Mohammad Owais

Ph.D. thesis title: “Thermally conductive and electrically insulative polymer composites”.

Supervisor: Prof. Sergey Abaimov

Mohammad Owais did his graduation with bachelors of science honors, BS-honors (4 years) in “Nanoscience & technology” (Distinction/84%) in 2014 from Preston Institute of Nanoscience & Technology, Preston University, Islamabad, Pakistan. During his research he investigated the role of nanotechnology in application related to industries in sports sector. He had an opportunity to work on a commercial scale project for “fabrication of nanocomposites-based hockey sticks” in an International multi-dimensional industrial firm called Grays of Cambridge in Sialkot, Pakistan.

In 2018 he completed his master’s degree of engineering (ME) in “nanoscience and technology” from national center for nanoscience and technology (NCNST), University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China (Distinction/89%) with the thesis entitled as “Thermally conductive and electrically insulative behavior of hybrid fillers-based epoxy nanocomposites”.  Among several pertinent projects under the supervision of Prof. Zhong Zhang, he majorly focused on fabrication of novel functional nanocomposites that could provide an outstanding choice for high performance thermal management applications together with other lightweight electronic devices. This included enhanced thermal conductivity and electrical resistive characteristics of epoxy nanocomposites with ultra-low loading of hybrid fillers of graphene nanoplatelets and boron nitride nanoparticles for thermal management applications. Other than thermally conductive polymer nano-composites, he got a reasonable exposure of work related to tribology during collaborative research projects with other scientists at NCNST. Furthermore, his research interest include epoxy and PVA based hybrid nanocomposites with fillers of graphene nanoplatelets, short carbon fiber and boron nitride nanoparticles for thermally interface materials and the use of 2-D materials like graphene and carbon nanotubes in polymer matrix systems.

Publications

1. Mohammad Owais, Jun Zhao, Abolhassan Imani, Guorai Wang, Hui Zhang, Zhong Zhang- Synergetic effect of hybrid fillers of boron nitride, graphene nanoplatelets, and short carbon fibers for enhanced thermal conductivity and electrical resistivity of epoxy nanocomposites.  Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing 2019, 117, 11-22
2. Abolhassan Imani, Hui Zhang, Mohammad Owais, Jun Zhao, Pengfei Chu, Jinglei Yang, Zhong Zhang. Significant reduction in wear and friction of epoxy nanocomposites with a hybrid of silica nanoparticles and wax-containing microcapsules. Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing 2018, 107, 607-615
3. Abolhassan Imani, Hui Zhang, Mohammad Owais, Jun Zhao, Feng Gao, Zhong Zhang. Significant effects of filler size on the enhancement of tribological properties. Composites Science and technology (Under review)
4. Hamideh Rezvani Alanagh1, Abolhassan Imani1, Mohammad Owais, Hui Zhang, Zhong Zhang, Zhiyong Tang. Biomineralized Coordinated Metal Polymers in Epoxy for High Mechanical and Tribological Properties. Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing 2019,123, 37-45
5. Mohammad Owais, MH Javed, MZ Akram, WF Paxton, I Akhatov, S Abaimov. Recent Advances in Thermally Conductive Paper-Like Films. ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology 10 033001.

Conferences Papers

1.  Mohammad Owais, Jun Zhao, Abolhassan Imani, Zhong Zhang.” Superior rheological and thermal properties of hybrid graphene and boron nitride epoxy nanocomposites at low filler loading concentration”. 2017.08 The 21th International Conference on Composite Materials Xi’an, 20-25th August 2017 (ICCM21), Xian, China (Oral Presentation)
2. Abolhassan Imani, Hui Zhang, Mohammad Owais, Jun Zhao, Jinglei Yang, and Zhong Zhang. Significant improvements in wear and friction of epoxy composites filled with graphene nanoplatelets and wax-containing microcapsules. 2017.08 21th International Conference on Composite Materials Xi’an, 20-25th August 2017 (ICCM21), Xian, China
3. Mohammad Owais. International symposium on Nanoscience & Technology, National Center of Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST), Beijing, China. (Oral Presentation) 2017.06

• Abolhassan Imani, Hui Zhang, Mohammad Owais, Jun Zhao, Zhong Zhang*. Improved Wear Resistance of Epoxy Composites Filled with Nanofillers. 2016.09. The 10th Asian-Australasian Conference on Composite Materials (ACCM-10) October 16 – 19, 2016, Bexco in Busan, Korea (Oral Presentation)

• Mohammad Owais, HA Butt, A Sulimov, D Ostrizhiniy, SV Lomov, IS Akhatov. CNT/Epoxy-Master batch based Nanocomposites: Thermal and Electrical Properties. 2021 IEEE 21st International Conference on Nanotechnology (NANO), 417-420, Montreal, Canada. (Oral Presentation)

Research Profile Links: 

Google scholar= https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=sLAI980AAAAJ&hl=en

ORCID= https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9506-7731

Research gate= https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mohammad-Owais