Dr. Parvej Alam

Address: CUHK-Shenzhen, Clinical Translational Research Center of Aggregation-Induced Emission

Date of birth: 15.07.1985

Nationality: India

Email: alamparvej@cuhk.edu.cn parwej.alam007@gmail.com

Mobile: +85263548682 and +8613923786047

Career Profile

•       Researcher: Longgang District People's Hospital of Shenzhen (July 2023-continuing)

•      Assistant Professor (adjunct), CUHK-Shenzhen

•      Postdoctoral Researcher: HKUST (November 2016 – June 2023)

•      Visiting Scholar: HKUST (April 2016 – October 2016)

•      PhD: BITS Pilani, Pilani (August 2011 – April 2016)

Thesis title "Chemistry of Iridium(III) based 'Aggregation Induced Emission' Active Complexes: Applications in Sensing and Bioimaging."

•      Industrial Experience: Chembiotek (June 2007 – December 2010)

(Senior research chemist position at Chembiotek, International Pvt. Ltd., Kolkata)

•      Published 49 papers in high-impact scientific journals (22 articles with the first authorship and 4 as corresponding author), 2 US patents, 4 Chinese patents granted.

•      Received several best oral and poster presentations at national and international conferences.

Involved in teaching at Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, Pilani Campus, as a Graduate Teaching Assistant (TA) and taught Chemical Experimental Laboratory [CHEM F341 and  Measurement Techniques Laboratory [CHEM F110] courses.

•      Worked on the preparation of funding proposals and currently having 3 funds including NSFC.

•      Since 2014, more than 16 students have been guided, including master's, bachelor's, internship, and short visitor students.

•      Currently working on synthesis and development of organic room temperature phosphorescence materials and their application.

•      Developed the first organic long persistent luminescence (OLPL) material with unprecedented afterglow duration (up to 7h).

•      Designed and synthesized a series of aggregation-induced-emission active materials, including small organic, iridium (III), and platinum (II) complexes.

•      Extensively trained in handling extremely hazardous chemicals safely and manipulating high air and moisture-sensitive compounds.

•      Upscaling chemical reactions up to 1 Kg.

•      Recognized for an analytical mind, eye for detail, and structured work style.

 

Work Experience

 July 2023 – continuing              Longgang District People's Hospital of Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518172, China

 April 2016 – June 2023              HKUST- Postdoctoral Researcher with Prof. Ben Zhong Tang

•      Synthesis of organic phosphorescence and long persistent luminescent materials and their applications.

•      Synthesis and development of new aggregation-induced emission active molecules.

•      Synthesis and development of new aggregation-induced emission active phosphorescence materials using different metals such as iridium(III) and platinum(II).

•      Development of new chemosensors for gases such as NH3, NH2NH2 CO2, and HCHO.

 June 2007- December 2010      Senior Research Chemist at Chembiotek (CRO), International Pvt. Ltd., Kolkata

•      Design and synthesis of small organic molecules for biomedical applications.

Education

 August 2011 – April 2016          Ph.D. Chemistry, Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, Pilani Campus with Prof. Inamur                                                       Rahman Laskar

•      Synthesized new AIE materials with a full range of color tuning (blue to red).

•      Successfully developed nitro-explosive detection probe, exhibiting sensitive and selective detection of picric acid with a detection limit of up to 65 nM

•      Explored counter ion-dependent emission from iridium(III) complex.

•      Developed the first example of volatile organic compound (VOC) sensing using AIE active iridium(III) complex.

•      Worked on crystallization-induced emission (CIE).

•      Synthesized iridium(III) complex showing color tuning with respect to different pKas of acids.

•      Synthesized iridium(III) complex showing dual emission and CO2 detection.

•      Synthesized iridium(III) complex showing pH sensing response.

•      Bioimaging using AIE active iridium(III) complexes.

 August 2005 – April 2007 Master's in Chemistry (1st class), DDU University Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh,

August 2002 – April 2005 Bachler's in Science (1st class), DDU University Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh

 

Research Interest

•      Synthesis of new organic and organometallic-based luminescent materials.

•      Synthesis and development of new aggregation-induced emission active molecules.

•      Development of purely organic room temperature phosphorescence (ORTP) and long persistent luminescence (OLPL) materials and their applications

•      Single-molecule white-light emission by utilizing both singlet and triplet excitons.

•      Modulation of excited-state intramolecular proton-transfer (ESIPT), twisted intermolecular charge transfer (TICT), and Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) for advanced luminescence materials.

•      Applications of luminescence materials in biomedical applications (bioimaging, PDT, photoacoustic) and display, lighting, anti-counterfeiting, and sensing.

