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Abubshait HA, Saad M, Iqbal S, Abubshait SA, Bahadur A, Raheel M, Alshammari FH, Alwadai N, Alrbyawi H, Abourehab MA, Elkaeed EB, Qayyum MA, Somaily H. Co-doped zinc oxide nanoparticles embedded in Polyvinylalcohol Hydrogel as solar light derived photocatalyst disinfection and removal of coloured pollutants. J Mol Struct 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molstruc.2022.134100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Al-Hashem MN, Amin MN, Raheel M, Khan K, Alkadhim HA, Imran M, Ullah S, Iqbal M. Predicting the Compressive Strength of Concrete Containing Fly Ash and Rice Husk Ash Using ANN and GEP Models. Materials (Basel) 2022; 15:7713. [PMID: 36363306 PMCID: PMC9657451 DOI: 10.3390/ma15217713] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2022] [Revised: 10/11/2022] [Accepted: 10/17/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Climate change has become trending news due to its serious impacts on Earth. Initiatives are being taken to lessen the impact of climate change and mitigate it. Among the different initiatives, researchers are aiming to find suitable alternatives for cement. This study is a humble effort to effectively utilize industrial- and agricultural-waste-based pozzolanic materials in concrete to make it economical and environmentally friendly. For this purpose, a ternary blend of binders (i.e., cement, fly ash, and rice husk ash) was employed in concrete. Different variables such as the quantity of different binders, fine and coarse aggregates, water, superplasticizer, and the age of the samples were considered to study their influence on the compressive strength of the ternary blended concrete using gene expression programming (GEP) and artificial neural networking (ANN). The performance of these two models was evaluated using R2, RMSE, and a comparison of regression slopes. It was observed that the GEP model with 100 chromosomes, a head size of 10, and five genes resulted in an optimum GEP model, as apparent from its high R2 value of 0.80 and 0.70 in the TR and TS phase, respectively. However, the ANN model performed better than the GEP model, as evident from its higher R2 value of 0.94 and 0.88 in the TR and TS phase, respectively. Similarly, lower values of RMSE and MAE were observed for the ANN model in comparison to the GEP model. The regression slope analysis revealed that the predicted values obtained from the ANN model were in good agreement with the experimental values, as shown by its higher R2 value (0.89) compared with that of the GEP model (R2 = 0.80). Subsequently, parametric analysis of the ANN model revealed that the addition of pozzolanic materials enhanced the compressive strength of the ternary blended concrete samples. Additionally, we observed that the compressive strength of the ternary blended concrete samples increased rapidly within the first 28 days of casting.
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- Mohammed Najeeb Al-Hashem
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa 31982, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa 31982, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Civil Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar 25120, Pakistan
- Department of Civil Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology, Mardan 23200, Pakistan
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa 31982, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa 31982, Saudi Arabia
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- School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (SCEE), National University of Sciences & Technology (NUST), Islamabad 44000, Pakistan
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- Department of Civil Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar 25120, Pakistan
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- Department of Civil Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar 25120, Pakistan
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Waqas M, Iqbal J, Mehmood RF, Akram SJ, Shawky AM, Raheel M, Rashid EU, Khera RA. Impact of end-capped modification of MO-IDT based non-fullerene small molecule acceptors to improve the photovoltaic properties of organic solar cells. J Mol Graph Model 2022; 116:108255. [PMID: 35779337 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmgm.2022.108255] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2022] [Revised: 06/15/2022] [Accepted: 06/16/2022] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Density functional theory, along with its time dependent computational approach were employed in order to fine tune the photovoltaic attributes along with the efficiency of the MO-IDIC-2F molecule. Thus, five new molecules were designed by substitution of the different notable acceptor fragments in the MO-IDIC-2F molecule, along with the addition of the "[1, 2, 5] thiadiazolo[3,4-d] pyridazine" spacer moieties between donor core and newly substituted acceptor groups. In this research work, various photovoltaic properties, which could affect the efficiency of an organic chromophores, such as bandgap, oscillator strength, dipole moment, binding energy, light-harvesting efficiency, etc. were studied. All the newly proposed molecules demonstrated significantly improved outcomes in comparison to that of the reference molecule, in their absorption spectrum, excitation, as well as binding energy values, etc. In order to confirm the results of optoelectronic properties, density of states, transition density matrix, and electrostatic potential analyses of molecules were also performed, which supported our computational findings. All of the results confirmed the high potential of all the newly proposed molecules for the development of improved OSCs.
