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 130 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 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 currently is 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. 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).
In 2021, Dr. Hussain was admitted as a Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), and more recently elected as 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Nanoscale Surface Functionalization Based on Heterogeneous Self-Assembled Monolayers for Molecular-Scale Electronics | ChemPlusChem | 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| A review on structural aspects and applications of PAMAM dendrimers in analytical chemistry: Frontiers from separation sciences to chemical sensor technologies | TrAC - Trends in Analytical Chemistry | 2022 | |
| Long-term antibody production and viremia in American mink (Neovison vison) challenged with Aleutian mink disease virus | BMC Veterinary Research | 2022 | |
| Bubbles Templated Interconnected Porous Metallic Materials: Synthesis, Surface Modification, and their Electrocatalytic Applications for Water Splitting and Alcohols Oxidation | ChemistrySelect | 2022 | |
| Fabrication of NiCu interconnected porous nanostructures for highly selective methanol oxidation coupled with hydrogen evolution reaction | International Journal of Hydrogen Energy | 2022 | |
| Nanogold morphologies with the same surface chemistry provoke a different innate immune response: An in-vitro and in-vivo study | NanoImpact | 2022 | |
| EXTRACTION OPTIMIZATION OF A SUPERPOROUS POLYSACCHARIDE-BASED MUCILAGE FROM SALVIA SPINOSA L. | Cellulose Chemistry and Technology | 2022 | |
| A Fortunate Refining Trip Recommendation Model | Electronics (Switzerland) | 2022 | |
| Success Rate Comparison of Nasolacrimal Duct Probing with and without Assistance of Nasal Endoscope in Congenital Nasolacrimal Duct Obstruction | Pakistan Armed Forces Medical Journal | 2022 | |
| Can Patient Cooperation During Biometry Be A Predictor of The Type of Anesthesia For Phacoemulsification Cataract Surgery | Pakistan Armed Forces Medical Journal | 2022 | |
| Multifunctional porous NiCo bimetallic foams toward water splitting and methanol oxidation-assisted hydrogen production | Energy Conversion and Management | 2022 | |
| Electrochemical sensing of limonene using thiol capped gold nanoparticles and its detection in the real breath sample of a cirrhotic patient | Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry | 2022 | |
| Petrogenesis and tectonic setting of Early Silurian island-arc-type quartz diorite at the southern margin of the East Kunlun orogenic belt: analysis of the evolution of the Proto-Tethyan Ocean | International Journal of Earth Sciences | 2022 | |
| Preparation of Spilanthes acmella based emulgel: Antimicrobial study and evaluation | Pakistan Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences | 2022 | |
| Efficient utilization of melon peels to produce ethanol: a step toward sustainable waste management | Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery | 2022 | |
| Immobilized covalent triazine frameworks films as effective photocatalysts for hydrogen evolution reaction | Nature Communications | 2021 | |
| Fundamentals and Design-Led Synthesis of Emulsion-Templated Porous Materials for Environmental Applications | Advanced Science | 2021 | |
| ATR-FTIR spectroscopy-based differentiation of hepatitis C and dengue infection in human freeze-dried sera | Infrared Physics and Technology | 2021 | |
| 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 |