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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design of high-performance ozone catalysts by identifying and modulating anchoring sites for metal on ??-Al<inf>2</inf>O<inf>3</inf> spheres | Applied Catalysis B: Environmental | Xu T., Jiang M., Mao X., Sher F., Ren T., Xin K., Hussain I., Hua H., Wang X., | 2025 |
| Lyophilized nasal swabs for COVID-19 detection by ATR-FTIR spectroscopy: Machine learning-based approach | Biophysical Chemistry | Shahid Z., Naseer K., Hussain I., Qazi J., | 2025 |
| Selective Electrochemical Conversion of CO<inf>2</inf> to Formate via Redox-Modulated Porous Metal Electrodes Coupled with Efficient Oxygen Evolution | ACS Applied Energy Materials | Asif S., Zhang Y., Bashir I., Hussain S.Z., Citoglu S., Duran H., Lieberwirth I., Rehman H.U., Tan B., Zhang Z., Hussain I., | 2025 |
| A chia (Salvia hispanica L.) seed mucilage-based glucoxylan-grafted-acrylic acid hydrogel: a smart material for pH-responsive drug delivery systems | Materials Advances | Khatoon M., Ali A., Hussain M.A., Haseeb M.T., Muhammad G., Sher M., Hussain S.Z., Hussain I., Iqbal M., | 2025 |
| RETRACTED: A Soft Computing View for the Scientific Categorization of Vegetable Supply Chain Issues (Logistics, (2022), 6, 3, (39), 10.3390/logistics6030039) | Logistics | Abbas R., Amran G.A., Hussain I., Ma S., | 2025 |
| Layered Arrangement of Polyoxometalate on a Metal-Organic Framework as a High-Capacity Anode Material for Sodium-Ion Batteries | ACS Applied Energy Materials | Ullah I., Aldhafeeri T.R., Haider A., Wu X., Ullah Z., Chang S., Innayat A., Begum N., Pope M.A., Sher F., Rehman H.U., Hussain I., | 2025 |
| Unprecedented Photocatalytic Hydrogen Peroxide Production via Covalent Triazine Frameworks Constructed from Fused Building Blocks | Angewandte Chemie - International Edition | Sun R., Yang X., Hu X., Guo Y., Zhang Y., Shu C., Yang X., Gao H., Wang X., Hussain I., Tan B., | 2025 |
| Driving sustainable energy: The role of polyoxometalates (POMs) in photoelectrochemical hydrogen production | Coordination Chemistry Reviews | Ameen S., Tahir A., Haq T.U., Khan A.A., Butt M.T.Z., Hussain I., Hussain S.Z., Rehman H.U., | 2025 |
| Morphological Features Influence the Drug Loading and Delivery Efficacy of Photoactivatable Gold Nanocarriers for Antitumor Photo/Chemotherapy | ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces | Iftikhar M., Zhang Q., Abbasi R., Sarwar S., Bukhari S.Z., Rehman M., Hussain I., Emen F.M., Khan I., An R., Dong J., Ihsan A., Younis M.R., | 2025 |
| A Comprehensive Review of Instrumentation and Applications in Post-Column and In-Source Derivatization for LC-MS | Mass Spectrometry Reviews | Muhammad N., Hussain I., Fu X.-A., Ali A., Guo D., Noureen L., Subhani Q., Ahmad N., Zhu Q.-F., Cui H., Feng Y.-Q., | 2025 |
| Preparation of Hierarchical Porous Monoliths With High Surface Areas by a Solvent Knitting Strategy | Macromolecular Rapid Communications | Zhong Z., Peng X., Gao H., Hussain I., Wang X., Tan B., | 2025 |
| Sulfur Vacancies Enriched Copper Sulfide Nanotubes Boost Desalination Efficiency of Hybrid Capacitive Deionization | Small | Wei H., Wang T., Hu R., Sun Z., Hussain I., Yang Y., | 2025 |
| Nanomaterials for acute myeloid leukemia therapy: Current progress and future perspectives | Interdisciplinary Medicine | Zhao J., Cui J., Wang L., Shi X., Ding J., Sohail M.F., Hussain I., Liu Q., Chen F., | 2025 |
| Nuclear-Targeting Peptides for Cancer Therapy | ChemBioChem | Yi X., Hussain I., Zhang P., Xiao C., | 2024 |
| Benchmarking stable Electrocatalysts for green hydrogen production: A chemist perspective | Coordination Chemistry Reviews | Munir A., Abdul Nasir J., Haq T.U., Iqbal J., Hussain I., Qurashi A., | 2024 |
| Polymeric coating doped with nanomaterials for functional impact on different substrates | Scientific Reports | Shahzadi P., Majeed M.A., Ibrahim S., Asif S., Kalsoom R., Hussain I., | 2024 |
| A cobalt-tetraphenylporphyrin-based hypercrosslinked polymer for efficient CO<inf>2</inf> photoreduction to CO | Chemical Communications | Ullah S., Hu X., Zhang Y., Hussain I., Wang X., Gao H., Tan B., | 2024 |
| Ion chromatography: A comprehensive review of sample preparation methods for analysis of halogens and allied nonmetals in critically challenging inorganic matrices | Journal of Chromatography A | Muhammad N., Hussain I., Ali A., Noureen L., He Q., Subhani Q., Khan N.A., Cui H., Zhu Y., | 2024 |
| A superporous and pH-sensitive hydrogel from Salvia hispanica (chia) seeds: stimuli responsiveness, on-off switching, and pharmaceutical applications | RSC Advances | Khatoon M., Ali A., Hussain M.A., Haseeb M.T., Sher M., Alsaidan O.A., Muhammad G., Hussain S.Z., Hussain I., Bukhari S.N.A., | 2024 |
| A superabsorbent and pH-responsive copolymer-hydrogel based on acemannan from Aloe vera (Aloe barbadensis M.): A smart material for drug delivery | International Journal of Biological Macromolecules | Irfan J., Ali A., Hussain M.A., Haseeb M.T., Alsahli T.G., Naeem-ul-Hassan M., Tulain U.R., Hussain S.Z., Hussain I., Azhar I., | 2024 |
| Advances in selective electrochemical methanol upgrading and energy-saving hydrogen production: Mechanism, progress, and prospects | International Journal of Hydrogen Energy | Arshad F., Tahir A., Haq T.U., Qayyum S., Hussain I., Sher F., | 2024 |
| Efficient utilization of melon peels to produce ethanol: a step toward sustainable waste management | Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery | Chaudhary A., Hussain I., Ahmad Q.-U.-A., Hussain Z., Akram A.M., Hussain A., | 2024 |
| Chemical modification of Aloe vera leaf hydrogel for efficient cadmium-removal from spiked high-hardness groundwater | International Journal of Biological Macromolecules | Irfan J., Ali A., Hussain M.A., Abbas A., Haseeb M.T., Naeem-ul-Hassan M., Azhar I., Hussain S.Z., Hussain I., | 2024 |
| Conjugated cross-linked phosphine as broadband light or sunlight-driven photocatalyst for large-scale atom transfer radical polymerization | Nature Communications | Fang W.-W., Yang G.-Y., Fan Z.-H., Chen Z.-C., Hu X.-L., Zhan Z., Hussain I., Lu Y., He T., Tan B.-E., | 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 | Ullah I., Saeed R., Inayat A., Zubair M., Wu X., Duran H., Haider A., Pope M.A., Hussain I., | 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 |