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- Muhammad Waqas
- Department of Chemistry, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, 38000, Pakistan
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, 38000, Pakistan.
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- Department of Chemistry, Division of Science and Technology, University of Education, Township, Lahore, 54770, Pakistan.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, 38000, Pakistan
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- Science and Technology Unit (STU), Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, 21955, Saudi Arabia
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- Baluchistan University of Information Technology, Engineering and Management Sciences (BUITEMS), Quetta, 87300, Pakistan
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, 38000, Pakistan
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, 38000, Pakistan.
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Khan K, Iqbal M, Raheel M, Amin MN, Alabdullah AA, Abu-Arab AM, Jalal FE. Prediction of Axial Capacity of Concrete Filled Steel Tubes Using Gene Expression Programming. Materials (Basel) 2022; 15:6969. [PMID: 36234310 PMCID: PMC9572215 DOI: 10.3390/ma15196969] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2022] [Revised: 08/26/2022] [Accepted: 09/01/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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The safety and economy of an infrastructure project depends on the material and design equations used to simulate the performance of a particular member. A variety of materials can be used in conjunction to achieve a composite action, such as a hollow steel section filled with concrete, which can be successfully utilized in the form of an axially loaded member. This study aims to model the ultimate compressive strength (Pu) of concrete-filled hollow steel sections (CFSS) by formulating a mathematical expression using gene expression programming (GEP). A total of 149 datapoints were obtained from the literature, considering ten input parameters, including the outer diameter of steel tube (D), wall thickness of steel tube, compressive strength of concrete (fc'), elastic modulus of concrete (Ec), yield strength of steel (fv), elastic modulus of steel (Es), length of the column (L), confinement factor (ζ), ratio of D to thickness of column, and the ratio of length to D of column. The performance of the developed models was assessed using coefficient of regression R2, root mean squared error RMSE, mean absolute error MAE and comparison of regression slopes. It was found that the optimal GEP Model T3, having number of chromosomes Nc = 100, head size Hs = 8 and number of genes Ng = 3, outperformed all the other models. For this particular model, R2overall equaled 0.99, RMSE values were 133.4 and 162.2, and MAE = 92.4 and 108.7, for training (TR) and testing (TS) phases, respectively. Similarly, the comparison of regression slopes analysis revealed that the Model T3 exhibited the highest R2 of 0.99 with m = 1, in both the TR and TS stages, respectively. Finally, parametric analysis showed that the Pu of composite steel columns increased linearly with the value of D, t and fy.
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- Kaffayatullah Khan
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa 31982, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Civil Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology Peshawar, Peshawar 25120, Pakistan
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- Department of Civil Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology Mardan, Mardan 23200, Pakistan
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa 31982, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa 31982, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa 31982, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Civil Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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Amin MN, Raheel M, Iqbal M, Khan K, Qadir MG, Jalal FE, Alabdullah AA, Ajwad A, Al-Faiad MA, Abu-Arab AM. Prediction of Rapid Chloride Penetration Resistance to Assess the Influence of Affecting Variables on Metakaolin-Based Concrete Using Gene Expression Programming. Materials (Basel) 2022; 15:6959. [PMID: 36234306 PMCID: PMC9573192 DOI: 10.3390/ma15196959] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2022] [Revised: 08/25/2022] [Accepted: 08/31/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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The useful life of a concrete structure is highly dependent upon its durability, which enables it to withstand the harsh environmental conditions. Resistance of a concrete specimen to rapid chloride ion penetration (RCP) is one of the tests to indirectly measure its durability. The central aim of this study was to investigate the influence of different variables, such as, age, amount of binder, fine aggregate, coarse aggregate, water to binder ratio, metakaolin content and the compressive strength of concrete on the RCP resistance using a genetic programming approach. The number of chromosomes (Nc), genes (Ng) and, the head size (Hs) of the gene expression programming (GEP) model were varied to study their influence on the predicted RCP values. The performance of all the GEP models was assessed using a variety of performance indices, i.e., R2, RMSE and comparison of regression slopes. The optimal GEP model (Model T3) was obtained when the Nc = 100, Hs = 8 and Ng = 3. This model exhibits an R2 of 0.89 and 0.92 in the training and testing phases, respectively. The regression slope analysis revealed that the predicted values are in good agreement with the experimental values, as evident from their higher R2 values. Similarly, parametric analysis was also conducted for the best performing Model T3. The analysis showed that the amount of binder, compressive strength and age of the sample enhanced the RCP resistance of the concrete specimens. Among the different input variables, the RCP resistance sharply increased during initial stages of curing (28-d), thus validating the model results.
