Subject Area
Chemical Oceanography
Pollution
Activities
1.
Amal M. Youssef Moustafa, Mona M. Fawzy, Mahmoud S.
Kelany, Yasser A. Hassan, Reda F.M. Elsharaawy, Fatma H.A. Mustafa, Synthesis
of new quaternized chitosan Schiff bases and their N-alkyl derivatives as
antimicrobial and anti-biofilm retardants in membrane technology, International
Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 267(2), 2024, 131635. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2024.131635
2.
Fatma H.A. Mustafa, Ebtsam Kh.M. Gad ElRab, Rasha M. Kamel, Reda F.M. Elshaarawy,
Cost-effective removal of toxic methylene blue dye from textile effluents by
new integrated crosslinked chitosan/aspartic acid hydrogels, International
Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 248, 2023, 125986. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2023.125986.
3.
Fatma H.A. Mustafa, Hanan A.E.-A. Attia, Rana Yahya, Reda F.M.
Elshaarawy, N. Hassan, Cellulose microfibrils-embedded sulfonated
polyethersulfone for efficient Zn2+ ions removal from aqueous
effluents, Chemical Engineering Research and Design, 186, 2022, 374-386.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cherd.2022.08.007.
4.
Reda F.M. Elshaarawy, Reda M. Abd El-Aal, Fatma
H.A. Mustafa, Ahmed E. Borai, Stephan Schmidt, Christoph Janiak, Dual ionic
liquid-based crosslinked chitosan for fine-tuning of antifouling, water
throughput, and denitrification performance of polysulfone membrane,
International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 170 (2021)
572-582.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2020.12.186.
5. Reda F.M. Elshaarawy, Hoda Abd El-Azim,
Waal H. Hegazy, Fatma H.A. Mustafa, Talkhan A. Talkhan, Poly(ammonium/
pyridinium)-chitosan Schiff base as a smart biosorbent for scavenging of Cu2+
ions from aqueous effluents, Polymer Testing 83 (2020) 106244. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polymertesting.2019.106244
6. Reda F.M. Elshaarawya, Fatma H.A. Mustafa, Ahmed R. Sofy,
Ahmed A. Hmed, Christoph Janiak, A new synthetic antifouling coatings integrated novel
aminothiazole-functionalized ionic liquids motifs with enhanced antibacterial
performance, Journal of Environmental Chemical
Engineering, 7(1), 2019, 102800. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jece.2018.11.044
7.
Reda
F.M. Elshaarawy, Fatma H.A. Mustafa, Lasse van Geelen, Amaal E.A.
Abou-Taleb, Hermine R.Z. Tadros, Rainer Kalscheuer, Christoph Janiak. Mining
marine shell wastes for polyelectrolyte chitosan anti-biofoulants: Fabrication
of high-performance economic and ecofriendly anti-biofouling coatings.
Carbohydrate Polymers 172 (2017) 352–364. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carbpol.2017.05.059
8. R.F.M. Elshaarawy, F.H.A. Mustafa, A. Herbst, A.E.M. Farag,
C. Janiak, Surface functionalization of chitosan isolated from shrimp shells,
using salicylaldehyde ionic liquids in exploration for novel economic and
ecofriendly antibiofoulants, RSC Adv., 6 (25) (2016) 20901-20915. https://doi.org/10.1039/C5RA27489C
9. R.F.M. Elshaarawy, H.R.Z. Tadros, R.M. Abd El-Aal, F.H.A.
Mustafa, Y.A. Soliman, M.A.Hamed, Hybrid molecules comprising 1, 2,
4-triazole or diaminothiadiazole Schiff-bases and ionic liquid moieties as
potent antibacterial and marine antibiofouling nominees, J. Environ. Chem.
Eng., 4 (3) (2016) 2754-2764. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jece.2016.05.016
10. Mohamed A. Hamed ;Yosry A. Soliman; Ahmed E. Khodir ; Aida H. Soliman
; Nadia A. El-Agroudy and Fatma Hussein (2010): Physico-chemical
characteristics of Suez Bay water during 2006-2007. Egypt J. Aquat. Biol. &
Fish, Vol. 14, No.1; p. 43-57. https://doi.org/10.21608/EJABF.2010.2051
Sea regions of study
Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin
Red Sea
Skills
1.
Synthesis
of Heterocyclic compounds (e.g. thiazole, triazole, thiadiazole ..etc.), Schiff
bases, ionic liquids (ILs) and ILs-based architectures.
2.
Preparation
of nanoparticles
3. Extraction of biopolymers from biological wastes, their
functionalization and characterization
4.
Spectroscopic
instrumentation measurements and interpretation (UV/Vis, FT-IR, 1H-NMR,
13C-NMR, EI-MS, ESI- MS…etc.)
5.
Morphological
characterization of surfaces (optical microscopy, SEM, TEM, HRTEM, …etc.)
6.
Elemental
analysis, TGA, XRD, XRF, … etc.
7.
Seawater
and wastewater analysis
8.
Antifouling
paint matrix preparation and testing it against marine biofouling
9.
Material
sciences development and design novel ionic liquids based materials and
nanomaterials
10. Supervising the graduate, MSc and PhD students in the ILs-based
architectures design, fabrication and characterization for application in marine
anti-biofouling-paints and wastewater treatment fields within my research
group.
