Dr. Fahad Alam is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) at King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM) since August 2023. Before he worked as Postdoctoral Research Fellow at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia. He also worked as postdoc at Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi UAE, from April 2018 to March 2022. He has completed his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, in 2017, and M. Tech in Nanotechnology at Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India in 2012.
Research Interest:
Currently he is working on 3D/4D printing/bio-printing of polymer composites for biomedical and sensing applications and currently focused on 4D printing of liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) using extrusion and vat-photopolymerization 3D printing technologies. Earlier in Khalifa University, Dr. Fahad worked on 3D printing of polymer composite via FDM and DLP 3D printing techniques for biomedical structural and energy storage applications. Dr. Fahad have pioneered the 3D printing of contact lens and glasses for color vision deficiency and vision correction applications. In addition, Fahad Alam have applied 2 US patent on glasses and contact lenses for color vision correction applications. Fahad Alam have good experience on development of 3D printed wearable devices for healthcare applications.
Education Qualification
- PhD., Materials Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur India 2017.
- M.Tech., Nanotechnology, Aligarh Muslim University Aligarh, UP, India 2012.
- M.Sc., Inorganic Chemistry, Aligarh Muslim University Aligarh, UP, India 2009.
- B.Sc., Chemistry, Aligarh Muslim University Aligarh, UP, India 2007.
Research Experience
- Postdoctoral Fellow, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia, 2022-2023.
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE. 2018-2022.
- Project Scientist., Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur India 2017-2018.
Courses Teaching:
- MSE 302: Polymeric Materials
- ME 216: Materials Science and Engineering
- MSE 411: Senior Design Project
Representative Publications
- Fahad Alam, Murad Ali, Mohamed Elsherif, Ahmed E. Salih, Nazek El-Atab, Haider Butt, 3D printed intraocular lens for managing the color blindness, Additive Manufacturing Letters, 2023,100129.
- Fahad Alam, Elsherif, M., Salih, A.E., Butt, H., 3D printed polymer composite optical fiber for sensing applications, Additive Manufacturing, 2022, 58, 102996.
- Elsherif, M., Fahad Alam, Salih, A.E., Yetisen, A.K., Butt, H., Wearable Bifocal Contact Lens for Continual Glucose Monitoring Integrated with Smartphone Readers, Small, 2021, 17(51), 2102876.
- Ali, M., Fahad Alam, Ahmed, I., Yetisen, A.K., Butt, H., 3D printing of Fresnel lenses with wavelength selective tinted materials, Additive Manufacturing, 2021, 47, 102281
- Salih, A.E., Elsherif, M., Fahad Alam, Yetisen, A.K., Butt, H., Gold Nanocomposite Contact Lenses for Color Blindness Management, ACS Nano, 2021, 15(3), pp. 4870–4880.
- Fahad Alam, Elsherif, M., Alqattan, B., ...Park, S., Butt, H., 3D Printed Contact Lenses, ACS Biomaterials Science and Engineering, 2021, 7(2), pp. 794–803.
- Filmon Tsegay, Mohamed Elsherif, Fahad Alam, and Haider Butt, Smart 3D Printed Auxetic Hydrogel Skin Wound Dressings, ACS Applied Bio Materials, 2022, 5, 12, 5545–5553.
Patents:
- Haider Butt, Fahad Alam, Method of Manufacturing Contact Lens for Treating Color Vision Deficiency- US Patent App. 17/499,251, 2022.
- Haider Butt, Fahad Alam, Glasses with lens for treating color vision deficiency and method of manufacturing same, US Patent App, US18/087,397, 2023.