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- Muhammad Nasir Amin
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, King Faisal University, Al-Hofuf 31982, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Civil Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology, Mardan 23200, Pakistan
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- Department of Civil Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar 25120, Pakistan
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, King Faisal University, Al-Hofuf 31982, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, Abbottabad Campus, COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad 22060, Pakistan
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- Department of Civil Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, King Faisal University, Al-Hofuf 31982, Saudi Arabia
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- Civil Engineering Department, University of Management and Technology, Lahore 54770, Pakistan
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa 31982, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, King Faisal University, Al-Hofuf 31982, Saudi Arabia
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Lamping O, Leon J, Raheel M, Matre N, Lilly S, Harfi T. 485 Right Ventricular Function By Cardiac Computed Tomography As A Predictor Of 1-&3-year Survival Post-TAVI. J Cardiovasc Comput Tomogr 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jcct.2022.06.096] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Rani M, Iqbal J, Farhat Mehmood R, Ullah Rashid E, Misbah, Rani S, Raheel M, Ahmad Khera R. Strategies toward the end-group modifications of indacenodithiophene based non-fullerene small molecule acceptor to improve the efficiency of Organic solar Cells; a DFT study. COMPUT THEOR CHEM 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.comptc.2022.113747] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Khan M, Raheel M, Shah S, Ibrahim M, Asif M, Salar U, Mohammed Khan K. Synthesis, Characterization, DPPH, Ferric Reducing and Ferrous Ion-Chelating Activities of Isophthalate Schiff Bases. LETT DRUG DES DISCOV 2022. [DOI: 10.2174/1570180819666220429151008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
Abstract
Aims:
Synthesis of bioactive compounds has antioxidant potential.
Background:
All aerobic bodies including human beings, have an antioxidant defense systems that protects them from oxidative damage, and many enzymes to remove or heal damaged molecules. However, this normal antioxidant mechanism can be incompetent, and hence dietary intakes of antioxidant compounds are important.
Objective:
Synthesis of isophthalate Schiff base derivatives 1-14 and screened for their antioxidant activities (DPPH, ferrous ion Fe2+ chelating and ferric Fe3+ reducing activities)
Method:
Schiff bases 1-14 were synthesized by two-step reaction scheme. First step was the esterification reaction of isophthalic acid followed by the hydrazinolysis of methyl isophthalate to afford isophthalic dihydrazide. Second step was the condensation reaction of isophthalic dihydrazide with a variety of benzaldehydes to afford Schiff bases 1-14. Synthetic compounds were characterized by spectroscopic techniques such as 1H-NMR and EI-MS.
Result:
Compounds were screened for their antioxidant activities (DPPH, ferrous ion Fe2+ chelating and ferric Fe3+ reducing activities). Most of the compounds showed significant antioxidant activities. A structure-activity relationship has also been discussed.
Conclusion:
Most of the synthetic isophthalate Schiff bases were found to be moderately active when screened for their antioxidant activities by three assays such as DPPH radical scavenging, ferrous ion-chelating and ferric reducing activities. These moderately active compounds can serve as lead molecules for further modification in the structure in order to identify more powerful antioxidant agents.
