Situated on the first floor of the Department of Chemistry, University of Dhaka, Material Chemistry Research Lab currently has 5 faculty members supervising over 25 students pursuing their BS, MS and PhD degrees. These members, along with more than 90 alumni have worked on various interdisciplinary topics of Material Science over the past 15 years to bring the lab to its current state.
The beginnings of this lab can be traced back to 2004, when the group came together under the guidance of Dr. Yousuf Ali Mollah, Dr. Muhibur Rahman and Dr. Md. Abu Bin Hasan Susan. At that time, research focused on geochemistry and kinetics using surfactants, and the group was named “Group of Micelle”. Over time, more findings in kinetic research led to the focus branching out into study of water structure modification. Gradually, the lab expanded with the addition of faculty members Dr. Omar Ahmed, Dr. Mominul Islam, Dr. Muhammed Shah Miran and Dr. Saika Ahmed, and research interests diversified. In 2011, our focus of research was resolved to be specifically materials oriented, and since then the lab has continued on under the name “Material Chemistry Research Lab”, pursuing high quality material chemistry research, with more than 100 publications under its name.
Our aim is to improve the quality of research in Bangladesh through the exchange of views and ideas with experts and professionals at home and abroad. We regularly arrange national and international seminars and strive to establish long term scientific collaborations. Currently our research is focused on developing an in-depth understanding of materials. Our long-term research goal is to develop our research to the extent that the work begins with the synthesis of novel materials and continues throughout the whole process of perfecting the materials to the point of their application in industrial scale. Material Chemistry Research Lab, therefore, is a place that strives to create not just physical chemists, but takes it one step further to equip a physical chemist to be a material scientist in the truest sense.
