Dr. Sidra Zawar

Lecturer

Introduction

Dr. Sidra Zawar is Lecturer at department of Physics, University of Jhang. She has obtained her doctoral degree in 2021 from Center of Excellence in Solid State Physics, University of the Punjab, Lahore, under HEC indigenous PHD fellowship program. Her main field of research is “Electrochemical Energy Storage Materials for Na-Ion, Li-Ion Batteries and Supercapacitors”, and has number of high impact factor publications in reputed international journals. She has participated in many national/international conferences and symposiums as associate organizing member and presenter and won two poster competitions in different events.
She has started her professional career in 2013 as Lecturer of Physics at different renowned institutes including FAST-NUCES, Lahore, Beacon House University etc. for a total of six years teaching experience. In addition, she has four years of research experience as HEC research scholar at University of The Punjab and worked as research assistant for another two years for HEC awarded project. She got training on electrode fabrication, coin-cell assembly and Ni-foam deposition for electrochemical storage devices from US-PAK Center for Advance Studies-Energy (USPCAS-E), National University of Science & Technology (NUST), Islamabad and from University of Engineering & Technology (UET), Lahore. She’s a skilled experimentalist in handling electrode fabrication and synthesis techniques particularly hydrothermal & solvothermal techniques, sol-gel and co-precipitation method, ultrasonication bath, furnace and centrifuge. Apart from experimental techniques, she got expertise in multiple software for data analysis.

Qualifications
Degree Title Specialization Institute Name Year/Session
PhD Solid State Physics University of the Punjab, Lahore 2017-2021
MS Solid State Physics University of the Punjab, Lahore 2013-2015
BS Physics Govt. College University, Faisalabad 2009-2013

Research and Publications

  • Zawar, S., Ali, G., Mustafa, G. M., Patil, S. A., Ramay, S. M., & Atiq, S. (2022). Mn0. 06Co2. 94O4 nano-architectures anchored on reduced graphene oxide as highly efficient hybrid electrodes for supercapacitors. Journal of Energy Storage, 50, 104298.
    (IF = 8.907)
  • Hasan, M., Zawar, S., Mustafa, G. M., Ghaffar, A., Razaq, A., & Atiq, S. (2022). Porous Architecture of Ni substituted ZnMn2O4 nanospheres as an electrode material for supercapacitor applications. Physica B: Condensed Matter, 633, 413767.
    (IF = 2.988)
  • Mughal, A. S., Zawar, S., Ansar, M. T., Afzal, F., Murtaza, G., Atiq, S., & Ramay, S. M. (2022). Efficient electrochemical performance of hydrothermally synthesized mixed transition metal oxide nanostructures. Ionics, 1-11.
    (IF = 2.961)
  • Ali, R., Quader, A., Zawar, S., Mustafa, G. M., Ramay, S. M., & Atiq, S. (2022). Influence of Fe-substituted structural transformation on energy storage density and switchability of Bi3NbO7. Applied Physics A, 128(3), 1-9.
    (IF = 2.983)
  • Zawar, S., Akbar, M., Mustafa, G. M., Ali, G., Riaz, S., Atiq, S., & Chung, K. Y. (2021). CNTs embedded in layered Zn-doped Co3O4 nano-architectures as an efficient hybrid anode material for SIBs. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 158730.
    (I.F. = 6.371)
  • Zawar, S., Ali, G., Afshan, N., Atiq, S., Mustafa, G. M., Hussnain, H., & Iftikhar, F. J. (2021). Ni-doped Co3O4 spheres decorated on CNTs nest-like conductive framework as efficiently stable hybrid anode for Na-ion batteries. Ceramics International.
    (I.F. = 5.532)
  • Uzzaman, T., Zawar, S., Ansar, M. T., Ramay, S. M., Mahmood, A., & Atiq, S. (2021). Electrochemical Performance of NiFe2O4 Nanostructures Incorporating Activated Carbon as an Efficient Electrode Material. Ceramics International.
    (I.F. = 5.532)
  • Ghaffar, A., Ali, G., Zawar, S., Hasan, M., Mustafa, G. M., Atiq, S., & Ramay, S. M. (2020). Electrochemical performance of Li+ insertion/extraction in Ni-substituted ZnCo2O4 as an emerging highly efficient anode material. RSC Advances, 10(48), 28550-28559.
    (I.F. = 3.361)
  • Zawar, S., Atiq, S., Tabasum, M., Riaz, S., & Naseem, S. (2019). Highly stable dielectric frequency response of chemically synthesized Mn-substituted ZnFe2O4. Journal of Saudi Chemical Society, 23(4), 417-426.
    (IF = 3.932)
  • Zawar, S., Atiq, S., Riaz, S., & Naseem, S. (2016). Correlation between particle size and magnetic characteristics of Mn-substituted ZnFe2O4 ferrites. Superlattices and Microstructures, 93, 50-56.
    (I.F.= 2.120)
National International Conferences/ Proceedings
  • Sidra Zawar, Shahid Atiq, Saira Riaz and Shahzad Naseem. Influence of Mn substitution at Zn-site on structural, morphological and magnetic properties of MnxZn1-xFe2O4 (x = 0.0, 0.1, 0.3, 0.4 & 0.5) nanoclusters. International Conference on Solid State Physics (ICSSP-15) held at University of the Punjab, Lahore from 13th to 17th December, 2015
  • Sidra Zawar, Shahid Atiq, Maida Tabasum, Saira Riaz and Shahzad Naseem. Dielectric frequency response of Zn1-xMnxFe2O4 (0.0 ≤ x ≤ 0.5). International Conference on Solid State Physics – 2017 (ICSSP’17), University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan, December 10-14, 2017
  • Maida Tabasum, Shahid Atiq, Sidra Zawar, Murtaza Saleem, Shahid Ramay and Shahzad Naseem. Morphological and magnetodielectric analysis of nanocrystalline Co-Mg spinel ferrites. International Conference on Solid State Physics – 2017 (ICSSP’17), University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan, December 10- 14, 2017

Field of Interest

  • Electrochemical energy storage materials
  • Na+/Li+ ion batteries
  • supercapacitors
  • carbon based hybrids
  • transition metal oxides and their composites
  • hydrothermal & solvothermal techniques
  • sol-gel auto combustion techniques
  • co-precipitation method

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