CENIMAT|i3N, Materials Science Department from FCT NOVA

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Area of Research: Nanomaterials, Energy storage devices, super capacitors, functional textiles, and coatings, solar cells

Short bio

Dr. Amjid Rafique works in the field of synthesis of nanomaterials, energy storage devices, functionalization of textile substrate energy storage and harvesting, characterization and applications. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow in CENIMAT|i3N from NOVA School of Science and Technology. He is working on project All-FIBRE that aims at the development of fiber-shaped photovoltaic storage devices able to harvest and store energy to supply electronic textiles while keeping wearable, lightweight and flexibility characteristics. He has completed his Ph.D. from Politecnico di Torino Italy and also worked as research associate in the same university. His research work is focused on functional nanomaterial, composite nanomaterial and surface modification of textile substrates exploiting functional nanomaterials for sensing and flexible energy storage devices. He has worked on variety of nanomaterials including Electrospun Fibers, Metal/Metal Oxides, Carbon Based Nanomaterials( activated carbon, graphene and reduce Graphene oxides, Polymeric Materials, and composites. He has published 5 research papers in high impact factor international journals. He has also received two research awards Politecnico di Torino Italy.

Main publications

1. Amjid Rafique,Usman Zubair,Mara Serrapede , Marco Fontana , Stefano Bianco , Paola Rivolo, Candido F. Pirriand Andrea Lamberti, Binder Free and Flexible Asymmetric Supercapacitor Exploiting Mn3O4 and MoS2 Nanoflakes on Carbon Fibers, Nanomaterials 2020, 10, 1084
2. Mara Serrapede, Amjid Rafique, Marco Fontana, Zine Abderaouf, Paola Rivolo, Stefano Bianco, Djamel Hamana, Elena Tresso, Andrea Lamberti, Fiber-shaped asymmetric supercapacitor exploiting rGO/Fe₂O₃ aerogel and electrodeposited MnOx nanosheets on carbon fibers, In Journal of Carbon, 2018.
3. Amjid Rafique, Marco Fontana, Stefano Bianco, Fabrizio Pirri, Andrea Lamberti, Flexible wire-based electrodes exploiting carbon/ZnO nanocomposite for wearable supercapacitors, In International Journal of Ionics, page. 1-9, 2017.
4. Amjid Rafique, Andrea Massa, Marco Fontana, Stefano Bianco, Angelica Chiodoni, Candido F. Pirri, Simelys Hernández , and Andrea Lamberti  Highly Uniform Anodically Deposited Film of MnO₂ Nanoflakes on Carbon Fibers for Flexible and Wearable Fiber-Shaped Supercapacitors, 2017, In ACS Material and Interface.
5. A. Zine, D. Hamana, L. Chetibi, A. Rafique , M. Fontana , S. Achour , A. Lamberti and N. Kebaili Enhancement of specific capacitance using hematite nanoparticles produced by green synthesis Journal of New Technology and Materials, 2019.