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Dr. Mujtaba Ikram is an assistant professor at the University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan. He is also a visiting scholar at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Italy. His research interests include nanotechnology, renewable energy, material science, and engineering. His work has been cited by scientists from all over the world. He has several research publications, book chapters, reviews, and proceedings

to his credit. He has represented his research in the United States, Italy, Egypt, Germany, Slovenia, China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, United Arab Emirates, and many other countries. Dr. Ikram was selected among two young scientists from South Asia for The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) science diplomacy held in Trieste, Italy, in 2013. He has been invited as a lecturer many times by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)-TWAS Beijing. In 2015, he was awarded the CAS-TWAS green technology award. In 2017, he was awarded the CAS-TWAS green chemistry and technology (GCT) award for his guest lectures. He has also been awarded various prestigious fellowships throughout his academic and professional career.

Professor Emeritus Dr. Asghari Maqsood is currently working as an advisor to the vice-chancellor, Air University, Islamabad, Pakistan, where she also served as a dean in the Faculty of Basics and Applied Sciences. She has more than forty-eight years of experience in the research of advanced materials. She obtained her MSc from Oxford University, and Ph.D. in Materials Science from Goteborg University, Sweden, along with a diploma

from Uppsala University, Sweden. She has 212 research publications to her credit including 180 journal publications and 4 book chapters. She has been awarded many national and international awards including a Gold Medal from the Pakistan Academy of Sciences (2000), President's Award for Pride of Performance (2001), HEC Best University Teacher Award (2002), Prime Minister Gold Medal (2004), Izaz-i-Fazeelat for Academic Distinction (2005), and Civil Award Sitara- e- Imtiaz (2010). Recently, her name appeared among the world's top 2% of scientists on a list by Stanford University, California, USA.

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Carbon Nanotubes *by Muhammad Ikram, Ali Raza, Atif Shahbaz, Haleema Ijaz, Sarfraz Ali, Ali Haider, Muhammad Tayyab Hussain, Junaid Haider, Arslan Ahmed Rafi and Salamat Ali*
