PERSONAL Rank: Professor Office: 2073 Tel. +968 2414 1494 Fax.: +968 2414 1469 E-Mail: msk@squ.edu.om
EDUCATION Postdoctoral Fellow: University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK Ph.D. Chemistry: University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK M.Sc. Chemistry: University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh B.Sc. (Hons) Chemistry: University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS
Organometallic Chemistry Polymer Chemistry Materials Chemistry Structural Chemistry Photo-physics
RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS
Professor Sir Richard H. Friend, FRS, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK Professor Paul R. Raithby, DSc, Department of Chemistry, University of Bath, Bath, UK Professor Anna Köhler, Department of Physics, Bayreuth University, Germany
SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS
L.S. Devi, M.K. Al-Suti,  N. Zhang, S.J Teat, L. Male, H.A. Sparkes, P.R.Raithby, M.S. Khan and A. Kohler "Synthesis and Comparison of the Optical Properties of Platinum(II) Poly-ynes with Fused and Non-Fused Oligothiophenes" Macromol., 2009, 42, 1131-1141. L.S. Devi, M.K. Al-Suti, C. Dosche, M.S. Khan, R. H. Friend and A. Köhler “Triplet energy transfer in conjugated polymers –I: An Experimental investigation of a weakly disordered compound” Phys. Rev. B., 2008, 78, 045210. B. Ahrens, L.P. Clarke, N. Feeder, M.S. Khan, P.Li, J.N. Martin and P.R. Raithby, “Reactions of [Os3(CO)10(MeCN)2] with ethynyl thiophenes: The formation of linked clusters” Inorg. Chim. Acta, 2008, 361, 3117. N. Zhang, A. Kohler, M.K. Al-Suti, R.A. Al-Belushi and M.S. Khan "The effect of delocalization on the exchange energy in meta and para-linked Pt-containing carbazole polymers and monomers" J. Chem. Phys., 2006, 124, 244701-9. O. Mermer, G. Veeraghavan, T.L. Francis, Y. Sheng, D.T. Nguyen, M. Wohlgenannt, A. Kohler, M.K. Al-Suti and M.S. Khan "Large magnetoresistance in nonmagnetic pi-conjugated semiconductor thin film devices" Phys. Rev. B., 2005, 72, 20502-12 P. Li, B. Ahrens, N. Feeder, P.R. Raithby, S.J. Teat and M.S. Khan, “Luminescent digold ethynyl thienothiophene and dithienothiophene complexes; their synthesis and structural characterization” Dalton Trans., 2005, 874-883. A. Hayer, A. Köhler, E. Arisi, I. Bergenti, A. Dediu, C. Taliani, M.K. Al-Suti and M. S. Khan, “Polymer light emitting diodes with spin-polarised charge injection” Synth. Met., 2004, 147, 155-158. C. Yang, Z.V. Vardeny, A. Kohler, M. Wohlgenannt, M. K. Al-Suti and M. S. Khan, “Spectroscopic study of spin-dependent excitation formation rates in pi-conjugated semiconductors: Comparison with electroluminescence techniques”, Phys. Rev. B., 2004, 70, 241202-4(R). M.S. Khan, M.R.A. Al-Mandhary, M.K. Al-Suti, F.R. Al-Battashi, S. Al-Saadi, B. Ahrens, J.K. Bjernemose, M.F. Mahon, P.R. Raithby, M. Younus, N. Chawdhury, A. Köhler, E.A. Marseglia, E. Tedesco, N. Feeder and S.J. Teat “Synthesis, characterisation and optical spectroscopy of platinum(II) di-ynes and poly-ynes incorporating condensed aromatic spacers in the backbone” Dalton Trans., 2004, 2377-2385. M.S. Khan, M.R.A. Al-Mandhary, M.K. Al-Suti, P.R. Raithby, B. Ahrens, M. Mahon, L. Male, C.E. Boothby and A. Köhler "Synthesis and optical spectroscopy of diynes and polyynes containing derivatized fluorenes in the backbone" Dalton Trans., 2003, 