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Academic Qualification
- Ph.D in Technology and Industrial Develoment Meterial Science and Engineering - Doctor of Philosophy, Universiti Malaya (UM)
- Master of Science (Thin Film Technology) - Masters Degree, Universiti Malaya (UM)
- Bachelor in Physics - Bachelor Degree, Universiti Malaya (UM)
- Pusat Asasi Sains - Certificate, Universiti Malaya (UM)
Raihan Bin Othman (Assoc. Prof. Dr.)
Associate Professor
IIUM Gombak Campus
KULLIYYAH OF ENGINEERING
raihan@iium.edu.my
5840
Expert Profile
Raihan Othman completed his tertiary studies at the University of Malaya. He did his BSc in Physics. His MSc project was on plasma enhanced chemical vapour deposition (PECVD) silicon nitride. He later worked on zinc-air cell for his Ph.D. He joined IIUM in 1997 as a matriculation teacher and currently, is an academic staff of the Department of Science in Engineering, Kulliyyah of Engineering, IIUM.
He served the faculty as the Deputy Dean (Student Affairs) from 2003 until 2008. He is currently the Head, Department of Science in Engineering. Dr. Raihan and his co-workers have patented their innovative work on MCM-41 as separator for electrochemical cells, and, Zn/MCM-41/air cell as humidity sensor.
He served the faculty as the Deputy Dean (Student Affairs) from 2003 until 2008. He is currently the Head, Department of Science in Engineering. Dr. Raihan and his co-workers have patented their innovative work on MCM-41 as separator for electrochemical cells, and, Zn/MCM-41/air cell as humidity sensor.
Area of Specialisation
- Natural Science ~ Physical Sciences ~ Condensed Matter Physics ~ Thin Film - Thin film coating (Plasma enhanced chemical vapour deposition, PECVD ; chemical bath electrodeposition)
- Natural Science ~ Material Sciences ~ Electronic Materials ~ Electrochemical Materials - Electrochemical power sources (metal-air system ; biofuel cells)
Professional Membership
- 2006 - 2007: Member of Profesional Body / Association, The Electrochemical Society, USA
- 2009 - 2010: Member of Profesional Body / Association, The Electrochemical Society, USA
- 2011: Member of Profesional Body / Association, Malaysian Society for Engineering and Technology
- 2011 - 2012: Member of Profesional Body / Association, The Electrochemical Society, USA
Teaching Responsibilities
ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS 2 | 2023/2024 |
Research Projects
Completed
2019 - 2022 | Conversion of Agrowaste into Electricity via Microbial Electrochemical System |
2019 - 2022 | Highly Efficient Li-Ion Battery Recycling with capacity-sorted optimisation for secondary energy storage system |
2019 - 2023 | Chitosan-based biocompatible piezoelectric thin film from shrimp shell waste for self-powered cardiac pacemaker |
2019 - 2023 | Enhanced static and dynamic mechanical performance of Zirconia-Toughened Alumina infused with empty fruit bunch-derived solid carbon via chemical vapor infiltration technique for dual-use technologies |
2019 - 2023 | Structural modifications of agrowaste-derived disordered carbon via pyrolysis method for use in dual-carbon lithium batteries |
2018 - 2022 | Development of Printed Power Sources on Flexible Substrates |
2017 - 2020 | Development of Flexible Piezoelectric Energy Harvester for Wearable Devices and Development of Printable, Flexible, Rechargeable Zinc Batteries for Powered Smart Card Application |
2017 - 2020 | Impacts of the photoactive layer's properties on the performance of organic solar cells and photodiodes based on a novel model |
2015 - 2018 | Novel Theoretical Model of an electrochemical nanobiosensor for rapid detection of dengue |