•      Studies and modulation of excited-state properties of luminescence materials

 

Selected Awards and Honors      

•      Overseas excellent youth, 2022

•      Best poster presentation award in an international conference on nascent developments in chemical sciences: opportunities for academia-industry collaborations held at BITS Pilani, Pilani, during 16-18 October 2015.

•      Best poster presentation award at 21st ISCB International Conference (ISCBC-2015) on “Current Trends in Drug Discovery and Developments” held at Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, from 25th - 28th February 2015.

•      Best oral presentation award at National Conference on Nano- and Functional Materials (NFM-2014), organized by the Department of Chemistry, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus, Rajasthan, 7-8 November 2014.

•      Best oral presentation award in the 5th national symposium for Materials Research Scholars MR-13 held at the Department of Metallurgical Engineering & Materials Science, IIT Bombay on 8th May 2013.

•      Best poster presentation award in Symposium on Advances in Chemistry, held at BITS-Pilani, March 26, 2011.

•      Qualified NET-CSIR (2012) – Awarded by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Government of India.

•      Selected as a champion scholar based on the research areas and areas of the participant industry on the Institute's first and pilot Industry Day-1.

 

Six Representative Publications

1.    Jianyu Zhang†, Parvej Alam†, Siwei Zhang†, Hanchen Shen, Lianrui Hu, Herman Sung, Ian Williams, Jianwei Sun, Jacky Lam, Haoke Zhang, Ben Zhong Tang, Secondary Through-Space Interactions: Achieving Single-Molecule White-Light Emission from Clusteroluminogens with Isolated Phenyl Rings, Nature Communications, 2022, 13, 3492, doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31184-9, (IF = 14.70, † = equal contribution).

2.    Parvej Alam†, Tsz Shing Cheung†, Nelson L. C. Leung, Jianyu Zhang, Jing Guo, Lili Du, Ryan T. K. Kwok, Jacky W. Y. Lam, Zebing Zeng, David Lee Phillips, Herman H. Y. Sung, Ian D. Williams, and Ben Zhong Tang, Organic Long-Persistent Luminescence from a Single-Component Aggregate, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2022, 144, 7, 3050–3062 doi.org/10.1021/jacs.1c11480, (IF = 14.40, † = equal contribution).

3.    Kumar Siddharth†, Parvej Alam†, Md Delowar Hossain, Ni Xie, Gabriel Sikukuu Nambafu, Faisal Rehman, Jacky W. Y. Lam, Guohua Chen, Jinping Cheng, Zhengtang Luo, Guanghao Chen, Ben Zhong Tang, Minhua Shao, Hydrazine Detection during Ammonia Electro-oxidation Using an Aggregation-Induced Emission Dye, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2021, 2433, doi.org/10.1021/jacs.0c13178, (IF = 14.40, † = equal contribution).

4.    Parvej Alam†, Nelson L. C. Leung †, Junkai Liu, Tsz Shing Cheung, Xuepeng Zhang, Zikai He, Ryan T.K. Kwok, Jacky W. Y. Lam, Herman HY Sung, Ian D Williams, Christopher CS Chan, Kam Sing Wong, Qian Peng, Ben Zhong Tang, Two Are Better Than One: A Design Principle for Ultralong‐Persistent Luminescence of Pure Organics, Advanced Materials, 2020, 2001026, doi.org/10.1002/adma.202001026, (IF = 27.40, † = equal contribution).

5.    Parvej Alam†, He Wei†, Nelson L. C. Leung, Ryan T.K. Kwok, Jacky W. Y. Lam, Herman H-Y Sung, Ian Duncan Williams, Ben Zhong Tang, Red AIE-Active Fluorescent Probes with Tunable Organelle-Specific Targeting, Advanced Functional Materials, 2019, 1909268, doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201909268 (IF = 19.00 † = equal contribution).

6.    Parvej Alam†, Nelson L. C. Leung †, Yanhua Cheng, Haoke Zhang, Junkai LIU, Wenjie Wu, Ryan T. K. Kwok, Jacky W. Y. Lam, Herman H. Y. Sung, Ian D. Williams, Ben Zhong Tang, Spontaneous and fast molecular motion at room temperature in the solid-state, Angewandte Chemie, 2019, 131, 4584, doi.org/10.1002/anie.201813554, (IF = 16.60, † = equal contribution). 

Full Publication List (H-index: 29, citation: >2600, updated in August 2024)

    

Under review   

1.    Feng Gao, Yanning Xu, Liyuan Hou, Dan Liu, Zhan Yang, Zeyang Ding, Peng Meng, Hanwen Liu, Jianquan Zhang, Zheng Zhao,* Parvej Alam,* Zijie Qiu,* Ben Zhong Tang*, In-solution Intramolecular Through-Space Conjugations of Sterically Constrained Tetranaphthylethane,  Angewandte Chemie (Under Review).

