User:Farhan Ahmad

Contact Info



 * Farhan Ahmad
 * Michigan State University
 * East Lansing, Michigan, U.S
 * Email me through OpenWetWare

I work in the Your Lab at XYZ University. I learned about OpenWetWare from Through a friend in MIT, and I've joined because I was reading somewhere that there are curretly 30K users and i wish to learn more from their experiences specially in protocols, blogs etc.

Education

 * 2006-2010, Ph.D (Environmental Engineering), Michigan State University (ongoing)
 * 2005, M.S (Materials Science and Engineering), Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea
 * 2002, B.Tech (Petrochemical), Aligarh Muslim University, India

Research interests

 * 1) Interest 1
 * 2) Interest 2
 * 3) Interest 3

Publications
Book Chapters

“Nanosensors” F. Ahmad and S. A. Hashsham, Invited book chapter, accepted for Nanotechnologies for Water Environment Applications, by American Society of Civil Engineers, 2008

“Micro-PCR Systems: Miniaturized Tools for Nucleic Acid Amplification based Rapid Pathogen Detection” F. Ahmad and S. A. Hashsham, Springer, 2008 (under preparation)

Peer Review Publications

“Detection and occurrence of indicator organisms and pathogens” Tourlousse. D.M, Ahmad. F, Stedtfeld. R.D, Seyrig. G, Alm. E.W, Metin. D, and Hashsham. S.A, Water Environment Research. (In Press) 2008

“Determination of three characteristic regimes of weakly charged polyelectrolytes monolayers" F. Ahmad, K. Shin, S. K. Satija, J.-S. Kim, M. H. Rafailovich, and J. Sokolov, Ultramicroscopy, 108 (10), 1191-1195, 2008

“Interfacial behaviors of randomly charged polystyrene sulfonated acids at the air-water interface”, Y-S. Seo, F. Ahmad, K. Shin, J. -M. Song, J. -S. Kim, M. H. Rafialovich, J. Sokolov, and S. K. Satija. Colloids and Surfaces A, Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, 313-314, 660-665, 2008

“Dendrimers at the air-water interface: surface dynamics and molecular ordering (Review)”, F. Ahmad and K. Shin. International Journal of Nanotechnology, 3, 353-371, 2006.

“X-ray reflectivity study of cyclic peptide monolayers at the air-water interface”, F. Ahmad, K. Shin, F. Constabel, K. E. Geckeler, O. H. Seeck, and S. Kubik. Israel Journal of Chemistry, 45, 345-352, 2005

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