Physics · CUI Lahore

Nanomaterials have a huge surface area and unusual electric, catalytic and piezoelectric behaviour. We make them, measure them and put them to work.

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Make it small

We synthesise advanced nanomaterials, characterise their structural, electric, magnetic, electrochemical, biosensing and optical properties, and apply them in devices.

IV measurements (PDF)
Synthesis
Advanced nanomaterials, rare earths included
Properties
Electric, magnetic, optical and electrochemical
Sensing
Biosensors and gas sensors
Devices
Energy storage, memory, MEMS and NEMS

Synthesis

  • Advanced nanomaterials
  • Non-conventional synthesis
  • Rare-earth nanomaterials
  • Planetary ball milling
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What we study

Every technique and application the group works on, filed by stage. Point at one to see the lab; choose one to ask us about it.

  1. Advanced nanomaterialsMake
  2. Non-conventional synthesisMake
  3. Rare-earth nanomaterialsMake
  4. Planetary ball millingMake
  5. Furnace processingMake
  6. Spin coatingMake
  7. Sputter coatingMake
  8. Structural propertiesMeasure
  9. Electric propertiesMeasure
  10. Magnetic propertiesMeasure
  11. ElectrochemistryMeasure
  12. Optical propertiesMeasure
  13. Four-probe resistivityMeasure
  14. AntennasApply
  15. Drug deliveryApply
  16. Cancer treatmentApply
  17. BiosensorsApply
  18. Gas sensorsApply
  19. Energy storage devicesApply
  20. MemristorsApply
  21. Memory devicesApply
  22. MEMS and NEMSApply
  23. LEDsApply
  24. Thermal wallpapersApply

Where it is made

A student at a fume hood in the Nano-Synthesis Laboratory
Fume hood · CUI LahoreSynthesis lab · At work · Own photoPhoto: Department of Physics
A tube furnace with its chiller on a lab bench
Tube furnace · CUI LahoreWith chiller · Synthesis lab · Own photoPhoto: Department of Physics
Two source-measure units of the four-probe IV measurement system
IV system · CUI LahoreFour probe · Composite lab · Own photoPhoto: Department of Physics
A compact sputter coater with its glass chamber
Sputter coater · CUI LahoreEMS 7620 · Composite lab · Own photoPhoto: Department of Physics

Join the group

If you like making things, start here. Nanotechnology has changed what materials can be used for: at the nanometre scale they have a huge surface area and become semiconducting, catalytic or piezoelectric.

We take a material all the way: we synthesise it, measure its structural, electric, magnetic, electrochemical, biosensing and optical properties, and then put it into antennas, medicine and devices.

The work runs in two department labs. The Nano-Synthesis Laboratory has fume hoods, furnaces, a planetary ball mill and a spin coater, with chemicals including rare earths. The Nanocomposite Lab has a potentiostat and galvanostat, a four-probe IV system and a sputter coater.

Pick the area that interests you below and write to us.

Nanotechnology and Nano-Materials Research GroupDepartment of Physics, CUI Lahore

Which area interests you?
  • Synthesise advanced nanomaterials, including rare-earth based ones.
  • Make nanomaterials and films with ball milling, furnaces, spin coating and sputtering.
Email the group about synthesis

nano.group@cuilahore.edu.pk

The group

As listed on the group's earlier people page; topics to be added.

Faculty

Dr. Aamir RazaqDepartment of Physics
Dr. Muhammad AsifDepartment of Physics
Dr. Abdul SattarDepartment of Physics
Dr. Ishrat SultanaDepartment of Physics
Dr. Arslan UsmanDepartment of Physics

Members

Ms. Aneeqa MasoodDepartment of Physics
Mr. M IrfanDepartment of Physics

Publications are on the department's research page