Faculty Profile

Dr. Abdul Ghafar Wattoo
Assistant Professor
Ph.D (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Research Interests

  • Developing nanophotonic structures for energy applications, Photocatalysis, Composite materials  for biomedical applications

Biography

Wattoo did his PhD from University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. He  was awarded ‘Excellent International Student Award’ by the Ningbo Institute of Materials  Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China due to his significant research  contributions and innovations.

  • He is one of the leading researchers and developed his research group in Renewable Energy  Resources, Photocatalysis, and Nanocomposites for Biomedical Applications. Dr. Wattoo has won  and completed one HEC’s Research project and has applied for 2 more research grants. He has  produced 07 MS students and currently supervising 11 MS and PhD students.
  • Dr. Wattoo has published 02 Patents, 01 Book Chapter and 13 research papers in well reputed  International Journals with Impact Factor of around 50 which shows his competency as an active  researcher.

 

Awards and Honors

  • Won UCAS Scholarship for PhD Studies
  • Won Travel Grant to pursue PhD awarded by HEC, Islamabad
  • Won Travel Grant after completion of PhD awarded by HEC, Islamabad
  • Award of Excellent International Student Award by NIMTE, CAS, China
  • Won Research Project (SRGP) of 0.47 M Status: Completed

Publications

  • Abdul Ghafar Wattoo, Robabeh Bagheri, Xuefeng Ding, Bizhang Zheng, Jikang Liu, Xu Cheng,  Lijing Yang, Zhenlun Song, “Template Free Growth of Robustly Stable Nanophotonic Structures:  Broadband Light Superabsorbers”, Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 6 (2018), 8646-8662. (IF= 7.059)
  • Abdul Ghafar Wattoo, Cheng Xu, Lijing Yang, Chenglin Ni, Chao Yu, Xia Nie, Minsheng Yan,  Shoudong Mao, Zhenlun Song, “Design, fabrication and thermal stability of spectrally selective  TiAlN/SiO2 tandem absorber”, Solar Energy, 138 (2016), 1-9. (IF= 4.608)
  • Abdul Ghafar Wattoo, Zhenlun Song, M. Zubair Iqbal, Muhammad Rizwan, Ahmad Saeed,  Sajjad Ahmad, Akbar Ali, Nazir A. Naz, “Effect of zinc concentration on physical properties of  copper oxide (Cu1-xZnxO)”, J. Mater. Sci.: Mater Electron. 26 (2015), 9795-9800. (IF= 2.220)
  • Robabeh Bagheri, Abdul Ghafar Wattoo, Yan Yao, Jikang Liu,Cheng Xu, Masoumeh Moradi Haghighi, Zhenlun Song, “Efficient and stable electrocatalyst for hydrogen evolution reaction  prepared by hybrid technique in surface engineering: Electrochemical and magnetron sputtering  methods”, Int. J. of Hydrogen Energy, 43 (2017) 1-15. (IF= 4.939)
  • Mengxue Bi, Cheng Xu, Abdul Ghafar Wattoo, Robabeh Bagheri, Yanxia Chen, Shoudong Mao, Zhongshan Lv, Lijing Yang, Zhenlun Song, “Corrosion behavior of sintered  CeNdFeB magnets in different solutions”, J. Alloys and Compounds, 703 (2017), 232-241. (IF= 4.650)
  • Zhenya Cao, Xuefeng Ding, Robabeh Bagheri, Abdul Ghafar Wattoo, Cheng Xu, Lijing Yang, Leixin Song, Yongqing Wen, Zhenlun Song, “The deposition, microstructure and properties of Al  protective coatings for NdFeB magnets by multi-arc ion plating”, Vacuum, 142 (2017), 37-44. (IF=2.906)
  • Amjad Islam, Dongdong Zhang, Khurram Usman, Ahmad Hassan Siddique, Abdul Ghafar Wattoo, Hamad Khalid, Xinhua Ouyang, Lian Duan, Ziyi Ge, “Triphenylvinyl anthracene based  emitter for non-doped blue light emitting devices with unusual emission behavior” Optical  Materials, 79 (2018), 8-11. (IF= 2.779)
  • Somayeh Mehrabani, Jitendra Pal Singh, Robabeh Bagheri, Abdul Ghafar Wattoo, Zhenlun Song,  Keun Hwa Chae, Mohammad Mahdi Najafpour; “Nanosized (Ni1-xZnx)Fe2O4 for water oxidation”,  Nanoscale Advances, 1 (2018) 686- 695.
  • Amjad Islam, Khurram Usman, Abdul Ghafar Wattoo, Tauseef Shahid, Hafiz Muhammad Adeel  Sharif, Nadeem Abbas, Ahmad Hassan Siddique, Manan Ahmed, Ziyi Ge, Xinhua Quyang, “Meta Substituted Bipolar Imidazole Based Emitter for Efficient Non-Doped Deep Blue Organic Light  Emitting Devices with a High Electroluminescence” J. Photochemistry & Photobiology, A:  Chemistry, 379 (2019), 72-78. (IF= 3.306)
  • J. Adnan, Arfan. M, Shahid. T, Khan. M. Z, R. Masab, A. H. Ramish, S. Ahtasham, A.G.  Wattoo, Hashim. M, Zahoor. A, M. F. Nasir, “Synthesis of Cadmium Hydroxide Cd(OH)2  Nanostructure via Composite Hydroxide Meditated (CHM) Approach”, J. Nanomaterials and  Nanotechnology, 9 (2019), 1-7. (IF=2.00)
  • Aurang Zeb, Muhammad Arfan, Tauseef Shahid, Taha Bin Masood, Abdul Ghafar  Wattoo, Zhenlun Song, Moazzam Shahzad, Shehzad Munir Ansari, “Tailoring of pyramid  cobalt doped nickel oxide nanostructures by composite-hydroxide-mediated approach”, Materials  Chemistry and Physics, 239 (2020) 122036-122040. (IF=3.408)
  • Nadeem Abbas, Xiande Qin, Shoukat Ali, Guangming Zhu, Jinglian Lu, Fakhr e Alam, Abdul Ghaffar Wattoo, Xierong Zeng, Kunming Gu, Jiaoning Tang, “Direct deposition  of extremely low Interface-contact-resistant Ti2AlC MAX-phase coating on stainless-steel by mid frequency magnetron sputtering Method”, Journal of the European Ceramic Society, 40 (2020) 3338-3342. (IF=4.495).
  • Maria Kanwal, Robabeh Bagheri, Abdul Ghafar Wattoo*, Muhammad Imran Irshad, Rao  Arsalan Khushnood, Zhenlun Song, “Biological Corrosion Inhibitors for Concrete” in  Book entitled “Sustainable Corrosion Inhibitors”, Publisher: Materials Research Forum  LLC (MRF), USA. https://doi.org/10.21741/9781644901052-7

Affiliations

  • Department of Physics, KFUEIT, Rahim Yar Khan.
  • Sports Coordinator, Department of Physics, KFUEIT, Rahim Yar Khan.
  • Media Coordinator, Department of Physics, KFUEIT, Rahim Yar Khan.
  • Member Procurement Committee, Department of Physics, KFUEIT, Rahim Yar Khan.