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Recent Journal Publications from LNP are :

  1. Flexible piezoelectric PVDF/TPU nanofibrous membranes produced by solution blow spinning .

  2. Unsupervised Learning-Based WSN Clustering for Efficient Environmental Pollution Monitoring.
  3. Multi-functional wet-electrospun piezoelectric nanofibers sensing mat: Manufacturing, characterization, and applications.

Recent Conference from LNP

  1. Highly Transparent Piezoelectric PVDF electro spun membranes
  2. Delegation visit from the British Embassy

    The research team of the Lab of Nanotechnology and Photonics (LNP) at KCST was honored by a visit of a delegation formed by Mr. Anthony Galvin (Program manager) and Ms Aishah Kamaldeen (Head of Programs ) from the British Embassy on Tuesday September 26, 2023. The visit included some in-depth discussions about the 1st year research activities success of the project funded by the UK Embassy. During the visit, several prototypes of piezoelectric mats have been presented and introduced to the delegation by the research team.
 

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Lab of Nanotechnology & Photonics, Physics Department, KCST

LAB

Multidisciplinary and different application.

NANO TECHNOLOGY

Applications and Devices based on synthesized nanostructures.

PHOTONICS

Synthesis & Characterisation of different optical nanostructures.

 

ABOUT

    The recently established Kuwait College of Science and Technology (KCST) aims to be one of the best academic institutes in Gulf area in both teaching and research tracks. At KCST, we have a promising research interest through the integration between multidisciplinary areas including Applied Physics, Material Science, Electrical Engineering, and Computer Science/Engineering. Therefore, KCST started to build Nanotechnology and Photonics Lab “LNP” in 2017 to be one of the pioneer research centers, whether in State of Kuwait and the Gulf area, within the field of nanotechnology and its related wide applications of different disciplines.

    LNP is mainly concerned with the synthesis and characterization of different optical, piezoelectric and conductive nanostructures, so that it can be applied further in wide variety of applications such as environmental nanosensors, new trends in renewable energy, flexible printed electronics, water-waste treatment, biomedical engineering, and Internet of Things (IoT).Moreover, LNP at KCST targets to build innovative prototypes in the aforementioned applications to serve both governmental and private sectors inside the State of Kuwait.Also, LNP has strong collaboration connections through different research centers in United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Qatar.On the other hand, the targeted facilities and manpower at LNP can help the professors of KCST to obtain some preliminary results, which can be the basic seed to apply for further research proposals within both Kuwaiti and international funding agencies.

    Regarding the educational perspective, the available facilities of LNP are essential for KCST’s talented students to develop their background/skills and consequently to turn their brilliant ideas into possible prototypes, which to be applied further in entrepreneurship competitions and open the window of small business plans for them.

Motivations & Aims

Our vision in KCST is to develop LNP to be a leader research lab in State of Kuwait, and Gulf area in general, in the fields of nanotechnology with integrated multi-disciplinary fields such as environmental monitoring, water waste treatment, renewable energy, communications, electronics, petroleum industry, data management, and cyber security.We aim to offer high quality research, to make the center competitive with similar centers worldwide. Also, this center can be a focal point for international collaboration and research funds in the aforementioned fields, which strongly serves both Kuwaiti governmental and private industrial sectors. In a related track, we target to make LNP is an ideal research environment for Kuwaiti young researchers including both graduate and undergraduate students.
  

Our Strategy

Our strategy inside LNP at KCST (LNP_KCST) is to depend on low and moderate-cost facilities to synthesize and characterize nanostructures followed by designing and fabricating simple prototypes. LNP aims to be an optimum collaborative research center that can be the leader in the domain of Smart nano-scale research not only on the national scale but also across the Gulf area and the entire Middle East region. With the successful utilization of the center facilities and latest communication technologies that we have, we shall enable border crossing collaboration with researchers and research centers opening the way for large-scale research projects. Meanwhile, we collaborate with other research centers, whether inside or outside Kuwait, to use their high-cost nanostructures characterization facilities.

