Researcher

Ms Rumana Hossain

Keywords

Fields of Research (FoR)

Manufacturing Engineering, Composite and Hybrid Materials, Nanomaterials, Materials Engineering not elsewhere classified, Environmental Engineering

SEO tags

Expanding Knowledge in Technology

Environmentally Sustainable Manufacturing not elsewhere classified

Waste management and recycling

Biography

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...view more

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.

My Qualifications

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

My Research Activities

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