Alhamdulillah, another paper accepted for publication in Q1 journal, Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering (JECE), IF : 4.20. Please feel free to read and cite this paper. Thank you in advance.

https://www-sciencedirect-com.ezproxy.utm.my/science/article/pii/S2213343721000968?via%3Dihub

Alhamdulillah, done my task as first speaker in electrospinning workshop on 18th of January 2021. Thank you to the organizer for the opportunity and I learn a lot during the workshop, new experience and opportunity for future collaboration.

Alhamdulillah done invited talk presented in Regional Conference Environmental Engineering (RCEnvE 2020) and Regional Conference on Membrane Technology (RCOM 2020). Thank you for the opportunity.

Feel free to read our latest publication in Journal of CO2 Utilization, Impact Factor : 5.350, Q1 through this link

https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1cPYJ7tB87GOjJ

Its my first posting in 2019…so many things to write but have class to attend..

will update this post later 🙂

Malaysia Technology Expo (MTE) has grown to become one of the region’s most recognized international invention fairs since its beginning in 2001. MTE 2018 is the 17th edition of this prestigious event, and is expected to welcome 500+ exhibits in 2018. Themed “Asia’s Inventions and Innovations Marketplace”, MTE2018 provides the ideal venue for inventors, designers and entrepreneurs to showcase their latest inventions, ideas, prototypes, products and designs to investors, manufacturers, distributors and marketers in Asia and beyond who are seeking new ideas to work on, making it the ideal platform for technological commercialization and collaboration.

MTE 2018 is where you view the latest ideas that can change the world—inventions and prototypes by universities, research institutes, technical and vocational schools, secondary schools, private organizations and individual inventors who are taking scientific and technological innovation to the next level (international level).

This year I bring two products representing UTM in MTE 2018. We won one silver medal and one bronze medal. Of course I am expecting for at least one gold medal, but I guess its not my rezki yet..Hoping for better results in the upcoming years, Insya Allah. Here are some pictures during MTE 2018 during evaluation by the judges and sharing our invention with the visitors. It was indeed a very good exposure for me myself and my team members.

Evaluation by the expert panels

With my team members

Alhamdulillah, another paper of us was accepted by Carbon Letters, journal indexing by WOS and Scopus.

Below are the abstract for these paper;

In this study, composite PAN-based ACNFs embedded with MgO and MnO2 were prepared by the electrospinning method. The resultant pristine ACNFs, ACNF/MgO and ACNF/MnO2 were characterized in terms of their morphological changes, SSA, crystallinity and functional group with FESEM-EDX, the BET method, XRD and FTIR analysis, respectively. Results from this study showed that the SSA of the ACNF/MgO composite (1893 m2 g–1) is significantly higher than that of the pristine ACNFs and ACNF/MnO2 which is 478 and 430 m2 g–1, respectively. FTIR analysis showed peaks of 476 and 547 cm–1, indicating the presence of MgO and MnO2, respectively. The FESEM micrographs analysis showed a smooth but coarser structure in all the ACNFs. Meanwhile, the ACNF/MgO has the smallest fiber diameter (314.38±62.42 nm) compared to other ACNFs. The presence of MgO and MnO2 inside the ACNFs was also confirmed with EDX analysis as well as XRD. The adsorption capacities of each ACNF toward CH4 were tested with the volumetric adsorption method in which the ACNF/MgO exhibited the highest CH4 adsorption up to 2.39 mmol g–1. Meanwhile, all the ACNF samples followed the pseudo-second order kinetic model with a R2 up to 0.9996.

Please refer to this link for full paper paper carbon letters full

Alhamdulillah. Our paper has been accepted in Journal of Industrial and Enginering Chemistry, Elsevier with impact factor 4.31.

I am feeling joy over the moon that the paper has finally been accepted in high impact factor journal..congrats to my student Faten Ermala who is the first author of this paper

‘This paper described PAN-based ACNFs incorporated with MgO was prepared by electrospinning process followed by appropriate activation process. The addition of MgO caused physicochemical changes in term of smaller fiber diameter with an average diameter of 520 nm and higher surface area which is up to four times (1893 m² g⁻¹) as compared to pristine ACNFs (478 m² g⁻¹). Moreover, the modified ACNFs possessed a better adsorption capacity with higher CH₄ adsorption of 2.37 mmol g⁻¹. From the experimental data, the adsorption of CH₄ by composite ACNFs obeyed the pseudo-second order kinetic model with R² value up to 0.9996 and best fitted by Freundlich isotherm model.

You can download the paper here.. it is still in press status 🙂