Irshad Hussain is among the founding members of SBA School of Science & Engineering (SBASSE), LUMS, and has led the Chemistry department during its formative years, which has now been upgraded to the Department of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering. He completed MSc in Chemistry from Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, and PhD (Chemistry, Nanomaterials) from the University of Liverpool, UK. Prior to joining LUMS, Dr. Hussain spearheaded research and development program in Nanobiotechnology at National Institute for Biotechnology & Genetic Engineering (NIBGE), Faisalabad, and developed a Nanotech group/facility that is now one among the few leading Nanobiotech groups in Pakistan. He has published over 150 research articles in prominent journals including Nature Materials, Science Advances, Nature Communications, Chem Soc Rev, Angew Chem Int Ed, Advanced Materials, J Am Chem Soc, Small, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, ACS Applied Energy Materials, ChemSusChem, Chem Commun, Langmuir and Nanoscale etc. His primary research interests include synthesis and applications of metal/metal oxide nanoparticles in biomedical sciences, renewable energy technologies, environmental remediation and catalysis. In order to sustain his research group at LUMS, Dr. Hussain has received several National/International competitive research grants, as Principal Investigator, well over 1 million USD, notably a joint Pak-US project funded by Pakistan Higher Education Commission (HEC) & US National Academy of Sciences, Pak-German joint project funded by DAAD, funding from Global Challenge Research Fund (EPSRC, UK) and a Pak-China collaborative project funded by Pakistan Science Foundation (PSF) and National Natural Science Foundation, China.
Dr. Hussain has developed several effective research collaborations with the leading nanomaterials groups in USA, Europe, China, Saudi Arabia (KAUST) and several National Institutions in Pakistan and have visited many of these institutions as a visiting faculty notably UMass (Amherst, USA), EPFL (Switzerland), Cambridge (UK, as a Charles Wallace Fellow), KAUST (Saudi Arabia) and several universities in China. In 2017 & 2019, he has served as a Foreign Professor at Huazhong University of Science & Technology (HUST), Wuhan, China.
Dr. Hussain has served as the Chair of National Nanotech Experts Panel at Pakistan Council for Science & Technology in 2015 and as the member of the National Core Group of Chemistry and Chair of the National Core Group of Nanotechnology formed by the PM Task Force on Science & Technology (2020-22). He has also been awarded 02 Gold Medals in Chemistry by Pakistan Academy of Sciences (PAS) in 2007 (Prof. Atta-ur-Rahman Gold Medal) & 2014 (PAS Gold Medal).
Dr. Hussain is a Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) and a Fellow of Pakistan Academy of Sciences.
For more information, his professional profile can be viewed at Wikipedia, LinkedIn, Google Scholar, and ResearchGate etc. He is also available on Facebook and Twitter (DrIrshadSadhana).
