Dr Manzar Sohail
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Room: 500.2202
Phone: +61 8 9266 9758
Email: M.Sohail@curtin.edu.au
Fields of Interest
Electrochemistry, Inorganic Chemistry
Selected Publications
- Manzar Sohail, Samuel.B. Adeloju, Electroimmobilization of nitrate reductase and nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide into polypyrrole films for potentiometric detection of nitrate, Sens. Actuators B: Chem. 133 (1), 2008, 333.
- Manzar Sohail, Samuel.B. Adeloju , "Electrochemical Nanocomposite Biosensor System", Patent, Application No. 2007906759.
- Manzar Sohail, Samuel.B. Adeloju, Choice of alternate redox-mediators for potentiometric biosensing of nitrate with nitrate reductase, "Electroanalysis" 21 (12),2009, 1411.
- Manzar Sohail, Kieran C. Molloy, Muhammad Mazhar, G. Kociok-Kohn and M. Kaleem Khosa "Bis[2-(dimethylamino)ethanol- 2N,O](pentane-2,4-dionato- 2O,O')nickel(II) chloride" Acta Crystallographica E 61, 2005, m2001.
- Masood Parvez, Kaleem M. Khosa, Muhammad Mazhar, Saqib Ali and Manzar Sohail "3-Germyl-3,3-dimethylpropionic acid derivatives" Acta Crystallographica C 61,2005, m51.
- Manzar Sohail, Kieran C. Molloy, Muhammad Mazhar,G. Kociok-Kohn and M. Kaleem Khosa "Tris(ethylenediamine)nickel(II) tetraiodocadmate(II)" Acta Crystallographica E 62, 2005, m394.
- Maliha Asma, Amin Badshah, Saqib Ali, Manzar Sohail, Mohammed Fettouhi, Saeed Ahmad, Abdul Malik, "Synthesis, characterization of mixed ligand palladium(II) complexesof triphenylphosphine and anilines and their enzyme inhibition studiesagainst b-glucuronidase. The crystal structure of trans-dichloro-(m-chloroaniline)(triphenylphosphine) palladium(II)" Transition Metal Chemistry 31, 2006, 556.
Conferences
- "Electrochemical Embedment of Gold Nanoparticles and Enzymes into Polypyrrole for Fabrication of Robust NanoBiosensors" The 5th International congress of Nano-Bio Clean Tech (27-30 Oct 2008) San Francisco USA.
- "Fabrication of nanocomposite nitrate biosensors for environmental materials" RACI Electrochemistry Symposium:New Materials and New Methods (26- 28 Nov. 2008) UNSW, Sydney, Australia.
- "Development and Utilization of Polymer-Embedded Gold Nanoparticles for Direct Fabrication of Amperometric NanoBiosensors for Nitrate and Phosphate" NSTI Nanotech: The nanotechnology conference and trade show, Boston USA.
- Australian Symposium on Organometallic Chemistry 2006. Manzar Sohail, Muhammad Mazhar "Synthesis and Structural Characterization of Metal - Organic Precursors for Chemical Vapour Deposition" Monash University, Australia.
- International Symposium on Advanced Materials 2003. "Synthesis and Characterization of Homobimatallic and Heterobimetallic Precursors for Chemical Vapour Deposition" Islamabad Pakistan.
- Participant: 4th International and 14th National Chemistry Conference organised by Chemical Society of Pakistan and Department of Chemistry QAU Islamabad, Pakistan.
- Participant: Workshop on Combinatorial Chemistry conducted by Prof. J. Rademann of the University of Berlin Germany at Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad May 7-May 13, 2004.