Membrane Technology Research Group

Membrane Technology Research Group
(Group Leader : Dr. Rashid Khan)

Lab Members

PhD Scholars 

Eena Sadaf, Amina Azhar

MS Scholars

Varrisha Khan, Rabia Maqsood, Farheen Saeed, Areba Janat, Osama Khawaja, Kashaf Sohail, Nighat Qurban

Research Focus

Membrane Technologies Applied in Food, Environment and Energy

Greener Technologies for Microbial Biofilm Regulations

Biopolymer Synthesis & Applications

Material Chemistry, Biomaterials

Bioremediations, Climate Change & Environment

Selected Publications

Surface grafting of reverse osmosis membrane with chlorhexidine using biopolymer alginate dialdehyde as a facile green platform for in-situ biofouling control. (ACS Applied & Material Interface) (2020) IF: 10.38, Q1

Grafting D-amino acid onto MF polyamide nylon membrane for biofouling control using biopolymer alginate dialdehyde as a versatile platform (Separation and Purification Technology, (2020) IF: 9.13, Q1

Facile and Green Fabrication of Cation Exchange Membrane Adsorber Capacity for Lysozyme Purification. Journal of Chromatography A, (2017), IF: 4.6, Q1

Biofouling control in membrane filtration system by newly isolated novel quorum quenching bacterium, Bacillus methylotrophicus sp. WY RSC Adv., (2016) IF: 4.036, Q2

Electrospun PAN-based graphene/SnO2 carbon nanofibers as anodic electrocatalysis microfiltration membrane for sulfamethoxazole degradation (Journal of Membrane Science) (2020) IF: 10.53, Q1

Improving lactic acid productivity from wheat straw hydrolysates by membrane integrated repeated batch fermentation under non-sterilized conditions Bioresource Technology (2014) IF: 11.88, Q1