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Poster Sessions

Poster Session (I)

 

Al Hamra Convention Center

 

Sunday, February 20, 2011

 

18:30 – 21:00


I.1. Nano-sized Containers in Environmental Remediation

 

Na'il Saleh

United Arab Emirates University, Al-Ain, UAE

E-mail: n.saleh@uaeu.ac.ae

 

I.2. SnxCu1-x Nanoclusters’ Production Using Magnetron Sputtering

 

Ahmad Ayesh          

United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, UAE                  

E-mail: ayesh@uaeu.ac.ae

 

I.3. Mass Spectrometric Investigation of Benzene Cluster containing Metal Cations

 

Edreese Alsharaeh1 and M. Samy El-Shall2

1 Alfaisal University, College of Science and General Studies, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

2 Virginia Commonwealth University, Department of Chemistry, Richmond, VA, USA

E-mail: ealsharaeh@alfaisal.edu

 

I.4. Functionalized Magnetic Nanoparticles: Synthesis and Characterization

 

Suad Rashdan          

University of Bahrain, Manama, Bahrain              

E-mail: suadr@hotmail.com

 

I. 5. Synthesis and Formation Mechanisms of Strontium Ferrite Compounds    

 

Hesham Saleh         

National Research Center, Giza, Egypt

E-mail: hesham1157@yahoo.com 

 

I.6. Zinc Oxide/Zinc Stannate Core/Shell Photoelectrode for Improved Performance of Dye Sensitized Solar Cells

 

Tanujja Bora           

Asian Institute of Technology, Klong Luang, Pathumthani 12120, Thailand

E-mail: st110490@ait.ac.th

 

I.7. Hydrophobic to Superhydrophobic Micro/Nanostructured Zinc Oxide Coated Surfaces   

 

Myo Tay Zar Myint, Sunandan Baruah, Gabor Louis Hornyak, Joydeep Dutta

Asian Institute of Technology, Klong Luang, Pathumthani 12120, Thailand

E-mail: myotayzar.myint@gmail.com         

 

 

I.8. Gold/Zinc Oxide Core/Shell Nanocrystals via Microwave Synthesis

 

Natalie Herring, Khaled AbouZeid, Mona B. Mohamed and M. Samy El-Shall 

Department of Chemistry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Virginia, USA

E-mail: natalieherring@gmail.com

 

I.9. Fabrication of ZnO Nanorods Thin Films for Photoelectrochemistry Cell

 

Mohammad Hafizuddin Haji Jumali      

Kebangsaan University, 43600 UKM Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia

E-mail: hafizhj@ukm.my     

 

I.10. Crystallographic and Optical Properties of Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles Synthesized by Chemical Methods

 

Manel Bouloudenine         

University Centre of Souk/Ahras, Algéria

E-mail: manel_bouloudenine@yahoo.com

 

I.11. Study of Structural and Optical Properties of Pre and Post Annealed Nanostructured ZTO Thin Films           

 

Vipin Jain     

Thin Film and Membrane Science Laboratory     

University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India

E-mail: vipinjain7678@gmail.com 

 

I.12. Hybrid Au-CdSe and Ag-CdSe Nanoflowers and Core-Shell Nanocrystals via “One-Pot” Heterogeneous Nucleation and Growth

 

Khaled AbouZeid

Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA

E-mail: kabouzeid@vcu.edu

 

I.13. Magnetic Doped Semiconductor Nanocrystals: Novel Synthetic Method and Characterization of CdSe Nanocrystals Doped with Co+2 Ions   

 

Ahmed Nabile Emam         

National Research Centre, Giza, Egypt

E-mail: ahmed_nabile_emam@live.com     

 

I.14. Nanoparticle Synthesis and Thin Film Fabrication of ZIFs     

 

Shuai Cao     

University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3QZ, UK

E-mail: cao.globe@gmail.com          

 

I.15. Natural Dye-Sensitized TiO2 Nanoparticles in Photo-Degradation of Organic Contaminants

 

Ahed Zyoud, Iyadd Saaddedin, Nidal Zaatar, Muath H. Hilal and Hikmat S. Hilal

An-Najah N. University, Nablus, West bank, Palestine

E-mail: ahedzyoud@yahoo.com

 