2.    Anthony W. K. Law, Tsz Shing Cheung, Jianyu Zhang, Nelson LC Leung, Zihao Deng, Ryan TK Kwok, Zheng Zhao, Herman HY Sung, Ian D Williams, Zijie Qiu*, Parvej Alam*, Jacky W.Y. Lam*, Ben Zhong Tang*, Sergeant-and-soldier effect in an organic room-temperature phosphorescent host-guest system, Advanced Materials, 2024 (Under Review).

3.    Wen-Jin Wang, Rongyuan Zhang, Liping Zhang, Liang Hao, Xu-Min Cai, Qian Wu, Zijie Qiu, Ruijuan Han, Jing Feng, Shaojuan Wang, Parvej Alam, Guoqing Zhang, Zheng Zhao, Ben Zhong Tang, Enzymatically Catalyzed Molecular Aggregation, Nature Communications, 2024 (Revised).

4.    Huang, Siqi; Wang, Zaiyu; Lu, Xuemei; Gong, Junyi; Cheng, Liping; Wang, Jianxing; Zhang, Jianquan; Alam, Parvej; Lv, Ziquan; Zhang, Haifeng; Li, Ying; Qiu, Zijie; Zhao, Zheng; Tang, Ben Zhong, Interception and In-Situ Eradication of Airborne Pathogens by Ecofriendly, Biodegradable Wooden Filters, ACS Materials Letters, 2024, (Revised).

5.    Zeyang Ding, Bo Wu, Zonghang Liu, Haoran Wang, Zheng Zhao, Parvej Alam*, Zijie Qiu* and Ben Zhong Tang* Exploration of Dynamic Covalent Chemistry in Aggregate Science: Constructing Unexpected Aggregate Structure via a Reversible [2+2] Photocycloaddition for Photoactivatable Fluorescence Switch, Nature Communications, 2024 (Submitted).

6.    Wen-Jin Wang, Rongyuan Zhang, Liping Zhang, Liang Hao, Qian Wu, Zijie Qiu, Xu-Min Cai, Parvej Alam, Guoqing Zhang, Zheng Zhao* and Ben Zhong Tang, Intracellularly Manipulable Aggregation of the Aggregation-Induced Emission Molecules, Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 2024 (Revised).

7.    Ziwei Deng; Rongyuan Zhang; Junyi Gong; Zicong Zhang; Lingyan Zhang; Zijie Qiu; Alam Pravej; Jianquan Zhang; Yong Liu; Ying Li; Zheng Zhao; Ben Zhong Tang, Unveiling the Role of Alkyl Chain in Boosting Antibacterial Selectivity and Cell Biocompatibility, ACS Central Science, 2024 (Submitted).

       

 Published

49.   Zihao Deng, Fan-Cheng Kong, Ziqi Deng, Jiaming Zhou, Shengyi Yang, Shan He, Jianyu Zhang, Yunfei Zuo, Jin Wang, Xinmeng Chen, Ryan T. K. Kwok, Guocheng Jia, Philip C. Y. Chow, David Lee Phillips, Parvej Alam,* Jacky W. Y. Lam,* Ben Zhong Tang*, Visualizing Triplet Energy Transfer in Organic Near-Infrared Phosphorescent Host-Guest Materials, Angewandte Chemie, 2024, Accepted (IF = 16.60).

48.   Wenkang Ye , Xinnan Wang, Parvej Alam, Changdong Liu, Monica C. Suen, Jianwei Tang, Herman H.Y. Sung, Ian D. Williams, Eric Y. Yu, Jacky W.Y. Lam, Guang Zhu, Ben-Zhong Tang, Pei-Yuan Qian, Discovery of a novel marine bacterial AIEgen that lights up specific G-quadruplexes, Chemical Engineering Journal, 2024, doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2024.154947.

47.   Hongzhuo Wu, Deliang Wang, Jianquan Zhang, Parvej Alam, Zheng Zhao, Yu Xiong, Dong Wang, Ben Zhong Tang, Achieving persistent room-temperature phosphorescence from phenanthridone derivatives by molecular engineering, Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2024, doi.org/10.1039/D4TC01387E.

46.   Dan Liu, Wenjin Wang, Parvej Alam, Zhan Yang, Kaiwen Wu, Lixun Zhu, Yu Xiong, Shuai Chang, Yong Liu, Bo Wu, Qian Wu, Zijie Qiu, Zheng Zhao, Ben Zhong Tang, Highly Efficient Circularly Polarized Near-infrared Phosphorescence in Both Solution and Aggregate, Nature Photonics, 2024 (Revised).

