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Ashraf
Ahmad
Researcher, Max-Planck-Institute for Solid State Research Germany |
Dr. Ahmad granted a PhD degree (2007) in biosciences with specialization in molecular biotechnology from the department of chemical and biological engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. As a biotechnologist, Dr. Ahmad was hired (2007) for a postdoctoral researcher and bio-nanotech lab supervisor position at the nanoscale diagnostic division (Nanoscale Science Department, Max-Planck-Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany).
Building carbon nanotubes based biosensors is the main target of the nanoscale diagnostic division. Therefore, Dr. Ahmad invented a new method for quantifying and identifying the distribution of carbon nanotubes chiral forms in a sample (patent filed in June 2008), at the same time such invention can be used to purify and enrich sample with specific chiral form of carbon nanotubes. Such invention is based mainly on carbon nanotubes fluorescent dyes interaction which will be presented during Nanotech Europe 2009.