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- Momi Khan
- Department of Chemistry, Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan-23200, Pakistan
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- Department of Chemistry, Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan-23200, Pakistan
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- Department of Chemistry, Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan-23200, Pakistan
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- Department of Chemistry, Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan-23200, Pakistan
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- Department of Chemistry, Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan-23200, Pakistan
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- H. E. J. Research Institute of Chemistry, International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences, University of Karachi, Karachi-75270, Pakistan
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- H. E. J. Research Institute of Chemistry, International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences, University of Karachi, Karachi-75270, Pakistan
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Aslam HMU, Khan NA, Hussain SI, Ali Y, Raheel M, Shahzad R, Jamil S, Yasin O, Ali S, Amrao L. First Report of Brown Leaf Spot of Rice ( Oryza sativa) Caused by Bipolaris sorokiniana in Pakistan. Plant Dis 2022; 106:PDIS05211097PDN. [PMID: 34798785 DOI: 10.1094/pdis-05-21-1097-pdn] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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- H M U Aslam
- Department of Plant Pathology, Institute of Plant Protection (IPP), MNS-University of Agriculture, Multan, Pakistan
- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan
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- Pest Warning and Quality Control of Pesticides, Punjab, Pakistan
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- College of Agriculture, BZU, Bahadur Sub-Campus Layyah, Pakistan
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Faculty of Agriculture and Environment, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Pakistan
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- Agricultural Biotechnology Research Institute, Ayub Agricultural Research Institute, Faisalabad, Pakistan
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- Agricultural Biotechnology Research Institute, Ayub Agricultural Research Institute, Faisalabad, Pakistan
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan
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Akram SJ, Hadia NMA, Iqbal J, Mehmood RF, Iqbal S, Shawky AM, Asif A, Somaily HH, Raheel M, Khera RA. Impact of various heterocyclic π-linkers and their substitution position on the opto-electronic attributes of the A–π–D–π–A type IECIO-4F molecule: a comparative analysis. RSC Adv 2022; 12:20792-20806. [PMID: 35919141 PMCID: PMC9297698 DOI: 10.1039/d2ra04097b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2022] [Accepted: 07/06/2022] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
Abstract
To investigate the consequence of different substitution positions of various π-linkers on the photovoltaic properties of an organic solar cell molecule, we have introduced two series of six three-donor molecules, by the substitution of some effective π-linkers on the A–π–D–π–A type reference molecule IECIO-4F (taken as IOR). In series “a” the thienyl or furyl bridge is directly linked between the donor and acceptor moieties, while in series “b” the phenyl ring of the same bridge is working as the direct point of attachment. The frontier molecular orbitals, density of states, transition density matrix, molecular electrostatic potential surfaces, exciton binding energy, excitation energy, wavelength of maximum absorption, open-circuit voltage, fill factor, and some other photovoltaic attributes of the proposed molecules were analyzed through density functional theory (DFT) and its time-dependent (TD) approach; the TD-DFT method. Though both series of newly derived molecules were a step up from the reference molecule in almost all of the studied characteristics, the “a” series (IO1a to IO3a) seemed to be better due to their desirable properties such as the highest maximum absorption wavelength (λmax), open-circuit voltage, and fill factor, along with the lowest excitation and exciton dissociation energy, etc. of its molecules. Also, the studied morphology, optical characteristics, and electronic attributes of this series of proposed molecules signified the fact that the molecules with thienyl or furyl ring working as the direct link between the acceptor and donor molecules showed enhanced charge transfer abilities, and could provide a maximum quantum yield of the solar energy supplied. We have introduced two series of six three-donor molecules, by the substitution of some effective π-linkers on the A–π–D–π–A type reference molecule IECIO-4F (taken as IOR) for efficient organic solar cells.![]()
