Nanofiber Membranes for Medical, Environmental, and Energy Applications

by Ahmad Fauzi Ismail (Editor), Nidal Hilal (Editor), Juhana Jaafar (Editor)

This book focuses on the nanofiber membrane’s fabrication, characterization, and performance for medical, environment and energy applications. Topics include polymer, inorganic and composite-form nanofiber membrane materials. Top Research teams from varied disciplines and continents outline applied nanofiber membrane fabrication techniques and characterizations. Promising nanofiber membranes for improving and enhancing technologies used in drug delivery, wound healing, tissue engineering, water and wastewater treatment and purification, gas separation and purification, air purification, and fuel cells are discussed along with the likely path forward for commercial usage. Key

300 pages, Hardcover

Published August 8, 2019

About the author

Ahmad Fauzi Ismail is the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research & Innovation), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. He is the Founding Director of Advanced Membrane Technology Research Center (AMTEC), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). Prof. Fauzi graduated with a B.Eng. (Petroleum Engineering) and M.Sc. in (Chemical Engineering) from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). He has awarded the Commonwealth Academic Staff Scholarship to pursue his Ph.D. in Chemical and Process Engineering at University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK, specializing in Membrane Manufacturing Technology. He has completed his PhD study in less than three years. He is the author of over 800 papers in refereed journals and over 50 book chapters. He has authored or co-authored 6 books and edited or co-edited 11 books, 9 patents granted and 21 patents pending. His current Scopus h-index 77 (Citation 26,547) & Web of Science h-index 72 (Citation 23,942). He has supervised 56 PhD and 51 MSc students to completion as well as having supervised 10 post-doctoral fellows. He received more than 130 awards both at National and International level. Among the prestigious awards won are The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) Prize in Engineering Sciences for 2019, Merdeka Award for the Outstanding Scholastic Achievement Category on 4th September 2014, three times Malaysia’s Rising Star Award by Clarivate Analytics (2016, 2017, 2018). He has been awarded Malaysia Young Scientist Award in 2000; ASEAN Young Scientist Award in 2001. He also won National Academic Award (Innovation and Product Commercialization Category) in August 2013 and Malaysian Toray Science and Technology Foundation Award, on 28 November 2013. He has been named as one of Most Cited Researchers in the world by Shanghai Ranking's Global Ranking of Academic in Chemical Engineering 2016. In 2004, The Cambridge Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England has listed him in the 2000 Outstanding Scientist of the 21th Century. In August 2006, he was awarded the British Chevening Royal Society Fellowship and was the only candidate being awarded by The British Council in that year. In August 1999, he was conferred a Gold Medal Discovery Award by UTM which had been presented by the Prime Minister Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohammad.