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NIIT UNIVERSITY

Dr Md Abdus Salam Shaik

  • Assistant Professor
  • Mathematics and Basic Sciences
Prof Abdus Shaik

Dr Md Abdus Salam Shaik is an Assistant Professor in the area of Mathematics and Basic Sciences at NIIT University (NU). Abdus Salam has earned his PhD in Chemistry with a major in Materials Chemistry from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. He has received his bachelor’s degree from Calcutta University and completed his MSc degree from Jamia Millia Islamia. He works in the area of synthesizing various carbon nanoparticles and demonstrating their cutting-edge applications in sensing technology. His research also includes the use of ultrafast spectroscopic techniques to study the excited state phenomena involved in the various applications of carbon-based nanomaterials. He has several publications in peer-reviewed journals and has given poster presentations at national as well as international conferences.

Qualifications

  • PhD (Chemistry)
  • MSc (Chemistry)
  • BSc Honours (Chemistry)

Experience

  • Research: 6+ Year
  • Teaching: 3+ Years

Courses taught

  • Chemistry

Research Area(s)

  • Nanomaterials
  • Carbon Dots
  • Sensing
  • Spectroscopy
  • Optical activity

Publications

  • M. A. S. Shaik et al., “White light emission from helically stacked humin-mimic based H-aggregates in heteroatom free carbon dots,” Nanoscale, p., 2023, doi: 10.1039/D3NR04802K
  • M. A. S. Shaik, D. Samanta, M. Shaw, I. Mondal, R. Basu, and A. Pathak, “Fluorescent N, S co-doped carbon dots for tartrazine sensing and mechanistic perception of their radical scavenging activity,” Sensors and Actuators Reports, vol. 4, p. 100127, 2022, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.snr.2022.100127
  • N. Puvvada et al., “Biocompatible fluorescent carbon nanoparticles as nanocarriers for targeted delivery of tamoxifen for regression of Breast carcinoma,” Spectrochim. Acta Part A Mol. Biomol. Spectrosc., vol. 321, p. 124721, 2024, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.saa.2024.124721
  • D. Samanta et al., “Optical Asymmetry and Structural Complexity in Hierarchically Organized Chiral CuO Nanostructures: Insight into the Geometric and Crystallographic Effects on Cooperative Chirality,” Inorg. Chem., vol. 62, no. 41, pp. 16725–16733, Oct. 2023, doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c01861.
  • M. Shaw, D. Samanta, M. A. S. Shaik, R. Basu, D. Das, and A. Pathak, “Ethanol Gas Sensors Using Semi-Hedgehog-like CuO Nanostructures: Studying the Role of Oxygen Vacancies, Unsaturated Cu-Sites, and Hole Accumulation Layer,” ACS Appl. Nano Mater., vol. 6, no. 23, pp. 21839–21852, Dec. 2023, doi: 10.1021/acsanm.3c04024.
  • I. Mondal et al., “‘Click’ Chemistry Assisted Synthesis of Magnetite-CNT Nanohybrid Supported Gold Nanoparticles for Enhanced Catalytic Reduction of 4-Nitrophenol,” ChemistrySelect, vol. 8, no. 47, p. e202303707, Dec. 2023, doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/slct.202303707
  • M. Shaw et al., “Role of Surface Oxygen Vacancies and Oxygen Species on CuO Nanostructured Surfaces in Model Catalytic Oxidation and Reductions: Insight into the Structure–Activity Relationship Toward the Performance,” Inorg. Chem., vol. 61, no. 37, pp. 14568–14581, Sep. 2022, doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.2c01467.
  • I. Mondal et al., “Pyridinic-N-rich carbon dots in IFE-based Turn-off Fluorometric detection of nerve agent Mimic– Diethyl chlorophosphate and multicolor cell imaging,” Spectrochim. Acta Part A Mol. Biomol. Spectrosc., vol. 294, p. 122530, 2023, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.saa.2023.122530.
  • M. K. Mahto et al., “Blue-Emissive Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Dots for Picric Acid Detection: Molecular Fluorescence Quenching Mechanism,” ACS Appl. Nano Mater., vol. 6, no. 9, pp. 8059–8070, May 2023, doi: 10.1021/acsanm.3c01523
  • S. Konar et al., “Carbon Dots as a Fluorescent Probe for Appraising Morphology-Dependent Free-Radical-Scavenging Properties of CuO Nanostructures,” ChemistrySelect, vol. 8, no. 23, p. e202204685, Jun. 2023, doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/slct.202204685.
  • M. Shaw et al., “Solvent-induced switching between static and dynamic fluorescence quenching of N, S Co-doped carbon dots in sensing of Crotonaldehyde: A detailed systematic study,” Opt. Mater. (Amst)., vol. 137, p. 113600, 2023, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optmat.2023.113600
  • S. Konar et al., “N-doped carbon dot as fluorescent probe for detection of cysteamine and multicolor cell imaging,” Sensors Actuators B Chem., vol. 286, pp. 77–85, 2019, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.snb.2019.01.117.

Selected Publications

  • M. A. S. Shaik et al., “White light emission from helically stacked humin-mimic based H-aggregates in heteroatom free carbon dots,” Nanoscale, p., 2023, doi: 10.1039/D3NR04802K *.
  • M. A. S. Shaik, D. Samanta, M. Shaw, I. Mondal, R. Basu, and A. Pathak, “Fluorescent N, S co-doped carbon dots for tartrazine sensing and mechanistic perception of their radical scavenging activity,” Sensors and Actuators Reports, vol. 4, p. 100127, 2022, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.snr.2022.100127
  • D. Samanta et al., “Optical Asymmetry and Structural Complexity in Hierarchically Organized Chiral CuO Nanostructures: Insight into the Geometric and Crystallographic Effects on Cooperative Chirality,” Inorg. Chem., vol. 62, no. 41, pp. 16725–16733, Oct. 2023, doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c01861
  • I. Mondal et al., “Pyridinic-N-rich carbon dots in IFE-based Turn-off Fluorometric detection of nerve agent Mimic– Diethyl chlorophosphate and multicolor cell imaging,” Spectrochim. Acta Part A Mol. Biomol. Spectrosc., vol. 294, p. 122530, 2023, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.saa.2023.122530
  • S. Konar et al., “N-doped carbon dot as fluorescent probe for detection of cysteamine and multicolor cell imaging,” Sensors Actuators B Chem., vol. 286, pp. 77–85, 2019, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.snb.2019.01.117.

Awards & Recognition

  • All India Rank 55 in CSIR-UGC JRF-2017
  • All India Rank 316 in GATE-2018

Professional Activities & Achievements

  • Poster presentation on International Conference of Functional Material on topic of “Selective and sensitive detection of cinnamaldehyde by nitrogen and sulphur co-doped carbon dots: a detailed systematic study” on 29th and 30th January 2020 hosted by Dept. of Material Science, IIT Kharagpur, India.
  • Presented Poster on 13th CRSI-RSC Joint Symposium on February 7, 2019 at IIT Madras on “Carbon Dot as a Unique Fluorescent Probe for Studying the Morphology Dependent Antioxidant Property of CuO Nanostructures”.
  • Presented online poster on ACS Fall-2022 on August 7, 2022, on “Carbon Dot as a Unique Fluorescent Probe for Studying the Morphology Dependent Antioxidant Property of CuO Nanostructures”.
  • Presented poster on ACS Fall-2023 on August 13-17, 2023 at Moscone Centre, San Francisco, USA on “Highly efficient visible light photocatalytic reduction of CO2 by CuO@g-C3N4 nanocomposites”.

Other Interests

  • Cricket
  • Reading Books
  • Travelling

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