45.   Xiaolin Nie, Junyi Gong, Zeyang Ding, Bo Wu, Feng Gao, Guoqing Zhang, Parvej Alam, Yu Xiong, Zheng Zhao, Zijie Qiu, Ben Zhong Tang, Room Temperature Phosphorescent Nanofiber Membranes by Bio-fermentation, Advanced Science, 2024, DOI: 10.1002/advs.202405327 (IF = 15.10).

44.   Peng Meng, Andreis Lau, Daigo Miyajima, Parvej Alam*, Zijie Qiu, Benzhong Tang, Modulating Molecular Aggregation of Luminogens: Bridging the Gap Between Solutions and Solids, Applied Physics Letters, 2024, 124, 100501,doi.org/10.1063/5.0186518 (IF = 4.0).

43.   Zihao Deng, Jianyu Zhang, Jiaming Zhou, Wei Shen, Yunfei Zuo, Jin Wang, Shengyi Yang, Junkai Liu, Yuyang Chen, Chun‐Chao Chen, Guocheng Jia, Parvej Alam*, Jacky WY Lam*, Ben Zhong Tang*, Dynamic Transition Between Monomer and Excimer Phosphorescence in Organic Near‐Infrared Phosphorescent Crystals, Advanced Materials, 2024, 2311384, doi.org/10.1002/adma.202311384 (IF = 29.40).

42.   Xu-Min Cai, Yuting Lin, Jianyu Zhang, Ying Li, Zhenguo Tang, Xuedan Zhang, Ying Jia, Wenjin Wang, Parvej Alam, Shenlin Huang, Zheng Zhao and Ben Zhong Tang Chromene-based BioAIEgens: “in water” synthesis, regiostructure-dependent fluorescence and ER-specific imaging, National Science Review, 2023, nwad233, doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwad233 (IF = 20.60).

41.   Parvej Alam* and Ben Zhong Tang et al., Aggregation-Induced Emission (AIE), Life and Health, ACS nano, 2023, 15, 14347–14405 doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.3c03925 (IF = 17.10).

40.   Minjie Zhang, Jianyu Zhang, Parvej Alam, Wenlang Li, Jacky WY Lam, Guocheng Jia, Ben Zhong Tang, Hydrazone-Based AIEgens with Photofluorochromic Ability for Rewritable, Intensity-Variable, and High-Resolution Photopattern, Advanced Functional Materials, 2023,33, 2213927, doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202213927 (IF = 19.92).

39.   Jinzhu Ma, Zhangdi Lu, Chenmin Li, Yingjian Luo, Yu-e Shi, Parvej Alam, Jacky WY Lam, Zhenguang Wang, Ben Zhong Tang, Fluorescence ratiometric assay for discriminating GSH and Cys based on the composites of UiO-66-NH2 and Cu nanoclusters, Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 2022,114582, doi.org/10.1016/j.bios.2022.114582 (IF = 12.54).

38.   Jianyu Zhang†, Parvej Alam†, Siwei Zhang†, Hanchen Shen, Lianrui Hu, Herman Sung, Ian Williams, Jianwei Sun, Jacky Lam, Haoke Zhang, Ben Zhong Tang, Secondary Through-Space Interactions: Achieving Single-Molecule White-Light Emission from Clusteroluminogens with Isolated Phenyl Rings, Nature Communications, 2022, 13, 3492, doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31184-9, (IF = 17.69, † = equal contribution).

37.   Xinnan Wang, Ting Han, Junyi Gong, Parvej Alam, Haoke Zhang, Jacky WY Lam, Ben Zhong Tang, Diversity-Oriented Synthesis of Functional Polymers with Multisubstituted Small Heterocycles by Facile Stereoselective Multicomponent Polymerizations, Macromolecules, 2022, 55, 11, 4389–4401, doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.2c00319 (IF = 6.05)

36.   Parvej Alam†, Tsz Shing Cheung†, Nelson L. C. Leung, Jianyu Zhang, Jing Guo, Lili Du, Ryan T. K. Kwok, Jacky W. Y. Lam, Zebing Zeng, David Lee Phillips, Herman H. Y. Sung, Ian D. Williams, and Ben Zhong Tang, Organic Long-Persistent Luminescence from a Single-Component Aggregate, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2022, 144, 7, 3050–3062, doi.org/10.1021/jacs.1c11480 (IF = 16.38, † = equal contribution).

35.   Xueqian Zhao†, Parvej Alam†, Jianyu Zhang, Shiyun Lin, Qian Peng, Jun Zhang, Guodong Liang, Sijie Chen, Jing Zhang, Herman HY Sung, Jacky W. Y. Lam, Ian D Williams, Xinggui Gu, Zheng Zhao, Ben Zhong Tang, Metallophilicity-Induced Clusterization: Single-Component White-Light Clusteroluminescence with Stimuli Responses, CCS Chemistry, 2021, 1, DOI: 10.31635/ccschem.021.202101392, (IF = 11.20, † = equal contribution).

