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Dr. Maha Al-Rajabi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Al-Balqa Applied University. She earned her PhD in Chemical and Process Engineering from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, specializing in thermo-responsive hydrogels for drug delivery. With over nine years of industrial experience in pharmaceutical companies, Dr. Maha has expertise in validation, quality assurance, and Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP). She also has significant research experience as a Research Assistant at the University of Sharjah, focusing on capacitive deionization, nanofiber-based oil-water separation, and water desalination technologies. Additionally, she served as a Senior Lecturer at Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), where she taught chemical engineering courses and coordinated curriculum development. Her research encompasses drug delivery systems, advanced water treatment, hydrogels, oil-water separation, and sustainable desalination technologies, contributing extensively through publications, patents, and international collaborations.
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Drug delivery systems, capacitive deionization, hydrogels, oil-water separation, desalination, functionalized polymers, advanced water treatment technologies, and sustainable environmental solutions.
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| 1 | PHD | Kebangsaan University | faculty of chemical and process engineering | 2022 | | 2 | MASTER DEGREE | University of Jordan | Chemical Engineering | 2014 | | 3 | BACHELOR'S DEGREE | University of Jordan | Chemical Engineering | 2009 |
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1- Sustainable Adsorption of Methyl Violet 2B from Wastewater Using Treated Algerian Clay: Isotherm and Kinetic Studies ,ChemistrySelect, 2025,Vol. 10,no. 41.
2- Continuous Electrocoagulation Processes for Industrial Inorganic Pollutants Removal: A Critical Review of Performance and Applications ,Water, 2025,Vol. 17,no. 17.
3- Performance of Continuous Electrocoagulation Processes (CEPs) as an Efficient Approach for the Treatment of Industrial Organic Pollutants: A Comprehensive Review ,Water, 2025,Vol. 17,no. 15.
4- Innovative approaches for decolorization of malachite green-contaminated wastewater using sustainable composites: an overview
,Chemical Engineering Communications, 2025,Vol. ,no. .
5- Hydrophilic/underwater oleophobic composite hydrogel for efficient oil/water separation in environmental remediation
,Physica Scripta, 2025,Vol. 100 ,no. 7.
6- Iron nanoparticles in a CO environment and its impact on the Fischer-Tropsch process: an atomistic thermodynamics study
,Physica Scripta, 2025,Vol. 100,no. 06.
7- Green removal of toxic crystal violet using agricultural wastes: mechanisms, phytotoxicity, economic, and greenness profiling
,Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery, 2025,Vol. 15,no. 2025.
8- A hybrid machine learning framework for predicting drug-release profiles, kinetics, and mechanisms of temperature-responsive hydrogels ,Polymer Bulletin, 2025,Vol. 82,no. 8.
9- Microalgae biomass: A multi-product biorefinery solution for sustainable energy, environmental remediation, and industrial symbiosis
,Algal Research, 2024,Vol. 85,no. .
10- Impact of Alkali Concentration in Delignification Treatment for
Cellulose Extraction from Rice Straw ,Jordanian Journal of Engineering and Chemical Industries (JJECI) Journal, 2024,Vol. 7,no. 03.
11- Mechanism of inhibition of alpha-amylase by caffeic acid using in-vitro and in-silico techniques ,Natural Product Research, 2024,Vol. ,no. .
12- Capacitive deionization for water desalination: Cost analysis, recent advances, and process optimization
,Journal of Water Process Engineering , 2024,Vol. 58,no. .
13- Investigation of the antimicrobial properties of temperature-sensitive hydrogel containing silver sulfadiazine against various bacterial strains
,INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NANOELECTRONICS AND MATERIALS, 2024,Vol. 18,no. 1.
14- Facile Coaxial Electrospinning Synthesis of Polyacrylonitrile/Cellulose Acetate Nanofiber Membrane for Oil/Water Separations
,Polymers, 2023,Vol. 15,no. 23.
15- Desalination Pretreatment Technologies: Current Status and Future Developments
,Water, 2023,Vol. 15,no. 8.
16- Temperature-Responsive Hydrogel for Silver Sulfadiazine Drug Delivery: Optimized Design and In Vitro/In Vivo Evaluation
,Gels, 2023,Vol. 9,no. 4.
17- Synthesis of thermoresponsive composite hydrogel from Pluronic F127 reinforced by oil palm empty fruit bunches-extracted cellulose for silver sulfadiazine drug delivery
,Sustainable Chemistry and Pharmacy, 2022,Vol. 31,no. .
18- Green Synthesis of Thermo-Responsive Hydrogel from Oil Palm Empty Fruit Bunches Cellulose for Sustained Drug Delivery
,Polymers, 2021,Vol. 13,no. 13.
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| 1 | Gold award EKSPO REKACIPTA UniMAP | Universiti Malaysia Perlis | 2024 | Malaysia | | 2 | The Crown Prince CIPTA Award 2021 for the ASEAN: New Invention and Innovation Category | Universiti Teknologi Brunei | 2021 | Brunei |
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