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- Sahar Javaid Akram
- Department of Chemistry, University of Agriculture, 38000 Faisalabad, Pakistan
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- Physics Department, College of Science, Jouf University, P.O. Box 2014, Sakaka, Al-Jouf, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Agriculture, 38000 Faisalabad, Pakistan
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- Department of Chemistry, Division of Science and Technology, University of Education, Township, Lahore 54770, Pakistan
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Wah Engineering College, University of Wah, Quaid Avenue, 47040 Wah Cantt, Pakistan
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- Science and Technology Unit (STU), Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah 21955, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Agriculture, 38000 Faisalabad, Pakistan
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- Research Center for Advanced Materials Science (RCAMS), King Khalid University, Abha 61413, P.O. Box 9004, Saudi Arabia
- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, King Khalid University, P.O. Box 9004, Abha, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Chemistry, Baluchistan University of Information Technology, Engineering and Management Sciences (BUITEMS), Quetta 87300, Pakistan
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Agriculture, 38000 Faisalabad, Pakistan
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Ahsan M, Younis A, Nafees M, Tufail A, Shakeel Q, Raheel M, Nawaz F, Jaskani MJ, Amin M, Sajid M, Akhtar G, Bukhsh A, Siddiqua UH, Raza MA, Schwinghamer T, Zulfiqar H. Marginal quality water arbitrated essential oil contents in metal hoarded flower petals of scented roses. Ecotoxicol Environ Saf 2021; 226:112853. [PMID: 34619475 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2021.112853] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2021] [Revised: 09/25/2021] [Accepted: 09/29/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Climate change and the consequent alteration in agricultural circumstances enhance the susceptibility of fresh water use particularly in water-scarce regions. Marginal quality water reuse is a common alternative practice but possible perils of metal accretion in plant parts are mostly ignored. The present research aimed to probe the impact of treated wastewater (TWW) and untreated wastewater (UTWW) on metal accumulation in flower petals and their influence on essential oil contents of fragrant Rosa species (R. Gruss-an-teplitz, R. bourboniana, R. centifolia, R. damascena) in a peri-urban area of Faisalabad, Pakistan during January, 2017 to December, 2018. The mineral and chemical contents in canal water (CW) and TWW were less than recommended levels of national environmental quality standards (NEQS) for wastewater of Pakistan. The experimentally UTWW possessed higher electrical conductivity (EC), biological and chemical oxygen demand (BOD and COD), and some metals (Pb, Co, Cr) that were above the permissible levels. The experimental data revealed that except Cr other metals contents in the flower petals were less than the WHO recommended limits (for medicinal plants) under experimental irrigation regimes. Rosa centifolia and R. damascena possessed higher metal i.e. Zn, Cu, Pb, Cr, Co contents while Fe and Ni contents were higher in R. Gruss-an-Teplitz and R. bourboniana respectively. There were twelve constituents which were detected in essential oil by gas chromatography. Major constituents were phenyl ethyl alcohol, citronellol, geranyl acetate, γ- undelactone, methyl eugenol, and limonene whose share was 48.17%, 41.11%, 8.46%, 4.82%, 4.44%, and 4.15% respectively whereas concentrations of other 06 constituents were less than 3.7%. Phenyl ethyl alcohol, lion shared constituent of essential oil was found highest (48.17%) in R. Gruss-an-Teplitz whereas minimum level was recorded in R. damascena (28.84%) under CW. In contrast, citronellol (chief component of fragrance) was highest in R. damascena (41.11%) in UTWW while the lowest level was found in R. Gruss-an-Teplitz (17.41%) in CW. This study confirmed the variations in metal concentrations of Rosa species due to different absorbability of each metal in flower petals. It also indicates that wastewater did not affect the composition but there were quantitative differences in aroma constituents and chemical composition of essential oil.
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- Muhammad Ahsan
- Department of Horticultural Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture & Environment, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, 63100, Pakistan.
