-- Approfit ZnO Manufacturing (Malaysia) Co. Ltd. [Zamzam Zakaria]
----Integrated Resource Management (Canada), global Zn-ZnO expert [Dr. Peter Robinson]
and also doing collaboration with these universities,
--- Northumbria University, UK (Dr. Ghanim Putrus)
---- Alabama A&M University, USA (Prof M.A. Alim)
-----Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France (Dr. Renaud Metz)
------ Universiti Sains Malaysia (Dr. M.J. Abdullah)
------- Universiti Putra Malaysia (Dr. A.Zakaria,Prof M.Z.Hussein,Z.Rizwan)
I am a journal reviewer for two ISI journals by Elsevier (Europe) and one IEEE transaction (TNANO) - journals on materials science, inorganic chemistry and nanotechnology. I have over 24 publications on nanostructures, surge suppressors, varistors, semiconductors and solid state physics. 11 of my papers are published in these journals: J. of Crystal Growth, J. of Synthesis & Reactivity in Inorganic, Metal-organic and Nanometal Chemistry, J. of Solid State Science & Technology, and Jurnal Fizik Malaysia, in addition to 19 proceedings in IEEE, Nano and Physics conferences.
I am providing advise/consultation to several ZnO and arrester factories in several countries and also to a university research national project (IRPA 02-02-04-0132EA001). All my nano-crystals are synthesized using factory furnaces thereby raising the commercial value of research findings. For 9 years, I have worked as an engineer at Nippon Steel, Thomson, Sumitomo, Acme and Rolnic; factories that manufacture varistors, arresters, ferrites, substrates, capacitors and ceramic tiles. Kindly click the hyperlinks on the upper-righthand if you wish to view my most recent papers, and a million thanks if the papers are cited.
May You Prosper in Health and Wealth.
Silver Medal ITEX 2008 for New Industrial Nanofabrication of ZnO Nanostructures
SEMINARS ON NANO RESEARCH
A...Invited Plenary Speaker for World Innovation Forum, United Nation, "University-Industry Collaboration in ZnO Nanotechnology", 11August2007, Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, Malaysia
B....Invited Speaker for seminar "4-D analysis for structural modeling of ZnO Nanostructures, 13March2006 at Institute of Advanced Technology, Universiti Putra Malaysia.
C......Invited Speaker for seminar "Thermodynamic Modeling for Novel Nanofabrication", 9June2006 at Mechanical Engineering Faculty, Universiti Teknologi MARA.
D........Invited Speaker for seminar "Miller-Bravais 4-D Modeling for Novel ZnO Nanostructures", 22June2006, School of Materials Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia.
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
1.....Shahrom Mahmud, Mat Johar Abdullah, John Chong, Abdul Karim Mohamad and Mohd Zamzam Zakaria, Growth model for nanomallets of zinc oxide from a catalyst-free combust-oxidised process, J. of Crystal Growth, 2006, 287(01), pp118-123-----------------------------------[SCI impact factor 1.71]----------
2.....Shahrom Mahmud and Mat Johar Abdullah, Nanotripods of ZnO, Proc. IEEE Conference on Emerging Technolgies – Nanoelectonics, January 10-13, 2006, Singapore, IEEE Catalog No. 06EX1154C, ISBN 0-7803-9358-9, pp442-446.
3.....Shahrom Mahmud, Mat Johar Abdullah, John Chong, Abdul Karim Mohamad, Mohd. Zamzam Zakaria, Nanostructure of ZnO fabricated via French Process and its correlation to electrical properties of semiconducting varistors, J. of Synthesis and Reactivity in Inorganic, Metal-organic and Nano-metal Chemistry, 2006, 36(02), pp155-159-----------------------------------[SCI impact factor 0.72]----------
4.....Shahrom Mahmud, Mat Johar Abdullah, Ghanim A. Putrus, Increase in upturn power dissipation of surge suppressors due to highly defective nanostructure of zinc oxide, J. of Synthesis and Reactivity in Inorganic, Metal-organic and Nano-metal Chemistry, 2006, 36(01), pp59-64-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[SCI impact factor 0.72]----------------------
5.....Shahrom Mahmud, Mat Johar Abdullah, Mohd. Zamzam Zakaria, Growth model for nanoplates and nanoboxes of zinc oxide, J. of Synthesis and Reactivity in Inorganic, Metal-organic and Nano-metal Chemistry, 2006, 36(01), pp17-22------------------------------------------------[SCI impact factor 0.72]----------------
6.....Shahrom Mahmud and Mat Johar Abdullah, Tapered head of ZnO nanorods, J. of Solid State Science and Technology, 2007, 15(1), pp108-115.
7.....Shahrom Mahmud and Mat Johar Abdullah, Role of irregularly-shaped cluster in ZnO nanostructures, J. of Solid State Science and Technology ISSN 0128-7389), 2006 in press.
