Dr. Ahmad; Imtiaz

Dr. Ahmad; Imtiaz

Ph.D , 2012 (2016) in Nanosciences, Nanotechnology, Thin films, Nano Photonics, Plasmon resonance, Hydrophilic & Hydrophobic surfaces, and Energy gradient Designs...
Research Interest:  Nanostructure design and shapes, Microfluidics & wettability designs and dynamics, Liquid crystalline mechanism, Formation mechanisms of nano superstructures, Forces & energies at the nanoscale, Self & directed assemblies, Gradient patterned designs, Micelles and their assembling, Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM), Helium ion Scanning (HIM), Atomic force microscopy (AFM), and their comparative facets, Plasmonics.
Telephone: +923348667543
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In 2001, the University of Peshawar (UOP), in Peshawar, Pakistan, awarded me a Master of Science in Physics. In that merit list, I received second place. I taught at the Army Public School and College (APS system) for Girls in Peshawar Cantt for over a year. After a year of teaching in APS, I was selected as a lecturer (contract) in the Department of Physics UOP on May 11, 2002. After almost two years, I was selected as a regular BPS lecturer at the physics department (UOP) on April 4, 2005. I received a Ph.D. fellowship in 2011, and in January 2012, I enrolled as a Ph.D. candidate at the Physics of Interfaces and Nanomaterials (PIN) group at the University of Twente (UT), Netherlands. On October 28, 2015, after four years of free research and teaching at Nanolab UT under the direction of MESA+, I received my Ph.D. in the field of nanotechnology. The following day, October 29, 2015, I organized my travel to go back there. To make a long tale short, I went back to join UOP in October 2015.  Since then, I've been performing my duties here. 

Some of My Important Articles are Listed Below   

  • G. Hlawacek, Imtiaz Ahmad (contributed equally with Hlawacek), M.A. Smithers, E.S. Kooij, To see or not to see: imaging surfactant coated nano-particles using HIM and SEM, Ultramicroscopy 135 (2013), 89-94.
  • Imtiaz Ahmad, H.J.W. Zandvliet and E.S. Kooij, Shape-induced separation of nanospheres and aligned nanorods, Langmuir 30 (2014), 7953-7961.
  • Imtiaz Ahmad, H.P. Jansen, J. van Swigchem, C. Ganser, C. Teichert, H.J.W. Zandvliet, E.S. Kooij, Evaporative gold nanorod assembly on chemically stripe-patterned gradient surfaces, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 449 (2015), 261-269.
  • Imtiaz Ahmad, H.P. Jansen, H.J.W. Zandvliet, E.S. Kooij, Hydrodynamic confinement and capillary alignment of gold nanorods, Nanotechnology 27 (2016),  025301(1-9).
  • Imtiaz Ahmad, Floor Derkink, Pantelis Bampoulis, Tim Boulogne, Harold J.W. Zandvliet, Rahim Jan, Hidayatullah Khan, E. Stefan Kooij, Step-edge Induced Orientation of Nanorods in Evaporative Self-assembly on HOPG, Colloid and Interface Science Communications, 19 (2017), 25-30.

Most Cited Publication

I. Ahmad, H.J.W. Zandvliet and E.S. Kooij, Shape-induced separation of nanospheres and aligned nanorods, Langmuir 30 (2014), 7953-7961.

 

Publications

Book

1.       Imtiaz Ahmad, Evaporative self-assembly of gold nanoparticles on various surfaces, LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, 10th July 2018, 180p. ISBN10 6202077085; ISBN13 9786202077088   

Articles

1.      G. Hlawacek, Imtiaz Ahmad, M. A. Smithers, E. S. Kooij, To see or not to see: imaging surfactant coated nano-particles using HIM and SEM, Ultramicroscopy 135, (2013) 89-94.

Category: W (silver)

2.      Imtiaz Ahmad, H. J. W. Zandvliet and E.S. Kooij, Shape-induced separation of nanospheres and aligned nanorods, Langmuir 30, (2014) 7953-7961.

     Category: W (gold)

3.      Imtiaz Ahmad, H. P. Jansen, J. van Swigchem, C. Ganser, C. Teichert, H. J. W. Zandvliet, E.S. Kooij, Evaporative gold nanorod assembly on chemically stripe-patterned gradient surfaces, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 449, (2015) 261-269.

