Department of Chemistry, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh.

Abu Bin Imran is an Assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka-1000. He was born in Comilla, Bangladesh in 1980. He received his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees from the Department of Chemistry, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh, in 2004 and 2006, respectively. He received his PhD degree from the Department of Molecular Design and Engineering of Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan in 2009. He then worked as a post-doctoral fellow of New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) project, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan until October, 2011. He received the award of Material Back casting Technology (MBT) center research encouragement in 2010. He already published a number of articles in different high impact journals. His current research interests focus on Nanotechnology, smart hydrogels, biopolymer, photonic band gap materials and supramolecules.