Muhammad Yar Khuhawar is a Pakistani analytical chemist who is
Professor Emeritus
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at the
.
He is working with more than 50 researchers, focusing in the field of
chromatography
In chemical analysis, chromatography is a laboratory technique for the separation of a mixture into its components. The mixture is dissolved in a fluid solvent (gas or liquid) called the ''mobile phase'', which carries it through a system ( ...
and
electrophoresis
Electrophoresis, from Ancient Greek ἤλεκτρον (ḗlektron, "amber") and φόρησις (phórēsis, "the act of bearing"), is the motion of dispersed particles relative to a fluid under the influence of a spatially uniform electric f ...
for analytical method development for metals, non-metals and biological active compounds from a wide variety of samples. His research group has synthesized a number of
Schiff base
In organic chemistry, a Schiff base (named after Hugo Schiff) is a compound with the general structure ( = alkyl or aryl, but not hydrogen). They can be considered a sub-class of imines, being either secondary ketimines or secondary aldimine ...
polymers and has developed a new stationary phase for
Gas Chromatography
Gas chromatography (GC) is a common type of chromatography used in analytical chemistry for separating and analyzing compounds that can be vaporized without decomposition. Typical uses of GC include testing the purity of a particular substance, ...
and sensitive Liquid Chromatography procedures for the determination of pesticide malathion.
He has also published a number of research papers in the field of
environmental monitoring
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of water resources of
Sindh
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province including: Indus River, canals, lakes, natural springs, sea, underground water resources, municipal sewerage and receiving bodies in terms of pollution and utilities for biological life inhabiting the area.
He has a Ph.D. in
Chemistry from
Birmingham University
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,
United Kingdom
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, and was awarded the degree of Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) from University of Birmingham, in 2000.
He has more than 250 research publications in national and international journals.
References
External links
* http://www.ceacsu.edu.pk/Faculty/Journal.htm
* http://www.rsc.org/publishing/journals/AN/article.asp?doi=AN9921701725
* http://www.aasci.org/conference/env/2007/Presentation-schedule-EST2007.pdf
* https://j-chrom-sci.com/abstracts/2010/april/303-khuhawar.html
* https://web.archive.org/web/20130816031319/http://htcrl.usindh.edu.pk/
* http://iarscs.usindh.edu.pk/
Pakistani chemists
Living people
1948 births
Academic staff of the University of Sindh
Sindhi people
Alumni of the University of Birmingham
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