Alamgir Karim

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Alamgir Karim
Alma mater St. Stephen's College, Delhi
Northwestern University
Scientific career
Institutions University of Houston
Thesis Neutron reflection studies of interdiffusion in polymers  (1990)
Doctoral advisor Gian P. Felcher
Other academic advisors Matthew Tirrell
Website Karim Research Group

Alamgir Karim is a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Houston noted for his work on polymer and polymer nanocomposite materials.

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Education

Karim received a B.Sc. degree in physics from St. Stephen's College, Delhi in 1985. He worked under [[]] at Northwestern University, where he received a PhD in physics in 1991. He worked as a postdoctoral research associate under Matthew Tirrell at the University of Minnesota in 1991 -- 1992.

Career

Karim joined the Polymers Division at the National Institute of Science and Technology in 1993, advancing from Physicist to Group Leader. In 2004 he was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society [1] from the Division of Polymer Physics for pioneering research on polymer thin films and interfaces, polymer brushes, blend film phase separation, thin film dewetting, pattern formation in block copolymer films, and the application of combinatoric measurement methods to complex polymer physics. In 2008 he moved to the Department of Polymer Engineering at the University of Akron, where he was the Goodyear Chair Professor. In 2017 he joined the Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Houston (UH), where he is the Dow Chair and Welch Foundation Professor.

Karim is an expert in the processing of polymer thin films, [2] polymer brushes [3] block copolymers, [4] polymer blends, [5] and polymer-nanoparticle mixtures. [6] He has applied these materials to produce membranes, [7] phase gratings, [8] and sensors, [9] among other applications.

At UH, he has developed methods to process chitin, [10] increase the energy density of capacitors [11] [12] and manipulate polyelectrolyte coacervate droplets. [13] In 2024 he proposed that coacervate droplets suspended in deionized water could potentially act as protocells for the origins of life. [14]

His most-cited research article demonstrated a method to calculate the elastic moduli of polymer thin films from the spacing of wrinkles on polymer films. [15]

Awards and recognition

References

  1. ↑ "APS Fellows 2004". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2017-04-20.
  2. ↑ Xie, R.; Karim, A.; Douglas, J. F.; Han, C. C.; Weiss, R. A. (10 Aug 1998). "Spinodal Dewetting of Thin Polymer Films" . Physical Review Letters. 81 (6): 1251–1254. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.1251 . Retrieved 19 December 2024.
  3. ↑ Karim, A.; Satija, S. K.; Douglas, J. F.; Ankner, J. F.; Fetters, L. J. (19 Dec 1994). "Neutron Reflectivity Study of the Density Profile of a Model End-Grafted Polymer Brush: Influence of Solvent Quality" . Physical Review Letters. 81 (25): 3407–3410. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.73.3407. PMID   10057373 . Retrieved 19 December 2024.
  4. ↑ Berry, Brian C.; Bosse, August W.; Douglas, J. F.; Jones, Ronald L.; Karim, A. F. (12 Sep 2007). "Orientational order in block copolymer films zone annealed below the order− disorder transition temperature" . Nano Letters. 7 (9): 2789–2794. doi:10.1021/nl071354s. PMID   17691851 . Retrieved 19 December 2024.
  5. ↑ Karim, A.; Slawecki, T. M.; Kumar, S. K.; Douglas, J. F.; Satija, S. K.; Han, C. C.; Russell, T. P.; Liu, Y.; Overney, R.; Sokolov, J.; Rafailovich, M. H. (10 Feb 1998). "Phase-separation-induced surface patterns in thin polymer blend films" . Macromolecules. 31 (3): 857–862. doi:10.1021/ma970687g . Retrieved 18 December 2024.
  6. ↑ Barnes, Kathleen A.; Karim, Alamgir; Douglas, J. F.; Nakatani, Alan I.; Gruell, Holger; Amis, Eric J. (30 May 2000). "Suppression of dewetting in nanoparticle-filled polymer films" . Macromolecules. 33 (11): 4177–4185. doi:10.1021/nl071354s . Retrieved 19 December 2024.
  7. ↑ Luo, Yan; Wang, Xiaoteng; Zhang, Ten; Singh, Maninderjeet; Ammar, Ali; Cousins, Diana; Hassan, Mohammad K.; Ponnamma, Deepalekshmi; Adham, Samer; Al-Maadeed, Mariam Al Ali; Karim, Alamgir (19 Jun 2020). "Vertically oriented nanoporous block copolymer membranes for oil/water separation and filtration" . Soft Matter. 16 (42): 9648–9654. doi:10.1039/D0SM00526F. PMID   32808620 . Retrieved 19 December 2024.
  8. ↑ Harrison, Christopher; Stafford, Christopher M.; Zhang, Wenhua; Karim, Alamgir (1 Nov 2004). "Sinusoidal phase grating created by a tunably buckled surface" . Applied Physics Letters. 85 (18): 4016–4018. doi:10.1063/1.1809281 . Retrieved 19 December 2024.
  9. ↑ Al-Saygh, Aisha; Ponnamma, Deepalekshmi; Al Maadeed, Mariam Al Ali; Vijayan P, Poornima; Karim, Alamgir; Hassan, Mohammad K. (26 Jan 2017). "Flexible Pressure Sensor Based on PVDF Nanocomposites Containing Reduced Graphene Oxide-Titania Hybrid Nanolayers". Polymers. 9 (2): 33. doi: 10.3390/polym9020033 . PMC   6432156 . PMID   30970716.
  10. ↑ Kever, Jeannie. "Researchers Take A Cue From Nature To Create Bulletproof Coatings" . Retrieved 18 December 2024.
  11. ↑ Khan, Rashda. "Sustainable Clean Future Possible with Innovative High-Energy-Density Capacitors" . Retrieved 19 December 2024.
  12. ↑ Singh, Maninderjeet; Das, Priyanka; Samanta, Pabitra N.; Bera, Sumit; Thantirige, Rukshan; Shook, Brian; Nejat, Roushanak; Behera, Banarji; Zhang, Qiqi; Dai, Qilin; Pramanik, Avijit; Ray, Paresh; Raghavan, Dharamaraj; Leszczynski, Jerzy; Karim, Alamgir; Pradhan, Nihar (13 October 2023). "Ultrahigh Capacitive Energy Density in Stratified 2D Nanofiller-Based Polymer Dielectric Films". ACS Nano. 17 (20): 20262–20272. arXiv: 2303.06072 . doi: 10.1021/acsnano.3c06249 .
  13. ↑ Agrawal, Aman; Douglas, Jack F.; Tirrell, Matthew; Karim, Alamgir (4 Aug 2022). "Manipulation of coacervate droplets with an electric field". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. 119 (32): e2203483119. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2203483119 . PMC   9372540 .
  14. ↑ Zimmer, Carl. "How Did the First Cells Arise? With a Little Rain, Study Finds" . Retrieved 18 December 2024.
  15. ↑ Stafford, Christopher M.; Harrison, Christopher; Beers, Kathryn L.; Karim, Alamgir; Amis, Eric J.; VanLandingham, Mark R.; Kim, Ho-Cheol; Volksen, Willi; Miller, Robert D.; Simonyi, Eva E. (1 Aug 2004). "A buckling-based metrology for measuring the elastic moduli of polymeric thin films" . Nature Materials. 3 (8): 545–550. doi:10.1038/nmat1175. PMID   15247909 . Retrieved 19 December 2024.
  16. ↑ Greenwell, Stephen. "Karim Earns NSF's Special Creativity Award". uh.edu. Retrieved 18 December 2024.
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