I.16. Enhanced Photocatalytic Degradation of Safranin-O by Heterogeneous Nanoparticles for Environmental Applications     

 

Maged El-Kemary   

Kafrelsheikh University, Kafrelsheikh, Egypt       

E-mail: elkemary@yahoo.com        

 

I.17. Structural Proprieties Study of TiO2 Thin Film

 

Fayçal Bensouici, A. Iratni, N. Arabi

University of Boumerdes, Algeria

E-mail: fbensouici@yahoo.fr           

 

I.18. Ligand-Sensitized Photoluminescence in Bismuth Benzenedicarboxylates

 

A. Thirumurugan and A. K. Cheetham

Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy

University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3QZ, UK

E-mail: ta305@cam.ac.uk

 

I.19. Novel Inorganic Phosphors for Solid State Lighting and Displays

 

Ali Kalaji      

University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3QZ, UK

E-mail: ak603@cam.ac.uk   

 

I.20. Electroluminescence from GaN-polymer Heterojunction       

 

Basant Chitara

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

E-mail: basant@mrc.iisc.ernet.in    

 

I.21. Homochiral Inorganic–Organic Frameworks Constructed both from Achiral and Chiral Ligands

 

Wei Li1, Phillip T.  Barton2,3, Ryan P. Burwood1 and Anthony K. Cheetham1

1 Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, UK

2 Materials Science, University of California Santa Barbara, CA, USA

3 Materials Research Laboratory, University of California Santa Barbara, CA, USA

E-mail: wl276@cam.ac.uk

 

I.22. Transition-Metal Substituted CeO2 as C-H Bond Activation Catalysts

 

Lauren Misch          

University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, USA

E-mail: lmisch@chem.ucsb.edu

 

I.23. Shape Dependent Catalytic Activity of Au-CeO2 Nanocomposite for CO Oxidation

 

Hassan M. A. Hassan1, Abd El Rahman S. Khder2 and M. Samy El-Shall2

1 Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Suez Canal University, Suez, Egypt

2 Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA

E-mail: hmohamed_73@yahoo.com

 

I.24. Structural and Catalytic Properties of Cerium Oxide Nanoparticles Doped with Ruthenium      

 

Alan Derk     

Department of Chemical Engineering

University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, USA

E-mail: derka@engineering.ucsb.edu        

 

I.25. Palladium Nanocatalysis Enhances Synthesis of Novel Coumarines 

 

Ahmed Sadek Mansour     

National Institute of Laser Enhanced Sciences (NILES), Cairo University, Egypt

E-mail: ahmedsadek@egypt-nanotech.com          

 

I.26. Hydrogen Evolution Electocatalysed by Mo and W Cationic Hydrido Carboxylato

 

Ali Alghamdi           

Taibah Universty, Saudi Arabia

E-mail: aghamdi@taibahu.edu.sa  

 

 

I.27. Microwave Synthesis of Pd and Au Nanoparticles Supported Zinc Oxide and Tin Dioxide Nanostructures for CO Oxidation

 

Abdel Rahman S. Khder1,2, Osama A. Fouad1 and M. Samy El-Shall1

1 Department of Chemistry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA

2 Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt  

E-mail: askhder2244@yahoo.com

 

I.28. Synthesis of Nano-Zn-Al LDHs for Capturing Carbon Dioxide

 

Sami Faramawy      

Analysis & Evaluation Department, Egyptian Petroleum Research Institute (EPRI)

Cairo, Egypt  

E-mail: samifaramawy@yahoo.com           

 

I.29. Elaboration and Study of Lead Free Dielectric Ceramics Based on Nb

Modified Barium Strontium Titanate

 

Yang LI 1,2; Wanqiang CAO2 and Brahim ELOUADI1

1. Laboratoire d'Elaboration, Analyse Chimique et Ingénierie des Matériaux (LEACIM),

Université de La Rochelle, avenue Michel Crépeau, 17042 La Rochelle Cedex01, France

2. School of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, China

E-mail: belouadi@univ-lr.fr

 

I.30. Adsorption of Barium, Strontium, Magnesium and Calcium onto Nano-Silica Gel

 

Waled El-Azab        

Egyptian Petroleum Research Institute (EPRI), Cairo, Egypt

E-mail: welazab@yahoo.com          

 