8.....Shahrom Mahmud and Mat Johar Abdullah, New growth equation for ZnO rods, Physics Journal of Malaysia, 2006, 27, pp77-79.
9.....Shahrom Mahmud, Mat Johar Abdullah and Mohd Zamzam Zakaria, Nanoscopic inhomogeneity of French process in large scale manufacturing of zinc oxide, Proceedings of International Meeting on Frontiers of Physics (IMFP2005), 25-29 July 2005, Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia.
10.....Shahrom Mahmud and Mat Johar Abdullah, Nanorods of ZnO in subminute growth approach, Proc. International Conference on MEMS and Nanotechnology, pp319-323, March 14-15, 2006, Malaysia.
11.....Shahrom Mahmud and Mat Johar Abdullah, Electrical nonlinearity of low-voltage varistors and its relation to interfacial trap density and nanocrystals, Proc. 3rd International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies (ICMAT2005), July 3-8 2005, Singapore.
12.....Shahrom Mahmud, Mat Johar Abdullah, Zakaria Mohd. Amin, Power Dissipation of ZnO-based Metal Oxide Varistors (MOVs) for Electronic Circuit Protection (2004), 7th International Conference on Solid-State and Integrated-Circuit Technology (ICSICT 2004), October 18-21, 2004, Beijing, China, IEEE Catalog # 04EX862C, ISBN # 0-7803-8512-8, Vol.3 pp2366-2369.
13.....Shahrom Mahmud, Mat Johar Abdullah, Zakaria Mohd. Amin, Novel Modelling for High-Field Current-Voltage Characteristics of Semiconducting Varistors (2004), IEEE International Conference on Semiconductor Electronics (ICSE2004), December 7-9, 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, IEEE Catalog # 04EX917C, ISBN # 0-7803-8659-0, Vol.1 pp164-167.
14.....Shahrom Mahmud, Mat Johar Abdullah and Zakaria Mohd. Amin, The influence of cobalt trioxide (Co2O3) on the nonlinear property and energy-handling capability of zinc oxide (ZnO) low-voltage varistors, J. of Solid State Science and Technology Letters, 2002, 9(01) pp108-116.
15.....Shahrom Mahmud , Mat Johar Abdullah and Zakaria Mohd. Amin, The role of manganese trioxide (Mn2O3) in enhancing the nonlinearity coefficient of zinc oxide low-voltage varistors, J. of Solid State Science and Technology Letters,2002, 9(01) pp117-126.
16.....Shahrom Mahmud , Mat Johar Abdullah and Zakaria Mohd. Amin, The relationship between sintering profiles and electrical properties of low-voltage zinc oxide varistors (2002), J. of Solid State Science and Technology Letters, 2002, 10 (02) pp145-154.
17.....Shahrom Mahmud, The manipulation of grain size and additives in zinc-oxide varistor manufacturing, J. of Solid State Science and Technology Letters, 1997.
18.....Abdul Halim Shaari, Mansor Hashim and Shahrom Mahmud, Preparation and superconducting properties of the tin doped Y-Ba-Cu-O compounds, Seramik Nusantara, 1990, Vol.1, pp229-240.
19.....Shahrom Mahmud and Mat Johar Abdullah, Four dimensional analysis for structural modeling of ZnO Nanostructures, Proceedings of International Advanced Technology Congress (ATCi2005), Dec 6-8 2005, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
20.....Mansor Hashim and Shahrom Mahmud,Materials Formulation and Processing Technology For Ferrite Antenna Cores, Proceedings of Seminar on Commercialisation of Malaysian R & D (MINDEX/INNOTEX), pp45-52, August 1996, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
21.....Shahrom Mahmud, Peter J Robinson, Mat Johar Abdullah, M.Zamzam Zakari, John Chong, A.K.Mohamad, Azmi Zakaria, M.Zobir Hussein and Zahid Rizwan, University-Industry Collaboration in ZnO Nanotechnology, Plenary Paper of World Innovation Forum (WIF2007), United Nation, August 11, 2007, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
22.....Peter J Robinson and Shahrom Mahmud, Zinc Oxide Manufacturing – French and Other Processes, Invited Plenary Paper in 2008 International Zinc Oxide Industry Conference, 27 February 2008, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA.
23.....Hazizan Md Akil, Ong Hui Lin, and Shahrom Mahmud, Effect of particle morphology on the properties of nanoZnO/Polypropylene Composites, Materials Letters, (Submitted)
24.....Shahrom Mahmud, Hazizan Md Akil, Peter J. Robinson, Mohd. Zamzam Zakaria and Ong Hui-Lin, Industrial Research on Nano ZnO: Synthesis, Structure and Morphological-Optical Correlations, Proceedings of International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 2008 (NANO-SciTech 2008), 18-21 November 2008, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia
