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Samina Akbar

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Awards
June 2001 Merit Scholarship
March 2008 PhD Scholarship under Faculty Development Programme
June 2008 Indigenous Scholarship
October 2016 EPSRC Grand Challenge Award Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), UK, 2016
June 2010 1st Prize for the Poster Presentation
April 2020 Post Doc Scholarship
March 2022 Development of 3D mesoporous metal oxide framework: A high performance electrocatalyst for sustainable energy production
October 2016 Electrodeposition of Titanium Dioxide nanowires and their application in Solar Cell
March 2017 Novel Synthesis and evaluation of high purity calcium phosphate nanoceramics for biomedical applications
July 2014 Fabrication and electrocatalytic analysis of nanostructured platinum materials, , 2015/2016.

Degrees:

2012
Doctorate     Chemical Sciences
Chemistry with specialization in designing and fabrication of electrocatalysts for renewable energy applications

Publications resulting from Research
Samina Akbar, Joanne M Elliott, Adam M Squires and Aneela Anwar, Use of cubic structure with primitive nanochannels for fabrication of free standing 3D nanowire network of Pt with Pm3m symmetry, Nanotechnology, 33, 1-8 (2022).
Samina Akbar, Joanne M. Elliott, and Adam M. Squires, Control of Pore and Wire Dimensions in Mesoporous Metal Nanowire Networks through Curvature Modulation in Lipid Templates: Implications for Use as Electrodes, ACS Applied Nano Materials, 4 (6), 5717–5725 (2021)
Adil Mehboob, Syeda Rubina Gilani, Aneela Anwar, Ayesha Sadiqa, Samina Akbar, and Jahangeer Patujo, Nanoscale cobalt-oxide electrocatalyst for efficient oxygen evolution reactions in alkaline electrolyte, Journal of Applied Electrochemistry, 51, 691–702, 2021 (11 Feb 2021).
Samina Akbar, Joanne M. Elliott, Adam M. Squires, Aneela Anwar, Optimum conditions for electrochemical deposition of 3-D mesoporous platinum framework, Journal of Nanoparticle Research, 22, Article number: 170 (16 June 2020).
Samina Akbar, Jacob Boswell, Carys Worsley, Joanne M. Elliott, and Adam M. Squires, Ultrathin uniform platinum nanowires via a facile route using an inverse hexagonal surfactant phase template, Langmuir, 34, 6991-6996, 2018 (08 June 2018).
Samina Akbar, Aneela Anwar, Muhammad Z. Noon, Joanne M Elliott, and Adam M Squires, Platinum as an electrocatalyst: effect of morphological aspects of Pt/Pt-based materials, Materials Science and Technology, 35, 1-11, 2019 (12 June 2018).
Samina Akbar, Aneela Anwar, Abdullah Ayish, Joanne M Elliott, Adam M Squires, Phytantriol based smart nano-carriers for drug delivery applications, European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 101, 31-42, 2017 (01 April 2017)
Samina Akbar, Aneela Anwar, and Qudsia Kanwal, Electrochemical determination of folic acid: A short review, Analytical Biochemistry, 510, 98-105, 2016 (01 Oct 2016).
Adam M. Squires, Samina Akbar, Marissa E. Tousley, Yekaterina Rokhlenko, Jonathan P. Singer, and Chinedum O. Osuji, Experimental Evidence for Proposed Transformation Pathway from the Inverse Hexagonal to Inverse Diamond Cubic Phase from Oriented Lipid Samples, Langmuir, 31, 7707−7711, 2015 (06 Jul 2015).
Samina Akbar, Joanne M. Elliott, Martyn Rittman, and Adam M. Squires, Facile Production of Ordered 3D Platinum Nanowire Networks with “Single Diamond” Bicontinuous Cubic Morphology, Adv. Mater. 25(8):1160-1164, 2013 (13 Jan 2013).

XVII International Small Angle Scattering Conference
2025
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Education & Science Expo) February 18-20, 2014, GC University Faisalabad
2025
icon-pin-location Faisalbad, Pakistan
5th international Conference on Materials science and Nanotechnology (MSNANO-22)
2025
icon-pin-location Khanaspur (KPK) Pakistan
International Scientific spring
2025
icon-pin-location National Centre of Physics, Quaid-e-Azam University Islamabad
10th International Conference on Materials Chemistry 10 (MC10)
2025
icon-pin-location University of Manchester, UK
Electrochemical Horizon
2025
icon-pin-location University of Bath, UK
Annual Research Day
2025
icon-pin-location University of Reading, UK.
Electrochem 2010: Electrochemistry and Sustainability
2025
icon-pin-location University of Wolverhampton, UK
Annual Research Day
2025
icon-pin-location University of Reading, UK
2008
2025
icon-pin-location Phoenix, AZ USA
ECS Meeting
2025
icon-pin-location Phoenix, AZ USA
ECS Meeting
2025
icon-pin-location Honolulu, HI USA
2nd international seminar on Analytical Sciences
2025
icon-pin-location University of Sindh, Jamshoro (Sindh) Pakistan

5th international Conference on Materials science and Nanotechnology (MSNANO-22)
2025
icon-pin-location Khanaspur (KPK) Pakistan
XVII International Small Angle Scattering Conference - SAS2018
2025
icon-pin-location Grand Traverse Resort & Spa, Traverse City, Michigan, United States
Conference on Applied Chemical, Biological and Agricultural Sciences (Education & Science Expo)
2025
icon-pin-location GC University Faisalabad
International Scientific spring
2025
icon-pin-location National Centre of Physics, Quaid-e-Azam University Islamabad
10th International Conference on Materials Chemistry 10 (MC10)
2025
icon-pin-location University of Manchester, UK
Electrochemical Horizon
2025
icon-pin-location University of Bath
Annual Research Day
2025
icon-pin-location University of Reading, UK
Electrochem 2010: Electrochemistry and Sustainability
2025
icon-pin-location University of Wolverhampton, UK
Annual Research Day
2025
icon-pin-location University of Reading, UK
ECS Meeting
2025
icon-pin-location Phoenix, AZ USA
ECS Meeting
2025
icon-pin-location Honolulu, HI USA
2nd international seminar on Analytical Sciences
2025
icon-pin-location University of Sindh, Jamshoro (Sindh) Pakistan