Department of Chemistry

Dr Yusra Safa

Dr Yusra Safa
Dr Yusra Safa

Assistant Professor       

Department of Chemistry

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Experience

  • Dec 2011- to date, Lahore College for Women University, Lahore, Pakistan, Assistant Professor of Chemistry

  • Jun 2011- Nov 2011, University of Education, Lahore, Pakistan, Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Honor and Awards

Research productivity award by Pakistan Council of Science and Technology in 2012.

Memberships

Member of Chemical Society of Pakistan

Graduate Students / Postdocs /Undergraduate Students/ Honour Students

BS students                                       year

4                                                        2012

3                                                        2013

4                                                        2014

2                                                        2015

3                                                        2016

4                                                        2017

3                                                        2018

MS students

01                                                      2013

02                                                      2015

02                                                      2016

01                                                      2017

02                                                      2018

Brief Statement of Research Interest

Adsorption and Bioremediation of environmental pollutants such as heavy metals, synthetic dyes using

Agro-industrial wastes and modeling of sorption systems. Treatment of waste water through various adsorption technologies. Biodegradation of dye stuff. Processing, treatment and characterization of biomass using sophisticated instrumental techniques. Synthesis and Characterization of organic compounds, Biocomposites and Polymers.

 

Publications

1.       

YUSRA SAFA & HAQ NAWAZ BHATTI

Asian Journal of Chemistry

Factors Affecting Biosorption of Direct Dyes from Aqueous Solution. https://scholar.google.com.pk/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=Factors+Affecting+Biosorption+of+Direct+Dyes+from+Aqueous+Solution&btnG=

Vol. 22, No. 9 (2010), 6625-6639

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2010

0.247

2.       

YUSRA SAFA & HAQ NAWAZ BHATTI

African Journal of Biotechnology

ISSN 1684–5315

Adsorptive removal of direct dyes by low cost rice husk: Effect of treatments and modifications. https://www.ajol.info/index.php/ajb/article/view/93359

Vol. 10(16), pp. 3128-3142

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2011

0.44

3.       

YUSRA SAFA & HAQ NAWAZ BHATTI

Desalination

ISSN: 0011-9164

Kinetic and thermodynamic modeling for the removal of Direct Red-31 and Direct Orange-26 dyes from aqueous solutions by rice husk. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0011916411000518

Vol. 272 (2011) 313–322

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2011

5.527

4.       

YUSRA SAFA & HAQ NAWAZ BHATTI

Chemical Engineering Journal

ISSN: 1385-8947

Adsorptive removal of direct textile dyes by low cost agricultural waste: Application of factorial design analysis. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S138589471001199X

Vol 167 (2011) 35–41

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2011

6.21

5.       

YUSRA SAFA & HAQ NAWAZ BHATTI

Chemical

Engineering

Research and

Design ISSN: 0263-8762

Biosorption of Direct

Red-31 and Direct Orange-26 dyes by rice

husk: Application of

factorial design analysis. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0263876211002279

Vol 89 (2011) 2566-2574

 

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2011

2.538

6.       

Yusra Safa, Haq Nawaz Bhatti, Ijaz Ahmad Bhatti and Muhammad Asgher

THE CANADIAN JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

 ISSN: 1939-019X

Removal Of Direct Red–31 And Direct Orange–26 By Low Cost Rice Husk: Influence Of Immobilisation And Pretreatments. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/cjce.20473

Vol 89 (2011)

1554-1565

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2011

1.356

7.       

Haq Nawaz Bhatti and Yusra Safa

Desalination and Water Treatment

ISSN: 1944-3994

Removal of anionic dyes by rice milling waste from synthetic effluents: equilibrium and thermodynamic studies. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19443994.2012.698823

Vol 48 (2012) 267–27

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2012

1.631

8.       

Yusra Safa, and Haq Nawaz Bhatti

Environmental Engineering and Management Journal

ISSN: 1582-9596 

SORPTION–DESORPTION (TWO STEP KINETIC) STUDY OF DIRECT DYES FROM AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS USING LOW COST AGRO-INDUSTRIAL WASTE

Accepted

 

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2013

(Accepted

 

1.008

9.       

S. Zaheer, H. N.

Bhatti, Sana Sadaf, Yusra Safa, and M.Zia-ur-Rehman

The Journal of Animal and Plant Sciences

ISSN: 1018-7081

BIOSORPTION CHARACTERISTICS OF SUGARCANE BAGASSE FOR THE REMOVAL OF FORON BLUE E-BL DYE FROM

AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS. https://scholar.google.com.pk/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=BIOSORPTION+CHARACTERISTICS+OF+SUGARCANE+BAGASSE+FOR+THE+REMOVAL+OF+FORON+BLUE+E-BL+DYE+FROM+AQUEOUS+SOLUTIONS.&btnG=

Vol 24(1) 2014, 272-279

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2014

0.422

10.   