I.31. Synthesis of High Surface Area α-Al2O3 Nanoparticles Using Modified Pechini Method   

 

Tamer Zaki Sharara          

Egyptian Petroleum Research Institute (EPRI), Cairo, Egypt

E-mail: tamerzakisharara@yahoo.com      

 

I.32. Facile synthesis route of different shapes of PDPA/Graphene/Au and PDPA-Au Nanocomposites by One-step Polymerization Method

 

Ali Md Showkat1,2, M. Samy El-Shall1

1 Department of Chemistry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Virginia, USA

2 Ras Al Khaimah Center for Advance Materials (RAK CAM), Ras Al Khaimah, U.A.E.

E-mail: alishowkat07@hotmail.com

 

I.33. Synthesis and Characterization of Graphene-Silver Nanocomposites

 

Soleiman Hisaindee and Muhammad Nawaz

Department of Chemistry, United Arab Emirates University, Al-Ain, UAE

E-mail: soleiman.hisaindee@uaeu.ac.ae

 

I.34. Reversible Chemical Storage of Hydrogen in Few-Layer Graphene  

 

Surya Subrahmanyam Kota          

Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR),

Bangalore, India       

E-mail: subrahmanyam@jncasr.ac.in        

 

I.35. Storing Hydrogen in Pd/Ni-Graphene Nanocomposites and Graphene Oxide

 

Nahla Ismail

National Research Center, Giza, Egypt       

E-mail: nahlaismail24@yahoo.com

 

I.36. Synthesis, Characterization and Evaluation of FePS3 for Hydrogen Storage

 

M. Madian, N. Ismail, A. A. El-Meligi

Center of Excellence for Advanced Science, National Research Center, Cairo, Egypt

E-mail: mahmoud_madian2002@yahoo.com

 


Poster Session (II)

 

Al Hamra Convention Center

 

Monday, February 21, 2011

 

18:30 – 21:00


II.1. Protein Biosensor Based on Gold Nanoparticles Chemisorbed onto a Terphenyldithiol Self-Assembled Monolayer

 

Nathir Al-Rawashdeh1, W. Azzam2, Saeed Bukallah1

1 Department of Chemistry, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates

2 Department of Chemistry, Tafila Technical University, Tafila, Jordan

E-mail: nathir@uaeu.ac.ae  

 

II.2. Enhancement of Bone-Implant Integration Using a Novel Bioactive Ceramic Coating        

 

Aniket, Amy Young, Ian Marriott and Ahmed El-Ghannam

The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA

E-mail: aniket@uncc.edu    

 

II.3. Hydrocortisone Dehydrogenation by Immobilized Bacillus Pumilus E601 Cells Incorporated Into Poly (Vinyl Alcohol) Gels

 

Abeer El-hag

National Research Center, Giza, Egypt       

E-mail: abeerelhag@yahoo.com

 

II.4. Dispersion Efficiency and Stability of Ecofriendly Chitosan Derivatives and Nanoparticles        

 

Yasser Moustafa     

Egyptian Petroleum Research Institute (EPRI), Cairo, Egypt                 

E-mail: ymoustafa12@yahoo.com  

 

II.5. The Interaction of Silver Nanoparticles (Ag NPs) with Virus-bacteriolytic Activity

 

Nagwa Aref  

King Saud University

E-mail: narif@ksu.edu.sa    

 

II.6. Short-Term Effects of Exposure to Exhausted Diesel Gases on Blood Parameters in Guinea Pigs Cavia Porcellus

 

Nahid N. Al-Manea, Ayoub Bazzaz* and Rasheeda Noorwali

Department of Biology, University of Taibah, Al-madina Al-Munawara, KSA

E-mail: ayoubbazzaz@yahoo.co.uk

 

 

II.7. In vitro Assessment of b-FGF Growth Promoting Potency Using Rama-27 Cell Line

 

Fatin O. Bukhari1, Ayoub A. Bazzaz1*, Noorhan A. chelebi2 and Amal Ismael1

1 Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Taibah, Al-madina Al-Munawara, KSA

2 School of Biological Sciences, University of Liverpool, L69 7BZ, UK     

E-mail: ayoubbazzaz@yahoo.co.uk

 

