Summary
Dr Asad Jamal obtained his PhD from the Institute of Physics, University of Freiburg, Germany in September 2016. As an experimental physicist, he studied the phenomenon of self‐assembly of achiral organic molecules into ordered nanostructures via tuning the interplay of specific intermolecular interactions in a German‐French collaborative project within the framework of the International Research Training Group (IRTG) “Soft Matter Science”.
In March 2017, he joined the Tribology group at Imperial College London as postdoctoral researcher. From March 2017 to February 2019, he done a research project in collaboration with a European industrial partner, Oleon, to explore the basic mechanism of commonly used organic corrosion inhibitors and their potential effectiveness as friction modifiers.
In March 2019 he joined the EDEN 2020 project where his research focus is on the mechanical properties of cerebral white matter, biomechanical aspects of infusion-based drug delivery and the associated molecular processes.
Main Research Topics: localised drug delivery, microscale tissue mechanics, organic thin films, ordered nanostructures.
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Selected Publications
Journal Articles
Jamal A, Yuan T, Galvan S, et al., 2022, Insights into infusion-based targeted drug delivery in brain: perspectives, challenges and opportunities, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Vol:23, ISSN:1422-0067, Pages:3139-3139
Jamal A, Bernardini A, Dini D, 2022, Microscale characterisation of the time-dependent mechanical behaviour of brain white matter, Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, Vol:125, ISSN:1751-6161
Jamal A, Mongelli M, Vidotto M, et al., 2021, Infusion mechanisms in brain white matter and its dependence of microstructure: an experimental study of hydraulic permeability, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Vol:68, ISSN:0018-9294, Pages:1229-1237
Jamal A, Nyrkova I, Mesini P, et al., 2017, Solvent-controlled reversible switching between adsorbed self-assembled nanoribbons and nanotubes, Nanoscale, Vol:9, ISSN:2040-3364, Pages:3293-3303
Shokri R, Guskova O, Jamal A, et al., 2015, Consequences of a Single Double Bond within a Side Group on the Ordering of Supramolecular Polymers, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Vol:119, ISSN:1932-7447, Pages:22596-22603