Dr Monir Moniruzzaman
Senior Research Fellow
Location: Shrivenham campus
E: m.moniruzzaman@cranfield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1793 785391
Department of Engineering and Applied Science
Current activities
Dr Moniruzzaman and his team are actively engaged in doing research in block copolymers, thermoplastic elastomers, self-healing and self-sensing polymers, energetic materials, explosives and drug detection using colour sensors, safe life monitoring indicator for munitions, propellants ageing and formulations and polymer structure-properties relationships. He has expertise in most of the techniques used for polymers and energetic materials characterisation.
He teaches chemistry, propellants and explosives materials. He supervises MSc and PhD students.
Dr Moniruzzaman holds a number of research grants from DOSG, Chemring EOD, and DSTL.
Clients
MoD, DSTL, Home Office, UK-E, Chemring, EPSRC, AWEBackground
Dr Moniruzzaman has a BSc (Hons) degree in Chemistry from Dhaka University and an MSc in Organic Chemistry (1st class) from the same University. He obtained his PhD in Polymer Chemistry from the Chemistry Department at the University of Sheffield. His research was on the synthesis and characterisation of block copolymers.
He worked as postdoctoral research fellow in the Materials Department at the University of Oxford prior to joining Cranfield University as a Senior Research Fellow in 2002.
He is a member of Royal Society of Chemistry (MRSC) and Editor-ISRN Polymer Science.
Selected publications
Moniruzzaman M., Bellerby J. M., Use of UV–visible spectroscopy to monitor nitrocellulose degradation in thin films, Polym. Degrad. and Stab., 96, 929-935 (2011).
Moniruzzaman M J.M. Bellerby, Use of UV–visible spectroscopy to monitor nitrocellulose degradation in thin films, Polym. Degrad. and Stab., 93, 1067 (2008).
Moniruzzaman M; Bellerby, J M, A non-destructive UV-visible spectroscopic method for investigating the kinetics of Nitrocellulose decomposition in thin films, 14th Meeting, Jan Hansson Symposium, Sweden; Chemical Problems Connected with the Stability of Explosives, May 2007
Moniruzzaman M; Sabey C J; Fernando G F, Photoresponsive polymers: an investigation of their photo-induced temperature changes during photo-viscosity measurements, Polymer, 48, 255 (2007)
Moniruzzaman M; Fernando G F; Bellamy A J, Synthesis and structural investigation of 1’,3’,3’-trimethyl-6-hydroxy-spiro(2H-1-benzopyran-2,2’-indoline), 1’,3’,3’-trimethyl-6-methacryloyloxy-spiro(2H-1-benzopyran- 2,2’-indoline) and a copolymer with methyl methacrylate by 1D and 2D NMR spectroscopy, Eur Polym J, 42, 1455 (2006)
Moniruzzaman M; Talbot J D R; Sabey C J; Fernando G F; “The Use of 1H NMR and UV-vis measurements for quantitative determination of trans/cis isomerization of a photo-responsive monomer and Its copolymer, J Appl Polym Sci , Vol. 100, 1103 (2006)
Moniruzzaman M; Zioupos P;. Fernando G F, Investigation of reversible photo-mechanical properties of azobenzene-based polymer films by nanoindentation, Scripta Materialia, 54(2), 257 (2006)
Moniruzzaman M; Fernando G F; Talbot, J D R, Synthesis and characterization of azobenzene and acrylamide based copolymer and gel, J. Appl. Polym. Sci. Part A.: Polym. Chem., 42 (12), 2845 (2004)
Moniruzzaman M; Sabey C J; Fernando G F, Synthesis of azobenzene-based polymers and the in-situ characterisation of their photo-viscosity effects, Macromolecules, 37, 2572 (2004)
Moniruzzaman M; Young R N; Fairclough J P A, Synthesis and interfacial behavior of symmetric 4-armed star copolymers of PS capped with butadiene and PI: Importance of the location of the interface , Polymer, 45(12), 4121(2004)
