Faculty Profile

Dr. Muhammad Saqib
Assistant Professor
PhD, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS) Beijing China, Post Doctorate, SUSTech (China), Post Doctorate, CIAC, CAS (China)
Research Interests

  • Chemiluminescence and Electrochemiluminescence
  • Luminescent and Electrochemical Biosensors (including biomarkers detection, heavy metal ions/dyes detection, drugs/pharmaceutical analysis, immunoassays and so on)
  • Analytical/Electroanalytical Chemistry, Analytical Method Development, Bipolar Electrochemistry, Flow Injection Analysis
  • Optical Microscopy, Analytical & Energy Applications of Micro-/Nanomaterials, Antioxidants, Biodiesel

Biography

Dr. Muhammad Saqib received his M.Sc. (Analytical Chemistry) and M.Phil. (Analytical/Inorganic Chemistry) degrees from University of Gujrat and University of Sargodha, respectively. He received his Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing (under supervision of Prof. Guobao Xu at the State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences), China. He then worked as an Assistant Professor at theSulaiman Bin Abdullah Aba Al-Khail-Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Basic Science (SA-CIRBS), International Islamic University Islamabad, Pakistan. He finished his 1st postdoctoral research in Prof. Yongdong Jin’s lab at the Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CIAC, CAS) followed by a 2nd postdoctoral work with Prof. Rui Hao at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) China. During his career, he has won various prestigious fellowships including CAS-TWAS President’s Fellowship for PhD and CAS President's International Fellowship Initiative (PIFI) for Post Doc.He has published >35 research papers in impact factor (IF) research journals of international repute with accumulative IF of above 225 (2020 JCR IF). He has applied for >02 International Patents. He has won prestigious National Natural Science Fund of China, Research Fund for Young International Scientists as a Principal Investigator (PI). He has attended significant number of conferences, summer camps, symposium and workshops about his field.

Awards and Honors

  • Post-doctorate Fellowship of Southern University of Science and Technology (2020-2022)
  • CAS President's International Fellowship Initiative (PIFI) (Category: Postdoctoral Researchers) (2018-2020)
  • CAS-TWAS President’s Fellowship for PhD studies (2013-2017)
  • Chinese Government Scholarship for PhD studies (2013-2017). (Not availed)
  • 1st Position – Academic Report Competition International College-UCAS (2015)
  • 2nd Position – Group Competition International College-UCAS (2015)
  • National Natural Science Fund of China, Research Fund for Young International Scientists as a Principal Investigator (2021-2022)

Publications

#Co-first author/Equal contribution, *Corresponding author, IF impact factor (2020 JCR IF)