| Title | Publication | Author | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conjugated cross-linked phosphine as broadband light or sunlight-driven photocatalyst for large-scale atom transfer radical polymerization | Nature Communications | 2023 | |
| Continuous conducting architecture developed by supporting Prussian blue analogue on metal-organic framework derived carbon-doped manganese- oxide nanorods for high-performance sodium-ion batteries | Journal of Alloys and Compounds | 2023 | |
| Fabrication of highly effective aramid fiber-based polypropylene composite membranes for desalination | Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering | 2023 | |
| Emulsion-derived porous carbon-based materials for energy and environmental applications | Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews | 2023 | |
| Electronic and Structural Modification of Three-Dimensional Porous NiCo@NF as a Robust Electrocatalyst for CO<inf>2</inf> Emission-Free Methanol Upgradation to Boost Hydrogen Co-production | Energy and Fuels | 2023 | |
| Surfactin-Conjugated Silver Nanoparticles as an Antibacterial and Antibiofilm Agent against Pseudomonas aeruginosa | ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces | 2023 | |
| Isostructural Nanocluster Manipulation Reveals Pivotal Role of One Surface Atom in Click Chemistry | Angewandte Chemie - International Edition | 2023 | |
| Diagnosis and monitoring of hepatocellular carcinoma in Hepatitis C virus patients using attenuated total reflection Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy | Photodiagnosis and Photodynamic Therapy | 2023 | |
| Use of ATR-FTIR spectroscopy to differentiate between cirrhotic/non-cirrhotic HCV patients | Photodiagnosis and Photodynamic Therapy | 2023 | |
| Au/TiO<inf>2</inf> thin film with ultra-low content of gold: An efficient self-supported bifunctional electrocatalyst for oxygen and hydrogen evolution reaction | Catalysis Today | 2023 | |
| Amine-Impregnated Porous Organic Polymers with Chemisorption Sites for Highly Efficient CO<inf>2</inf> Chemical Conversion under Ambient Conditions | ACS Applied Polymer Materials | 2023 | |
| Geotechnical Assessment of Rock Slope Stability Using Kinematic and Limit Equilibrium Analysis for Safety Evaluation | Water (Switzerland) | 2023 | |
| Nanoscale Surface Functionalization Based on Heterogeneous Self-Assembled Monolayers for Molecular-Scale Electronics | ChemPlusChem | 2023 | |
| Succinylated Salvia spinosa hydrogel: Modification, characterization, cadmium-uptake from spiked high-hardness groundwater and statistical analysis of sorption data | Journal of Molecular Liquids | 2023 | |
| DNA Nanogel for Cancer Therapy | Advanced Therapeutics | 2023 | |
| Roles of Metal Oxide Nanostructure-Based Substrates in Sustainable Electrochemical Water Splitting: Recent Development and Future Perspective | ACS Applied Nano Materials | 2023 | |
| Microwave-assisted growth of spherical core-shell NiFe LDH@Cu<inf>x</inf>O nanostructures for electrocatalytic water oxidation reaction | International Journal of Hydrogen Energy | 2023 | |
| A pH responsive and superporous biocomposite hydrogel of Salvia spinosa polysaccharide-co-methacrylic acid for intelligent drug delivery | RSC Advances | 2023 | |
| Engineering nanocomposite membranes of sodium alginate-graphene oxide for efficient separation of oil-water and antifouling performance | Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering | 2023 | |
| Sodium decavanadate encapsulated Mn-BTC POM@MOF as high-capacity cathode material for aqueous sodium-ion batteries | Journal of Alloys and Compounds | 2023 | |
| Mutual Coupling Reduction in MIMO Antenna for 5G Application by Self-Decoupled Method | ViTECoN 2023 - 2nd IEEE International Conference on Vision Towards Emerging Trends in Communication and Networking Technologies, Proceedings | 2023 | |
| Energy Efficient Green Routing for UAVs Ad-Hoc Network | Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing | 2023 | |
| Synthesis, characterization, and acute toxicity of pH-responsive Salvia spinosa mucilage-co-acrylic acid hydrogel: A smart excipient for drug release applications | Reactive and Functional Polymers | 2023 | |
| Effective Diagnosis of Lung Cancer via Various Data-Mining Techniques | Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing | 2023 | |
| U-Shaped Low-Complexity Type-2 Fuzzy LSTM Neural Network for Speech Enhancement | IEEE Access | 2023 | |