34.   Huilin Xie, Zhao Li, Junyi Gong, Lianrui Hu, Parvej Alam, Xiaofan Ji, Yubing Hu, Joe HC Chau, Jacky W. Y. Lam, Ryan T. K. Kwok, Ben Zhong Tang, Photo-triggered Aggregation-Induced Emission and Direct Generation of 4D Soft Patterns, Advanced Materials, 2021, 2105113, doi.org/10.1002/adma.202105113 (IF = 32.09).

33.   Xueqian Zhao, Junyi Gong, Parvej Alam, Chao Ma, Yanpei Wang, Jing Guo, Zebin Zeng, Zikai He, Herman HY Sung, Ian D Williams, Kam Sing Wong, Sijie Chen, Jacky W. Y. Lam, Zheng Zhao, Ben Zhong Tang, A Simple Approach to Achieve Organic Radicals with Unusual Solid-State Emission and Extraordinary Stability, CCS Chemistry, 2021, 1, doi.org/10.31635/ccschem.021.202101192 (IF = 11.20).

32.   Sandip Biswas, Gouranga Manna, Bidisa Das, Arpan Bhattacharya, Arun K Pal, Ayan Datta, Parvej Alam, Inamur Rahaman Laskar, Pramita Mondal, Mrinmay K Mukhopadhyay, Milan K Sanyal, Somobrata Acharya, Origin of Intense Luminescence from Supramolecular Two-dimensional Molecular Crystals, Small, 2021, 2103212, doi.org/10.1002/smll.202103212 (IF = 15.15).

 31.   Sandip Biswas, Bidisa Das, Parvej Alam, Arnab Ghatak, Uttam Kumar Ghorai, Arijit Ghosh, Benu Brata Das, Inamur Rahaman Laskar, Somobrata Acharya, Supramolecular Design Strategies for Color Tuning of Iridium(III) Complexes Using Common Framework of Cyclometalating Ligands, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2021, 4730, doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c11570 (IF = 4.189).

30.   Kumar Siddharth†, Parvej Alam†, Md Delowar Hossain, Ni Xie, Gabriel Sikukuu Nambafu, Faisal Rehman, Jacky W. Y. Lam, Guohua Chen, Jinping Cheng, Zhengtang Luo, Guanghao Chen, Ben Zhong Tang, Minhua Shao, Hydrazine Detection during Ammonia Electro-oxidation Using an Aggregation-Induced Emission Dye, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2021, 2433, doi.org/10.1021/jacs.0c13178 (IF = 16.38, † = equal contribution).

29.   Xuelin Huang, Zhe Jiao, Zongning Guo, Jialing Yang, Parvej Alam, Yong Liu, Yongfan Men, Pengfei Zhang, Haitao Feng, Shuhuai Yao, Ben Zhong Tang, Development of Reaction-based AIE Handy Pen for Visual Detection of Toxic Vapors, ACS Materials Letters, 2021, 3, 2, 249, doi.org/10.1021/acsmaterialslett.0c00516 (IF = 11.17).

28.   Jing Zhang, Benzhao He, Yubing Hu, Parvej Alam, Haoke Zhang, Jacky W. Y. Lam, Ben Zhong Tang, Stimuli-Responsive AIEgens, Advanced Materials, 2021, 2008071, doi.org/10.1002/adma.202008071 (IF = 32.09).

27.   Parvej Alam, Nelson L. C. Leung, Jing Zhang, Ryan T. K. Kwok, Jacky W. Y. Lam, and Ben Zhong Tang, AIE-based luminescence probes for metal ions detection, Coordination Chemistry Review, 2021, 429, 213693, doi.org/10.1016/j.ccr.2020.213693 (IF = 24.83).

26.   Jing Zhang, Benzhao He, Wenjie Wu, Parvej Alam, Han Zhang, Junyi Gong, Fengyan Song, Zaiyu Wang, Herman HY Sung, Ian D Williams, Zhiming Wang, Jacky W. Y. Lam, Ben Zhong Tang, Molecular Motions in AIEgen Crystals: Turning on Photoluminescence by Force-Induced Filament Sliding, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 142, 14608, doi.org/10.1021/jacs.0c06305 (IF = 16.38).

