dr. naeem akhtar

Dr. Naeem Akhtar Assistant Professor, IRCBM, COMSATS University Islamabad,

Lahore Campus

E-mail: [email protected]

[email protected]

Tel: 0092-331-6877622

Address: House # 932A, Block E1, Near Jut Chowk, Johar Town, Lahore,

Pakistan

EDUCATION 2013-2016

Doctor of Science

(Nanoelectrochemical Sensors for Selective Molecular Recognition)

Graduate School of Advance Science and Engineering

Waseda University, Tokyo

Japan

2008 – 2010

Master of Science (Physical Chemistry)

MS in Physical Chemistry.

Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan

Pakistan

2004 – 2008

Bachelor of Science (Chemistry)

BS (4-Year) in Chemistry

Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan

Pakistan

RESEARCH

INTEREST

AND

ACHIEVEMENTS

➢ Research Interest and Published Articles

Fabrication of nano-architectures to design,

(i) Electrochemical and photo-electrochemical sensors for bio-

molecular recognition for early stage diagnostic

applications.

(ii) Energy storage devices

➢ Research Grants

1. Title: Fabrication of highly sensitive and selective

electrochemiluminescence biosensor for precise monitoring of

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dopamine from nerve cells Funding Source: PSF-MSRT IRAN

(PSF-MSRT II/Phy/P-COMSATS-lhr (13))

Amount: 1.2 Million

2. Title: Fabrication of photo-electrochemical sensor to monitor H2O2

released by living cells.

Funding Source: COMSATS-SRGP

(16-53/CRGP/CUI/LHR/18/707)

Amount: 0.3 Million

3. Title: Sensor for precise monitoring of vitamin c from saliva of

gingivitis patient

Funding Source: HEC-SRGP (No.21-1910/SRGP/R&D/HEC/2018)

Amount: 0.5 Million

➢ Research Articles

(Articles under minor revision-email from editor can be provided)

1. Yasir Abbas, Shafqat Ali, Majid Basharat, Wenqi Zou, Fan Yang, Wei Liu,

Shuangkun Zhang, Zhanpeng Wu, Naeem Akhtar*, Dezhen Wu*,

“Polyphosphazene Derived Quaternary-Atoms Doped Carbon Na-

noparticles-Ionic-Liquid Electrochemical Sensor for Uric Acid Detection”.

ACS Applied Nano Materials. (Corresponding Author)

(Accepted/Published Articles)

2. Awais Siddique Saleemi, Muhammad Hafeez, Aqsa Munawar, Naeem

Akhtar, Waseem Abbas, Muhammad Ehsan Mazhar,e Zahid Shafiq,

Anthony P. Davis, Shern-Long Lee,* “Synthesis and Sensing Efficiency of

Bioinspired CN Wrapped ZnFe2O4 Microspheres-Ionic Liquid Composite

Towards Ultra-High Sensitivity Arsenic(III) Monitoring of Ground Drinking

Water”. Journal of Material Chemistry C (IF: 7.03).

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3. Khizer Hayat, Aqsa Munawar, Anam Zulfiqar, Mahmood Hassan Akhtar,

Hafiz Badaruddin Ahmad, Zahid Shafiq, Muhammad Akram, Awais

Siddique Saleemi, Naeem Akhtar,** “Hollow cubic caves wrapped with bio-

genic N-rich graphitic C for simultaneous monitoring of uric acid and

xanthine”. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces. (IF: 8.75).

(Corresponding Author)

4. Khizar Hayat, Mahmood Hassan Akhtar, Awais Siddique Saleemi, Hafiz

Badaruddin Ahmad, Naeem Akhtar*, “H2O2 screening from saliva of gum

diseased-patient through CN dot wrapped Cu2O nano-frogspawns ionic

liquid nanocomposite” Electroanalysis (IF. 2.69) (Corresponding Author)

5. Muhammad Asad, Anam Zulfiqar, Rizwan Raza, Minghui Yang, Akhtar

Hayat, Naeem Akhtar* “Orange Peel Derived C-dots Decorated CuO

Nanorods for the Selective Monitoring of Dopamine from Deboned

Chicken” Electroanalysis (IF. 2.69) (Corresponding Author)

6. Waseem Abbas , Qinglei Liu, Naeem Akhtar,*Javed Ahmad, Muhammad

Ehsan Mazhar, Tengfei Li, Imran Zada, Lulu Yao, Raheela Naz, Muhammad

Imtiaz, Wang Zhang, Ali Amjad, Di Zhang, Jiajun Gu, “Electrochemical

determination of urinary dopamine from neuroblastoma patients based on

Cu nanoplates encapsulated by alginate-derived carbon” Journal of

Electroanalytical Chemistry (IF. 3.01) (Corresponding Author)

