Dr. Zawar Hussain
Environmental Science & Engineering | Porous materials | Recycling of Waste material | Solid Waste management |Wastewater treatment| Emerging Pollutants | Antimicrobial agents| Separation membrane | Adsorption of Antibiotics, dyes and heavy metals | Gases absorption
Name: Zawar Hussain
Title: Assistant Professor
Address: School of Chemistry and Environment, Yunnan Minzu University, Kunming 650500, China.
Phone: (+86-15535173694)
E-mail: hussain.zawar1292@hotmail.com , zawar.hussainuaf@gmail.com；zawarhussain@ymu.edu.cn
Nationality: Pakistan
Date of Birth: 1992-10-01
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8988-3425
RESEARCH INTEREST
Development of porous materials for catalysis and adsorption (hydrothermal synthesis, sol-gel method, metal-oxide interface based morphological designed catalysts) Separation membrane for biological, organic and inorganic pollution, Wastewater treatment, solid waste management, Materials characterization, Adsorption, Absorption and catalysis measurements.
DIPLOMAS & EDUCATION
1) Postdoctoral Research fellow at Tiangong University, Tianjin, China (2020-10 to 2022-09).
2) Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China (2022-12 to 2024-11).
1. Zawar Hussain, Saleem, A., & Gao, L. (2025). From waste to Innovation: Silver-Doped silicate ink coating from waste coal fly ash for hydrophobic antimicrobial fabric and Water-Oil separation. Waste Management, 194, 238-248.
2. Zawar Hussain, Ali, G., Akbar, A. R., Khan, K. U., Al-Khattaf, F. S., & Saleem, A. (2025). Physicochemical synthesis of zeolite modified nano-flakes to eliminate emerging pollutants in aquatic environment. Journal of Water Process Engineering, 69, 106832.
3. Zawar Hussain, Na Chang, Jingqiu Sun, Simeng Xiang, Tehreem Ayaz, Hao Zhang, and Haitao Wang. "Modification of coal fly ash and its use as low-cost adsorbent for the removal of directive, acid and reactive dyes." Journal of Hazardous Materials 422 (2022):126778.
4. Zawar Hussain.; Lizhen, G.; Moeen, M. Treatment of Coal Fly Ash and Environmentally Friendly Use with Rubber in Cable Wires as Insulation Material. Sustainability 2020, 12, 5218.
5. Zawar Hussain, Hao Zhang, Na Chang, and Haitao Wang. Synthesis of porous materials by the modification of coal fly ash and its environmentally friendly use for the removal of heavy metals from wastewater. Frontiers in Environmental Science. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2022.1085326.
6. Zawar Hussain, Nabil Al Zaqril, Ahmed Boshaala, Tehreem Ayaz, Amir Zeb Khan. Treatment of coal fly ash and its environmentally friendly use in the rubber and plastic industries. Arabian Journal of Geosciences (2023) 16:374 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-023-11467-1.
7. Zhang, Yi, Panlei Wang, Zawar Hussain, Hao Zhang, Haitao Wang, Na Chang, and Fan Li. "Modification and characterization of hydrogel beads and its used as environmentally friendly adsorbent for the removal of reactive dyes." Journal of Cleaner Production (2022): 130789.
8. Wang, Haitao, Boya Yan, Zawar Hussain, Wei Wang, and Na Chang. "Chemically graft aminated GO onto dehydro-fluorinated PVDF for preparation of homogenous DF-PVDF/GO-NH2 ultrafiltration membrane with high permeability and antifouling performance." Surfaces and Interfaces (2022): 102255.
9. Adil Saleem, Rashid Iqbal, Muhammad Kashif Majeed, Akbar, Zawar Hussain, Arshad Hussain, Abdul Rehman, Bushra Jabar, Sajid Rauf, Leon L. Shaw. Boosting lithium-ion conductivity of polymer electrolyte by selective introduction of covalent organic frameworks for safe lithium metal batteries. Nano Energy, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoen.2024.109848.
10. Saleem, A., Shaw, L. L., Butt, M. K., Rehman, J., Hussain, A., Zawar Hussain., ... & Majeed, M. K. (2024). Achieving dynamic stability of single-crystal low-Co Ni-rich cathode material for high performance lithium batteries. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 12(44), 30831-30841.
11. Zhang H, Wang H, Yaoyao Z, Li F, Hussain Z, Chang N. Preparation of straw-reinforced grafted starch composite adsorbent for the treatment of textile printing and dyeing wastewater. Textile Research Journal. 2023;93(9-10):2002-2017. doi:10.1177/00405175221139321.
12. Zawar Hussain, Lizhen Gao, and Muhammad Moeen. Assessing the Extent and Effects of Vehicles’ Noise Pollution and CO Emissions on Human Health in Urban Areas of Faisalabad, Pakistan, Journal of North American Academic Research. 2019, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3539681.
13. Moeen, M., Qi, T., Zawar Hussain., Ge, Q., Maqbool, Z., Jianjie, X., Kaiqing, F. (2020). Use of Zeolite to Reduce the Bioavailability of Heavy Metals in a Contaminated Soil. Journal of Ecological Engineering, 21(7). （ESCI）DOI: 10.12911/22998993/125547
Reviewer of Nature Scientific Reports, PLOS ONE, PLOS Water and Frontiers in Environmental Science
1- Awarded travel grant to pursue Ph.D. studies by Higher Education Commission, Government of Pakistan. (4th April 2018).
2- Awarded Ph.D. studies Full Scholarship by Provincial Government of Shanxi, China.
· Attended 13th Environmental Conference for Doctoral students, held October 2019 at Tsinghua University Beijing, China.
· Certificate participation of Punjab International IT, Science & Technology Expo and competitions, 2014 by National ICT R&D Fund Ministry of Information Technology Pakistan.
· Certificate participation of Punjab Youth Festival 2014 Pakistan.