Category: W (platinum)

4.      Imtiaz Ahmad, H. P. Jansen, H. J. W. Zandvliet, E. S. Kooij, Hydrodynamic confinement and capillary alignment of gold nanorods, Nanotechnology 27, (2016) 025301.

Category: W (silver)

5.      Imtiaz Ahmad, F. Derkink, P. Bampoulis, T. Boulogne, H. J. W. Zandvliet, R. Jan, H. Khan, E. S. Kooij, Step-edge Induced Orientation of Nanorods in Evaporative Self-assembly on HOPG, Colloid and Interface Science Communications 19, (2017) 25–30.

       Category: X

6.      Rahim Jan, Amir Habib, Muhammad Aftab Akram, Imtiaz Ahmad, Attaullah Shah, Muhammad Sadiq and Akhtar Hussain, Flexible, thin films of graphene-polymer composites for EMI shielding, Material Research Express 4, (2017) 035605.

Category: X

7.      R. Jan, A. Saboor, A. N. Khan and Imtiaz Ahmad, Estimating EMI shielding effectiveness of graphene-polymer composites at elevated temperatures,  Materials Research Express 4, (2017) 085605.

Category: X

8.      Mateen Ullah, Hidayat Ullah, Amir Ullah, Aman Ullah, Ill Won Kim, Ibrahim Qazi, Imtiaz Ahmad, Dielectric, Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric Properties of Lead-Free (1-x)(Bi0.5Na0.5)0.935Ba0.065Ti -x(LiSbO3) Solid Solutions, Ceramics international 44, (2018) 562.

      Category: W (silver)

9.      Imtiaz Ahmad, Floor Derkink, Tim Boulogne, Pantelis Bampoulis, Harold J. W. Zandvliet, Hidayat Ullah Khan, Rahim Jan and Stefan E. Kooij, Self-assembly and wetting properties of gold nanorod–CTAB molecules on HOPG, Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology 10, (2019) 705.

     Category: W (bronze)

10.  Rahim Jan Marwat, Adeel Riaz, Ahmad Nawaz Khan, Ahmed Shafqat, Asra Tariq, Hammad M Cheema, Imtiaz Ahmad, Muhammad Azeem, Muhammad Aftab Akram, Muhammad Fayzan Shakir, Ramsha Khan, Sofia Javed, EMI Shielding Properties of Polymer Blends with inclusion of Graphene Nano Platelets, Results in Physics, 14 (2019), 102365.

     Category: W (Bronze)

11.  Imtiaz Ahmad, Rahim Jan, Hidayat Ullah Khan, Sajjad Ahmad Khan, Nano Gold Shape-Separation Effect Induced by the Motion of a Droplet, Surfaces and Interfaces, 17, 2019, 100342.

      Category: W (Honorable Mention)

12.  Imtiaz Ahmad, Hidayat Ullah Khan, Rahim Jan, Sajjad Ahmad Khan, Anisotropic gold nanoparticles crystalizes in multifaceted superstructures, Mater. Res. Express, 6, (2019) 105006.

      Category: X

13.  Imtiaz Ahmad and Rahim Jan, Size-Separation and Self-assembly of Anisotropic Nanoparticles in a Coffee-Stain Ring, NANO, 14, (2019) 1950149.

Category: Y

14.  Imtiaz Ahmad, Rahim Jan, Hidayat Ullah Khan, Sajjad Ahmad Khan and Akhlaq Hussain, "Deposition and Patterning of Gold Nanostructures on Various Wettable and Nonwettable Patterned Surfaces" Mater. Res. Express, 6, (2019) 125042.

      Category: X

15.  Imtiaz Ahmad, Deposition and Distribution of Gold Nanoparticles in a Coffee-stain Ring on the HOPG Terraces; Bulletin of Materials Science, 43, (2020) 118.