7. Khan Faria, Akhtar Naeem*; Jalal Nasir; Hussain Irshad; Szmi-gielsk Rafal;

Qasim Hayat Muhammad;. Ahmad Hafiz; A. El-Said Waleed; Yang

Minghui; Janjua Hussnain;” C-dot wrapped ZnO nanoparticles-based

photo-electrochemical sensor for selective monitoring of H2O2 released

from cancer cells. Microchimica Acta (IF. 5.47) (Corresponding Author)

(DOI: 10.1007/s00604-019-3227-x)

8. Abbas, Yasir; Zuhra, Zareen; Akhtar, Naeem; Ali, Shafqat; Single-step

fabrication of visible-light-active ZnO-GaN:ZnO branched nanowire arrays

as photoanode for efficient water splitting. Applied Energy Materials

(ACS). (IF. 4.47)

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(doi: 10.1021/acsaem.8b00346)

9. Muhammad Ehsan Mazhar, Samia Bakhtawar, Anwar Manzoor,

Muhammad Nauman Usmani, Naeem Akhtar, Waseem Abbas, Khalil Khan

and Javed Ahmad, Insight into the structural characterization of pure and

Zr-doped hydrothermally synthesized cerium oxide nanoparticles.

Materials Research Express. (IF. 1.151)

(10.1088/2053-1591/ab0f5f)

10. Ahmad, Irshad; Mazhar, Muhammad Ehsan; Usmani, Muhammad;

Mehmood, Mohsin; Abbas, Waseem; Akhtar, Naeem; Ahmed, EjazAuto-

combustion synthesis of pure and Er, Dy co-doped ZnO nanomaterials for

efficient methyl orange degradation using solar and visible light

photocatalysis, Materials Research Express. (IF. 1.151)

11. Abbas, Yasir; Majeed, Sahresh; Ali, Shafqat; Ahmad, Hafiz Badaruddin;

Akhtar, Naeem; Yokota, Hiroshi; Design of Gravel-Sand Filter for Arsenic

Removal: A Case Study of Muzaffargarh District in Pakistan. Water Environ

Research. 90(12):2106-2113. (IF. 1.24)

(doi: 10.2175/106143017X15131012188240)

12. Abbas, Waseem; Akhtar, Naeem; Liu, Qinglei; Li, Tengfei; Zada, Imran; Yao,

Lulu Naz, Raheela; Zhang, Wang; Mazhar, Muhammad Ehsan; Di Zhang,

Ma, Dongling; Gu, Jiajun; Facilely green synthesis of 3D nano-pyramids

Cu/Carbon hybrid sensor electrode materials for simultaneous monitoring

of phenolic compounds, Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical. 282 (2019) 617-

625. (IF. 5.6)

(doi.org/10.1016/j.snb.2018.11.114)

13. Waqas, Muhammad; Zulfiqar, Anam; Ahmad, H. Badar; Akhtar, Naeem;

Hussain, M.; Shafiq, Z.; Abbas, Y.; Mehmood, K.; Ajmal, M.; Yang, M.

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Fabrication of highly stable silver nanoparticles with shape-dependent

electrochemical efficacy. Electrochimica Acta. (IF. 5.38) (Corresponding

Author)

(https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electacta.2018.03.049)

14. Akhtar, Naeem; El-Safty, Sherif A.; Abdelsalam, Mamdouh E.; Shenashen,

Mohamed A.; Kawarada, Hiroshi. Radially oriented nanostrand electrodes

to boost glucose sensing in mammalian blood. Biosensors and

Bioelectronics. (IF. 9.51)

(DOI:10.1016/j.bios.2015.10.023)

15. Akhtar, Naeem; El-Safty, Sherif A.; Abdelsalam, Mamdouh E.; Kawarada,

Hiroshi. One-Pot Fabrication of Dendritic NiO@carbon-nitrogen Dot

Electrodes for Screening Blood Glucose Level in Diabetes. Advanced

Healthcare Materials. 2015. vol. 4, no. 14, p. 2110-2119. (IF. 6.27)

(DOI: 10.1002/adhm.201500369)

16. Akhtar, Naeem; El-Safty, Sherif A.; Khairy, Md; El-Said, Waleed A.

Fabrication of a highly selective nonenzymatic amperometric sensor for

hydrogen peroxide based on nickel foam/cytochrome c modified electrode.

Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical. (IF. 6.39)

(doi.org/10.1016/j.snb.2014.10.038)

17. Akhtar, Naeem; El-Safty, Sherif A.; Abdelsalam, Mamdouh E.; Kawarada,

Hiroshi. Electron transport dependence of nanoscale hemeprotein molecular

structures for engineering electrochemical nanosensor. Nano-Structures &

Nano-Objects. (IF. 1.09)

(doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoso.2015.08.001)

18. Akhtar, Naeem; El-Safty, Sherif A.; Khairy, Mohamed. Simple and Sensitive

Electrochemical Sensor-Based Three-Dimensional Porous Ni-Hemoglobin

Composite Electrode. Chemosensors. (IF. 2.70)

(doi:10.3390/chemosensors2040235)

19. Yanjie Wang, Saher Hamid, Xin Zhang, Akhtar, Naeem Xuehua Zhang and

Tao Hea. An electrochemiluminescent biosensor for dopamine detection

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electacta.2018.03.049

http://doi.org/10.1016/j.bios.2015.10.023

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using a poly(luminol–benzidine sulfate) electrode modified by tyramine

oxidase. New Journal of Chemistry. (IF. 3.06)

(DOI: 10.1039/C6NJ03338E)

20. M. A. Shenashen, N. Akhtar, M. M. Selim, W. M. Morsy, H. Yamaguchi, S.

Kawada, A. A. Alhamid, N. Ohashi, I. Ichinose A.S. Alamoudi, and S. A.

El-Safty, Effective, Low Cost Recovery of Toxic Arsenate Anions from Water

Using Hollow Sphere Trapper Geodes. Chemistry: An Asian Journal (IF.

3.69)

DOI: 10.1002/asia.201700666

21. Mohamed A. Shenashen, Diab Hassen, Sherif A. El-Safty, Mahmoud M.

Selim, Akhtar, Naeem, Abhijit Chatterjee, Ahmed Elmarakbi.; Mesoscopic

Fabric Sheet Racks and Blocks as Catalysts with Efficiently Exposed Surfaces

for Methanol and Ethanol Electrooxidation. Advance Materials Interface.

(IF. 4.71)

DOI: 10.1002/admi.201600743

22. Warkocki, Wojciech; El-Safty, Sherif A.; Shenashen, Mohamed A.; Elshehy,

Emad; Yamaguchi, Hitoshi; Akhtar, Naeem. Photo-induced recovery,

optical detection, and separation of noxious SeO32- using a mesoporous

nanotube hybrid membrane. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 2015.

(IF. 10.73).

10.1039/C5TA02827B

23. Akhtar, Naeem; Ahmad, Badar.; Hussain Mazhar., Kinetic Investigation of

Hydrolysis of Keto Esters Spectrophotometrically, Asian Journal of

Chemistry, 2012, 24, 5. (IF. 0.45)

24. Ahmad, Badar. Abbas, Yasir. Hussain, Mazhar. Akhtar, Naeem; T. M.

Ansari, Z. Muhammad, M. Khalid, S. A. Arain, Synthesis and application of

alumina supported nano zero valent zinc as adsorbent for the removal of

arsenic and nitrate, Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering, 2014, 1-5. (IF.

2.47)

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25. Tabasum, Shazia; Asghar, Saleem; Ahmad, Badar; Akhtar, Naeem;

Physicochemical Characterization and Frying Quality of Canola and

Sunflower Oil Samples, Journal of the Chemical Society of Pakistan, 2012,

34, 513-517. (IF. 0.15).

26. Diab Khalafallah, Naeem Akhtar, Othman Y. Alothman, H. Fouad, Khalil

Abdelrazek Khalil, Self-assembled dopamine nanolayers wrapped carbon

nanotubes as carboncarbon bi-functional nanocatalyst for highly efficient

oxygen reduction reaction and antiviral drug monitoring, Solid State

Sciences, 2017, 71, 51-60. (IF. 2.15)

27. Mohammed Y. Emran, Hesham Khalifa, Hassanien Gomaa, Mohamed A.

Shenashen, Naeem Akhtar, Moataz Mekawy, Ahmed Faheem, Sherif A. El-

Safty, Hierarchical C-N doped NiO with dual-head echinop flowers for

ultrasensitive monitoring of epinephrine in human blood serum,

Microchim Acta: DOI 10.1007/s00604-017-2498-3. (IF. 5.47)