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- Institute of Horticultural Sciences, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, 38040, Pakistan
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- Department of Horticultural Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture & Environment, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, 63100, Pakistan
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- Department of Botany, Division of Science and Technology, University of Education Lahore, 54000, Pakistan
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Faculty of Agriculture & Environment, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, 63100, Pakistan
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Faculty of Agriculture & Environment, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, 63100, Pakistan
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- Department of Agronomy, MNS, University of Agriculture, Multan, Pakistan; Institute of Crop Sciences (340h), University of Hohenheim, 70599 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Institute of Horticultural Sciences, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, 38040, Pakistan
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- Department of Horticultural Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture & Environment, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, 63100, Pakistan
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- Department of Horticulture, Ghazi University, Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan
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- Department of Horticulture, MNS, University of Agriculture, Multan, Pakistan
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- Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Ghazi University, Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Agriculture, Sub-campus Toba, Faisalabad 36050, Pakistan
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- College of Food Science and Biotechnology, Key Laboratory of Fruits and Vegetables, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou 310018, China
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- Department of Botany, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, 38040, Pakistan
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Ullah W, Aziz T, Ullah B, Jamil MI, Das SK, Ullah R, Wazir N, Khan FU, Raheel M. Hybrid material for the fabrication of electron transport layer in perovskite solar cell. Polym Bull (Berl) 2021. [DOI: 10.1007/s00289-021-03904-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Aziz T, Mehmood S, Haq F, Ullah R, Khan FU, Ullah B, Raheel M, Iqbal M, Ullah A. Synthesis and modification of silica‐based epoxy nanocomposites with different sol–gel process enhanced thermal and mechanical properties. J Appl Polym Sci 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/app.51191] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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- Tariq Aziz
- College of Chemical and Biological Engineering Zhejiang University Hangzhou China
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- College of Chemical and Biological Engineering Zhejiang University Hangzhou China
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- Department of Chemistry Gomal University D I Khan Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa Pakistan
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT) Beijing China
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- Department of Chemistry University of Science and Technology Bannu Pakistan
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- Institute of Advanced Study Shenzhen University Shenzhen China
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- Baluchistan University of Information Technology, Engineering and Management Sciences (BUITEMS) Quetta Pakistan
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- College of Chemical and Biological Engineering Zhejiang University Hangzhou China
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- School of Pharmacy Xi'an Jiaotong University Shaanxi China
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Ujan R, Bahadur A, Shabir G, Iqbal S, Saeed A, Channar PA, Mahmood Q, Shoaib M, Arshad I, Saifullah M, Liu G, Irfan RM, Ahmad Z, Javed M, Raheel M, Qayyum MA, Khalid B, Rizwan K. Facile synthesis of novel fluorescent thiazole coumarinyl compounds: Electrochemical, time resolve fluorescence, and solvatochromic study. J Mol Struct 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molstruc.2020.129422] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Iqbal S, Bahadur A, Anwer S, Ali S, Irfan RM, Li H, Shoaib M, Raheel M, Anjum TA, Zulqarnain M. Effect of temperature and reaction time on the morphology of l-cysteine surface capped chalcocite (Cu2S) snowflakes dendrites nanoleaves and photodegradation study of methyl orange dye under visible light. Colloids Surf A Physicochem Eng Asp 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2020.124984] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Iqbal S, Iqbal MM, Javed M, Bahadur A, Yasien S, Hurr A, Ahmad N, Raheel M, Liu G. Modified QuEChERS extraction method followed by simultaneous quantitation of nine multi-class pesticides in human blood and urine by using GC-MS. J Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci 2020; 1152:122227. [PMID: 32603923 DOI: 10.1016/j.jchromb.2020.122227] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2020] [Revised: 05/23/2020] [Accepted: 06/05/2020] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Organophosphate, carbamate and pyrethroid pesticides are the most common insecticides used worldwide. They may cause chronic poisoning in farmers and acute poisoning in homicidal or suicidal cases. The determination of trace levels of these pesticides in human blood and urine is very challenging. This study focuses on a simultaneous quantitation method that was developed and validated for multi-class nine pesticides belonging to organophosphate, carbamate and pyrethroid classes in human blood and urine. Target pesticides were extracted from blood and urine using a modified QuEChERS (Quick, Easy, Cheap, Effective, Rugged and Safe) extraction method. Capillary column DB-35 ms (15 m × 0.25 mm, 0.25 µm) was used for chromatography with a 0.079 ml/min flow rate of carrier gas at constant pressure mode. Quantitation of sulfotep, phorate, carbofuran, chlorpyriphos, profenophos, triazophos, pyriproxyfen, lambda-cyhalothrin and permethrin was performed by mass spectrometer equipped with electron impact ionization source using selected ion monitoring (SIM) mode. The lower and upper limits of quantitation for all nine pesticides were 0.01 mg/L and 2.0 mg/dL respectively. The proposed method was proved to be simple, fast, sensitive, and robust. It has been applied to the analysis of 9 pesticides samples.
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- Shahid Iqbal
- School of Chemistry and Materials Engineering, Huizhou University, Huizhou 516007, Guangdong, China.
