Dr. Ammar Khan completed his PhD studies from the University of Cambridge. The focus of his PhD research was studying the application of disc-like (discotic) liquid crystals as hole transport layers in hybrid organic/in-organic dye-sensitized and perovskite solar cells. Furthermore, he also studied the interaction of liquid crystalline phases with two-dimensional graphene layers for display and lasing devices. Prior to his PhD, Ammar completed his Master of Philosophy (M.Phil) degree in the Engineering Department at the University of Cambridge, as a member of St Edmund’s College. His MPhil research was focused on the development of random lasers using Organosiloxane Smectic A liquid crystals as a distributed resonant cavity. Ammar is also a LUMS alumni and graduated from LUMS with a BS in Electrical Engineering.
At present, the focus of Dr. Ammar’s research is understanding self-assembly mechanisms of liquid crystalline physical gels, and apply them to DSSCs to increase the stability and lifetime. Furthermore, the interaction of organic-semiconductors with two-dimensional materials is also being investigated for chemical and biological sensing applications.
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| Title | Publication | Author | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Driving sustainable energy: The role of polyoxometalates (POMs) in photoelectrochemical hydrogen production | Coordination Chemistry Reviews | 2025 | |
| Quasi-Planar Core Based Spiro-Type Hole-Transporting Material for Dopant-Free Perovskite Solar Cells | Angewandte Chemie - International Edition | 2024 | |
| In-depth investigation of microstructure and optical properties of tri-phase TiO<inf>2</inf> nanoparticles at varied calcination temperatures for dye sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) applications | Materials Chemistry and Physics | 2024 | |
| All organic double cable polymers of a polythiophene donor with rhodanine and perylene diimide acceptors and evaluation of photocurrent generation | Journal of Materials Chemistry C | 2023 | |
| Computational modeling of angle dependent raman and photoluminescence spectroscopy for investigating 2D molybdenum disulfide flakes induced by 5CB nematic liquid crystal under 532-nm laser excitation | Optik | 2023 | |
| Interface connection of functionalized carbon nanotubes for efficient and stable perovskite solar cells | Journal of Materials Chemistry A | 2023 | |
| Transparent Liquid Crystal Hole-Transporting Material for Stable Perovskite Solar Cells | Solar RRL | 2023 | |
| Mathematical modelling of angle dependent polarization raman spectroscopy of molybdenum disulfide before and after adding strain agent | Inorganic Chemistry Communications | 2022 | |
| Deterministic topological defects and quantum dot assembly in a nematic liquid crystalline medium | Journal of Applied Physics | 2022 | |
| Columnar liquid crystals as stability enhancing hole transport layers for Ruddlesden-Popper perovskite optoelectronics | Molecular Systems Design and Engineering | 2022 | |
| Engineering fibre morphology in self-assembled physical gels of a prototypical discotic liquid crystal | Liquid Crystals | 2021 | |
| Supramolecular self-assembly and physical-gel formation in disc-like liquid crystals: A scalable predictive model for gelation and an application in photovoltaics | RSC Advances | 2019 | |
| Composite liquid crystal-polymer electrolytes in dye-sensitised solar cells: effects of mesophase alkyl chain length | Liquid Crystals | 2018 | |
| Formation of physical-gel redox electrolytes through self-assembly of discotic liquid crystals: Applications in dye sensitized solar cells | Electrochimica Acta | 2017 | |
| Plasmonic nanohole electrodes for active color tunable liquid crystal transmissive pixels | Optics Letters | 2017 | |
| Electrically Tunable Scattering from Devitrite???Liquid Crystal Hybrid Devices | Advanced Optical Materials | 2017 | |
| Induced alignment of a reactive mesogen-based polymer electrolyte for dye-sensitised solar cells | RSC Advances | 2017 | |
| Self-assembled liquid crystalline nanotemplates and their incorporation in dye-sensitised solar cells | Electrochimica Acta | 2016 | |
| Towards lasing from free-standing perovskite-chiral polymer film devices | 2016 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2016 | 2016 | |
| Homologous binary mixtures and improved hole conduction of self-assembled discotic liquid crystals | Organic Electronics | 2016 | |
| Effect of dielectric permittivity on the performance of polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) electrolyte dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) | Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering | 2016 | |
| Improving the stability of organosiloxane smectic A liquid crystal random lasers using redox dopants | Optical Materials | 2015 | |
| Graphene-based ultrathin flat lenses | ACS Photonics | 2015 | |
| Tunable scattering from liquid crystal devices using carbon nanotubes network electrodes | Nanoscale | 2015 | |
| Graphene and chiral nematic liquid crystals: A focus on lasing | RSC Advances | 2015 |