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Tampere University
abid.zulfiqar [at] tuni.fi (abid[dot]zulfiqar[at]tuni[dot]fi)
phone number+358504659566

About me

I am a doctoral researcher in the Materials Characterization group, Materials Science and Environmental Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences at the Tampere Microscopy Center. I am currently working on in-situ solid and liquid (scanning) transmission electron microscopy for nanoscale dynamics of solid and liquid samples from materials science.

Mission statement

  • Development of 3D in-situ methods for the nanoscale characterization of the solid and liquid sample.

Research topics

  • Material Synthesis
  • In-Situ Solid and Liquid (Scanning) Transmission Electron Microscopy
  • Electron Tomography
  • Atomic Resolution

Research unit

Materials Science and Environmental Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences

Research fields

  • Chemistry and Material Science
  • Electron Microscopy

Selected publications

  • Effect of Silicon Nitride Substrate Thickness and Surface Treatment on Thermal Transport and Local Heating of Gold Nanoparticles under Electron Beam Irradiation https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.5c07471
  • In Situ TEM Imaging Reveals the Dynamic Interplay Between Attraction, Repulsion and Sequential Attraction-Repulsion in Gold Nanoparticles https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.202406943
  • In situ size dynamics and manipulation of nanoparticle interaction under electron beam irradiation https://doi.org/10.1051/bioconf/202412908012
  • Automated calculations for computing the sample-limited spatial resolution in (scanning) transmission electron microscopy https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultramic.2022.113611
  • Multilayer TiO2 Inverse Opal with Gold Nanoparticles for Enhanced Photocatalytic Activity https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.0c00833
  • Green synthesis, urease inhibitory activity and antioxidant potential of 4-bromo-2-(((2′-chloro-4′-nitrophenyl)imino)methyl)phenol Schiff base https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molstruc.2019.127263