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- Department of Chemistry, School of Science, University of Management and Technology Lahore, Pakistan; Department of Toxicology, Punjab Forensic Science Agency Lahore, Pakistan
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- Department of Chemistry, School of Science, University of Management and Technology Lahore, Pakistan.
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- Department of Transdisciplinary Studies, Graduate School of Convergence Science and Technology, Seoul National University, Seoul 16229, South Korea
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- University College of Pharmacy, University of The Punjab Lahore, Pakistan
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- Department of Toxicology, Punjab Forensic Science Agency Lahore, Pakistan
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- Department of Chemistry, School of Science, University of Management and Technology Lahore, Pakistan
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- Department of Chemistry, Balochistan University of Information Technology, Engineering and Management Sciences, Quetta, Pakistan
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- School of Chemistry and Materials Engineering, Huizhou University, Huizhou 516007, Guangdong, China.
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Iqbal S, Bahadur A, Anwer S, Shoaib M, Liu G, Li H, Raheel M, Javed M, Khalid B. Designing novel morphologies of l-cysteine surface capped 2D covellite (CuS) nanoplates to study the effect of CuS morphologies on dye degradation rate under visible light. CrystEngComm 2020. [DOI: 10.1039/d0ce00421a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Novel CuS@l-Cys NPs are designed by a hydrothermal route. The effects of synthetic parameters on the morphologies of CuS@l-Cys NPs were investigated. CuS@l-Cys NPs exhibit an enhanced dye degradation rate under visible light.
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- Shahid Iqbal
- School of Chemistry and Materials Engineering
- Huizhou University
- Huizhou 516007
- China
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- Department of Transdisciplinary Studies
- Graduate School of Convergence Science and Technology
- Seoul National University
- Seoul
- South Korea
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering
- Khalifa University
- Abu Dhabi
- United Arab Emirates
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- Department of Chemistry
- Government Postgraduate College Samanabad
- 38000 Faisalabad
- Pakistan
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- School of Chemistry and Materials Engineering
- Huizhou University
- Huizhou 516007
- China
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- School of Chemistry and Materials Engineering
- Huizhou University
- Huizhou 516007
- China
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- Department of Chemistry
- Balochistan University of Information Technology, Engineering and Management Sciences
- Quetta
- Pakistan
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- Department of Chemistry
- School of Science
- University of Management & Technology
- Lahore-54770
- Pakistan
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- Department of Chemistry
- University of Okara
- Renala Khurd, Okara
- Pakistan
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Ali S, Ullah MI, Sajjad A, Majeed MZ, Farooqi MA, Rizwan MS, Shakeel Q, Akhter S, Raheel M, Arshad M. Physicomorphic Response of Polyphagous Helicoverpa armigera Hübner (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) Towards Different Host Plants. PAK J ZOOL 2020. [DOI: 10.17582/journal.pjz/20180413130416] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Nawaz F, Naeem M, Zulfiqar B, Akram A, Ashraf MY, Raheel M, Shabbir RN, Hussain RA, Anwar I, Aurangzaib M. Understanding brassinosteroid-regulated mechanisms to improve stress tolerance in plants: a critical review. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 2017; 24:15959-15975. [PMID: 28540554 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-017-9163-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2016] [Accepted: 05/01/2017] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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Brassinosteroids (BRs) are steroidal plant hormones involved in regulation of physiological and molecular processes to ameliorate various biotic and abiotic stresses. Exogenous application of BRs to improve stress tolerance in plants has recently become a high research priority. Several studies have revealed the involvement of these steroidal hormones in upregulation of stress-related defense genes and their cross talk with other metabolic pathways. This is likely to stimulate research on many unanswered questions regarding their role in enhancing the ability of plants to tolerate adverse environmental conditions. Thus, this review appraises new insights on mechanisms mediating BR-regulated changes in plants, focused mainly on their involvement in regulation of physiological and molecular mechanisms under stress conditions. Herein, examples of BR-stimulated modulation of antioxidant defense system and upregulation of transcription factors in plants exposed to various biotic (bacterial, viral, and fungal attack) and abiotic stresses (drought, salinity, heat, low temperature, and heavy metal stress) are discussed. Based on these insights, future research in the current direction can be helpful to increase our understanding of BR-mediated complex and interrelated processes under stress conditions.
