Research & Publications | Zain Ul Abideen

Research Focus

My research spans functional nanomaterials, sensing technologies, sustainable materials, and resource recovery:

Sustainable Materials & Waste Valorisation: Transforming waste streams into activated carbon for energy storage and reforming quantum dots for environmental monitoring.
Flame Spray Pyrolysis: Scalable aerosol synthesis of functional oxide nanostructures and porous thick films.
Oxygen-Vacancy Engineering: Modulating defect states in wide-bandgap semiconductors to improve gas sensing performance.
Miniaturized Sensing Devices: Developing sensitive opto-electronic sensor arrays and nano-heterojunctions for gas detection and healthcare diagnostics.

Doctoral Thesis

The Australian National University (ANU)

Flame Synthesized Metal Oxide Nanoparticles and Miniaturized Opto-Electronic Devices for Gas Sensing

Submitted and conferred in 2024 at the Nanotechnology Research Laboratory (ANU), supervised by Prof. Antonio Tricoli.

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Research Profiles

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Publications

Selected Publications

Key journal papers, comprehensive review articles, and roadmap contributions.

journal 2025

Greening of coffee waste through its transformation into clean and structurally stable activated carbon for energy storage applications

Abideen, Z. U., Khayyam Nekouei, R., Hajian-Foroushani, M., Maroufi, S., Sahajwalla, V.

Nanoscale Advances, 7, 7930–7942

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journal 2025

Regenerated and reformed gold and titanium dioxide quantum dots from waste for sustainable and efficient environmental monitoring

Abideen, Z. U., Khayyam Nekouei, R., Hajian Foroushani, M., Maroufi, S., Pahlevani, F., Sahajwalla, V.

Nanoscale, 17, 14368–14380

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review 2024

Emerging trends in metal oxide-based electronic noses for healthcare applications: A review

Abideen, Z. U., Arifeen, W. A., Bandara, N.

Nanoscale, 16, 9259–9283

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review 2024

Advances in flame synthesis of nano-scale architectures for chemical, biomolecular, plasmonic, and light sensing

Abideen, Z. U., Arifeen, W. A., Tricoli, A.

Nanoscale, 16, 7752–7785

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roadmap 2024

Roadmap on Printable Electronic Materials for Next-Generation Sensors (Section 6.6: Halide Perovskite Sensors)

Abideen, Z. U., et al.

Nano Futures, 8, 042001

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journal 2023

Structural Engineering Three-Dimensional Nano-Heterojunction Networks for High-Performance Photochemical Sensing

Abideen, Z. U., Choi, J. G., Yuwono, J. A., Lee, W. J., Murugappan, K., Kumar, P. V., Nisbet, D. R., Phu, T. T., Yoon, M. H., Tricoli, A.

ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 15, 56464–56477

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journal 2023

Oxygen Vacancies Engineering in Thick Semiconductor Films via Deep Ultraviolet Photoactivation for Selective and Sensitive Gas Sensing

Abideen, Z. U., Choi, J. G., Yuwono, J. A., Kiy, A., Kumar, P. V., Murugappan, K., Lee, W. J., Kluth, P., Nisbet, D. R., Phu, T. T., Yoon, M. H., Tricoli, A.

Advanced Electronic Materials, 9, 2200905

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journal 2023

Effects of a high-performance, solution-cast composite electrolyte on the host electrospun polymer membrane for solid-state lithium metal batteries

Arifeen, W. A., Abideen, Z. U., Parakash, N. G., Xiaolong, L., Ko, T. J.

Materials Today Energy, 33, 101270

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journal 2018

Sensing behavior to ppm-level gases and synergistic sensing mechanism in metal-functionalized rGO-loaded ZnO nanofibers

Abideen, Z. U., Kim, J. H., Mirzaei, A., Kim, H. W., Kim, S. S.

Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 255, 1884–1896

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journal 2017

Graphene-loaded tin oxide nanofibers: optimization and sensing performance

Abideen, Z. U., Park, J. Y., Kim, H. W., Kim, S. S.

Nanotechnology, 28(3), 035501

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journal 2015

An ultra-sensitive hydrogen gas sensor using reduced graphene oxide-loaded ZnO nanofibers

Abideen, Z. U., Kim, H. W., Kim, S. S.

Chemical Communications, 51(84), 15418–15421

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Patents

Patent Record

Registered intellectual property in gas sensor technologies.

patent 2017

Gas Sensor for Hydrogen

Sang Sub Kim, Jae-Hun Kim, Hyoun Woo Kim, Zain Ul Abideen

Jurisdiction: Republic of Korea

Korean Patent Publication No: 1020170017267