25.   Parvej Alam†, Nelson L. C. Leung †, Junkai Liu, Tsz Shing Cheung, Xuepeng Zhang, Zikai He, Ryan T.K. Kwok, Jacky W. Y. Lam, Herman HY Sung, Ian D Williams, Christopher CS Chan, Kam Sing Wong, Qian Peng, Ben Zhong Tang, Two Are Better Than One: A Design Principle for Ultralong‐Persistent Luminescence of Pure Organics, Advanced Materials, 2020, 2001026, doi.org/10.1002/adma.202001026 (IF = 32.09, † = equal contribution).

 24.   Yonghua Jiang, Zhaowei Zhong, Weixin Ou, Haoming Shi, Parvej Alam, Ben Zhong Tang, Jianguang Qin, Youhong Tang, Semi-quantitative evaluation of seafood spoilage using filter-paper strips loaded with an aggregation-induced emission luminogen, Food Chemistry, 2020, 127056, doi.org/10.1016/j.foodchem.2020.127056 (IF = 9.23).

 23.   Parvej Alam†, He Wei†, Nelson L. C. Leung, Ryan T.K. Kwok, Jacky W. Y. Lam, Herman H-Y Sung, Ian Duncan Williams, Ben Zhong Tang, Red AIE-Active Fluorescent Probes with Tunable Organelle-Specific Targeting, Advanced Functional Materials, 2019, 1909268, doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201909268 (IF = 19.92, † = equal contribution).

22.   Xuepeng Zhang, Lili Du, Weijun Zhao, Zheng Zhao, Yu Xiong, Xuewen He, Peng Fei Gao, Parvej Alam, Can Wang, Zhen Li, Jing Leng, Junxue Liu, Chuanyao Zhou, Jacky W. Y. Lam, David Lee Phillips, Guoqing Zhang, Ben Zhong Tang, Ultralong UV/mechano-excited room temperature phosphorescence from purely organic cluster excitons, Nature Communications, 2019,10,1-10, doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13048-x (IF = 17.69).

21.   Parvej Alam, Clàudia Climent, Pere Alemany, Angshuman, Inamur Rahaman Laskar, “Aggregation-Induced Emission of Transition Metal Compounds: Design, Mechanistic Insights, and Applications, Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology, C: Photochemistry Reviews, 2019, 100317, doi.org/10.1016/j.jphotochemrev.2019.100317 (IF = 17.17).

20.   Parvej Alam†, Nelson L. C. Leung †, Yanhua Cheng, Haoke Zhang, Junkai LIU, Wenjie Wu, Ryan T. K. Kwok, Jacky W. Y. Lam, Herman H. Y. Sung, Ian D. Williams, Ben Zhong Tang, Spontaneous and fast molecular motion at room temperature in the solid-state, Angewandte Chemie, 2019, 131, 4584, doi.org/10.1002/anie.201813554 (IF = 16.82, † = equal contribution). 

19.   Vishal Kachwal, Parvej Alam, Hare Ram Yadav, Sheik Saleem Pasha, Angshuman Roy Choudhury, Inamur Rahaman Laskar, Simple ratiometric push-pull with an 'aggregation-induced enhanced emission' active pyrene derivative: a multifunctional and highly sensitive fluorescent sensor, New Journal of Chemistry, 2018, 42, 1133, doi.org/10.1039/C7NJ03964F (IF = 3.59).

18.   Parvej Alam†, Nelson L. C. Leung†, Huifang Su, Zijie Qiu, Ryan T. K. Kwok, Jacky W. Y. Lam, Ben Zhong Tang, A Highly Sensitive Bimodal Detection of Amine Vapours Based on Aggregation Induced Emission of 1, 2‐Dihydroquinoxaline Derivatives, Chemistry-A European Journal, 2017, 23,1–8, doi.org/10.1002/chem.201703253 (IF = 5.23, † = equal contribution). 

17.   Zijie Qiu, Eric KK Chu, Meijuan Jiang, Chen Gui, Ni Xie, Wei Qin, Parvej Alam, Ryan T.K. Kwok, Jacky WY Lam, Ben Zhong Tang, A Simple and Sensitive Method for an Important Physical Parameter: Reliable Measurement of Glass Transition Temperature by AIEgens, Macromolecules, 2017, 50,7620, 10.1021/acs.macromol.7b01070 (IF = 6.0).

16.   Subrata Maji, Parvej Alam, Gundam Sandeep Kumar, Sandip Biswas, Piyush Kanti Sarkar, Bidisa Das, Ishita Rehman, Benu Brat Das, Nikhil Ranjan Jana, Inamur Rahaman Laskar, Somobrata Acharya, Induced Aggregation of AIE‐Active Mono‐Cyclometalated Ir(III) Complex into Supramolecular Branched Wires for Light‐Emitting Diodes, Small, 2017, 1603780, doi.org/10.1002/smll.201603780 (IF = 15.15).