Our Amazing Team

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Dr.Nader Shehata

Director of Lab of Nanotechnology & Photonics (LNP)

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Ms.Remya R Nair

Senior Research Assistant/Teaching Assistant

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Eng.Kareem Mohammed

Research Assistant

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Mr. Omar Amjad Dib

Undergraduate Student at KCST

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Mr. Jaffer Mahdi

Undergraduate Student at KCST

RESEARCH PROJECTS

 
Innovative Energy Harvesting Solutions for Cyber-Secured Green Buildings

Funded Research Projects Awarded by British Embassy in Kuwait/ (FCDO)

Funded Budget: KD 104214

 
 
Impact of Metallic Nanostructures on Perovskite Materials

Funded Research Projects Awarded by : KFAS Kuwait

Funded Budget: 20000 $

  
 
Efficiency enhancement of perovskite solar cells with plasmonic nanostructures

Funded Research Projects Awarded by : KFAS Kuwait

Funded Budget: 115,000 $

 
 
Elastic Piezoelectric Nanocomposite Layers for energy harvesting applications

Funded Research Projects Awarded by : KFAS Kuwait

Funded Budget:17,000 $

 
Optical nanosensors with integrated flexible printed nanoantennas for water quality monitoring

Funded Research Projects Awarded by : KFAS Kuwait

Funded Budget: 165,000 $

 
Aligned PVDF nanofibers embedded with carbon nanotubes for energy harvesting

Funded Research Projects Awarded by : KFAS Kuwait

Funded Budget: 30,000 $

 
 
 
Solar cells efficiency improvement using optical nanostructures coating layers

Funded Research Projects Awarded by : KFAS Kuwait

Funded Budget: 26,000 $

  

Conferences

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Conferences - 2022

Conferences

N. Shehata, R. Nair, I. Kandas, N. Omran, and A. Hassanin

 
Conferences - 2019

Conferences

N. Shehata, H. Badran, I. Kandas, A. Hajjiah

 
Conferences - 2018

Conferences

Mansour, N. Shehata, M.R.M. Rizk, M. Abdelazim

  

Journals

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Journal Publications - 2023

Journal Publications

B. Le, N. Omran, A. H. Hassanin, I. Kandas, M. Gamal, I. Shyha, and N. Shehata,

 
Journal Publications - 2022

Journal Publications

N. Shehata, R. Nair, R. Boualayan, N. Omran, M. Gamal, A. Masrani, A. Hassanin,

 
Journal Publications - 2021

Journal Publications

M. Gamal, I. Kandas, H. Badran, A. Hajjiah, M. Muhammed, N. Shehata,

 
 
Journal Publications - 2020

Journal Publications

N. Shehata, A.H. Hassanin, E. Elnabawy, R. Nair, S. Bhat, I. Kandas,

 
Journal Publications - 2019

Journal Publications

E. Elnabawy, A. Hassanain, N. Shehata, A. Popelka, R. Nair, S.Youssef, I. Kandas,

 
Journal Publications - 2018

Journal Publications

S. Elrafei , I. Kandas , N. Shehata , E. Samir ,

     

ALUMNI

 
  • Dr. Mohamed Salah Elsayed
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  • Ms. Rabab Boualyan
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  • Prof. Kamal Alameh, Edith Cowan University, Australia.
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  • Prof. Kathleen Meehan, California State University at Chico, United States.
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  • Dr. Ali Hajjiah, Kuwait University, Kuwait.
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  • Prof. Islam Shyha, Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom.
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  • Prof. Ahmed Al-Dubai, Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom.
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  • Dr. Saad Bin Qassim, Kuwait University, Kuwait.
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  • Dr. Ishac Kandas, Alexandria University, Egypt.
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  • Dr. Alaa Khalil, Pharos University, Egypt.
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Recent publications

# Title Journal PDF
1 Flexible piezoelectric PVDF/TPU nanofibrous membranes produced by solution blow spinning Journal of Material Research and Technology, Volume 24,May-June 2023 , Pages 5032 - 5041 (ELSEVIER) PDF Link
2 Unsupervised Learning-Based WSN Clustering for Efficient Environmental Pollution Monitoring Sensors - Volume 23,Issue 12 (MDPI) PDF Link
3 Multi-functional wet-electrospun piezoelectric nanofibers sensing mat: Manufacturing, characterization, and applications Material Science in Semiconductor Processing , Volume 166, 107708 ( ELSEVIER) PDF Link
 
# Title Conference Link
1 Highly Transparent Piezoelectric PVDF electro spun membranes Our work “Highly Transparent Piezoelectric PVDF electro spun membranes” are presented in the oral presentation session of the 7th International Conference on Material Sciences & Nanomaterials ,ICMSN CAMBRIDGE 2023.  PDF Link

Contact Us

 
Address :

J007,J008 Nano Technology & Photonics Lab,

Kuwait College of Science and Technology

Doha Rd,Kuwait

 
Email:

lnp@kcst.edu.kw

 
Phone No:

+965 24972621