FACULTY PROFILE
Dr Ataf Ali Altaf
Associate Professor
PhD - Research Group Homepage - http://atafalialtafgroup.com/
Dr. Ataf Ali Altaf did his M.Phil and PhD (under supervision of Prof. Dr. Amin Badshah) at Quaid-e-Azam University Islamabad, Pakistan in 2012. During his PhD he joined research group of Prof. Dr. Debbie C. Crans at Colorado State University USA for six months. He graduated from Government Postgraduate College Sahiwal, Pakistan in 2006. His research interests focused on Inorganic materials like metal oxides, Coordination Complexes, Organometallic (Ferrocene) derivatives for medicinal application and nanomaterials for Catalysis, Energy Devices, Li-ion Batteries and Photovoltaic cells. Till the time he has published more than 55 research papers and presented his research at various international forums like American Chemical Society (ACS) Meetings and International Coordination Chemistry Conferences (ICCC).
HONOURS AND AWARDS
| 1 | 2018 |
Travel Grant to participate in conference in Japan by HEC grant No. 253.06 Dated August 04 |
| 2 | 2017 |
As Co-PI - Project Proposal # 6494/Punjab/NRPU/R&D/HEC/2016 (Rs: 86,58,773/-) Template Controlled Nano-Materials for Electrochemical and Energy Devices Funding Agency; HEC Pakistan. |
| 3 | 2017 |
As PI - Project Proposal # 6492/Punjab/NRPU/R&D/HEC/2016 (Rs: 45,01,650/-) Template Controlled Nano - Materials for Catalytic Mild Oxidation of Organic Compounds into Industrial Products Funding Agency; HEC Pakistan. |
| 4 | 2016 |
Travel Grant to participate in conference by HEC grant No. 253.06 Dated 16th August |
| 5 | 2015 |
Travel Grant to participate in conference by HEC grant No.231.07 Dated 6th August |
| 6 | 2015 |
Research Productivity Award 2014-15, Pakistan Council for Science and Technology (PCST), Government of Pakistan. |
| 7 | 2013 |
As PI - Project Proposal # PD-IPFP/HRD/HEC/2013/30240 (Rs: 500,000/-) Synthesis and Cheracterization of ferrocene based anticancer agents. Funding Agency; HEC Pakistan. |
| 8 | 2011 |
HEC-IRSIP Scholarship for Six month research work in Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA |
| 9 | 2007 |
Indigenous Scholarship for M.Phil and PhD funded by Govt. of Pakistan through HEC |
| 10 | 2006 |
2nd Position in M.Sc from Govt. College Sahiwal, Sahiwal, Pakistan. |
PUBLICATIONS :
BOOK CHAPTER
| 1 | 2020 |
errocene-Based Metallodrugs: Authors, Hamza Shoukat, Ataf Ali Altaf, Amin Badshah, Book - Advances in Metallodrugs: Preparation and Applications in Medicinal Chemistry, Publisher-John Wiley & Sons (External link) |
| 2 | 2019 |
S Kausar, H.G. Mustafa, A.A. Altaf, G Mustafa, and A Badshah, (2019) “Galantamine” in an internationally edited book “Reference Module in Biomedical Sciences” ISBN 978-0-12-801238-3 - Publisher - Elsevier B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands (External link) |
| 3 | 2018 |
A. A. Altaf, S. Kausar, A. Badshah, (2018) Spectral Calculations with DFT in an internationally edited book Density Functional Calculations: Recent Progresses of Theory and Application ISBN 978-953-51-5682-6 - Publisher - InTechOpen Rijeka, Croatia - EUROPEAN UNION (External link) |
JOURNAL PAPERS - PEER REVIEWED
| 1 | 2020 |
S. Kausar, *A. Ali Altaf, M. Hamayun, M. Danish, M. Zubair, S. Naz, S. Muhammad, M. Zaheer, S. Ullah and A. Badshah, (2020) Soft Template-Based Bismuth Doped Zinc Oxide Nano Composites for Photocatalytic Depolymerization of Lignin, Inorganica Chimica Acta, 502, 119390. DOI: 10.1016/j.ica.2019.119390. (Impact Factor; 2.433) (External link) |
| 2 | 2020 |
S. Kausar, A. A. Altaf, M. Hamayun, N. Rasool, M. Hadait, A. Akhtar, S. Muhammad, A. Badshah, S. A. A. Shah, Z. A. Zakaria (2020) i-Propylammonium Lead Chloride Based Perovskite Photocatalysts for Depolymerization of Lignin Under UV Light. Molecules 25, 3520 (Impact Factor; 3.267). (External link) |
