DEPARTMENT.FACULTY

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Dr. Arifa Shaheen
  • DEPARTMENT_STAFF.QUALIFICATION

    Ph.D.

  • DEPARTMENT_STAFF.DESIGNATION

    Assistant Professor

  • DEPARTMENT_STAFF.THRUST_AREA

    Physical Chemistry, Surfactant systems, Aggregation behaviour

  • DEPARTMENT_STAFF.ADDRESS

    Department of Chemistry, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh

  • DEPARTMENT_STAFF.MOBILE

  • DEPARTMENT_STAFF.EMAIL

    ashaheen.ch@amu.ac.in

DEPARTMENT_STAFF.COMPLETE_CV
DEPARTMENT_STAFF.PROFILE

Dr. Arifa Shaheen did her B.Sc. (Hons. School), M.Sc. (Hons. School) and Ph.D. from Department of Chemistry, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, Punjab. She qualified CSIR-UGC NET, JRF and GATE exams during her M.Sc.She worked as CSIR-JRF and CSIR-SRF in her Ph.D. She has 14 years of teaching experience as Assistant Professor at Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar and Punjabi University, Patiala before joining Aligarh Muslim University in 2014. Her research interest includes surfactant selective sensors, micellar chemistry, solution behaviour of surfactants, surfactant-polymer interactions. She has published 20 research papers in various international refereed journals such as Journal of Colloid Interface Science, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., Colloid Polymer Science, J. Surf. Detergents etc.

  1. Publication


    • Highly Sensitive Fluorescent Assay for Detecting Ferric (III) in Aqueous Solutions Utilizing Quercetin-Gemini Surfactant Complexes. Arifa Shaheen, Prabhat Singh, Arun Dhanagar, Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, 724, 137457, (2025)

      Multifunctional fluorescent ionic liquid crystals based on L-Tryptophan and gemini surfactants for Cu (II) and ascorbic acid detection in real samples. Bilal Ahmad, Rabia Arif,
      Arifa Shaheen,
      Soft Matter
      , 21, 5346-5358,
      • (2025)
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      • Self-assembled Luminescent Droplets from Graphene Quantum Dots-Induced by a Gemini surfactant for Selective Detection of Mercury (II). Arun Dhanagar, Arifa Shaheen, Langmuir, 41, 4136-4145, (2025)

      • Gemini Surfactant-Induced Cysteine Capped Copper Nanoclusters Self-Assembly with Enhanced Peroxidase like Activity and Colorimetric Glutathione Sensing. Arifa Shaheen, Arun Dhanagar, Langmuir, 40, 16909–16920, (2024)

      • Study of self-assembly of Gemini surfactant induced by anionic QDs in aqueous solution. Arifa Shaheen, Arun Dhanagar, Rabia Arif, Soft Matter, 19, 5318, (2023)

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