Faculty Profile

Rehana Pervin

Assistant Professor

Contact Information

  • Office Address: Department of Chemistry, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet-3114, Bangladesh
  • Phone: +8801720373336
  • Email: [email protected], [email protected]

Education

  • PhD Candidate, The University of Melbourne, Australia
  • M.Sc. in Chemistry, Shahjalal University of Science & Technology, Bangladesh
  • B.Sc. in Chemistry, Shahjalal University of Science & Technology, Bangladesh

Research Interests

  • Organic Chemistry
  • Inorganic Chemsitry
  • Photophysical properties of the materials
  • Fluorescent polymer nanoparticles
  • Polymer Chemistry
  • Luminescent Solar Concentrators

Active Research Project

  • 1. Localized donor-emitter FRET pairs in luminescent solar concentrators

Previous Research Project

  • 1. Electron transfer oxidation of organo-cuprates with benzopenone: Synthesis of biaryls
  • 2. Synthesis of biaryl derivatives and their applications

Journal Publications

  • 1. Energy Transfer between CdZnS Quantum Dots and Perylene Diimide Dyes (accepted by Journal of Physical Chemistry C) (2023)
  • 2. Medium effects on the fluorescence of Imide-substituted naphthalene diimides (2022)
  • 3. Electron-transfer oxidation of Organo-cuprates with Benzophenone: Synthesis of Biaryls (2021) (2021)
  • 4. Localized Donor-Emitter FRET Pairs in Luminescent Solar Concentrators (LSCs) (2019)
  • 5. Towards organic fluorescent nano-particles in Luminescent Solar Concentrators (2019)
  • 6. Synthesis of biaryls through electron-transfer oxidation of Organo-Cuprates with Benzil (2017)
  • 7. Organotin (IV) complexes with 2-hydroxynaphthaldehyde-N(4)-ethylthiosemicarbazone: Synthesis, characterization, and in vitro antibacterial activity (2016)
  • 8. Iron(III) Catalyzed Coupling of Aryl Halides: Synthesis of Terphenyl and Biphenyl Derivatives (2013)

Conference

  • 1. The photophysics of Imide-substituted NaphthaleneDiimides: investigation by experiments and theoretical modeling (2022)
  • 2. Synthesis and photophysics of FRET based fluorescent polymer network of PMMA (2022)
  • 3. Cross-linked Fluorescent Polymeric Nanoparticles in Bulk LSC film (2022)

Teaching

  • Assistant Professor; August 2016 - Present, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh
  • Lecturer ; May 2014 - July 2016 Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh
  • # Course Taken:
  • Advanced Chemical Bonding
  • Group Chemistry
  • Nuclear Chemistry
  • Organometallic Chemistry
  • General inorganic chemistry, group chemistry (Practical)

Awards & Recognition

  • GI Feutrill Awards , 2022
  • Melbourne Research Scholarship (MRS)
  • SUST Research Grant 2017-18
  • Merit scholarship while studying in M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Shahjalal University of Science and Technology