Education

Ph.D (1967) Surface/Condensed Matter Physics, Cavendish Laboratory, University of  Cambridge, Cambridge, England
MS (1962)- Inorganic/Physical Chemistry, University of Dacca, Dacca, now Bangladesh.
BS (1960)- Chemistry (Honors) with Physics and Mathematics as minors, University of Dacca, Dacca, now Bangladesh.

Research Interests

Current research in Prof Iqbal's group is focused in the following four areas:

1. Scaled up thermal and plasma-enhanced growth and growth mechanisms of single wall carbon nanotubes and in-situ grown nanotube/metal, diamond and polymer composites
2. Chemical and biochemical functionalization of carbon nanotubes using electrochemical and microwave-assisted techniques (in collaboration with Prof. Mitra's group)
3. Hydrogen storage in electrochemically modified carbon nanotubes and biofuel cells with enzyme-functionalized nanotube/porous silicon electrodes
4. Functional nanotubes and nanotube arrays for bio-applications and for surface-enhanced single molecule Raman sensing

Selected Recent Publications

“Vertically Oriented Single Wall Carbon Nanotube/Enzyme on Silicon as Biosensor Electrode”, Y. Wang and Z. Iqbal, J. Minerals, Metals and Materials, 58, 27 (2005).  

 “Microwave-induced Rapid Chemical Functionalization of Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes”, Y. Wang, Z. Iqbal and S. Mitra, Carbon 43, 1015 (2005).

“Hydrogen Adsorption/Storage in Pure and Functionalized Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes”, Y. Wang and Z. Iqbal, Materials Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. 837, 125 (2005).  

“Carbon Nanotubes/Nanofibers and Carbon Fibers”, Z. Iqbal and A. Goyal, in Functional Fillers for Plastics, M. Xanthos (Editor), Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany (2005), pp. 175-192.

“A Parametric Study of High-Quality Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Synthesized by Microwave Plasma-Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition” M.R. Maschmann, P.B. Amama, A. Goyal, Z. Iqbal, T.S. Fisher, R.Gat, Carbon 44, 10 (2006).

“Rapidly Functionalized, Water-Dispersed Carbon Nanotubes at High Concentrations”, Y. Wang, Z. Iqbal and S. Mitra, Jour. Amer. Chem. Soc. 128, 95 (2006).

“Enhanced Yield Strength in Iron Nanocomposite with In-situ Grown Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes”, A. Goyal, D. Wiegand, F.J. Owens and Z. Iqbal, Jour. Mater. Research 21, 2 (2006).