  • Muhammad Saqib, Yunshan Fan, Rui Hao*, Bo Zhang. Optical imaging of nanoscale electrochemical interfaces in energy applications. Nano Energy, 2021, 90 (Part A), 106539. (IF 17.881)
  • Muhammad Saqib, Liming Qi, Pan Hui, Anaclet Nsabimana, Mohamed Ibrahim Halawa, Wei Zhang*, Guobao Xu*. Development of a new luminol-N-hydroxyphthalimide CL system for the highly selective and sensitive detection of superoxide dismutase, uric acid and Co2+, Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 2018, 99, 519-524. (IF 10.618)
  • Muhammad Saqib, Shahida Bashir, Haijuan Li, Chuanping Li, Shanshan Wang, Yongdong Jin*. Efficient electrogenerated chemiluminescence of tris(2,2′-bipyridine)ruthenium(II) with N-hydroxysulfosuccinimide as a coreactant for selective and sensitive detection of L-proline and mercury (II). Analytical Chemistry, 2019, 91 (19), 12517-12524. (IF 6.986)
  • Muhammad Saqib, Shahida Bashir, Haijuan Li, Shanshan Wang, Yongdong Jin*. Lucigenin-tris(2-carboxyethyl)phosphine chemiluminescence for selective and sensitive detection of TCEP, superoxide dismutase, mercury (II), and dopamine. Analytical Chemistry, 2019, 91 (4), 3070-3077. (IF 6.986)
  • Muhammad Saqib, Baohua Lou, Mohamed Ibrahim Halawa, Shimeles Addisu Kitte, Zhongyuan Liu, Guobao Xu*. Chemiluminescence of lucigenin-allantoin and its application for the detection of allantoin. Analytical Chemistry, 2017, 89 (3), 1863–1869. (IF 6.986)
  • Muhammad Saqib, Shahida Bashir, Shimeles Addisu Kitte, Haijuan Li, Yongdong Jin*. Acridine orange as a coreactant for efficient electrogenerated chemiluminescence of tris(2,2′-bipyridine)ruthenium(II) and its use for selective and sensitive detection of thiourea. Chemical Communications, 2020, 56 (38), 5154-5157. (IF 6.222)
  • Muhammad Saqib, Shahida Bashir, Shimeles Addisu Kitte, Haijuan Li, Yongdong Jin*. High efficiency cathodic electrochemiluminescence of the tris(2,2′-bipyridine)ruthenium(II)/N-hydroxycompound system and its use for sensitive “turn-on” detection of mercury(II) and methyl blue. Chemical Communications, 2020, 56 (12), 1827-1830. (IF 6.222)
  • Muhammad Saqib, Wenyue Gao, Jianping Lai, Liming Qi, Saadat Majeed, MRH Gilani, Guobao Xu*. Hydroxylamine-O-sulfonic acid as an efficient coreactant for luminol chemiluminescence for selective and sensitive detection. Chemical Communications, 2015, 51 (30), 6536-6539. (IF 6.222)
  • Muhammad Saqib, Jianping Lai, Jianming Zhao, Suping Li, Guobao Xu*. Bipolar electrochemical approach with a thin layer of supporting electrolyte towards the growth of self-organizing TiO2 nanotubes. ChemElectroChem, 2016, 3 (3), 360-365. (Inside Front Cover + Cover Profile). (IF 4.590)
  • Muhammad Saqib*, Shahida Bashir, Sajjad Ali, Rui Hao.Highly selective and sensitive detection of mercury (II) and dopamine based on the efficient electrochemiluminescence of Ru(bpy)32+ with acridine orange as a coreactant. Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, 2022, 906, 115896. (IF 4.464)
  • Muhammad Saqib, Suping Li, Wenyue Gao, Saadat Majeed, Liming Qi, Zhongyuan Liu, Guobao Xu*. N-hydroxysuccinimide as an effective chemiluminescence coreactant for highly selective and sensitive detection. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, 2016, 408 (30), 8851-8857. (IF 4.142)
  • Hongcheng Yang#, Muhammad Saqib#, Rui Hao*. Single-entity detection with TEM-fabricated nanopores. Frontiers in Chemistry, 2021, 9 (305), 664820. (IF 5.221)
  • Xianqi Ye#, Muhammad Saqib#, Jiaxin Mao, Guopeng Li, Rui Hao*. Spatiotemporally super-resolved dendrites nucleation and early-stage growth dynamics in Zinc-ion batteries. Cell Reports Physical Science, 2021, 2 (5), 100420.
  • Muhammad Saqib*, Shahid Iqbal, Asif Mahmood, Raheel Akram. Theoretical investigation for exploring the antioxidant potential of chlorogenic acid: a density functional theory study. International Journal of Food Properties, 2015, 19 (4), 745-751. (IF 2.727)
  • Muhammad Saqib, Shahid Iqbal, Sumaira Naeem, Asif Mahmood*. DFT for exploring the antioxidant potential of homogentisic and orsellinic acids. Pakistan Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2013, 26 (6), 1209-1214. (IF 0.684)
  • Muhammad Saqib, Muhammad Waseem Mumtaz, Asif Mahmood*, Muhammad Imran Abdullah. Optimized biodiesel production and environmental assessment of produced biodiesel. Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering, 2012, 17 (3), 617-623. (IF 2.836)
