Dr. Muhammad Zaheer earned his M.Phil degree from Quaid-i-Azam University. In 2009, he was awarded with HEC Overseas Scholarship for PhD studies in Germany. He completed his degree under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Rhett Kempe from the University of Bayrueth. During his PhD, he worked on the development of robust heterogeneous catalysts for sustainable chemistry applications including biomass tranformation into fuels and chemicals.
Dr. Zaheer has got published papers in the scientific journals of high impact like Chemical Society Reviews and Chemistry of Materials. He was a post doctoral fellow at the Department of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Bayreuth before joining LUMS as an assistant professor.
His research interests include the development of heterogeneous catalysts for the conversion of biomass to obtain fuels/chemicals, renewable energy generation/storage and green chemistry.
| Title | Publication | Author | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catalytic C???O bond cleavage in a ??-O-4 lignin model through intermolecular hydrogen transfer | Inorganica Chimica Acta | 2021 | |
| Size-controlled synthesis of spinel nickel ferrite nanorods by thermal decomposition of a bimetallic Fe/Ni-MOF | Ceramics International | 2021 | |
| Populus ciliata mediated synthesis of silver nanoparticles and their antibacterial activity | Microscopy Research and Technique | 2021 | |
| Catalytic removal of alizarin red using chromium manganese oxide nanorods: Degradation and kinetic studies | Catalysts | 2020 | |
| Fabrication of cobalt doped titania for enhanced oxygen evolution reaction | Molecular Catalysis | 2020 | |
| Soft template-based bismuth doped zinc oxide nanocomposites for photocatalytic depolymerization of lignin | Inorganica Chimica Acta | 2020 | |
| A Facile Synthesis of FeCo Nanoparticles Encapsulated in Hierarchical N-Doped Carbon Nanotube/Nanofiber Hybrids for Overall Water Splitting | ChemCatChem | 2020 | |
| One-Pot Synthesis of Heterobimetallic Metal???Organic Frameworks (MOFs) for Multifunctional Catalysis | Chemistry - A European Journal | 2019 | |
| g-C |
ChemCatChem | 2018 | |
| One-pot synthesis of graphene- cobalt hydroxide composite nanosheets (Co/G NSs) for electrocatalytic water oxidation | Scientific Reports | 2018 | |
| Nitrogen-doped mesoporous SiC materials with catalytically active cobalt nanoparticles for the efficient and selective hydrogenation of nitroarenes | Scientific Reports | 2018 | |
| Stabilized fabrication of anatase-TiO |
RSC Advances | 2018 | |
| Synthesis of lignin model compound containing a ??-O-4 linkage | Zeitschrift fur Naturforschung - Section B Journal of Chemical Sciences | 2017 | |
| Single-catalyst high-weight% hydrogen storage in an N-heterocycle synthesized from lignin hydrogenolysis products and ammonia | Nature Communications | 2016 | |
| Micro-/Mesoporous Platinum???SiCN Nanocomposite Catalysts (Pt@SiCN): From Design to Catalytic Applications | Chemistry - A European Journal | 2016 | |
| Robustly supported rhodium nanoclusters: Synthesis and application in selective hydrogenation of lignin derived phenolic compounds | New Journal of Chemistry | 2016 | |
| Mesoporous silica nanosphere supported platinum nanoparticles (Pt@MSN): One-pot synthesis and catalytic hydrogen generation | RSC Advances | 2016 | |
| Catalytic hydrogenolysis of aryl ethers: A key step in lignin valorization to valuable chemicals | ACS Catalysis | 2015 | |
| Robust heterogeneous nickel catalysts with tailored porosity for the selective hydrogenolysis of aryl ethers | ChemCatChem | 2014 | |
| Robust microporous monoliths with integrated catalytically active metal sites investigated by hyperpolarized 129Xe NMR | Chemistry of Materials | 2012 | |
| Polymer derived non-oxide ceramics modified with late transition metals | Chemical Society Reviews | 2012 | |
| The generation of palladium silicide nanoalloy particles in a SiCN matrix and their catalytic applications | Journal of Materials Chemistry | 2011 | |
| Synthesis, characterization, electrochemistry and evaluation of biological activities of some ferrocenyl Schiff bases | Applied Organometallic Chemistry | 2011 | |
| Voltammetric and spectroscopic investigations of 4-nitrophenylferrocene interacting with DNA | Spectrochimica Acta - Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy | 2010 | |
| N-(3-Nitro-benzyl-idene)aniline | Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online | 2008 |