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- Fahim Nawaz
- Department of Agronomy, MNS University of Agriculture, Multan, Pakistan.
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- Department of Agronomy, UCA & ES, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur, Pakistan
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- Department of Agronomy, UCA & ES, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur, Pakistan
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- Department of Agronomy, UCA & ES, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur, Pakistan
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- Crop Stress Management Group, Nuclear Institute for Agriculture and Biology, Faisalabad, Pakistan
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- Department of Plant Pathology, UCA & ES, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur, Pakistan
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- Department of Agronomy, Agriculture College, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan
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- Department of Agronomy, PMAS Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan
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- Department of Agronomy, UCA & ES, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur, Pakistan
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Raheel M, Javed N, Khan SA, Aatif HM, Ahmed S. Effect of Temperature on the Reproductive Potential of Indigenous and Exotic Species of Entomopathogenic Nematodes inside Galleria mellonella L. Larvae. PAK J ZOOL 2017. [DOI: 10.17582/journal.pjz/2017.49.1.sc12] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Mushtaq S, Ismail B, Raheel M, Zeb A. Nickel Antimony Sulphide Thin Films for Solar Cell Application: Study of Optical Constants. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2016. [DOI: 10.4236/ns.2016.82004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Raheel M, Yao K, Gong J, Chen XC, Liu DT, Lin YC, Cui DM, Siddiq M, Tang T. Poly(vinyl alcohol)/GO-MMT nanocomposites: Preparation, structure and properties. Chin J Polym Sci 2014. [DOI: 10.1007/s10118-015-1586-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Nazar MF, Raheel M, Shah SS, Danish M, Ashfaq M, Zafar MN, Siddiq M. Thermodynamic Characteristics and Spectral-Luminescent Properties of N-m-Tolylbenzamide in Microheterogeneous Surfactant Self-Assemblies. J SOLUTION CHEM 2014. [DOI: 10.1007/s10953-014-0151-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Shah SM, Iqbal Z, Iqbal M, Shahzad N, Hana A, Hussain H, Raheel M. Role of Pristine and Acid-Functionalized Fullerene on Breaking Dye Aggregates and its Impact on the Efficiency of Solar Cells. Aust J Chem 2014. [DOI: 10.1071/ch13608] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Porphyrin dyes have an inherent tendency to aggregate. This leads to a self-quenching phenomenon that hinders electron transfer to the conduction band of semiconductors in dye-sensitized solar cells. Self-quenching adversely affects the efficiency of solar cells. Here, we report the interaction of porphyrin with pristine and acid-functionalized fullerene molecules on the surface of ZnO nanoparticles under chemisorbed conditions. Chemisorption of porphyrin only on ZnO nanoparticles instigates aggregation of the porphyrin molecules. These aggregates can be effectively broken by chemisorbing fullerene molecules on the surface of the ZnO nanoparticles. This is due to self-assembly formation processes because of porphyrin–fullerene interactions. The nanohybrid material, consisting of ZnO nanorods, acid-functionalized porphyrin, and fullerene derivatives, was characterized by UV–visible spectroscopy, fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, fluorescence spectroscopy, and transmission electron microscopy. The material generates better performing dye-sensitized solar cells when compared with those fabricated from porphyrin-based photo-active material.
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Jain R, Raheel M. Barrier efficacy of woven and nonwoven fabrics used for protective clothing: predictive models. Bull Environ Contam Toxicol 2003; 71:437-446. [PMID: 14567567 DOI: 10.1007/s00128-003-8988-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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- R Jain
- Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 905 South Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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Zhang X, Raheel M. Statistical model for predicting pesticide penetration in woven fabrics used for chemical protective clothing. Bull Environ Contam Toxicol 2003; 70:652-659. [PMID: 12677374 DOI: 10.1007/s00128-003-0034-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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- X Zhang
- Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 905 South Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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Raheel M, Dai GX. Viability of textile systems for hand and body protection: effects of chemical interaction, wear, and storage conditions. Bull Environ Contam Toxicol 2002; 69:164-172. [PMID: 12107691 DOI: 10.1007/s00128-002-0043-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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- M Raheel
- Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 905 South Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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