Ejaz Hussain

Foreign Faculty for Scientific Research

Key Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, No. 620 West Chang ‘an Street, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710119

Personal details

Date of birth: March 1986

Mail: ejaz@snnu.edu.cn

Nationality: Pakistan

Educational background

Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry (2015.09 - 2018.07)

Sate Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. Changchun, P. R. China

Mentor: Prof. Cong Yu

M. Phill in Chemistry (2011 - 2014)

HEJ Research Institute of Chemistry, ICCBS, University of Karachi, Pakistan.

Employment

Foreign Faculty (2024.5 - present): Shaanxi Normal University, P. R. China.

Assistant Professor (2018.11-2024.5); Department of Chemistry, KIU, Gilgit.

Awards

CAS-TWAS Presidents Fellowship for PhD studies (2015-2019).

Start-up Research Grant, Higher Education Pakistan.

Research Interest

Small molecular organic fluorescent probes, Sensors, Crystallography, Analytical Chemistry.

Representative Research Publications

1. Hussain E., Tahir M. H., Dalal A. A., Naeem S., ElAzab I., Polymer design with enhanced crystallization tendency aided by machine learning, Physica B: Condensed Matter, 694, 2024, 416437.
2. Hussain E*., Li Y., Cheng C., Zhou H., Shahzad S A., Ali S, Ismail M., and Yu C., Benzo[ghi]perylene & Coronene as Ratiometric Fluorescence Probes for the Selective Sensing of Nitroaromatic Explosives. Talanta, (Elsevier) 2020, 207, 120316.
3. Hussain E., Cheng C., Li Y., Niu N., Zhou H., Jin X., Kong J., and Yu C., Benzo[ghi]perylene & Coronene as Ratiometric Reversible Optical Oxygen Nano-Sensors. Sensors & Actuators B: Chemical, (Elsevier) 2019, 287, 27-34.
4. Hussain E., Hu Z., Zhou H., He C., Shahzad S. A., and Yu C., Aggregation Enhanced Excimer Emission (AEEE) of Benzo[ghi]perylene and Coronene: Multimode Probes for Facile Monitoring and Direct Visualization of Micelle Transition., Analyst (RSC)., 2018, 143, 4283-4289. 
5. Hussain E., Kumar R., Choudhary M. I., Yousuf S., Crystal Engineering of Naturally Occurring Seselin to Obtain a Co-crystal with Enhanced Antileishmanial Activity, Hirshfeld Surface Analysis and Computational Insight., Crystal Growth and Design (ACS), 2018, 18(8), 4628-4636. 
6. Hussain E., Hu Z., Zhou H., He C., Shahzad S. A., and Yu C., Benzo[ghi]perylene and Coronene: Ratiometric Fluorescent Probes for the Sensing of Microenvironment Changes and Micelle Formation in Aqueous Medium, New Journal of Chemistry (RSC), 2018, 42, 6949-6954. 
7. Hussain E., Zhou H., Shahzad S. A., Na Y., and Yu C., Synthesis of Regioisomerically Pure Piperidine Substituted Perylenebisimide NIR dyes: A Comparative Study of Spectroscopic, Electrochemical and Crystalline Properties., Dyes and Pigments, (Elsevier) 2017, 147, 211-224.
8. Hussain A., Hussain M., Alam M., Yasir M., Khan S. M., Din S., Hussain N., Hussain E*., Biogenic PAG-FeNPs from Prunus armeniaca (Gum) as robust colorimetric sensors for methyl orange detection, Results in Chemistry, (Elsevier), 2024, 101789.
9. Hu Z., Li Y., Hussain E., Zhang Y., Niu N., and Yu C., Sensitive Protease Detection and Inhibitor Screening Based on Black Phosphorous Nanosheets and Perylene Probe, Talanta, (Elsevier) 2019, 197, 270-276.
10. Niu N., Zhou H., Liu. N., Jiang H., Hussain E., Hu Z., and Yu C., A Smart Perylene Derived Photosensitizer for Lysosome-Targeted and Self-Assessed Photodynamic Therapy. Chemical Communication, (RSC) 2019, 55, 1036-1039.

Research Projects

Title: Strategies to Design Fluorescent Probes as Chemo and Bio-sensors for Explosive Sensing and Heparin Detection.  

 PI: Dr. Ejaz Hussain    

 Funded By: HEC (SRGP), Pakistan