      Category: X

16.  Ibrar Ahmed, Rahim Jan, Ahmad Nawaz Khan, Iftikhar Hussain Gul, Ramsha Khan, Sofia Javed, M Aftab Akram, Ahmad Shafqat, Hammad M. Cheema and Imtiaz Ahmad, Graphene-ferrites interaction for enhanced EMI shielding effectiveness of hybrid polymer composites, Mater. Res. Express, 7, (2020) 016304.

Category: X

17.  Mateen Ullah, Amir Ullah, Hidayat Ullah Khan, Imtiaz Ahmad, Won Kim, Dielectric, Ferroelectric and Strain Properties of (Bi0.5Na0.5)0.935Ba0.065Ti1−x(Al0.5Nb0.5)xO3 Lead-free Piezoelectric Ceramics, Journal of the Korean Physical Society, 76, (2020) 145-149.

Category: X

18.  Imtiaz Ahmad, Akhlaq Hussain, Rahim Jan, Hidayat Ullah Khan, Sajjad Ahmad Khan, Imaging, Deposition, and Self-assembly of CTAB Stabilized Gold Nanostructures, SN applied Sciences, 2, (2020) 1099.

Category: Y

19.  Hidayat Ullah Khan, Amir Ullah, Mateen Ullah, Aman Ullah, Imtiaz Ahmad, Won Kim, Structural, Electrical and Electromechanical Properties of [(Bi 0.5 Na 0.5 ) 0.935 Ba 0.065 )] 1-y La y (Ti 1-z Ta z )O3 lead-free Piezoelectric ceramics, Physica B: Condensed Matter, 584, (2020) 412102.

Category: W (bronze)

20.  Imtiaz Ahmad, Akhlaq Hussain, Analysis of Colloidal Nanostructures Synthesized through Complex Route, Inorganic and Nano-Metal Chemistry, 50, (2020) 1248-1253.

      Category: Y

21.  Imtiaz Ahmad, Rahim Jan, Hidayat Ullah Khan, Akhlaq Hussain, Liquid Crystalline Ordered Arrays of Gold Nano-particles in Evaporative Deposits, Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, 709, (2020) 24-42.

Category: Y

22.  Imtiaz Ahmad, Akhlaq Hussain, Ambeen Ali, Rahim Jan, Energetically and sterically favorable assembly of identical gold nanorods with varying concentrations of nanospheres, Surface Review and Letters, 28 (2021) 2150028.

Category: Y

23.  M. Umer Farooq, Rahim Jan, Muhammad Azeem, M. Adeel Umer, M. Aftab Akram, Ahmad Nawaz Khan, Imtiaz Ahmad, Sajjad A. Khan, Zeshan A. Umar & Usman Liaqat, Enhanced mechanical properties of functionalized BN nanosheets-polymer composites, Journal of Polymer Research, 27, (2020) 310.

      Category: X

24.  Imtiaz Ahmad, Akhlaq hussain, Rahim jan and Hidayat ullah khan, Nanorods over wettable and defect sights, Bull. Mater. Sci. (2021) 44:106.

Category: X

25.  Imtiaz Ahmad, Rahim Jan, Hidayat Ullah Khan, Akhlaq Hussain, Aqsa Tabassum, Ambreen Ali, Self-Assembly on Dual Wettable Surface, review submitted to Surface Review and Letters 2021.

      Category: X

26.  Hidayat Ullah Khan, Amir Ullah, Karishma Sualiheen, Imtiaz Ahmad & Mateen Ullah, Incipient ferroelectricity of AgTaO3 and ferroelectric nature of (Li0.008Ag0.992)TaO3, Journal of the Korean Physical Society volume 79, 832–840 (2021).

Category: Y

27. Imtiaz Ahmad, Rahim Jan, Anmol Riaz Khan, Gul E Nayab, Stationary and Ultrasonic Nanoparticles Assembly on Notable Surfaces, Surface Review and Letters,  29,  04, 2250045 (2022).

Category: X

28. Imtiaz Ahmad, Rahim Jan, Hidayat Ullah Khan , Shayan Ahmad Khattak, Yusra Murad, Assembly of nanoparticles at symmetric coffee stain locations,  Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects 682 (2024) 132833.

 Category: W (silver)

 

                Date of appointment as a lecturer                                     

  •    Contract 5/11/2002

  •    Regular BPS 14/05/2005

Length of service: More than 20 years