II.8. Stoichiometric Hydroxyapatite (sHAp) as Catalyst for the Synthesis of Secondary Amides from Nitriles and Primary Amines

 

Soleiman Hisaindee*, Yaser E. Greish, Hessa Al-Nuaimi, Mariam Al-Hammadi

Department of Chemistry, College of Science

United Arab Emirates University, Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates

E-mail: y.afifi@uaeu.ac.ae

 

II.9. Influence of Coupling on the Conductivity of Plasmonic Nanoparticles to be used in Printed Electronics Industry

 

Nourhan Mansour

American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt

E-mail: nb_nour_nb@hotmail.com 

 

II.10. Room Temperature Ferromagnetism in Nanostructured Mn-doped Cuprous Oxide Fibers

 

Asar Ahmed

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur     

E-mail: asar.ahmed@gmail.com     

 

II.11. Structure-Property Relations in Y3Al5O12:Ce and CaSc2O4:Ce Yellow Phosphors from Scattering and 27Al/43Ca/45Sc NMR Studies

 

Nathan George, Bradley F. Chmelka, and Ram Seshadri

Chemical Engineering Department

Materials Department and Materials Research Laboratory

University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, USA

E-mail: seshadri@mrl.ucsb.edu

 

II.12. Effect of Chelating Agents on the Electrical Properties of (Al, Mn) Doped LiCoO2

 

Arshad Bhatti

COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan

E-mail: asbhatti@comsats.edu.pk

 

II.13. Electrical Properties of Inorganic-Organic Hybrid Framework Materials

 

Ryan Burwood        

University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

E-mail: rpb33@cam.ac.uk   

 

II.14. Structural and Thermal Analysis of Copper-Doped Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) Films

 

Wadie Sultan

Alquds University, Palestine

E-mail: wadiepal@yahoo.co.uk

 

II.15. Nano-Clays as Filler for Improving the Mechanical or Functional Properties of Polymers

 

Ashraf Elsayed, Mohamed Mohamed      

BRNO University of Technology     

E-mail: ashrafelsayedsaleh@gmail.com    

 

II.16. Nanostructured Mesoporous g-alumina by Template-free Sol-Gel Synthesis: The Effect of Preparative Conditions on the Microstructure and Textural Properties

 

Abbas Khaleel         

United Arab Emirates University, Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates

E-mail: abbask@uaeu.ac.ae

 

II.17. Study of Composite Structural Cu+1 %R With (R=TiC,Ti(C,N) and TiN)

 

Ghedjati Khadoudja1, Boudebane Said2, Hamani Med Seghir2

1 University Centre of Souk/Ahras, Algéria

2 University Badji Mokhtar, Annaba, Algéria

E-mail: Ghedjati@ymail.com

 

II.18. Hybrid Nanostructures of Conducting Polymers and Silicon

 

Farid A. Harraz and Aliaa M. Salem

Advanced Materials Technology Department

Central Metallurgical R&D Institute (CMRDI, Cairo, Egypt

E-mail: fharraz68@yahoo.com

 

II.19. Electronic Spectra of Pure and Doped Photochromic Tungsten Trioxides

 

Sherif M. Eloui, Hesham I. Saleh, Hala T. Handal

Department of Inorganic Chemistry, National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt

E-mail: elodokdok2005@yahoo.com

 

II.20. Optimization of the Wood Fiber Dosage in a Cement Mortar

 

Sebaibi Yahya          

University of Sidi bel Abbes, Algeria

E-mail: sebaibi2004@yahoo.fr       

 

II.21. Corrosion Inhibition of Mild Steel Using Potato Peels Extract

 

Taleb Ibrahim and Youssef Chehade

Department of Chemical Engineering

American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

E-mail: b00031498@aus.edu

 

II.22. Corrosion Inhibition of Mild Steel in 2 M HCl Using Aqueous Extract of Eggplant Peels 

 

Taleb Ibrahim, Mehad Habbab, and Gnei Lubna Marjan

Department of Chemical Engineering

American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

E-.mail: g00030812@aus.edu

 

II.23. Corrosion Inhibition of Mild Steel in 2 M HCl Using Aqueous Extract of Thyme Leaves 

 

Taleb Ibrahim, Hisham Alayan, and Yasmin Al Mowaqet

Department of Chemical Engineering

American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

E-mail: hisham.alayan@gmail.com

 