| 3 | 2020 |
H. M. Imran, N. Rasool, I. Kanwal, M. A. Hashmi, A. A. Altaf, G. Ahmed, A. Malik, S. Kausar, S. –D. Khan, A. Ahmad, S. A. A. Shah (2020) Synthesis of halogenated [1,1`-biphenyl]-4-yl benzoate and [1,1`:3`,1``-terphenyl]-4`yl benzoate by palladium catalyzed cascade C-C coupling and structural analysis through computational approach, Journal of Molecular Structure, 1222, 128839 (Impact Factor; 2.463). (External link) |
| 4 | 2020 |
M. Danish, M. Tayyab, A. Akhtar, A. A. Altaf, S. Kausar, S. Ullah, and M. Iqbal, (2020) Effect of soft template variation on the synthesis, physical, and electrochemical properties of Mn3O4 nanomaterial, Inorganic and NanoMetal Chemistry, DOI: 10.1080/24701556.2020.1790000 (Impact Factor; 0.839). (External link) |
| 5 | 2019 |
S. I. Khan, S. Ahmad, A. A. Altaf, M. K. Rauf, A. Badshah, S. S. Azam and M. N. Tahir, (2019) Heteroleptic copper(i) halides with triphenylphosphine and acetylthiourea: synthesis, characterization and biological studies (experimental and molecular docking), New Journal of Chemistry, 43, 19318 - 19330. (Impact Factor; 3.069) (External link) |
| 6 | 2018 |
A. A. Altaf; M. Hamayun, B. Lal, M. N. Tahir, A. A. Holder, A. Badshah; D. C. Crans, (2018) Ferrocene-based anilides: synthesis, structural characterization and inhibition of butyrylcholinesterase” Dolton Transaction, 47, 11769-11781 (Impact Factor; 4.099 (External link) |
| 7 | 2017 |
A. A. Altaf; S. Kausar; M. Hamayun; B. Lal; M. N. Tahir; A. Badshah (2017) Ferrocenylaniline based amide analogs of methoxybenzoic acids: Synthesis, structural characterization and butyrylcholinesterase (BChE) inhibition studies” Journal of Molecular Structure, 1146, 130 – 137 (Impact Factor; 1.795). (External link) |
| 8 | 2016 |
Y. Gull; N. Rasool; M. Noreen; A. A. Altaf; S. G. Musharraf; M. Zubair; F. H. Nasim; A. Yaqoob; Vincenzo DE FEO; M. Zia-Ul-Haq (2016) Synthesis of N-(6-arylbenzo[d]thiazole-2-acetamide Derivatives and their Biological activities: Experimental and Computational Approach Molecules 21 266 270. DOI: 10.3390/molecules21030266 (Impact Factor; 2.416) (External link) |
| 9 | 2015 |
I.A. Khan; A. Badshah; A. A. Altaf; N. Tahir, N. Haider; M. A. Nadeem (2015) Acid base cocrystal converted into porous carbon material for energy storage devices RSC Advances, 5, 9110 9115. DOI: 10.1039/C4RA13482F (Impact Factor; 3.708) (External link) |
| 10 | 2014 |
N. Khan, A. Badshah, B. Lal, M. A. Malik, J. Raftery, P. OBrien, *A. A. Altaf (2014) Synthesis and Characterization of Iron Tin Oxide Thin Films from Single Source Bimetallic Precursors” Polyhedron 69 40 47. DOI 10.1016/j.poly.2013.11.017 (Impact Factor; 2.047) (External link) |
| 11 | 2013 |
S. Ullah; A. Badshah; F. Ahmed; R. Raza; A. A. Altaf; R. Hussain (2013) “Solvothermal preparation of ZnO nanorods as anode material for improved cycle life Zn/AgO batteries PLoS ONE 8 e75999 DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0075999 (Impact Factor; 3.729) (External link) |
| 12 | 2012 |
B. Lal; A. Badshah; A. A. Altaf; F. Haq; S. Ullah; M. N. Tahir (2012) Synthesis, Characterization and Antitumor activity of new Ferrocene incorporated N, N-disubstituted Thioureas Dolton Transaction, 41 14643 - 14650 (Impact Factor; 3.806) (External link) |
| 13 | 2011 |
A.A. Altaf; A. Badshah; S. Marwat; N. Khan; S. Ali (2011) Zirconium complexes in homogeneous ethylene polymerization Journal of Coordination Chemistry, 64 1815 1836 (Impact Factor; 1.801) (External link) |
| 14 | 2010 |
A. A. Altaf; A. Badshah; N. Khan; M. N. Tahir (2010) N-(4-Ferrocenylphenyl)benzamide Acta Cryst. E66, m831 (Impact Factor; 0.347) (External link) |
MEMBERSHIPS
| 1 | 2011 - date |
American Chemical Society |
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