74-84. M.S. Khan, M.R.A. Al-Mandhary, M.K. Al-Suti, P.R. Raithby, B. Ahrens, L. Male, R.H. Friend, A. Köhler and J. W.ilson “Synthesis and chracterization of new acetylide-functionalised aromatic and hetero-aromatic ligands and their dinuclear platinum complexes” Dalton Trans., 2003, 65-73. J.S. Wilson, R.J. Wilson, R.H. Friend, A. Kohler, M.K. Al-Suti, M.R.A. Al-Mandhary and M.S. Khan, “The Polarisation of Singlet and Triplet Excited states in a Platinum-Containing Polymer” Phys. Rev. B, 2003, 67, 125206-6. M.S.Khan, M.R.A. Al-Mandhary, M.K. Al-Suti, N. Feeder, S. Nahar, A. Köhler, R.H. Friend, P.J. Wilson and P.R. Raithby, “Synthesis, Characterization and Opto-electronic Properties of a Series of Platinum(II) Poly-ynes containing Novel Thienyl-pyridine Linker Groups” J. Chem. Soc. Dalton Trans., 2002, 2441-48. M.S.Khan, M.R.A. Al-Mandhary, M.K. Al-Suti, N. Feeder, S. Nahar, A. Köhler, R.H. Friend, P.J. Wilson and P.R. Raithby, “Synthesis, Characterization and Opto-electronic Properties of a Series of Platinum(II) Poly-ynes containing Novel Thienyl-pyridine Linker Groups”, J. Chem. Soc. Dalton Trans., 2002, 2441-48. M.S. Khan, M.R.A. Al-Mandhary, M.K. Al-Suti, P.R. Raithby, B. Ahrens, J.K. Bjernemose, M. Mahon, L. Male, E. A. Merseglia, E. Tedesco, R.H. Friend, A. Kohler, N. Feeder, C. Griffiths and S.J. Teat, "Structural characterisation of a series of protected bis(acetylide) functionalised oligopyridines and the synthesis, characterisation and optical spectroscopy of platinum di-ynes and poly-ynes containing oligopyridyl linker groups in the backbone" J. Chem. Soc. Dalton Trans., 2002, 1358-68. P. Li, B. Ahrens, K.H. Choi, M.S. Khan, P.R. Raithby, P.J. Wilson and W.Y. Wong “Metal-metal and ligand-ligand interactions in gold poly-yne systems”, Cryst. Eng. Comm., 2002, 4, 405-412. A. Köhler, J.S. Wilson, R.H. Friend, M.K. Al-Suti, M.S. Khan, A. Gerhard and H. Bassler "The singlet-triplet energy gap in organic and Pt-containing phenylene ethynylene polymers and monomers" J. Chem. Phys., 2002, 116, 9457-9463. J.S. Wilson, A.S. Dhoot A.J.A.B. Seelay, M.S. Khan, A. Köhler and R.H. Friend, “Spin-dependent exciton formation in pi-conjugated compounds” Nature, 2001, 413, 828-831. J.S. Wilson, N. Chawdhury, M.R.A. Al-Mandhary, M. Younus, M.S. Khan, P.R. Raithby, A. Köhler and R.H. Friend “The Energy Gap Law for Triplet States in Pt-Containing Conjugated Polymers and Monomers” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2001, 123, 9412-9417. J.S. Wilson, A. Köhler, R.H. Friend, M.K. Al-Suti, M.R.A. Al-Mandhary, M.S. Khan and P.R. Raithby “Triplet States in a series of Pt-containing ethynylenes” J. Chem. Phys, 2000, 113, 7627-7634.
RECENT MAJOR AWARDS
British Prime Minister's Award (PMI-2) for Research Cooperation in the Gulf States, 2010 Visiting Professor of Chemistry, University of Bath, UK: June-August 2002-03, February-July2004, June-July 2005. Research Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, June-August, 1998-2000. Internationally Leading Assessment for research by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), UK, December 2002. Royal Society Visiting Fellow, Department of Chemistry, University of Bath, UK, February-April 2004.  Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Award for International Authors, Department of Chemistry, University of Bath, UK, May-July 2004. Distinguished Researcher’s Award, College of Science, Sultan Qaboos University, Sultanate of Oman, May 2005.