2014 - 2017 | Multipliers in the Framework of Topological Algebra |
2014 - 2018 | A Powerful Efficient Modification of Harmonic Balance Method for Solving Nonlinear Oscillatory Problems in Dynamical Systems |
2014 - 2018 | Spectral Expansions and Application of Mathematical Principles on Electromagnetic Prospecting Method |
2013 - 2014 | The Effect of Leadership Training on the Character Development of CFS Students |
2013 - 2016 | A Novel Phanaerochaete Fungal Biofuel Cell For Bioelectricity Generation |
2013 - 2018 | Ergodic Theorems for L1-L~ Contractions in Banach-Kantorovich Lp-lattices |
2012 - 2015 | Multicast Network Security using Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) |
2012 - 2016 | Evaluation of the Effect of Water Vapor on the Adsoption of Oxygen in Ferritic Fe-Cr Alloy at 1073 K |
2012 - 2015 | Development of Multi-Functional Inorganic Separator for Electrochemical Cells |
2011 - 2013 | Bioactive Ceramic Matrix Nanocomposites for High Performance Load Bearing Bone Substitute |
2010 - 2011 | Studies on Bipolar Zinc-Air Cell Employing MCM-41Gel Electrolyte |
2010 - 2014 | In-Vivo Biofuel Cell |
2010 - 2013 | Fundamental study on the relationship between schottky barrier and dissolved hydrogen in metal surface and its' effect to accelerate the oxygen transport along metal-Cr2O3 heterojunction during high temperature oxidation of ferritic Fe-Cr alloy at 1073K |
2010 - 2012 | Surface oxygen potential on growing oxide scale of Fe-Cr-Ni alloys at 1073 in dry and humid conditions |
2010 - 2012 | The Effects of Water Vapor on High Temperature Oxidation of Fe-Cr-Ni Alloy at 1073K. |
2010 - 2014 | Computer Aided Designing of Pyranose 2-Oxidase (P20x) |
2010 - 2012 | Harvesting Green Energy From Microbial Zine-Air Electrochemical System |
2010 - 2012 | Green Energy Generation from Rhizopus-Gleophyllum Biofuel Cell |
2009 - 2012 | An Enzymatic Biofuel Cell Utilizing Glucose Oxidase and Laccase |
2009 - 2012 | Development of Inorganic Membrane for Microbattery Applications |
2009 - 2011 | Synthesis and Characterization of Photovoltic(PV) Cells |
2009 - 2011 | Electrodeposition of Zinc from Aqueous Chloride Bath Use in Zinc Batteries |
2009 - 2011 | Development of Enzymatic Zinc-Air Cell Employing Laccase as the Oxygen Reduction Catalyst |
2006 - 2010 | Intrinsic Localized Vectorial Mode in BEC and Waveguide Systems with Cubic-Quintic Nonlinearity |
2006 - 2011 | Low Temperature Oxygen Ion Conductors for Use in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells |
2006 - 2009 | Development Of Rechargeable Zinc-Air Batteries Employing Gelled Electrolyte |
On-Going
2022 - Present | Effect of Morphological Modification on Thermoelectric Cell of Electrodeposited Intrinsic CuO-ZnO |
2021 - Present | Enhanced Performance of Stretchable Body Coupled Antenna with High Permittivity Barium Titanate - Silicone Elastomer Composite for Biomedical Microwave Sensing and Imaging applications |
2020 - Present | Elucidating Electrochemical Behaviours of Novel Molybdenum Nitride towards Carbon Dioxide Reduction |
2020 - Present | Investigation of a Hybrid Piezoelectric and Radio Frequency (RF) Energy Harvester using Chitosan based Piezoelectric Thin Film for Self-Powered Health Care Wireless Sensors Network (HC-WSN) |
2019 - Present | Development of high temperature corrosion protection of metallic alloys |
2018 - Present | Indigenous scientific and technical know-how of Production of writing ink used in Malay Manuscripts. |
2013 - Present | Grounding of the Education Model based on Branching of Islamic Knowledge into Engineering/Technical Education |