• Director, Institute of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan (25.01.2021 to date) Curriculum Vitae 2 • Chairman, Department of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan (10.12.2020 to 24.01.2021)
• Professor of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering at Department of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, College of Engineering and Emerging Technologies, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan (10.03.2020 to date).
• Assistant Professor at Department of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, College of Engineering and Emerging Technologies, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan (17.06. 2014 to 9.03.2020).
• Assistant Professor on Adhoc basis at Department of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, College of Engineering and Emerging Technologies, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan (16.08. 2012 to 16.06.2014).
• Worked as Lecturer at Department of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan (21.08.2002 to 15.08.2012).
• Worked as Lecturer on Adhoc basis at Department of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, ICET, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan (16.01.2001 to 20.08.2002).
• Worked as Visiting Research Fellow for two months at University of Leeds, UK for Morgan Advanced Materials and Technology, UK on a project entitled “Development and characterization of graphite nanoplatelet based composites” (April 2012-June 2012).
• Processing and characterisation of polymer and their nanocomposites.• Synthesis and characterisation of carbon nanomaterials (graphene, graphitenanoplatelets, carbon nanotubes, vapour grown carbon nanofibres and carbon black,etc.)• Synthesis and characterization of boron nitride nanosheets and other 2D nanomaterials.• Graphene-based coatings for corrosion protection of metals.• Thermal interface materials.• Polymer composites/adhesives for electronic packaging applications.• Polymer and metallic coatings for corrosion protection of metals.• Physical metallurgy of steels.• Surface hardening of steels.• Solution combustion and solid-state methods for the production of pervoskite materials.
Development and characterization of hybrid polymer nanocomposites for functional applications University of the Punjab 2013-2014 Rs. 0.15 million
Development of polyurethane based shoe sole material Shafi Reso Chemical Industries Lahore 2013-2014 Rs. 0.05 million
Synthesis of Graphite nanoplatelets and Development of Graphite nanoplatelet/epoxy and silicone composites University of the Punjab 2014-2015 Rs. 0.15 million
Development of Welding Flux powder Shafi Reso Chemical Industries Lahore 2013-2014 Rs. 0.05 million
Development and Characterisation of natural fibre reinforced polymer composites University of the Punjab 2015-2016 Rs. 0.15 million
Boron nitride nanoplatelet based thermosetting composite for thermal interface applications University of the Punjab 2016-2017 Rs. 0.15 million
Synthesis of boron nitride nanosheets by chemical vapour deposition technique University of the Punjab 2017-2018 Rs. 0.15 million
Synthesis of Graphene nanoplatelets and Development of Graphene nanoplatelet/polymer composites for electronics packaging and functional applications Higher Education Commission, Pakistan 2015-2019 Rs. 17 million
Development of Lanthanum perovskite based electrodes for supercapacitor applications University of the Punjab 2019-2020 Rs. 0.15 million
1. Khan M.U.A, Al-Arjan, W. S., Binkadem, M. S., Mehboob, H., Haider, A., Raza, M. A et al., Development of Biopolymeric Hybrid Scaffold-Based on AAc/GO/nHAp/TiO2 Nanocomposite for Bone Tissue Engineering: In-Vitro Analysis. Nanomaterials, 11(5), May 2021, 1319. (impact factor: 4.03)
2. Nadeem A, Maqsood MF, Raza M.A, Ilyas M.T, Iqbal MJ, R ZU, Binder free boron nitride-based coatings deposited on mild steel by chemical vapour deposition: Anticorrosion performance analysis, Physica B: Condensed Matter, Volume 602, Feb. 2021 (impact factor = 1.902)
3. Rehman ZU, Raza M. A, T Ahmed, Chishti UZ, Maqsood MF, et al., La0.75Sr0.25Cr0.5Mn0.5O3 perovskite developed for supercapacitor applications, Journal of Energy Storage, Volume 32, Dec. 2020, 101951. (impact factor: 3.7)
4. Khan MU, Raza M.A, et al., Development and in vitro evaluation of κ-carrageenan based polymeric hybrid nanocomposite scaffolds for bone tissue engineering, RSC advances, Issue 66, 6 Nov. 2020, 40529-40542 (impact factor: 3.07) Curriculum Vitae 9
5. Nadeem, A., Raza, M. A., Maqsood, M. F., Ilyas, M. T., Westwood, A., & Rehman, Z. U. (2020). Characterization of boron nitride nanosheets synthesized by boron-ammonia reaction. Ceramics International, 46 (15.08.2020): 20415-20422 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ceramint.2020.05.132) (impact factor = 3.8)
6. Raza MA, Maqsood FM, Rehman ZU, Westwood A, Inam A, et al. , Thermally Reduced Graphene Oxide-Reinforced Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene Composites Developed by Combined Solution and Melt Mixing Method, Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, Aug. 2020, 45(11), 9559-9568 (impact factor= 1.71)
7. Khan MU, Raza M.A, et al., Novel functional antimicrobial and biocompatible arabinoxylan/guar gum hydrogel for skin wound dressing applications, Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, 14, Issue 10, 6th August, 2020, 1488-1501 (impact factor = 3.078)
8. Maqsood, M. F., Raza, M. A., Ghauri, F. A., Rehman, Z. U., & Ilyas, M. T. Corrosion study of graphene oxide coatings on AZ31B magnesium alloy, Journal of Coating Technology Research, 29 May 2020, (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11998- 020-00350-3), (Impact factor = 1.815)
9. Afzal, T., Iqbal, M.J., Iqbal, M.Z., Sajjad, A., Raza, M.A., Riaz, S., Kamran, M.A., Numan, A. and Naseem, S., Effect of post-deposition annealing temperature on the charge carrier mobility and morphology of DPPDTT based Organic Field Effect Transistors. Chemical Physics Letters, 21st Apr 2020, p.137507 (impact factor = 2.029)
10. Inam, A., Raza, M. A., Hafeez, M. A., Shah, S. B., Ishtiaq, M., Hassan, M. H., ... & Maqbool, A., Effect of voltage and spray–off distance of electric-arc spray technique on surface properties of nickel–chrome (Ni–Cr) coating developed on 304L stainless steel. Materials Research Express 7.1 (2020): 016525. (impact factor= 1.929)