28. Mohammed Y. Emran, M. Mekawy, Naeem Akhtar, M.A. Shenashen, I. M.

EL-Sewify, A. Faheem, S. A. El-Safty “Broccoli-shaped Biosensor Hierarchy

for Electrochemical Screening of Noradrenaline in Living Cells” Biosensors

and Bioelectronic (IF. 9.51)

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bios.2017.08.050

29. Naeem Akhtar, Mohamme Y. Emran , M. A. Shenashena, H. Khalifaa, T.

Osaka , A. Faheem , T. Homma b, H. Kawarada , S. A. El-Saftya,b,

Fabrication of Photo-electrochemical biosensor for ultrasensitive screening

of mono-bioactive molecules: effect of geometrical structures and crystal

surfaces. Journal of Materials Chemistry B. (IF. 5.047)

DOI: 10.1039/x0xx00000x

30. Akhtar, Naeem; El-Safty, Sherif A.; Abdelsalam, Mamdouh E. Heme-protein

Modified Electrodes for Highly Selective and Sensitive Detection of H2O2

from Apple Juice. Nanomaterials: applications and properties. vol. 4 no 2,

02 nabm 05(8pp) (2015).

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bios.2017.08.050

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31. Mohammed Y. Emran, Mohamed A. Shenashen, Moataz Mekawy, Ahmed

M. Azzam, Naeem Akhtar, Hassenien Gomaa, Mahmoud M. Selim, Ahmed

Faheem, Sherif A. El-Safty. Ultrasensitive in-vitro monitoring of monoamine

neurotransmitters from dopaminergic cell, Sensors and Actuators B 259

(2018) 114–124. (IF. 6.39).

32. Ajmal, Muhammad; Aftab, Faiza; Bibi, Iram; Iqbal, Muzaffar; Ambreen

Jaweria; Ahmad, Hafiz Badaruddin; Akhtar, Naeem, Haleem, Abdul;

Siddiq, Muhammad; Facile synthesis of porous anionic hydrogel embedded

with nickel nanoparticles and evaluation of its catalytic performance for the

rapid reduction of 4-nitrophenol. Journal of Porous Materials. (IF. 1.94).

33. Emran, Mohammed; Shenashen, Mohamed; Abdelwahab, Adel; Khalifa

Hesham; Mekawy, Moataz; Akhtar, Naeem; Abdelmottaleb, Mohamed; A.

El‑Safty, Sherif; Design of hierarchical electrocatalytic mediator for one step,

selective screening of biomolecules in biological fluid samples. Journal of

Applied Electrochemistry. (IF. 1.54).

doi.org/10.1007/s10800-018-1175-5

➢ Conferences

Invited Speaker

1. 2019 International Conference on Advanced Materials and Applications

(AMA 2019) Ningbo, China (China), 10-13 April 2019

Title of Speech: Carbon encapsulated Cu nanohybrid: Sensor to monitor

phenolic pollutants and catecholamines

2. Invitation for Talk in One Day Symposium on Nanotechnology Present

and Future Aspects in Pakistan, May 04, 2018 at WUM Multan.

Title of Speech: Tailoring Nanoarchitectures with Control Shape for Early

Stage Diagnostic Applications

Oral Speaker

1. Akhtar, Naeem; El-Safty, Sherif A.

“Engineering of Nanoelectrochamical Sensors for Selective Molecular

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Recognition” The 6th NIMS/MANA-Waseda University International

Symposium, Japan

Date 29 Jul, 2015 (Oral)

2. Akhtar, Naeem; El-Safty, Sherif A. “Fabrication of nanozyme based

amperometric sensor for ultra-trace determination of bio molecules”

International symposium on Zeolite and microporous crystals 2015,

Sapporo, Japan

Date June 28- July 02, 2015 (Poster)


“Non-enzymatic amperometric sensor for ultra-trace determination of hydrogen

peroxide” The 6th NIMS/MANA-Waseda University International

Symposium, Japan

Date 29 Jul, 2015 (Poster)


“Design and development of nanozyme electrochemical sensor for biological

molecules” The doctoral program in students seminar program, NIMS

Tsukuba, Japan

Date 14 Jan., 2015 (Oral)

5. Shenashen, Mohamed A, Khairy, Mohamed. Akhtar, Naeem. El-Safty,

Sherif A. “Highly selective/Sensitive mesoporous aluminosilicate

discriminated optical captor/sensor for metal ions water remediation”

