Faculty Profile

Dr. Md Saiful Alam

Associate Professor

Contact Information

  • Office Address: Department of Chemistry, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet-3114, Bangladesh
  • Phone: +8801675762491
  • Email: saifulalam-che@sust.edu

Education

  • Ph.D. The University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia
  • M.Sc. in Chemistry, Shahjalal University of Science & Technology, Bangladesh
  • B.Sc. in Chemistry, Shahjalal University of Science & Technology, Bangladesh

Research Interests

  • Surface Chemistry
  • Nucleic acid biosensing
  • Surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy
  • Chemical sensor
  • Electrochemistry

Journal Publications

  • 1. Flow‐Based Synthesis of Gold‐Coated Magnetic Nanoparticles for Magnetoplasmonic Sensing Applications. M Mehdipour, L Gloag, D Hagness, J Lian, MS Alam, X Chen, RD Tilley, John Justin Gooding. Particle & Particle Systems Characterization 39 (8), 2200051 (2022).
  • 2. Insights of temperature dependent catalysis and kinetics of electro-oxidation of nitrite ions on a glassy carbon electrode. MS Alam, MM Rahman, HM Marwani, MA Hasnat. Electrochimica Acta 362, 137102 (2020).
  • 3. An electrochemical analysis of acute contamination of environmental water and restoring of water quality using taro carbon. EUM Aman, MF Islam, TA Chowdhury, MS Alam, M Elias, MN Uddin. Applied Water Science 10, 148 (2020).
  • 4. Enhanced electrocatalytic effects of Pd particles immobilized on GC surface on the nitrite oxidation reactions. MS Alam, MF Shabik, MM Rahman, M del Valle, MA Hasnat. Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry 839, 1-8 (2019)
  • 5. P.P. Koay, Md. Saiful Alam, M.M. Alamb, Mohammad Etesami, Mohammad A. Hasnat*, N. Mohamed, Electrochemical reduction of nitrate at a poly crystalline SnCu modified platinum surface by using an H+ conducting solid polymer in a sandwich type membrane reactor, Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 4(2016)4494–4502.
  • 6. Nahida Tanjila, Asif Rayhan, Md. Saiful Alam, Iqbal A. Siddiquey and Mohammad A. Hasnat*, Electrochemical and spectroscopic insights of interactions between alizarin red S and arsenite ions, RSC Adv., 6(2016)93162-93168.
  • 7. M. A. Hasnat ,* Mohammed M. Rahman , I.A. Siddiquey , S.M. Borhanuddin, M. Saiful Alam, M. H. Rahman and Abdullah M. Asiri, Aggregated Pt–Pd nanoparticles on Nafion membrane for impulsive decomposition of hydrogen peroxide, RSC Advances,2015,5, 46295–46300.
  • 8. Dissimilar catalytic trails of nitrate reduction on Cu-modified Pt surface immobilized on H+ conducting solid polymer, M. A. Hasnat, M. A. Rashed, S. Ben Aoun, S. M. Nizam Uddin, M. Saiful Alam, S. Amertharaj, R. K. Majumder, N. Mohamed, J. Mol. Catal. A: Chem. 2014, 383-384, 243-248.
  • 9. M. Saiful Alam, M.A. Hasnat*,, M.A. Rashed, Md. Rezwan Miah, Saiful S.M. Islam , Electrocatalytic formation of NO2− at a poly crystalline Ag surface in neutral medium, ElectrochimicaActa 76 (2012) 102– 105.
  • 10. M.A. Hasnat*, M. Saiful Alam, M.H. Mahbub-ul Karim, M.A. Rashed, M. Machida, Divergent catalytic behaviors of Pt and Pd films in the cathode of a sandwiched type membrane reactor, Applied Catalysis B 107 (2011) 294– 301.
  • 11. M.A. Hasnat*, M.A. Rashed, M. Saiful Alam, M.Maria Rahman, S. Hossain, Electrocatalytic reduction of NO2-: Platinum Modified Glassy Carbon Electrode, Catalysis Communications 11 (2010) 1085-1089.
  • 12. M.A. Hasnat*, M.A. Rashed, M. Saiful Alam, M.Maria Rahman, S. Hossain, Electrocatalytic reduction of NO2-: Platinum Modified Glassy Carbon Electrode, Catalysis Communications 11 (2010) 1085-1089.

Conference

  • 1. Design And Fabrication of Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopic (SERS) Based Barcoding System for Spatial Transcriptomics. Md. Saiful Alam, Yanfang Wu, Vinicius R Gonçales, Ramanathan Vaidyanathan, Richard D. Tilley, J. Justin Gooding *. Poster presentation at 12th International NanoMedicine Conference, 27-29 June 2022, John Niland Scientia Building, UNSW Sydney, Australia.

Teaching

  • ##Teaching Experience:
  • Assistant Professor (22 June 2016 - Present), Department of Chemistry, SUST, Sylhet-3114, Bangladesh.
  • Lecturer (14 June 2014 – 22 June 2016), Department of Chemistry, SUST, Sylhet-3114, Bangladesh
  • ##Course Taken:
  • Advanced Electrochemistry
  • Electrochemistry
  • Chemical Kinetics & Photochemistry
  • Phase Equilibria, Colloids & Surface Chemistry
  • Physical Chemistry (Practical)
  • General Chemistry (Theory & Practical)

Awards & Recognition

  • SUST Advanced research grant 2015-2016: [Co-Investigator]
  • Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) Research grant 2016-2017 (01 Year): [Principal-Investigator]
  • SUST Promotional research grant 2017-2018(01 Year): [Co-Investigator]
  • SUST Promotional research grant 2018-2019 (01 Year): [Co-Investigator]
  • SUST Advanced research grant 2018-2021 (03 Years): [Co-Investigator]
  • University International Postgraduate Award 2019, UNSW, Sydney
  • Merit scholarship while studying in M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Shahjalal University of Science and Technology