Dr. Falak Sher is currently working as an Associate Professor (tenured) at the Department of Chemistry, SBA School of Science and Engineering (SBASSE), LUMS. Before joining LUMS in October 2008, he was a faculty member at the Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences (PIEAS), Nilore, Islamabad. Dr. Sher completed his PhD degree in Chemistry from the University of Cambridge, UK, in 2005. Prior to this, he received his MS Nuclear Engineering degree from the PIEAS (2nd position) in 1999 and M.Sc. Chemistry degree from the Institute of Chemistry, University of the Punjab in 1996. Dr. Sher also gained the Postdoctoral Research Experience on two different occasions from the University of Edinburgh (2005) and the University of Cambridge (2007-2008). His research has been published in reputed international journals like Nature, Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS), Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Chemistry of Materials, Inorganic Chemistry, Physical Review B etc.
Dr. Sher’s research group focuses on synthesis and characterization of functional transition metal oxides with interesting properties and applications. Typically, we investigate perovskite oxides (ABO3) for their potential applications in spintronics, thermoelectric devices, solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC) and photocatalysis for environmental remediation. Samples are synthesized by the conventional solid state chemistry and other soft chemistry methods, and characterized by the powder X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) etc. Physical properties such as magnetic, electronic transport, thermal transport etc. are measured by the available facilities at SBASSE and through collaborations with various national and international research groups. Properties of these materials are correlated with their chemical nature and crystal structures, and various strategies are devised to fine tune and optimize their properties.
| Title | Publication | Author | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Controlled engineering of nickel carbide induced N-enriched carbon nanotubes for hydrogen and oxygen evolution reactions in wide pH range | Electrochimica Acta | 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 | |
| Development of high performance Bi |
Materials Research Express | 2019 | |
| Selective Oxygen Sensor Prepared Using Ni-doped Zinc Ferrite Nanoparticles | Journal of Electronic Materials | 2019 | |
| Thermoelectric Properties of Dual Doped Bi |
Journal of Electronic Materials | 2019 | |
| Nickel Manganese Oxide Nanoparticles Based Humidity Sensors | Journal of Electronic Materials | 2019 | |
| Electrical, magnetic and magnetotransport properties of Na and Mo doped Ca |
RSC Advances | 2019 | |
| Structural, magnetic and high-temperature thermoelectric properties of La |
Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials | 2018 | |
| Zinc modified cadmium titanite nanoparticles: Electrical and room temperature methanol sensing properties | Ceramics International | 2018 | |
| High-temperature thermoelectric properties of Na- and W-Doped Ca |
RSC Advances | 2018 | |
| An investigation of the electronic, structural and magnetic properties of the ruddlesden-popper phase Sr |
Journal of Solid State Chemistry | 2017 | |
| Large relative cooling power of Bi-doped La |
Ceramics International | 2017 | |
| Structural, magnetic and magnetocaloric properties of CoFe |
Ceramics International | 2017 | |
| Room temperature ferromagnetism in single-phase Zn |
Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing | 2017 | |
| Temperature and composition dependent density of states extracted using overlapping large polaron tunnelling model in Mn |
Physica B: Condensed Matter | 2017 | |
| Determination of density of states, conduction mechanisms and dielectric properties of nickel disulfide nanoparticles | AIP Advances | 2016 | |
| Metal complexes of benzimidazole derived sulfonamide: Synthesis, molecular structures and antimicrobial activity | Inorganica Chimica Acta | 2016 | |
| Absence of colossal magnetoresistance in the oxypnictide PrMnAsO |
Inorganic Chemistry | 2015 | |
| Synthesis of cellulose-metal nanoparticle composites: Development and comparison of different protocols | Cellulose | 2014 | |
| Association of microstructure and electric heterogeneity in BiFeO |
Materials Chemistry and Physics | 2013 | |
| Cation, vacancy, and spin ordered 15R-superstructures in Sr(Cr |
Chemistry of Materials | 2013 | |
| "Hard-soft" synthesis of SrCrO |
Angewandte Chemie - International Edition | 2012 | |
| Structural, magnetic, and electrical properties of Bi |
Chemistry of Materials | 2012 | |
| Induced antiferromagnetism and large magnetoresistance in Ru Sr2 (Nd,Y,Ce)2 Cu2 O10-?? ruthenocuprates | Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics | 2007 | |
| Experimental difficulties and artefacts in multiferroic and magnetoelectric thin films of BiFeO3, Bi0.6Tb0.3La0.1FeO3 and BiMnO3 | Philosophical Magazine Letters | 2007 |