Asad Mahmood 

　　Educational experience:  

　　03/2018 – Present      Post-doctoral Fellow, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China  

　　06/2016 – 07/2017      Post-doctoral Fellow, Chemistry Department, Cukurova University, Turkey 

　　12/2013 – 12/2014      Ph.D. Visitor Student, Materials Research Group, Gebze    Tech. University, Turkey 

　　06/2010 – 12/2013     Ph.D. Visitor Student, Materials Research Group, University of Sheffield, UK 

　　03/2011 – 02/2016     Ph.D. Students, NCE in Physical Chemistry, Dep. Materials, University of Peshawar, Pakistan 　　  

　　Research interests: 

• Solid-state chemistry
• Thin films
• Electrochemistry/Photocatalysis
• First principal calculation 

　　Selected Papers： 　　  

　　1. Zepeng Rao, Xiaofeng Xie, Xiao Wang, Asad Mahmood, Shengrui Tong, Maofa Ge, and Jing Sun, Defect Chemistry of Er³⁺-Doped TiO₂ and Its Photocatalytic Activity for the Degradation of Flowing Gas-Phase VOCs, J. Phys. Chem. C, 123, (2019)  12321–12334 

　　2. Asad Mahmood, Gansheng Shi, Xiaofeng Xie, Jing Sun, Adsorption mechanism of typical oxygen, sulfur, and chlorine containing VOCs on TiO₂ (0 0 1) surface: First principle calculations, Applied Surface Science,471(2019), 222-230. 

　　3. Fatih Tezcan, Asad Mahmood, Gulfeza Karda？, Optimizing copper oxide layer on zinc oxide via two-step electrodeposition for better photocatalytic performance in photoelectrochemical cells, Applied Surface Science, 479, (2019),1110-1117. 

　　4. Asad Mahmood, Gansheng Shi, Jing Sun, and Jianjun Liu, Investigation of electronic structure and optical properties of thallium lead halides: First principle calculations, Journal of Applied Physics 124, (2018), 093102  

1. Asad Mahmood, Fatih Tezcan, Gülfeza Karda？, Thermal decomposition of sol-gel derived Zn_0.8Ga_0.2O precursor-gel: A kinetic, thermodynamic, and DFT studies, Acta Materialia, 2018 (146), 152-159.

　　6. Asad Mahmood, Fatih Tezcan, Gülfeza Karda？, Effect of Sr doping on the electronic band structure and optical properties of ZnO: A first principle calculation, Journal of Applied Physics. 2017 (122) 113102-1-6. 

　　7. Abdul Naeem, Asad Mahmood, Yaseen Iqbal^, Asad Ullah, Tahira Mahmood, Dielectric and impedance spectroscopic studies of (Ba_0.5Sr_0.5)Mn_x(Ti_0.95Fe_0.05)_1-xO₃ polycrystalline ceramics synthesized by sol-gel method. Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 2015 (645) 290-296.  

　　8. Asad Mahmood, Abdul Naeem, Yaseen Iqbal, Asad Ullah, Tahira Mahmood. Electrical characterization of Mn doped-(Ba_0.3Sr_0.7)Mnx(Ti_0.9Zr_0.1)_1-xO₃ ceramics. Materials Research Bulletin. 2015 (72) 13-19.