Name

Personal

Email ID: bushrachem@sbbwu.edu.pk

Contact number: (+92) 91 9224706

Address: Department of Chemistry, Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Women University, Peshawar.

Experience

Lecturer in Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, SBBWUP.

Qualification

• P.hD. Physical Chemistry National Centre of Excellence University of Peshawar, Peshawar, (2022).
• M.Phil. Physical Chemistry, National Centre of Excellence University of Peshawar, Peshawar, (2016).
• M.Sc. Chemistry, Institute of chemical sciences University of Peshawar, Peshawar, (2013).
• B.Sc. (Chemistry, Zoology, Botany), Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Women University, Peshawar, (2010).

B. Ed. Institute of Education and Research University of Peshawar, Peshawar, (2014).

Honor and Awards

• Scholarship worth 1,48,000/- RS awarded by National Centre of Excellence University of Peshawar, Peshawar, throughout the Ph.D. project, (2017).
• Scholarship worth 1,40,000/- RS awarded by National Centre of Excellence University of Peshawar, Peshawar, throughout the M.Phil. project, (2015).
• Laptop awarded from the Prime Minister Laptop scheme, (2014).

Memberships

Chemical society of Pakistan    

Graduate Students Postdocs Undergraduate Students Honor Students

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Service Activity

• Coordinator, BS Program, Department of Chemistry, SBBWU, Peshawar, March, 2019 to till date.
• Member of BoS, BS Program, Department of Chemistry, SBBWU, Peshawar, 2019.
• Member of SAR, BS Program, Department of Chemistry, SBBWU, Peshawar.
• Judge of “Science Exhibition” organized by Frontier College for Women, Peshawar, on 29^th November, 2019.
• “Two-day International Seerah Conference on Training of Young Generation for Societal Change: Guidance from Seerah”, 23-24^th May, 2022.
• “Two-day workshop on Effective Oral and Poster Presentation”, 18-19^th May, 2022.
• “5-Days Training on “The Art of Scientific Writing”, 9-13^th May, 2022.
• “One day Seminar on Shan-e-Ramzan”, 26^th April, 2022.
• “Two-day workshop on Skills Development on Academic and Scientific Writing”, 6-7^th April, 2022.
• “Two day workshop on “Promoting Research Excellence in Academics across Pakistan”, 1^st and 2^nd February, 2022.
•  “The Importance of Quality & Quantity of Water in our Life, World Water Day Theme 2021: Valuing Water”, 12^th April, 2021.
• Judge of “Science Exhibition” organized by Frontier College for women, Peshawar, 29^th November, 2019.
• Two-day national seminar on “Healthy food: A tool for quality life”, April 18-19, 2019.
• Two-day workshop on “Thesis/article writing skills and EndNote (a citation management tool)”, December 12-13, 2018.
• One day seminar on “atmospheric chemistry and health impact of air pollution”, 15^th March, 2018.
• One day seminar on “Quran, chemistry and biomimicry”, 6^th April, 2017.
• Five days training workshop on “inferential and descriptive research analysis through SPSS” from 17^th to 21^st April, 2017.
• Two-day workshop on Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Commercialization July, 2016.
• 5^th Innovation to invention summit, university of Haripur November, 2015.
• Recent advances and new horizons in chemistry April, 2015.
• One day workshop on the use of digital library February, 2015.
• Two days seminar on research paper writing December, 2014.
• One day guiding workshop and panel discussion on M.Phil./Ph.D. admission to completion April, 2014.

Brief Statement of Research Interest

Conducting Polymers and Composites; Synthesis, Physical, Chemical, and Electrochemical Characterizations, and Application for Energy Storage Devices and Wastewater Treatment

Publications

• Articles

• Bushra Begum, Saba Ijaz, Razia Bibi, Rozina Khattak, Raina Aman Qazi, Preparation and Characterization of Activated Carbon@Polyindole Composite for the Effective Removal of Ionic Dye from Water, Polymers, 2022, 14, 3. (Impact Factor: 4.967)
• Bushra Begum, Salma Bilal, Anwar-ul-Haq Ali Shah, Philipp Rose, Synthesis, Characterization and Electrochemical Performance of a Redox-responsive Polybenzopyrrole@nickel Oxide Nanocomposite for Robust and Efficient Faradaic Energy Storage, Nanomaterials, 2022, 12, 513. (Impact Factor: 5.719)
• Asmat Ara, Rozina Khattak, Muhammad Sufaid Khan, Bushra Begum, Sanaullah Khan, Changseok Han, Synthesis, Characterization, and Solar Photo-activation of Chitosan modified Nickel Magnetite Bio-composite for degradation of Recalcitrant Organic Pollutants in Water, Catalyst, 2022. 12, 983. (Impact Factor: 4.501)
• Bushra Begum, Salma Bilal, Anwar-ul-Haq Ali Shah, Philipp Rose, Physical, chemical, and electrochemical properties of redox-responsive polybenzopyrrole as electrode material for faradaic energy storage, Polymers, 2021, 13, 2883. (Impact Factor: 4.967)
• Bushra Begum, Anwar-ul-Haq Ali Shah, Salma Bilal, Tunable electrochemical activity of polyaniline salt by doping anion exchange, Materials International, 2020, 2, 0054-0061.
• Rozina Khattak, Muhammad Sufaid Khan, Shazia Summer, Rizwan Ullah, Humaira Afridi, Zainab Rehman, Summyia Masood, Hamsa Noreen, Raina Aman Qazi, Bushra Begum, Kinetics of the oxidation of iodide by dicyanobis(phenanthroline)iron(III) in a binary solvent system, International Journal of Chemical Kinetics, 2020, 53, 1-12. (Impact Factor: 1.462)

Salma Bilal, Bushra Begum, Salma Gul, Anwar-ul-Haq Ali Shah, PANI/DBSA/H₂SO₄: A promising and highly efficient electrode material for aqueous supercapacitors, Synthetic Metals, 2018, 235, 1-15. (Impact Factor: 3.286)

Research Grants and Contracts

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Other Research or Creative Accomplishments

• Patents

• Salma Bilal, Bushra Begum, Salma Gul, Anwar-ul-Haq Ali Shah, Binder free high-performance supercapacitor electrode based on intrinsically conducting polymer, Intellectual Property Organization, Pakistan, 2021, Patent No. 143483.
• Anwar-ul-Haq Ali Shah, Salma Bilal, Bushra Begum, Process for synthesis of fused heterocyclic ring conjugated polymer, Intellectual Property Organization, Pakistan, 2021, Patent Application No. 74/2021. (Granted)

Anwar-ul-Haq Ali Shah, Salma Bilal, Bushra Begum, Philipp Rose, On-pot synthesis of organic-inorganic hybrid nanocomposites with potential energy storage properties, Intellectual Property Organization, Pakistan, 2021. (Granted)

Selected Professional Presentations

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