Hadi Nur was born on 6 May 1969. He specialises in advanced materials and heterogeneous catalysis, typically working on heterogeneous catalyst and catalysis. He received his undergraduate and graduate education in chemistry and materials engineering at Institut Teknologi Bandung, as he received the B.S. degree in 1992 and M.Eng. degree in 1995. Shortly after that, he continued his postgraduate studies in zeolite chemistry at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), and received the Ph.D. degree in 1998. His postdoctoral studies started with a year as UTM Postdoctoral Fellow and two years as Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) Postdoctoral Fellow at Catalysis Research Center (CRC), Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan. He continued stay as Center of Excellence (COE) Visiting Researcher at CRC for a half year. In May 2002, he joined the Ibnu Sina Institute for Fundamental Science Studies, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. Currently, he is an Associate Professor at Ibnu Sina Institute for Fundamental Science Studies. He has supervised many postgraduate students studying for Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in heterogeneous catalysis and advanced materials, for example, zeolite chemistry and catalysis, photocatalysis, semiconductor nanoparticle-polymer composite, bifunctional oxidative and acidic catalysts, and phase-boundary catalysis.
Heterogeneous catalysis
Alkylsilylated gold loaded magnesium oxide aerogel catalyst in the oxidation of styrene (with Izan Izwan Misnon and Halimaton Hamdan), Catalysis Letters (2009)
Aerogel-prepared magnesium oxide (A-MgO) was modified by attachment of gold particles. Subsequent modification of its...
Hydrolyzed Octadecyltrichlorosilane Functionalized with Amino Acid as Heterogeneous Enantioselective Catalaysts (with Lim Kheng Wei and Salasiah Endud), Reaction Kinetics and Catalysis Letters (2009)
Heterogeneous asymmetric catalysts using amino acid as chiral promoter were synthesized by attachment of amino...
Physical Properties and Bifunctional Catalytic Performance of Phosphate–Vanadium Impregnated Silica–Titania Aerogel (with Lee Siew Ling and Halimaton Hamdan), Catalysis Letters (2009)
The excellent catalytic performance of phosphate–vanadium impregnated silica–titania aerogel as a bifunctional oxidative and acidic...
Tungsten oxides - containing titanium silicalite for liquid phase epoxidation of 1-octene with aqueous hydrogen peroxide (with Didik Prasetyoko, Hamzah Fansuri, Zainab Ramli, and Salasiah Endud), Catalysis Letters (2009)
Tungsten oxides (WO3) have been supported on the titanium silicalite (TS-1) by impregnation method. The...
Characterization and Catalytic Performance of Niobic Acid Dispersed over Titanium Silicalite (with Didik Prasetyoko, Zainab Ramli, and Salasiah Endud), Advances in Materials Science and Engineering (2008)
Niobic acid, Nb2O5·nH2O, has been supported on the titanium silicalite by impregnation method. The obtained...
Inorganic synthesis
Synthesis of CdS nanoparticles in HDTMAB/2-Propanol/Water/n-Decane Miniemulsion system (with Eriawan Rismana and Salasiah Endud), Buletin Kimia (2005)
Semiconductor CdS nanoparticles are currently under intense investigation because of their enhanced photoreactivity and photocatalytic...
Direct Synthesis of NaA Zeolite from Rice Husk and Carbonaceous Rice Husk Ash, Indonesian Journal of Agricultural Sciences (2001)
Rice husk (RH) and carbonaceous rice husk ash (CRHA) have been used as source of...
Materials Science
Gold Nanoparticles Embedded on the Surface of Polyvinyl Alcohol Layer (with Sasha Md. Nasir), Journal of Fundamental Sciences (2008)
A novel method for synthesizing polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) embedded gold film is presented. Gold particles,...
Thermal Stability of Conductivity of Composite Comprising Polyaniline and MCM-41 (with Norizah Abdul Rahman, Salasiah Endud, and Lim Kheng Wei), Malaysian Polymer Journal (2007)
A composite of mesoporous silica (MCM-41) with a polyaniline (PANI) conducting polymer was synthesized by...
Modification of titanium surface species of titania by attachment of silica nanoparticles , Materials Science and Engineering: B (2006)
Silica nanoparticles-attached titania (TiO2@SiO2) was prepared by modification of the surface of titania (TiO2) with...
Bimodal pore size mesoporous MCM-48 materials prepared by post-synthesis alumination (with Lau Chin Guan and Salasiah Endud), Journal of Physical Science (2006)
Synthesis of mesoporous materials with a bimodal pore size has always been of great importance...
Simultaneous adsorption of a mixture of paraquat and dye by NaY zeolite covered with alkylsilane (with Amir Faizal Naidu Abdul Manan, Lim Kheng Wei, Mohd Nazlan Mohd Muhid , and Halimaton Hamdan), Journal of Hazardous Materials (2005)
The surfaces of NaY zeolite particles were modified by the alkylsilylation of n-octadecyltrichlorosilane (OTS). Two...
The analytical chemistry
Characterization of humic acid from humification of oil palm empty fruit bunch fibre using Trichoderma viride (with Umi Kalsom Md. Shah, Norlea Abdul Aziz , and Ngaspan Sardan), Journal of Tropical Agriculture and Food Science (2006)
Humic acid (HA) extracted from fermentation of EFB using Trichoderma viride was characterized by using...
Quantitative measurement of a mixture of mesophases cubic MCM-48 and hexagonal MCM-41 by 13C CP/MAS NMR (with Lau Chin Guan, Salasiah Endud, and Halimaton Hamdan), Materials Letters (2004)
The 13C CP/MAS NMR was used to quantify a mixture of cubic MCM-48 and hexagonal...