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    “You are not a scientist and don’t deserve to be called a scientist unless you have made an original discovery, and you have to make a great discovery to be a great scientist. (Prof. James Watson, 1962 Physiology or Medicine Nobel laureate)".

 


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Hadi Nur's Academic Background

B.Sc. from Institut Teknologi Bandung, Chemistry

M.Eng.(cum laude) from Institut Teknologi Bandung, Materials Engineering 

Ph.D. from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Zeolite Chemistry and Catalysis

Postdoctoral research for 4.5 years at Hokkaido University, Japan and Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Click here for my scientific biography


Hadi Nur’s research focus

  • Heterogeneous catalyst and catalysis (including special topic on Phase Boundary Catalysis, a new approach proposed by Hadi Nur, Shigeru Ikeda and Bunsho Ohtani. Pease refer this topic in the following websites: Wikipedia and www.chemie.de)
  • nanostructured materials,
  • microporous and mesoporous materials,
  • photocatalysis, and
  • polymeric materials.

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    Examples of Hadi Nur's researches in heterogeneous catalysis

    (Click here to know more specific about my research work in the field of heterogeneous catalysis)
    • H. Nur, "Heterogenous Chemocatalysis: Catalysis by Chemical Design", 2006. ISBN: 983-43098-2-1 [20,498 Kb][Click picture to see a larger view of book cover]

       

    • H. Nur*, D. Prasetyoko, Z. Ramli and S. Endud, "Sulfation: a simple method to enhance the catalytic activity of TS-1 in epoxidation of 1-octene with aqueous hydrogen peroxide", Catalysis Communications, 5 (2004) 725-728.
    • H.Nur* and H. Hamdan, "The ionic size of metal atoms in correlation with acidity by the conversion of cyclohexanol over MeAPO-5", Materials Research Bulletin, 36 (2001) 315-322.
    • H. Nur* and H. Hamdan, "Dehydration and dehydrogenation of cyclohexanol over AlPO4-5 based molecular sieves", Reaction Kinetics and Catalysis Letters, 66 (1999) 33-38.

       

       

    • D. Prasetyoko, Z. Ramli, S. Endud and H. Nur*, "TS-1 Loaded with Sulfated Zirconia as Bifunctional Oxidative and Acidic Catalyst for Transformation of 1-Octene to 1,2-Octanediol", Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical, 241 (2005) 118-125.
    • D. Prasetyoko*,Z. Ramli, S. Endud and H. Nur, "Preparation and characterization of bifunctional oxidative and acidic catalysts Nb2O5/TS-1 for synthesis of diols", Materials Chemistry and Physics, 93 (2005) 443-449.

     

    • H. Nur*, Z. Ramli, J. Efendi, A. N. A. Rahman, S. Chandren, L. S. Yuan, "Synergistic role of Lewis and Brönsted acidities in Friedel-Crafts alkylation of resorcinol over gallium-zeolite beta", Catalysis Communications, 12 (2011) 822-825.
    • H.Nur, "A novel design of heterogeneous catalyst for liquid-gas reaction system with Mars-van Krevelen type mechanism", Proceeding of Annual Fundamental Science Seminar 2003 (AFSS 2003), 20-21 May 2003, Puteri Pan Pacific Hotel, Johor Bahru, Malaysia. p. 92-95.

     

    • H. Nur*, I. I. Misnon, L. K. Wei, "Stannic oxide-titanium dioxide coupled semiconductor photocatalyst loaded with polyaniline for enhanced photocatalytic oxidation of 1-octene", International Journal of Photoenergy, International Journal of Photoenergy, vol. 2007, Article ID 98548, 6 pages, 2007. doi:10.1155/2007/98548.

     

     

    • H. Nur, L. K. Wei, "Amino Acids Functionalized Chiral Catalyst", Lambert Academic Publishing, Saarbrücken, Germany, 2011. ISBN: 978-3-8454-0758-6. [Link]
    • H. Nur*, L. K. Wei, S. Endud, "Hydrolyzed octadecyltrichlorosilane functionalized with amino acid as heterogeneous enantioselective catalysts", Reaction Kinetics and Catalysis Letters, 98 (2009) 157-164.