List of Selected Publications
| No. | Article details | I.F. |
| 1 | Fahad Alam, N El-Atab., 3D Printing and Easy Removal of Transparent Thin Polymeric Sheets and their Application in Solar Cells Encapsulation., Advanced Engineering Materials., 2023, 2023,25, 2300183 | 4.122 |
| 2 | S Hittini, AE Salih, Fahad Alam, A Shanti, S Lee, K Polychronopoulou., Fabrication of 3D‐Printed Contact Lenses and Their Potential as Color Blindness Ocular Aids., Macromolecular Materials and Engineering 308 (5), 2200601, 1, 2023 | 4.402 |
| 3 | P Verma, J Ubaid, Fahad Alam, S Deveci, S Kumar., Multifunctional characteristics of 3D printed polymer nanocomposites under monotonic and cyclic compression., Defence Technology, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dt.2023.05.017 | 4.035 |
| 4 | Fahad Alam, Murad Ali, Mohamed Elsherif, Ahmed E. Salih, Nazek El-Atab, Haider Butt, 3D printed intraocular lens for managing the color blindness, Additive Manufacturing Letters, 2023,100129. | NA |
| 5 | Filmon Tsegay, Mohamed Elsherif, Fahad Alam, and Haider Butt, Smart 3D Printed Auxetic Hydrogel Skin Wound Dressings, ACS Applied Bio Materials, 2022, 5, 12, 5545–5553. | NA |
| 6 | Fahad Alam, Elsherif, M., Salih, A.E., Butt, H., 3D printed polymer composite optical fiber for sensing applications, Additive Manufacturing, 2022, 58, 102996 | 11.632 |
| 7 | Fahad Alam, Salih, A.E., Elsherif, M., Butt, H., Development of 3D-Printed Glasses for Color Vision Deficiency, Advanced Engineering, Materials, 2022, 24(10), 2200211 | 4.122 |
| 8 | Joharji, L., Mishra, R.B., Fahad Alam, Al-Modaf, F., El-Atab, N, 4D printing: A detailed review of materials, techniques, and applications, Microelectronic Engineering, 2022, 265, 111874 | 2.662 |
| 9 | Ali, M., Fahad Alam, Butt, H., Fabrication of 5D Fresnel Lenses via Additive Manufacturing, ACS Materials Au, 2022, 2(5), pp. 602–613 | NA |
| 10 | Ali, M., Fahad Alam, Vahdati, N., Butt, H., 3D-Printed Holographic Fresnel Lenses, Advanced Engineering Materials, 2022, 24(9), 2101641 | 4.122 |
| 11 | Salih, A.E., Elsherif, M., Fahad Alam, Chiesa, M., Butt, H., Rapid Colorimetric pH-Responsive Gold Nanocomposite Hydrogels for Sensing Applications, Nanomaterials, 2022, 12(9), 1486 | 5.719 |
| 12 | Elsherif, M., Moreddu, R., Fahad Alam, Ahmed, I., Butt, H., Wearable Smart Contact Lenses for Continual Glucose Monitoring: A Review, Frontiers in Medicine, 2022, 9, 858784, | 5.058 |
| 12 | Ali, M., Fahad Alam, Fah, Y.F., Vahdati, N., Butt, H., 4D printed thermochromic Fresnel lenses for sensing applications, Composites Part B: Engineering, 2022, 230, 109514 | 11.322 |
| 14 | Salih, A.E., Elsherif, M., Fahad Alam, Yetisen, A.K., Butt, H., Syntheses of Gold and Silver Nanocomposite Contact Lenses via Chemical Volumetric Modulation of Hydrogels, ACS Biomaterials Science and Engineering, 2022 | 5.395 |
| 15 | Fahad Alam, Salih, A.E., Elsherif, M., Yetisen, A.K., Butt, H., 3D printed contact lenses for the management of color blindness, Additive Manufacturing, 2022, 49, 102464 | 11.632 |
| 16 | AE Salih, A Shanti, M Elsherif, Fahad Alam, S Lee, K Polychronopoulou, Yetisen, A.K., Butt, H., Silver Nanoparticle-Loaded Contact Lenses for Blue-Yellow Color Vision Deficiency, Physica Status Solidi (A) Applications and Materials Science, 2022, 219(1), 2100294 | 2.170 |
| 17 | Elsherif, M., Fahad Alam, Salih, A.E., Yetisen, A.K., Butt, H., Wearable Bifocal Contact Lens for Continual Glucose Monitoring Integrated with Smartphone Readers, Small, 2021, 17(51), 2102876 | 15.153 |
| 18 | Ali, M., Fahad Alam, Ahmed, I., Yetisen, A.K., Butt, H., 3D printing of Fresnel lenses with wavelength selective tinted materials, Additive Manufacturing, 2021, 47, 102281 | 11.632 |
| 19 | Fahad Alam, Verma, P., Mohammad, W., ...Varadarajan, K.M., Kumar, S., Architected poly(lactic acid)/poly(ε-caprolactone)/halloysite nanotube composite scaffolds enabled by 3D printing for biomedical applications, Journal of Materials Science, 2021, 56(25), pp. 14070–14083 | 4.200 |