Yusra Safa

Journal of Chemical Society of Pakistan

ISSN: 0253-5106

Biosorption of Eriochrome Black T and Astrazon FGGL blue using Almond and Cotton seed Oil Cake Biomass in a Batch Mode. https://scholar.google.com.pk/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=Biosorption+of+Eriochrome+Black+T+and+Astrazon+FGGL+blue+using+Almond+and+Cotton+seed+Oil+Cake+Biomass+in+a+Batch+Mode.&btnG=

Vol. 36, No. 4, 2014

614-623

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2014

0.327

11.   

Yusra Safa

Desalination and Water Treatment

ISSN: 1944-3994

Utilization of mustard and linseed oil cakes: novel biosorbents for removal of acid dyes. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19443994.2015.1007087

(2015) 1–12

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2015

1.631

12.   

Misbah Sultan,Atif Islam,

Nafisa Gull, Haq Nawaz Bhatti,

Yusra Safa

Journal of Applied Polymer Science

ISSN: 1097-4628

Structural variation in soft segment of waterborne polyurethane acrylate nanoemulsions. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/app.41706

41706 (2015)

1-10

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2015

1.866

13.   

Yusra Safa, Haq Nawaz Bhatti, Misbah Sultan & Sana Sadaf

Desalination and Water Treatment

ISSN: 1944-3994

Synthesis, characterization and application of wheat bran/zinc aluminium and tea leaves waste/ zinc aluminium biocomposites: kinetics and thermodynamics modeling. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19443994.2016.1160439

(2016) 1-10

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2016

1.631

14.   

Sheikh A. AHMAD , Mahmood AHMED , Muhammad . QADIR, Muhammad. SHAFIQ , Yusra SAFA, Nazish AWAN , Shabnam SHAHZAD, Amir ALI , Momina FEROZ  & Zia Ullah KHOKHAR

Latin American Journal of Pharmacy

ISSN: 0326 2383

Simultaneous Determination of Diloxanide Furoate, Metronidazole Benzoate, Methyl Paraben and Propyl Paraben by UPLC-DAD in Pharmaceutical Suspension. https://scholar.google.com.pk/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=Simultaneous+Determination+of+Diloxanide+Furoate%2C+Metronidazole+Benzoate%2C+Methyl+Paraben+and+Propyl+Paraben+by+UPLC-DAD+in+Pharmaceutical+Suspension.&btnG=

Vol, 35(7): 1626-33, 2016

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2016

0.372

15.   

Ismat bibi, Nosheen Nazar, Munawar Iqbal, Shagufta Kamal, Haq Nawaz, Shazia Nouren, Yusra Safa,,Kashif Jilani, Misbah Sultan, Sadia Ata, Fariha Rehman and Mazhar Abbas.

Advanced Powder Technology

ISSN: 0921-8831

Green and eco-friendly synthesis of cobalt-oxide nanoparticle: Characterization and photo-catalytic activity. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921883117302121

Vol,28

(2017)

2035-2043

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2017

2.659

16.   

Shazia Nouren, Haq Nawaz Bhatti, Munawar Iqbal, Ismat Bibi, Shagufta Kamal, Sana Sadaf, Misbah Sultan, Abida Kausar and Yusra Safa

Chemosphere

ISSN: 0045-6535

By- product identification and phytotoxicity of Biodegraded Direct Yellow 4 dye. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0045653516316150

169 (2017) 474-484

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2017

4.028

17.   

Ismat Bibi, Aneela Sultan, Shagufta Kamal, Shazia Nouren, Yusra Safa, Kashif Jalani, Misbah Sultan, Sadia Atta, and Fariha Rehman

Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering

ISSN: 0256-1115

Extraction and quantification of phenolic compounds from Prunus armeniaca seed and their role in biotransformation of xenobiotic compounds. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11814-016-0275-3

Vol, 34(2), 392-399 (2017)

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2017

2.006

18.   

Saadia R. Tariq  Farah Iqbal and   Yusra Safa

Baghdad Science Journal

ISSN: 2078-8665

An efficient of Sansevieria trifasciata plant as biosorbent for the treatment of metal contaminated industrial effluents. https://scholar.google.com.pk/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=An+efficient+of+Sansevieria+trifasciata+plant+as+biosorbent+for+the+treatment+of+metal+contaminated+industrial+effluents.&btnG=

Vol.

14(1)

2017

X

2017

 

19.   

Misbah Sultan, Yashfa Nazar, Aumera Khursheed, Muhammad Imran  and Yusra Safa 

Chemical Science International Journal

ISSN: 2456-706X

Synthesis and Characterization of Cellular Polyurethane as Redox Catalyst. https://scholar.google.com.pk/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=Synthesis+and+Characterization+of+Cellular+Polyurethane+as+Redox+Catalyst.&btnG=

Vol. 19(4)1-7, 2017

X

2017