| Green synthesis of zinc oxide nanoparticles by Neem extract as multi-facet therapeutic agents | Journal of Drug Delivery Science and Technology | 2020 | |
| A smart drug delivery system based on Artemisia vulgaris hydrogel: Design, on-off switching, and real-time swelling, transit detection, and mechanistic studies | Journal of Drug Delivery Science and Technology | 2020 | |
| A proactive model on innovative biomedical applications of gold nanoparticles | Applied Nanoscience (Switzerland) | 2020 | |
| Influence of W-doping on the optical and electrical properties of SnO<inf>2</inf> towards photocatalytic detoxification and electrocatalytic water splitting | Journal of Alloys and Compounds | 2020 | |
| Controlled development of higher-dimensional nanostructured copper oxide thin films as binder free electrocatalysts for oxygen evolution reaction | International Journal of Hydrogen Energy | 2020 | |
| Bactericidal Effect of 5-Mercapto-2-nitrobenzoic Acid-Coated Silver Nanoclusters against Multidrug-Resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae | ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces | 2020 | |
| Screening and stability testing of commercially applicable Heliotropium crispum silver nanoparticle formulation with control over aging and biostability | Applied Nanoscience (Switzerland) | 2020 | |
| A stimuli-responsive, superporous and non-toxic smart hydrogel from seeds of mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris): stimuli responsive swelling/deswelling, intelligent drug delivery and enhanced aceclofenac bioavailability | RSC Advances | 2020 | |
| Controlled engineering of nickel carbide induced N-enriched carbon nanotubes for hydrogen and oxygen evolution reactions in wide pH range | Electrochimica Acta | 2020 | |
| Nanosilver Mitigates Biofilm Formation via FapC Amyloidosis Inhibition | Small | 2020 | |
| Synthesis of surface functionalized hollow microporous organic capsules for doxorubicin delivery to cancer cells | Polymer Chemistry | 2020 | |
| Citric acid crosslinking of mucilage from Cydonia oblonga engenders a superabsorbent, pH-sensitive and biocompatible polysaccharide offering on-off swelling and zero-order drug release | Journal of Polymer Research | 2020 | |
| Fabrication and Characterization of Thiolated Chitosan Microneedle Patch for Transdermal Delivery of Tacrolimus | AAPS PharmSciTech | 2020 | |
| Sol-Gel Synthesis of Mesoporous Silica-Iron Composite: Kinetics, Equilibrium and Thermodynamics Studies for the Adsorption of Turquoise-Blue X-GB Dye | Zeitschrift fur Physikalische Chemie | 2020 | |
| Sodium hyroxyethylcellulose adipate: An efficient and reusable sorbent for cadmium uptake from spiked high-hardness ground water | Arabian Journal of Chemistry | 2020 | |
| Controlled Assembly of Cu/Co-Oxide Beaded Nanoclusters on Thiolated Graphene Oxide Nanosheets for High-Performance Oxygen Evolution Catalysts | Chemistry - A European Journal | 2020 | |
| Development of gold nanoclusters based direct fluorescence restoration approach for sensitive and selective detection of pesticide | Applied Nanoscience (Switzerland) | 2020 | |
| Ultrasmall Co@Co(OH)<inf>2</inf> Nanoclusters Embedded in N-Enriched Mesoporous Carbon Networks as Efficient Electrocatalysts for Water Oxidation | ChemSusChem | 2019 | |
| Porous hypercrosslinked polymer-TiO <inf>2</inf> -graphene composite photocatalysts for visible-light-driven CO <inf>2</inf> conversion | Nature Communications | 2019 | |
| Seasonal variation???s effect on antidiabetic activity of silver nanoparticles | Bioinspired, Biomimetic and Nanobiomaterials | 2019 | |
| Fabrication of Emulsion-Templated Poly(vinylsulfonic acid)-Ag Nanocomposite Beads with Hierarchical Multimodal Porosity for Water Cleanup | Langmuir | 2019 | |
| Magnetic Hierarchically Macroporous Emulsion-Templated Poly(acrylic acid)-Iron Oxide Nanocomposite Beads for Water Remediation | Langmuir | 2019 | |
| Metal Nanoclusters: New Paradigm in Catalysis for Water Splitting, Solar and Chemical Energy Conversion | ChemSusChem | 2019 | |
| Fabrication of PLA incorporated chitosan nanoparticles to create enhanced functional properties of cotton fabric | Pigment and Resin Technology | 2019 | |
| Biosurfactant coated silver and iron oxide nanoparticles with enhanced anti-biofilm and anti-adhesive properties | Journal of Hazardous Materials | 2019 |