Somia B. Ahmed

Dr. Somia B. Ahmed


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Academic Career Length

7Years (2020-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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6 March 2020 in Chemical Papers
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NMNesrine M. R. Mahmoud
Nesrine M. R. Mahmoud
HMHadeer I. Mohamed
Hadeer I. Mohamed
SASomia B. Ahmed
Somia B. Ahmed
SASultan Akhtar
Sultan Akhtar

28 June 2024 in Nanomaterials
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HMHadeer I. Mohamed
Hadeer I. Mohamed
NMNesrine M.R. Mahmoud
Nesrine M.R. Mahmoud
ARAbeer Ramadan
Abeer Ramadan
AAAbeer AlSubaie
Abeer AlSubaie
SASomia B. Ahmed
Somia B. Ahmed
Two novel samples of nanoparticles based on chitosan were greenly synthesized using pomegranate peel extract. The extract served as a nanoparticle precursor, facilitating the precipitation of nanosized chitosan through the ionic gelation method. Additionally, by mixing the green chitosan nanoparticles with copper ions, a nanoscale composite of chitosan and copper oxide was also produced. Structural and morphological investigations (FTIR, XRD, SEM, EDX, and TGA analyses) were performed for greenly synthesized chitosan nanoparticles and their copper oxide composite to determine all the significant characteristics of those nanoparticles. In addition, both samples were tested using some biological investigations, such as antimicrobial activity and hematological effects. The antimicrobial tests yielded promising results for both the green chitosan nanoparticles and the CuO composite when tested using two bacterial strains and two fungal strains. Moreover, the results showed that using a similar concentration of both green-based chitosan samples resulted in a slightly larger inhibition zone and a lower minimum inhibition concentration (MIC) for the copper oxide chitosan composite compared to the chitosan nanoparticles for all microorganisms included in the test. The mean count of blood components (RBCs and platelets), clotting time, and cholesterol levels in three different blood samples were used to indicate the hematological activity of both greenly synthesized nanoparticles. The results verified a slight reduction in blood component count after the addition of green chitosan nanoparticles, but the chitosan copper oxide composite did not have a noticeable effect on the three blood samples. The chitosan nanoparticles were able to cause a considerable reduction in clotting time and cholesterol levels for all blood samples, thus acting as procoagulants. However, the mixing of CuO with chitosan nanoparticles prolonged the rate of clotting in blood samples from hypercholesteremic individuals, and thus, the mixture acted as an anticoagulant agent.

2 January 2023 in Green Chemistry Letters and Reviews
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NMNesrine M.R. Mahmoud
Nesrine M.R. Mahmoud
AAAmal L. Al-Otaibi
Amal L. Al-Otaibi
SASultan Akhtar
Sultan Akhtar
MAMohammad Azam Ansari
Mohammad Azam Ansari
ARAbeer Ramadan
Abeer Ramadan
SASomia B. Ahmed
Somia B. Ahmed