Ms Rumana Hossain
Lecturer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) – Materials Science & Engineering (2020)
Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE),
University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney.
Master of Engineering (MEng)- Advanced Engineering Management (2013)
Department of Industrial and Production Engineering (IPE),
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Bachelor of Science – Mechanical Engineering (2006)
Department of Mechanical Engineering (ME),
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka, Bangladesh
Science
Centre for Sustainable Materials Research & Technology (SMaRT)
Dr Rumana Hossain is a Lecturer at the Centre for Sustainable Materials Research & Technology, SMaRT@UNSW UNSW, in School of Materials Science and Engineering. The Recipient of an Australian Postgraduate award in 2015 and UNSW Science PhD Writing Scholarship in 2019, Rumana has a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, a Master of Engineering in Advanced Engineering Management and holds a PhD in Material Science and Engineering from UNSW Sydney. She joined the SMaRT Center in 2015 as a PhD student and research assistant. After finishing her PhD, she joined SMaRT center in 2019 as a MICROfactorie® officer and in 2020, as a Research associate. Rumana is a skilled and professional research specialist with experience across a range of waste recycling and transformation fields including waste plastic, automotive waste, battery and other electronic waste, packaging waste, etc. She is an expert of various analytical instruments and methods, mechanical and electrochemical characterisation instruments, and processing instruments, such as high temperature furnaces. Her research experience working with industries and in research commercialisation includes leading industrial projects, publishing in high-impact journals, incorporating research into manufacturing industry, and building strong networks across diverse industries, national and international research institutions. She is working to utilise waste as a resource in the production of a new generation of green materials/products.
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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 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
- Microrecycling of the polymer-metal multilayered (PMM) flexible waste packaging materials
PhD, Co-Supervisor
Other Supervisor: Professor Veena Sahajwalla
- Microrecycling of spent Zn-C batteries: selective synthesis of nanostructured and hybrid materials for real-field application
PhD, Co-Supervisor
Other Supervisor: Professor Veena Sahajwalla
- Thermal isolation: a novel pathway to transforming complex waste (ASR)
PhD, Co-Supervisor
Other Supervisor: Professor Veena Sahajwalla
- Microrecycling of the Complex Food Packaging Waste by Selective Thermal Transformation (STT)
MSc, Co-Supervisor
Other Supervisor: Professor Veena Sahajwalla