Dr Rumana Hossain
Lecturer
Doctor of Philosophy in Material Science and Engineering, UNSW Sydney.
Science
Centre for Sustainable Materials Research & Technology (SMaRT)
Dr Rumana Hossain completed her Ph.D. at UNSW Sydney in 2020 and joined Centre for Sustainable Materials Research & Technology, SMaRT@UNSW as a Research Associate. She is currently a Lecturer at UNSW Sydney (2024 onwards). Rumana has over 60 publications, 2 patents and has been invited to present her work at over 20 conferences. Her research interests are based on a range of waste recycling and transformation fields including recycling of waste plastic, packaging waste, e-waste and waste batteries, automotive waste, etc., synthesising new materials from waste and investigating their structure-property relationships. She loves to implement various innovative analytical instruments and methods, mechanical and electrochemical characterisation instruments, and processing instruments (such as high temperature furnaces) to utilise waste as a resource in the production of a new generation of green materials/products. Rumana’s research experience working with industries and in research commercialisation includes leading industrial projects and collaborating with colleagues from all over the world with a range of skillsets.
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School of Materials Science & Engineering (BuildingE10)
UNSW SYDNEY NSW 2052 | AUSTRALIA
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At various levels of research career, Dr. Rumana Hossain has developed a variety of disciplines and research topics, including surface modification of metals and alloys, recycling waste for value added materials, energy storage materials and devices from waste, etc. Following are her different research lines of interest:
- Surface modification of metal using ceramic elements from waste
- Surface modification of metal using automotive waste
- Surface modification of metal using electronic waste
- Surface modification of metal using metallised plastic packaging waste
- Microstructural engineering for surface modification
- Recycling the automotive shredder residue and waste tyres from end of life vehicles
- Transforming waste into nano ceramic
- Transforming waste into metals and alloys
- Recovery of carbon for energy storage application
- Transforming waste into the product for infrastructure
- Recycling spent lithium-ion batteries
- Recovery of metals and nonmetals
- Repurposing the spent battery for second life battery
- Utilising the spent cathode and anode materials for energy storage application
- Recycling the e-waste for valuable materials
- Recovery of copper-based alloys
- Recovery of carbon for supercapacitors
- Transforming the waste into copper reinforced nano ceramic coating application
- Recovery of rare earth elements
- Recovery of ZnO nanoparticles from spen Zn-C battery for sensor application
- Recycling the packaging waste for valuable material
- Recycling the waste coffee capsule for high value aluminium
- Using metallised plastic packaging to produce nano ceramic
- transforming the plastic packaging into valuable carbon source for energy application
- Bio-waste derived carbon
- Turning organic wastes (e.g. coffee waste, macadamia waste, waste wood, textiles) into value added porous carbon.
- Surface treatments to prepare different types of porous carbon
- Solid-state phase transformation and deformation mechanism of metals
- Deformation mechanism of high carbon steel under compressive, tensile and impact stress
- Stability of retained austenite in high carbon steel
- Effect of microalloying elements on the deformation mechanism and phase transformation of high carbon steel
- Deformation mechanism of titanium alloy
My Research Supervision
| Currently supervising | ||||
| Program type | Supervision type | Student ID | Student name | Research Area |
| PhD | Secondary Supervisor | 5380609 | Sarkar,Montajar | Microrecycling of Lithium Ion Battery (LIB) by selective thermal transformation |
| PhD | Secondary Supervisor | 5397565 | Shrestha Ghinangju,Bikesh | Investigating the microrecycling technologies for waste plastic hybrid products and revealing the influence of materials properties on product performance |
| PhD | Secondary Supervisor | 5439710 | Hasan,Md Anik | Recovering carbonaceous material from plastic waste and recycling the spent batteries: Waste management and waste to wealth approach |
| Masters (Research) | Joint Supervisor | 5516304 | Yang,Kyungah | Manufacturing alloys from waste bulb-type LED lightings discharged from households as bulb-type waste LED lighting is now considered as one of the most problematic products to recycle because of recycling inefficiency and low content of valuable metals |
| PhD | Joint Supervisor | 5517315 | Ali,Ayub | Utilization of recycled glass from E-waste including solar panelsas a potential replacement for mineral source |
| HDR Completion | ||||
| Type | Supervision type | Student ID | Student Name | Thesis |
| PhD | Secondary Supervisor | 5168746 | Hassan, Kamrul | Microrecycling of spent Zn-C batteries: selective synthesis of nanostructures and hybrid materials for real-field application\xad\xad\xad\xad\xad\xad\xad |
| PhD | Secondary Supervisor | 5178741 | Al Mahmood, Md. Abdullah | Microrecycling of multi-layered waste packaging to produce value-added Aluminium |