P. Harmer & Christopher J.Kiely, and Irshad Hussain & Mathias Brust. Thermal Stability Studies of Self-Assembled Arrays of Gold Nanoparticles. (Submitted to Gold Bulletin)

1. Haifei Zhang, Jun-Young Lee, Adham Ahmed, Irshad Hussain, and Andrew I. Cooper. Freeze-Align and Heat-Fuse: Microwires and Networks from Nanoparticle Suspensions. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2008, 47, 4573.

2. Muhammad Afzal, Ghulam Shabir, Irshad Hussain, Zafar M. Khalid. “Paper and board mill effluent treatment with the combined biological–coagulation–filtration pilot scale reactor”. Bioresource Technology 2008, 99, 7383

2007
3. Antonios G. Kanaras, Zhenxin Wang, Irshad Hussain, Mathias Brust, Richard Cosstick, and Andrew D. Bates. “Site-specific Ligation of DNA-Modified Gold Nanoparticles Activated by the Restriction Enzyme StyI”. Small, 2007, 1, 67.

4. Zhenxin Wang, Bien Tan, Irshad Hussain, Nicholas Schaeffer, Mark Wyatt, Mathias Brust and Andrew I. Cooper. “Design of Polymeric Stabilizers for Size-Controlled Synthesis of Mono-disperse Gold Nanoparticles in Water”. Langmuir, 2007, 2, 885.

2006
5. Irshad Hussain, Zhenxin Wang, Andrew I. Cooper and Mathias Brust. Formation of spherical nanostructures by controlled aggregation of gold colloids. Langmuir, 2006, 22, 2941.

6. Haifei Zhang, Irshad Hussain, Mathias Brust, and Andrew I. Cooper. “Synthesis of hierarchically porous inorganic–metal site-isolated nanocomposites”. Chemical Communications, 2006, 24, 2539.

2005
7. C.J. Kiely, M. Watanabe, A. Burrows, P. Clasen, M.P. Harmer, B.Rodríguez-González, L. Liz-Marzán, I. Hussain, J. Fink and M. Brust. “What are the Limitations in the Characterization of Self-Assembled Metamaterials using Advanced Microscopy Techniques”? Microscopy and Microanalysis, 2005, 11 (suppl2), 204.

8. Haifei Zhang, Irshad Hussain, Mathias Brust, Micheal F. Butler, Steven P. Rannard and Andrew I. Cooper. “Aligned two and three-dimensional structures by directional freezing of polymers and nanoparticles”. Nature Materials, 2005, 4, 787.

9. Christina Roth, Adam J. Papworth, Irshad Hussain, Richard J. Nichols and David J. Schiffrin. “A new Pt-Ru model system to study the bifunctional mechanism of electrocatalysis”. Journal of Electro-analytical Chemistry, 2005, 581, 79.

10. Irshad Hussain, Susan Graham, Zhenxin Wang, Bien Tan, Steven P. Rannard, David C. Sherrington, Andrew I. Cooper and Mathias Brust. “Size-controlled synthesis of near-monodisperse gold nanoparticles in the 1-4 nm range using polymeric stabilizers”. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2005, 127, 16398.

2004
11. Haifei Zhang, Irshad Hussain, Mathias Brust and Andrew I. Cooper. “Emulsion-templated gold beads using gold nanoparticles as building blocks”. Advanced. Materials, 2004, 16, 1, 27.

12. Christina Roth, Irshad Hussain, Maryam Bayati, Richard J. Nichols and David J. Schiffrin. “Fullerene-linked Pt nanoparticle assemblies”. Chemical Communications, 2004, 1532.

13. Raphael Levy, Nguyen T. K. Thanh, Christopher R. Doty, Irshad Hussain, Richard J. Nichols, David J. Schiffrin, Mathias Brust, and David G. Fernig. “Rational and combinatorial design of peptide capping ligands for gold nanoparticles”. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2004, 126, 10076.

14. R. A. Ristau, C. J. Kiely, M. P. Harmer, I. Hussain and M. Brust. “Fundamental sintering studies of 2-dimensional gold nanoparticle arrays”. Microscopy and Microanalysis, 2004, 10 (suppl2), 384.

2003 and before:

15. Irshad Hussain, Mathias Brust, Adam J. Papworth and Andrew I. Cooper. “Preparation of acrylate-stabilized gold and silver hydrosols and gold-polymer composite films”. Langmuir, 2003, 19, 4831.

16. Bien Tan, Huiming Pan, Irshad Hussain, Xiaohui Chen. “Synthesis of ultraviolet-curable modified polysiloxane and its surface properties”. Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 2002, 86, 2135.

17. M. Anwer, Irshad Hussain, S. Sarwar Alam and Feroza Baig. “Effects of NaCl salinity on seed germination, growth and yield of two varieties of Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.)”. Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences, 2001, 4, 124.

18. M. Anwer, Irshad Hussain, T. McNeilly and P.D. Putwain (2001). “Amelioration of NPK on metal polluted bare and vegetative sites of Trelogen mines”. Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences, 2001, 4, 280.

19. Q.M. Khan, D.H. Philips, F.L. Martin, K.J. Cole, A. Hewer, I. Hussain & Z.M. Khalid. “Detection of DNA damage by the comet assay in MCL-5 cells exposed to extracts of urban air particulate matter”. Mutagenesis, 2000, 15, 5, 44.

20. Muhammad Anwer, Irshad Hussain and Tom McNeilly (2000). “Assessment of zinc tolerance of pasture and mine populations of A. odoratum by charcoal staining method”. Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences, 2000, 3, 1, 78.

21. Irshad Hussain, Qaiser M. Khan, Zafar M. Khalid, Mariam Faiz, Samina Iqbal and Kausar A. Malik. “Decolorization of aqueous dye- solutions and textile effluents using industrial waste biomass”. Biologia, 1997, 44, 1 & 2, 218.

22. Aamer Saeed, Irshad Hussain, and Nasim H. Rama. “A simplified synthesis of peniolactol”. Journal of Chemical Society of Pakistan, 1996, 18, 1, 48.