  • Jianping Lai, Suping Li, Fengxia Wu, Muhammad Saqib, Rafael Luque*, Guobao Xu*. Unprecedented metal-free 3D porous carbonaceous electrodes for full water splitting. Energy & Environmental Science, 2016, 9 (4), 1210-1214. (Selected as Front Cover). (IF 38.532)
  • Kateryna Muzyka, Muhammad Saqib, Zhongyuan Liu, Wei Zhang*, Guobao Xu*. Progress and challenges in electrochemiluminescent aptasensors. Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 2017, 92, 241-258. (IF 10.618)
  • Mohamed Ibrahim Halawa, Muhammad Saqib, Wenyue Gao, Liming Qi, Wei Zhang*, Guobao Xu*. Pyridoxal 5'-phosphate assay based on lucigenin chemiluminescence. Microchimica Acta, 2018, 185, 381-388. (IF 5.833)
  • Wenyue Gao, Muhammad Saqib, Liming Qi, Wei Zhang*, Guobao Xu*. Recent advances in electrochemiluminescence devices for point-of-care testing. Current Opinion in Electrochemistry, 2017, 3, 4-10. (IF 7.271)
  • Mohamed Ibrahim Halawa, Wenyue Gao, Muhammad Saqib, Shimeles Addisu Kitte, Guobao Xu*. Sensitive detection of alkaline phosphatase by switching on gold nanoclusters fluorescence quenched by pyridoxal phosphate. Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 2017, 95, 8-14. (IF 10.618)
  • Shanshan Wang, Chuanping Li, Muhammad Saqib, Guohua Qi, Chunhua Ge, Haijuan Li, Yongdong Jin*. Quasi-photonic crystal light-scattering signal amplification of SiO2-nanomembrane for ultrasensitive electrochemiluminescence detection of cardiac troponin I. Analytical Chemistry, 2020, 92 (1), 845-852. (IF 6.986)
  • Saima Hanif, Peter John, Wenyue Gao, Muhammad Saqib, Liming Qi, Guobao Xu*. Chemiluminescence of creatinine/H2O2/Co2+ and its application for selective creatinine detection. Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 2016, 75, 347-351. (IF 10.618)
  • Shimeles Addisu Kitte, Terefe Tafese, Chen Xu, Muhammad Saqib, Haijuan Li, Yongdong Jin*. Plasmon-enhanced quantum dots electrochemiluminescence aptasensor for selective and sensitive detection of cardiac troponin I. Talanta, 2021, 221, 121674. (IF 6.057)
  • Chuanping Li, Shanshan Wang, Haijuan Li, Muhammad Saqib, Chen Xu, Yongdong Jin*. Nanoengineered metasurface immunosensor with over 1000-fold electrochemiluminescence enhancement for ultra-sensitive bioassay. iScience, 2019, 17, 267-276. (IF 5.458)
  • Shanshan Wang, Yangyang Zhao, Minmin Wang, Haijuan Li*, Muhammad Saqib, Chunhua Ge, Xiangdong Zhang, Yongdong Jin*. Enhancing luminol electrochemiluminescence by combined use of cobalt-based MOF and silver nanoparticles and its application in ultrasensitive detection of cardiac troponin I. Analytical Chemistry, 2019, 91 (4), 3048-3054. (IF 6.986)
  • Suping Li, Jianping Lai, Liming Qi, Muhammad Saqib, Saadat Majeed, Yuejing Tong*, Guobao Xu*. Sensitive and selective colorimetric detection of Hg2+ by a Hg2+ induced dual signal amplification strategy based on cascade-type catalytic reactions. Analyst, 2016, 141 (8), 2362-2366. (IF 4.616)
  • Zhongyuan Liu, Wei Zhang, Wenjing Qi, Wenyue Gao, Saima Hanif, Muhammad Saqib, Guobao Xu*. Label-free signal-on ATP aptasensor based on the remarkable quenching of tris(2,2'-bipyridine)ruthenium(ii) electrochemiluminescence by single-walled carbon nanohorn. Chemical Communications, 2015, 51 (20), 4256-4258. (IF 6.222)
  • Saadat Majeed, Dan Li, Wenyue Gao, Jianping Lai, Liming Qi, Muhammad Saqib, Guobao Xu*. Aqueous synthesis of tunable highly photoluminescent CdTe quantum dots using rongalite and bioimaging application. Chinese Journal of Analytical Chemistry, 2015, 43 (12), e101–e107. (IF 1.134)
  • Muhammad Saqib*, Asif Mahmood, Raheel Akram, Bilal Khalid, Saad Afzal, Ghulam Mustafa Kamal. Density functional theory for exploring the structural characteristics and their effects on the antioxidant properties. Journal of Pharmaceutical and Applied Chemistry, 2015, 1 (2), 65-71.
  • Raheel Akram, Muhammad Saqib*, Bilal Khalid, Anila Arshad. Effects of extraction media and techniques on the antioxidant properties and recovery of phenolics from roots of glycyrrhiza glabra. Journal of Molecular Pathophysiology, 2015, 4 (4), 138-143.
  • Asif Mahmood*, Muhammad Saqib, Muhammad Ali, Muhammad Imran Abdullah, Bilal Khalid. Theoretical investigation for the designing of novel antioxidants. Canadian Journal of Chemistry, 2013, 91 (2), 126-130. (IF 1.118)

Affiliations

  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
  • The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS)