Biography
Dr. Sultana Bedoura has joined as Assistant Professor in the Department of Dyes and Chemical Engineering under the faculty of Textile Chemical Engineering, Bangladesh University of Textiles on 03 January 2021. Earlier she worked in the department of Biochemistry and Microbiology at North South University as an adjunct faculty. She was also working in Environmental Sustainability in Textile Industries Project (ESTex) with the Department of Chemical Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). Before that she worked as executive-Technical & Commercial for ZaRa Energy Ltd. and as Executive-Quality Assurance for SAMP Limited. She is very much passionate about teaching-learning and research. She is a dedicated teacher who can motivate her students to develop their own learning interests and critical thinking. She has keen interest to gather knowledge of science and technology in the diverse field of chemistry and chemical engineering.
Education
• PhD in Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, 2014
• BSc in Chemical Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka, 2008
• HSC, 10th position in the female merit list, Bogura Cantonment Public School & College, 2002
• SSC, 2nd position in the combined merit list, Bogura Cantonment Public School & College, 2000
Research/Project
Ongoing Research/Study/Project
''Development of eco-friendly natural dyeing process for cotton fabric by waste tea extract '' Funded by BUTEX Research Grants 2021-2022 (memo no BUTEX/2021/RNE/009)
Journal Publication
Strain Energy, Hyperconjugation and Ring-Opening Reaction. Polyhedron. (Accepted)
DFT/TDDFT Investigation on Donor-Acceptor Triazole-based Copolymers for Organic Photovoltaics. Journal of Molecular Structure, 1248 (2022) 131406.
The disappearance of the stable slightly bent isomer of germasilaallenes and the appearance of its cyclic isomer. Polyhedron 2020, 192(1), 114821.
Hydrogen Bond nature in Formamide (CYHNH) complexes at their ground and low-lying excited states. Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry 2014, 27(3), 226.
DFT study on heavier group-14 analogues of formamide. Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry 2013, 26 (5), 420.
DFT study of salicylaldehyde semicarbazone derivatives interaction with copper and the effect of aminic substituent . Inorganica Chimica Acta 2012, 384 (0), 29.
Eco-friendly dyeing of cotton fabric using used tea bag extracts: A comprehensive study on pH, fabric cationisation, and computational analysis
Evaluating the biocatalytic potential of fruit peel-derived eco-enzymes for sustainable textile wastewater treatment
Conference Papers
• Bedoura, S.; Xi, H.-W.; Lim, K. H., Molecular Design of Novel Low band-Gap Thiadiazoloquinoxaline (TQ)-& Pyrazinoquinoxaline (PQ)-based Systems, The International Symposium on Exploring the Frontiers of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, May 2012.
Researchs
Field of interest:
• Environmental sustainability in Textile Industries
• Textile chemical processing, chemical treatment, textile waste treatment and management
• Molecular simulation, computational chemistry, textile chemistry, natural dye, material characterization etc.
• Nanotechnology and biochemical engineering
• PhD in Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, 2014
• BSc in Chemical Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka, 2008
• HSC, 10th position in the female merit list, Bogura Cantonment Public School & College, 2002
• SSC, 2nd position in the combined merit list, Bogura Cantonment Public School & College, 2000
Research/Project
Ongoing Research/Study/Project
''Development of eco-friendly natural dyeing process for cotton fabric by waste tea extract '' Funded by BUTEX Research Grants 2021-2022 (memo no BUTEX/2021/RNE/009)
Strain Energy, Hyperconjugation and Ring-Opening Reaction. Polyhedron. (Accepted)
DFT/TDDFT Investigation on Donor-Acceptor Triazole-based Copolymers for Organic Photovoltaics. Journal of Molecular Structure, 1248 (2022) 131406.
The disappearance of the stable slightly bent isomer of germasilaallenes and the appearance of its cyclic isomer. Polyhedron 2020, 192(1), 114821.
Hydrogen Bond nature in Formamide (CYHNH) complexes at their ground and low-lying excited states. Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry 2014, 27(3), 226.
DFT study on heavier group-14 analogues of formamide. Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry 2013, 26 (5), 420.
DFT study of salicylaldehyde semicarbazone derivatives interaction with copper and the effect of aminic substituent . Inorganica Chimica Acta 2012, 384 (0), 29.
Eco-friendly dyeing of cotton fabric using used tea bag extracts: A comprehensive study on pH, fabric cationisation, and computational analysis
Evaluating the biocatalytic potential of fruit peel-derived eco-enzymes for sustainable textile wastewater treatment
• Bedoura, S.; Xi, H.-W.; Lim, K. H., Molecular Design of Novel Low band-Gap Thiadiazoloquinoxaline (TQ)-& Pyrazinoquinoxaline (PQ)-based Systems, The International Symposium on Exploring the Frontiers of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, May 2012.
Field of interest:
• Environmental sustainability in Textile Industries
• Textile chemical processing, chemical treatment, textile waste treatment and management
• Molecular simulation, computational chemistry, textile chemistry, natural dye, material characterization etc.
• Nanotechnology and biochemical engineering