15.   Clàudia Climent†, Parvej Alam†, Sheik Saleem Pasha, Gurpreet Kaur, Angshuman Roy Choudhury, Inamur Rahaman Laskar, Pere Alemany, David Casanova, Dual emission and multi-stimuli-response in iridium (III) complexes with aggregation-induced enhanced emission: applications for quantitative CO2 detection, Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2017, 5, 7784-7798, doi.org/10.1039/C7TC02250F (IF = 8.06, † = equal contribution).

14.   Parvej Alam, Subhra Dash, Claudia Climent, Gurpreet Kaur, Angshuman Roy Choudhury, David Casanova, Pere Alemany, Rajdeep Chowdhury, Inamur Rahaman Laskar, Aggregation induced emission' active iridium (III) complexes with applications in mitochondrial staining, RSC Advances, 2017, 7, 5642, doi.org/10.1039/C6RA24792J (IF = 3.26).

13.   Parvej Alam†, Clàudia Climent†, David Casanova, Pere Alemany, Angshuman Roy Choudhury, Inamur Rahaman Laskar, Exploring the Origin of "Aggregation Induced Emission" Activity and "Crystallization Induced Emission" in Organometallic Iridium(III) Cationic Complexes: Influence of Counterions, Crystal Growth & Design, 2016, 16, 5738, doi.org/10.1021/acs.cgd.6b00810 (IF = 4.08, † = equal contribution).

12.   Parvej Alam, Vishal Kachwal, Inamur Rahaman Laskar, A multi-stimuli responsive "AIE" active salicylaldehyde-based Schiff base for sensitive detection of fluoride, Sensors and Actuators B, 2016, 228, 539, doi.org/10.1016/j.snb.2016.01.024 (IF = 9.22).

11.   Sheik Saleem Pasha, Parvej Alam, Amrit Sarmah, Ram Kinkar Roy, and Inamur Rahaman Laskar, Encapsulation of multi-stimuli AIE active platinum(II) complex: a facile and dry approach for luminescent mesoporous silica, RSC Advances, 2016, 6, 87791, doi.org/10.1039/C6RA17273C (IF = 3.26).

10.   Parvej Alam, Gurpreet Kaur, Amrit Sarmah, Ram Kinkar Roy, Angshuman Roy Choudhury, Inamur Rahaman Laskar, Highly Selective Detection of H+ and OH‒ with a Single Emissive Iridium(III) Complex: A Mild Approach to Conversion of Non-AIEE to AIEE Complex, Organometallics, 2015, 34, 4480, doi.org/10.1021/acs.organomet.5b00447 (IF = 3.86).

9.    Navin Jain, Parvej Alam, Inamur Rahman Laskar, Jitendra Panwar, Aggregation Induced Phosphorescence' Active Iridium(III) Complexes for Integrated Sensing and Inhibition of Bacteria in Aqueous Solution, RSC Advances, 2015, 5, 61983, doi.org/10.1039/C5RA10161A (IF = 3.26).

8.    Parvej Alam, Gurpreet Kaur, Vishal Kachwal, Asish Gupta, Angshuman Roy, and Inamur Rahaman Laskar, Highly sensitive explosive sensing by "aggregation-induced phosphorescence" active cyclometalated iridium(III) complexes, Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2015, 3, 5450, doi.org/10.1039/C5TC00963D (IF  = 8.06).

7.    Parvej Alam, Gurpreet Kaur, Shamik Chakraborty, Angshuman Roy Choudhury, Inamur Rahaman Laskar, Aggregation Induced Phosphorescence' Active 'Rollover' Iridium(III) Complex as Multi-Stimuli-Responsive Luminescence Material, Dalton Transactions, 2015, 44, 6581, doi.org/10.1039/C4DT03424D (IF = 4.17).

6.    Parvej Alam, Maheswararao Karanam, Debashree Bandyopadhyay, Angshuman Roy Choudhury, Inamur Rahaman Laskar, Aggregation Induced Emission Activity in Iridium(III)-Diamine Complexes: Investigations of Their Vapochromic Properties, European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 2014, 23, 3710, doi.org/10.1002/ejic.201402222 (IF = 2.52).

5.    Parvej Alam, Gurpreet Kaur, Clàudia Climent, Saleem Pasha, David Casanova, Pere Alemany, Angshuman Roy Choudhury, Inamur Rahaman Laskar, 'Aggregation Induced Emission (AIE)' Active Cyclometalated Iridium(III) Based Fluorescent Sensors: High Sensitivity for Mercury(II) Ions, Dalton Transactions, 2014, 43, 16431, doi.org/10.1039/C4DT02266A (IF = 4.17).