International symposium on Zeolite and microporous crystals 2015,

Sapporo, Japan

Date June 28- July 02, 2015 (Poster)


“New Trends toward electrochemical detection of bio-molecules based on

porous metal/metal oxide electrodes” The doctoral program in students

seminar program, NIMS Tsukuba, Japan

Date 15 Jan, 2014 (Oral)


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“Design and development of nanozyme electrochemical sensor for biological

molecules” The 5th NIMS/MANA-Waseda University International

Symposium, Japan Date 24 March, 2014. (Oral)

8. Akhtar, Naeem; El-Safty, Sherif A. “Non-enzymatic amperometric sensor

for ultra-trace determination of H2O2" The 15th IUMRS-International

Conference in Asia (IUMRS-ICA 2014) Fukuoka University, Fukuoka,

Japan.

Date 24-30th August 2014 (Poster)

9. Shenashen, Mohamed A.; El-Safty, Sherif A. Akhtar, Naeem. Khairy,

Mohamed. “Highly selective/sensitive mesoporous aluminosilicate

discriminated optical captor/sensor for metal ions water remediation" The

15th IUMRS-International Conference in Asia (IUMRS-ICA 2014), Fukuoka

University, Fukuoka, Japan.

Date 24-30th August 2014 (Poster)

10. Khairy, Mohamed..; El-Safty, Sherif A. Akhtar, Naeem. Shenashen,

Mohamed A “Mesoporous metal oxide nanoarchitectures for

electrochemical energy storage devices “Influence of size, porosity, and

morphology”, 1st international symposium on energy challenges and

mechanics.

Date July 2014, UK. (Poster)

11. Akhtar, Naeem, Ahmad, H. B.

"Kinetic Investigation of Hydrolysis of Keto Esters Spectrophotometrically" 8th

International and 20th National Chemistry Conference, Feb 2010, Quaid-i-

Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan.

12. N. Akhtar, Ahmad, H. B

"Kinetic Investigation of Hydrolysis of Keto Esters Spectrophotometrically"

11th Eurasia conference on chemical sciences,

6-10 ctober, 2010, “The Dead Sea” Jordan.

13. N. Akhtar, H. B. Ahmad,

"Kinetic Investigation of Hydrolysis of Keto Esters Spectrophotometrically" 10th

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International and 22th National Chemistry Conference, 2011, University of

Agriculture Faisalabad.

AWARDS/

SCHOLARSHIPS 1. First Pakistani to win

"Waseda university-NIMS joint graduate assistantship"

~180,0 USD/month

2. Scholarship for Young Doctoral Students (Waseda University)

Academic year 2015 ~500,0 USD





5. JASSO Honors Scholarship (Waseda University)

~780,0 USD (April 2013-March 2014)

6. Gold Medal-Bahauddin Zakariya University Multan

(ZACHO-2017)

WORK

EXPERIENCE 1. Assistant Professor of Physical/Nano-Chemistry

Sensors and Biosensors Group

Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Biomedical Materials (IRCBM)

COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus, Lahore

(January 05, 2018 to Present)

2. Assistant Professor of Physical/Nano-Chemistry (IPFP)

ICS, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan Pakistan

(July 28, 2016 to July 28, 2017)

3. NIMS-Junior Research Assistant

National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-2-1 Sengen,

Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki-ken 305-0047, Japan.

(April 01, 2013 to March 31, 2016)

http://www.nims.go.jp/eng/hr-development/joint-graduate/index.html

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4. Water Expert

Nippon International corporation for community development (nicco)

Japan

(January 2011 to September 2011)

http://www.kyoto-nicco.org/english/ REFERENCE

➢ PhD Supervisors

Sherif A. El-Safty (Ph.D) Professor & Principle Researcher

National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)

Sengen 1-2-1, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0047 (Japan)

TeL: +81-29-859-2135

E-mail: [email protected]

http://www.nims.go.jp/waseda/en/labo.html

➢ Minghui YANG (杨明辉)

中国科学院宁波材料技术与工程研究所

固体功能材料研究团队

Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology & Engineering

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Solid State Functional Materials Laboratory

email: [email protected]

http://myang.nimte.ac.cn

➢ MS Supervisor

Hafiz Badaruddin Ahmad (Ph.D) Professor

BZU University

Institute of Chemical Sciences, Multan

Email: [email protected]

http://www.kyoto-nicco.org/english/

http://www.nims.go.jp/waseda/en/labo.html

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