Shah R. Ali

Research Assistant (post-Undergraduate)

EDUCATION

2002-2005 B.A. in Chemistry (Rutgers University-Newark)

1998-2002 McNair Academic High School (Jersey City, NJ)

Awards

American Institute of Chemists’ Outstanding Senior Award (2005)

Best Undergraduate Researcher (RU-Newark Honors College - 2005)

Rutgers Undergraduate Research Fellow (2004-2005)

Phi Beta Kappa (inducted in 2004)

Publications

1. Ma, Y. F.; Ali, S. R.; Dodoo, A. S.; He, H. “Enhanced Sensitivity for Biosensors: Multiple Functions of DNA-Wrapped Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes in Self-Doped Polyaniline Nanocomposites” J. Phys. Chem. B., 2006, ASAP Article.

2. Ma, Y. F.; Ali, S. R.; Wang, L.; Chiu, P. L.; Mendselsohn, R.; Huixin, He. X. “In Situ Fabrication of A Water-Soluble, Self-Doped Polyaniline Nanocomposite: The Unique Role of DNA Functionalized Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2006.

3. Ma, Y. F.; Ali, S. R.; Huixin, He “Unique Roles of DNA Wrapped SWNTs: In-situ Fabrication of Self-Doped Polyaniline Nanocomposites.” Nanotech, 2006, Vol. 1; 214-217.

4. Ali, S. R., Ma, Y. F., and Huixin He, “Ultrasensitive Detection of Dopamine Using a Carbon Nanotube-Poly(aniline boronic acid) Nanocomposite.” 2006, manuscript in preparation.

Conferences

1. Ali, S. R., Ma, Y. F., and Huixin He, “Ultra-sensitive Detection of a Neurotransmitter (Dopamine)”. The 37th Middle Atlantic Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society (May 22-25, 2005), Undergraduate Poster Session.

2. Ali, S. R., Ma, Y. F., and Huixin He, “Ultra-sensitive Detection of Dopamine Using A Self-doped Polyaniline-Nanotube Composite.” American Chemical Society Baekeland Symposium, November 2005.

3. Ali, S. R., Bracher, P., Schuster, D. I., “Syntheses of Novel Porphyrin-Fullerene Dyads.” The 37th National Fall Meeting of the American Chemical Society (August 11-18, 2002), High School Poster Session.