4.    Sheik Saleem Pasha, Parvej Alam, Subhra Dash, Gurpreet Kaur, Debashree Banerjee, Rajdeep Chowdhury, Nigam Rath, Angshuman Roy Choudhury, Inamur Rahaman Laskar, Rare Observation of 'Aggregation Induced Emission' in Cyclometalated Platinum(II) Complexes and their Biological Activities, RSC Advances, 2014, 50549, doi.org/10.1039/C4RA06623E (IF = 3.26).

3.    Parvej Alam, Pradip Das, Clàudia Climent, Maheswararao Karanam, David Casanova, Pere Alemany, Angshuman Roy Choudhury, Nikhil Ranjan Jana, Inamur Rahaman Laskar, Facile Tuning of the Aggregation Induced Emission Wavelength in a Common Framework of a Cyclometalated Iridium(III) Complex: Micellar Encapsulated Probe in Cellular Imaging, Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2014, 2, 5615, doi.org/10.1039/C4TC00466C (IF = 8.06).

2.    Parvej Alam, Inamur Rahaman Laskar, Clàudia Climent, David Casanova, Pere Alemany, Maheswararao Karanam, Angshuman Roy Choudhury, J. R. Butcher, Microwave-Assisted Facile and Expeditive Syntheses of Phosphorescent Cyclometalated Iridium(III) Complexes, Polyhedron, 2013, 286, doi.org/10.1016/j.poly.2013.01.045 (IF = 2.88).

1.    Parvej Alam, Maheswararao Karanam, Angshuman Roy Choudhury, Inamur Rahaman Laskar, One-Pot Synthesis of Strong Solid-State Emitting Mono-cyclometalated Iridium(III) Complexes: Study of their Aggregation Induced Enhance Phosphorescence, Dalton Transactions, 2012, 9276, doi.org/10.1039/C2DT30771E (IF = 4.17).

 

Patent (Granted)

1.    Organic Long Persistence Luminescence Compositions, US20200377534A1, Inventors: Parvej Alam, Nelson L. C. Leung, and Ben Zhong Tang.  (published on: 2020-02-27, granted on: 2021-06-15)

2.    AIE- Active Chemosensor for amine detection and related food safety monitoring, US20200062718A1, Inventors: Parvej Alam, Nelson L. C. Leung, and Ben Zhong Tang. (published on: 2020-12-03, granted on: 2022-05-17)

3.    AIE- Active Chemosensor for amine detection and related food safety monitoring, CN201880023680.5A, Inventors: Parvej Alam, Nelson L. C. Leung, and Ben Zhong Tang, (published on: 2020-03-31, granted on: 2022-10-25).

4.    Organic long afterglow luminous composition, CN202010438665.6A, Parvej Alam, Nelson L. C. Leung, and Ben Zhong Tang. (published on: 2020-12-01, granted on: 2023-07-18).

5.    A kind of phosphor material and preparation method thereof, CN107793393A, Inventors: Tang Ben Zhong, Zhao Weijun, He Zikai, Liang Li Zheng, Parvej Alam, (published on: 2018-03-13, granted on: 2020-10-09)

6.    Fluorescent red-emissive compounds for cellular organelle imaging, CN114040962 B, Inventors: Benzhong Tang, Parvej Alam, Guangle NIU, We HE, Nelson Lik Ching Leung, (granted on: 2024-06-19).

 

References

1.    Prof. Ben Zhong Tang, Dean of School of Science and Engineering, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, 2001 Longxiang Road, Longgang District, Shenzhen, China, Email: tangbenz@ust.hk and tangbenz@cuhk.edu.cn  M: +852-2358-7375, http://tangbz.ust.hk/tbz.html.

2.    Prof. lnamur Rahman Laskar, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Birla lnstitute of Technology and Science Pilani (BITS Pilani) Pilani Rajasthan, lndia, Email: ir_laskar@pilani.bits-pilani.ac.in, inamur00@gmail.com, M: +919602213001.

 3.    Prof. Somobrata Acharya, Professor, School of Applied & Interdisciplinary Sciences, Indian Association For The Cultivation Of Science, Kolkata, lndia, Email: camsa2@iacs.res.in, M: +913324734971.

4.    Prof. Zheng ZHAO, Assistant Professor, School of Science and Engineering, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, 2001 Longxiang Road, Longgang District, Shenzhen, China, Email: zhaozheng@cuhk.edu.cn, M: +86-0755-23519663.

5.    Prof. Subit Kumar Saha, Professor, Department of Chemistry Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani (BITS Hyderabad), Email: subitksaha@gmail.com, sksaha@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in, M: +91- 8058419613.

6.    Prof. Angshuman Roy Choudhury, Professor, Department of Chemical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Mohali, India, Email: angshurc@iisermohali.ac.in, M: +911722293165.