Su Natasha Mohamad

School of Chemical, Materials and Biological Engineering

PhD Researcher

Su Natasha Mohamad delivering a presentation.
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Profile

Natasha holds a BEng degree in Biomedical Electronics Engineering and MEng degree in Medical Engineering from the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. In 2009 Natasha also took part in Erasmus Mundus in Baden-Wurttemburg, HTW Aalen, Germany.

Recently she found interest in environmental care and is now a PhD Researcher in Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Sheffield, UK. She is also a Scholar at The Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures.

Natasha took part in the Twenties for Smiley (TFS) International Outreach Charity Programme and completed care-related expeditions in Bangladesh and Nepal. She also represented the University of Sheffield at the 27th Conference of Parties (COP) in Egypt.

Research interests
  • Life cycle assessment
  • Sustainability analysis
  • Environmental footprinting
Projects and publications

Projects

Life cycle analysis of aircraft plastic components to determine reuse and recycling options

This project focuses on investigating the environmental burden of interior counterparts of an aircraft that are made from plastics from cradle to grave. In this study, a life cycle assessment (LCA) was conducted to gauge the environmental burdens of plastic composites used to fabricate an aircraft's interior compartments. This study demonstrates the scarcity of natural resources, adverse impact on human health and loss of profit when plastics are not being properly managed. The output of this assessment would hopefully encourage aircraft recycler companies to decide on a recycling pathway for these plastic components, therefore encouraging a circular economy approach. This hopefully would also motivate material and manufacturing engineers to design a more sustainable exit for aircraft plastics by the end of its life.

Publications

M. Su Natasha, Radha S. P. Malon, Dedy H. B. Wicaksono, Emma P. Córcoles and Hendra Hermawan. Monitoring Magnesium Degradation Using Microdialysis and Fabric-based Biosensors (2017). SPECIAL ISSUE: Advances in Metallic Biomaterials

Noorlindawaty Md. Jizat, Su Natasha Mohamad, Muhammad Ikman Ishak. Resonator Graphene Microfluidic Antenna (RGMA) for Blood Glucose Detection (2017). AIP Conference Proceedings 1885 (1), 020126

S Natasha, RSP Malon, DHB Wicaksono, EP Córcoles, H Hermawan. Electrochemical Detection of Magnesium Ions using Magnesium Biosensor (2013). European Cells and Materials, vol.26 (5), (Impact Factor: 4.325)