| 20 | Gupta, V., Fahad Alam, Verma, P., Kannan, A.M., Kumar, S., Additive manufacturing enabled, microarchitected, hierarchically porous polylactic-acid/lithium iron phosphate/carbon nanotube nanocomposite electrodes for high performance Li-Ion batteries, Journal of Power Sources, 2021, 494, 229625 | 9.794 |
| 21 | Salih, A.E., Elsherif, M., Fahad Alam, Yetisen, A.K., Butt, H., Gold Nanocomposite Contact Lenses for Color Blindness Management, ACS Nano, 2021, 15(3), pp. 4870–4880 | 18.027 |
| 22 | B AlQattan, J Doocey, M Ali, I Ahmed, AE Salih, Fahad Alam, Elsherif, M., Butt, H., Direct Printing of Nanostructured Holograms on Consumable Substrates, ACS Nano, 2021, 15(2), pp. 2340–2349 | 18.027 |
| 23 | Fahad Alam, Elsherif, M., Alqattan, B., ...Park, S., Butt, H., 3D Printed Contact Lenses, ACS Biomaterials Science and Engineering, 2021, 7(2), pp. 794–803 | 5.395 |
| 24 | Fahad Alam, Elsherif, M., AlQattan, B., ...Park, S., Butt, H., Prospects for Additive Manufacturing in Contact Lens Devices, Advanced Engineering Materials, 2021, 23(1), 2000941 | 4.122 |
| 25 | Fahad Alam, Varadarajan, K.M., Koo, J.H., Wardle, B.L., Kumar, S., Additively Manufactured Polyetheretherketone (PEEK) with Carbon Nanostructure Reinforcement for Biomedical Structural Applications, Advanced Engineering Materials, 2020, 22(10), 2000483 | 4.122 |
| 26 | Fahad Alam, Shukla, V.R., Varadarajan, K.M., Kumar, S., Microarchitected 3D printed polylactic acid (PLA) nanocomposite scaffolds for biomedical applications, Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 2020, 103, 103576 | 4.042 |
| 27 | Fahad Alam, Kumar, A., Shukla, V.R., Nisar, A., Balani, K., Multi-length scale wear damage mechanisms of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene nanocomposites, Polymer Testing, 2020, 81, 106210 | 4.931 |
| 28 | Fahad Alam, Varadarajan, K.M., Kumar, S., 3D printed polylactic acid nanocomposite scaffolds for tissue engineering applications, Polymer Testing, 2020, 81, 106203 | 4.931 |
| 29 | Fahad Alam, Kumar, S., Varadarajan, K.M., Quantification of Adhesion Force of Bacteria on the Surface of Biomaterials: Techniques and Assays, ACS Biomaterials Science and Engineering, 2019, 5(5), pp. 2093–2110 | 5.395 |
| 30 | Fahad Alam, Choosri, M., Gupta, T.K., ...Choi, D., Kumar, S., Electrical, mechanical, and thermal properties of graphene nanoplatelets reinforced UHMWPE nanocomposites, Materials Science and Engineering B: 2019, 241, pp. 82–91 | 3.407 |
| 31 | R Hassan, A Nisar, S Ariharan, Fahad Alam, A Kumar, K Balani, Multi-functionality of carbon nanotubes reinforced 3 mol% yttria stabilized zirconia structural biocomposites, Materials Science and Engineering A, 2017, 704, pp. 329–343 | 6.044 |
| 32 | Fahad Alam, Balani, K., Role of silver/zinc oxide in affecting de-adhesion strength of Staphylococcus aureus on polymer biocomposites, Materials Science and Engineering C, 2017, 75, pp. 1106–1114 | 8.457 |
| 33 | Fahad Alam, Balani, K., Adhesion force of staphylococcus aureus on various biomaterial surfaces, Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 2017, 65, pp. 872–880 | 4.042 |
| 34 | Fahad Alam, Kumar, A., Patel, A.K., Sharma, R.K., Balani, K., Processing, Characterization and Fretting Wear of Zinc Oxide and Silver Nanoparticles Reinforced Ultra High Molecular Weight Polyethylene Biopolymer Nanocomposite, JOM, 2015, 67(4), pp. 688–701 | 2.597 |
| 35 | Fahad Alam, Ansari, S.A., Khan, W., Khan, M.E., Naqvi, A.H., Synthesis, structural, optical and electrical properties of IN-SITU synthesized polyaniline/silver nanocomposites, Functional Materials Letters, 2012, 5(3), 1250026 | 1.49 |
| 36 | Khan, M.J., Qayyum, S., Fahad Alam, Husain, Q., Effect of tin oxide nanoparticle binding on the structure and activity of α-amylase from Bacillus amyloliquefaciens, Nanotechnology, 2011, 22(45), 455708 | 3.953 |
| 36 | Husain, Q., Ansari, S.A., Fahad Alam, Azam, A., Immobilization of Aspergillus oryzae β galactosidase on zinc oxide nanoparticles via simple adsorption mechanism, International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 2011, 49(1), pp. 37–43 | 8.025 |
Dr. Fahad Alam Assistant Professor Building 75 Room 401-2 +966 13 860 5539 +966 13 860 2949 (MSE Dept.) fahad.alam@kfupm.edu.sa Google Scholar LinkedIn