II.24. Kinetics of TNT Degradation in the Presence Zero Valent Iron Nanocatalyst Catalytic Hydrolysis of TNT in Micellar System

 

Seham Shaban         

Catalysis Department, Egyptian Petroleum Research Institute (EPRI), Cairo, Egypt

E-mail: sehamshaban@yahoo.com

 

II.25. Design of the Electromagnetic Processing of Fiber Gels        

 

Mustapha Merabet

Bio-MSaT and EMP-R&D Lab, Switzerland

E-mail: m.merabet@biomsat.com

 

II.26. Catalyst Driven Modulations in the Morphology, Structural, Electrical and Optical Characteristics of ZnS Nanostructures         

 

Hafeez Muhammad

COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan    

E-mail: mhafeez007@yahoo.com   

 

II.27. Synthesis and Characterization of Cobalt (I) Complexes Containing Nitrogen Rich Ligands as Potential ALD Precursors

 

Oussama El-Kadri  

American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE     

E-mail: oelkadri@aus.edu

           

II.28. Tailoring and Tuning of Flat Band Voltages of TiO2/Si Interfaces for Possible Application for Photocatalysis

 

Awais Ali     

COMSATS Insitute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan     

E-mail: awais_ali989@yahoo.com  

 

II.29. Structural Diversity and Energetics in Anhydrous Lithium Tartrates: Experimental and Computational Studies of Novel Chiral Polymorphs and Their Racemic and Meso Analogues

 

Hamish Yeung

Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK

E-mail: hhmy2@cam.ac.uk

 

II.30. The Chemical Vapor Deposition Synthesis of Ultra-long and Highly Aligned Carbon Nanotubes on Quartz Single Crystal Substrate           

 

El-Hadi Sadki          

United Arab Emirates University, Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates

E-mail: e_sadki@uaeu.ac.ae

 

II.31. Synthetic Nanocomposite Materials Array and Thermosetting Mineral Fillers

 

Amar Irekti 

Boumerdes University

E-mail: irekti@live.fr

 

II.32. Complex Oxide Thin Film Heterostructures and Superlattices for Thermoelectric Applications       

 

Hanns-Ulrich Habermeier           

Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research (MPI-FKF), Stuttgart, Germany

E-mail: huh@fkf.mpg.de

 

II.33. Structural Study of the Active Layer of Discotic Hexabenzocoronene/Perylene Diimide Bulk-heterojunction Photovoltaic Devices

 

M. Al-Hussein1, H. C. Hesse2, J. Weickert2, L. Dössel3, X. Feng3, K. Müllen3, L. Schmidt-Mende2

1 Department of Physics, University of Jordan, Amman 11942, Jordan

2 Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Department of Physics and Center for NanoScience(CeNS), Amalienstr.54, 80799 Munich, Germany

3 Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany

E-mail: m.alhussein@ju.edu.jo

 

II.34. Effects of a Perpendicular Magnetic Field in the Dipolar Heisenberg Model with Dominant Exchange Interaction

 

Abdel-Rahman Abu-Labdeh         

Arab American University, Jenin, Palestine

E-mail: alabdeh@aauj.edu  

 

II.35. Rogue Waves in Nanocarbons Plasma    

 

Waleed Moslem

Department of Physics, Port Said University, Port Said, Egypt

E-mail: wmmoslem@hotmail.com  

 

II.36. Planar and Nonplanar Streaming Quantum Langmuir Waves           

 

Mohamed Kelib1, M. E. Yahia1, W. M. Moslem2,3, and I. M. Azzouz4

1 British University in Egypt (BUE), Faculty of Engineering, El-Shorouk City, Cairo, Egypt

2 Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Port Said University, Port Said, Egypt

3 International Center for Advanced Studies in Physical Sciences, Faculty of Physics & Astronomy, Ruhr University Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany

4 National Institute of Laser Enhanced Sciences (NILES), Cairo University, Egypt

E-mail: mohamed.kelib@bue.edu.eg         

 

II.37. Effect of a Magnetic Field on an Atomic Orbital

 

Sami AL-Jaber         

Department of Physics, An-Najah National University, Nablus, West Bank, Palestine 

E-mail: jaber@najah.edu