    Hadi Nur’s research projects

  • 2011 - present : Synthesis, characterization and application of amine  surface bonded nanoporous carbon spheres in removal of new emerging pollutants (Research University Grant (GUP) Program - Flagship: Q.J130000.2426.00G05)
  • 2009 - present : Design of heterogeneous catalyst for liquid-gas reaction system using hollow polymer nanospheres (Sciencefund research grant: Vot. 79384).
  • 2009 - present : Structure-catalytic activity relationship heterogeneous micellar catalysis (FRGS research grant: Vot. 78399).
  • 2007 - present : Gold nanoparticles embedded on polymeric layer as novel label for biological diagnostics (Sciencefund research grant: Vot. 79126).
  • 2005 - present : Electrically induced contractile electro-active polymer as catalyst for immiscible liquid-liquid reaction. (TWAS Research Grant: Vot 73323 and Fundamental Research Grant Scheme: Vot. 78070)
  • 2004 - present : Design and application of chiral solid catalysts synthesized by molecular imprinting method with polyaminoacid as chiral pomoter for producing pharmaceutical products. (IRPA Grant: Vot 74284)
  • 2003 - present : Solid state NMR in the study of materials.
  • 1999 - present : Currently, my research is related to the development of a novel catalytic system, termed as 'Phase-boundary catalysis' . A phase-boundary catalyst is a catalyst which is located at the liquid-liquid phase-boundary. It is already demonstrated that this system works for alkene epoxidation without stirring or the addition of a co-solvent to drive liquid-liquid phase transfer. The strategy to make the catalyst is different from those previously reported because we aim at placing the bifunctional particles, containing both hydrophilic and hydrophobic regions, at the phase boundary in order to catalyze the reaction without requiring an emulsion containing the catalyst by stirring. Please click here to download the progress report and to see poster on phase boundary catalysis.
  • 1999 : Direct synthesis of NaA zeolite from rice husk and carboneceous rice husk ash. Please click here to download the progress report.
  • 1996 - 1999 : A large parts of my works relates to metal-substituted aluminophosphates (MeAPO) molecular sieves. These materials with desired and controllable properties, be adsorptive or catalytic have been successfully synthesized and modified for the specific purposes such as dehydration and dehydrogenation of alcohols reactions. In this research, I substitute Al atom in the framework structure with the divalent metal (Me) atoms (Me = Mn, Mg, Co and Zn) and silicon atom to generate catalytic sites. After the substitution was successful, this sites can act as active site to convert the reactant to product in a spesific way. It is clearly demontrated that the conversion of cyclohexanol to cyclohexene (as a model reaction) involve the Me-O-P and Si-O-P sites in the framework of AlPO. This result also suggests that MeAPOs are potential catalysts for dehydrogenation of alcohols. It was demonstrated that MnAPSO-5 was the most active catalyst for dehydration and dehydrogenation reactions of alcohols. Based on our understanding on the fundamental factors in the catalytic activity of these materials, results of this research can open the innovation in applied catalysis and play role in industrial catalytic processess. Please click here to download the progress report.

  • "Synthesis of preferred oriented titanium dioxide materials under strong magnetic field and their photocatalytic activity", Nippon Sheet Glass Foundation for Materials Science and Engineering (USD 6,000). 2012-2013 (Project leader)
  • "Synthesis, characterization and application of amine  surface bonded nanoporous carbon spheres in removal of new emerging pollutants", University Grant Program (GUP) - Flagship:  Q.J130000.2426.00G05 (RM 300,600) 2011-2013 (31/07/2013) (Project leader)
  • "A new approach in control of the catalytic activity and selectivity in oxidation reactions by magnetic field", University Grant (GUP) Program - Tier1: Q.J130000.7126.01H06 (RM 169,000) 2011-2013 (31/03/2013) (Project leader)
  • "Electric field-induced catalysis over electrically conducting surface", Fundamental Research Grant Scheme Vot. 78472 (RM 32,000) 2009-2011 (14/11/2011) (Project leader)
  • "A novel design of heterogeneous catalyst for liquid-gas reaction system using hollow polymer nanospheres", Sciencefund research grant: Vot: 79384 (RM 218,000) 2009-2011 (30/09/2011) (Project leader)
  • "Structure-catalytic activity relationship of hydrolyzed alkylsilane functionalized with amino acid as heterogeneous micellar catalysis", Fundamental Research Grant Scheme: Vot: 78399 (RM 46,000) 2009-2011 (13/08/2011) (Project leader)
  • "Gold nanoparticles embedded on polymeric layer as novel label for biological diagnostics", Sciencefund research grant: Vot: 79126 (RM 184,000) 2007-2009 (Project leader)
  • "Mechanocatalysis with electrically induced contractile electro-active polymer", Fundamental Research Grant Scheme: Vot. 78070 (RM 61,000) 2007-2009 (Project Leader).
  • "Electrically Induced ContractileElectro-Active Polymer as Catalyst for Immiscible Liquid-Liquid Reaction", TWAS Grants in Basic Sciences - Trieste, Italy (USD 5,000) 2005-2007: Vot 73323 (Project Leader).
  • "Design of Chiral Solid Catalysts by Molecular Imprinting Method with Polyaminoacid as Chiral Promoter", IRPA EAR RM 8 research grant (RM 88,000), 2005-2007: Vot 74284 [Final Report] (Project Leader).
  • "Biodiesel production from Jatropha oil using heterogeneous amphiphilic zirconia impregnated with base catalyst" Internal Grant of Universiti Malaysia Pahang (RM 40,000), 2009-2011 (Researcher).
  • "Investigation of the physical changes of irradiated polystyrene nanosphere exposed to electron beam" Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (RM 90,000) 2008-2010 (Researcher)
  • "Nanoparticled Nanoporous Alumina", Fundamental Research Grant Scheme: Vot. 78076 (RM 77,000) 2007-2009 (Researcher).
  • “Chiral Cavity Solid Catalystfor Acid-Base Catalyzed Enantioselective Reaction, SAGA research grant (RM 207,326) 2005-2007 (Researcher).
  • “Microheterogeneous CatalyticSystem for Oxidation Reaction with Aqueous Hydrogen Peroxide”, 2002-2007, IRPA Top-down RM 8 research grant (RM 650,000) (Researcher).
  • “Development of a novel catalytic system for synthesis of useful organic materials” Grant-in-Aid for Encouragement of Young Scientists (No. 99302) from Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture, Japan (Researcher).
  • “Metal-Substituted AlPO4-5 MolecularSieves as Potential Catalysts for Conversion of Alcohols”, IRPA EAR RM 7 research grant, 1995-1998 (Researcher).
  • “Direct Synthesis of NaA ZeoliteFrom Rice Husk and Carboneceous Rice Husk Ash”, IRPA EAR RM 7 research grant, 1995-2000 (Researcher).

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