Dr. Ylias Sabri
Associate Professor
Details
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Department: School of Engineering
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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ylias.sabri@rmit.edu.au
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
Dr Sabri is a chemical engineer (B. Eng, Hons.) by training and completed his PhD in 2010. He has successfully supervised 15 PhD students to completion and is currently mentoring 11 others. He has an h-index of 44 and filed five major patents, published two book chapters and more than 100 ISI journal articles on material science, chemical sensing and pollution control.
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Research fields
- 340108 Sensor technology (incl. chemical aspects)
- 401106 Waste management, reduction, reuse and recycling
- 401807 Nanomaterials
UN sustainable development goals
- 13 Climate Action
- 7 Affordable and Clean Energy
- 6 Clean Water and Sanitation
- 9 Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
Academic positions
- Visiting Scientist
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
- Melbourne, Australia
- 28 Feb 2022 – 28 Feb 2027
Supervisor projects
- Climbing rope recycling through physical and thermal processing
- 23 Dec 2025
- Nanoscale Sensing Technologies for Toxic and Greenhouse Gas Detection
- 11 Dec 2025
- Scale Minimisation in Agitated Single-Phase Reactors using Dual Impellers
- 28 Oct 2025
- New Functional Nanostructures For Electrocatalytic Energy And Chemical Conversion Reactions
- 6 Aug 2025
- Modification of QCM surface using stimuli responsive materials to afford sensitive and selective devices for the toxic vapor detection
- 5 Aug 2025
- Silica-Metal Nanocomposite Sensors for Selective and Stable Detection of Elemental Mercury Vapour in Harsh Environments
- 19 May 2025
- Pyrolysis of end-of-life solar panels for recycling and waste treatment
- 13 May 2025
- Recycling of silicon solar photovoltaic modules
- 11 Mar 2025
- Silver and Metals Recovery from End-of-life Solar Panel Waste for Energy Applications
- 1 Jan 2025
- The synergetic effect of cuprous oxide and titania nanobeads blend on optical applications.
- 7 Jul 2024
- Photothermal Water Purification Using Composite Materials Derived from End-of-Life Tire Char
- 18 Mar 2024
- Low-concentration CO2 capture: Process and Engineering studies
- 23 Feb 2024
- Synthesis and Immobilization of Functionalized Silica Nanomaterials to Various Substrates
- 19 Dec 2023
- Polymer composite synthesis using end-of-life tyre (EOLT) char
- 24 Nov 2023
- Advancing Wheat Quality Assessment through Spectroscopy and Machine Learning
- 1 Sep 2023
- Real-time industrial gas sensing with advanced functional nanomaterials
- 19 Jul 2023
- Studies on Humidity Sensing Properties of Graphene-Oxide and its Composites
- 11 May 2023
- Pt Doped Nickel Based Nanocatalyst for Hydrogen Production by Catalytic Methane Decomposition
- 4 Apr 2023
- Valorization of Commercially Important Essential Oils of Poaceae and Lamiaceae Families Using Heterogeneous Catalysts
- 14 Dec 2022
- Tailoring of the Electrode for Various Electrochemical Biosensors
- 3 Sep 2021
- Functional Nano Porous Materials for Environmental Catalysis Applications
- 17 Jun 2021
- Synthesis and Electrochemical Study of Tunable Alloying-conversion Hybrid Anodes for Rechargeable Li-ion Batteries
- 15 Aug 2018
- Light-assisted Amperometric Based Hydrogen Gas Sensing at Low Concentrations
- 26 Feb 2018
- TiO2 Based Long-range Ordered Crystals (LROCs) for Recyclable SERS Applications
- 6 Nov 2017
- Nano-metal Oxides for Elemental Mercury Removal from Natural Gas
- 27 Sep 2017
- Design and Synthesis of Novel Catalysts for Liquid Phase Biomass Upgradation
- 30 Dec 2016
- Nanostructured metallic surfaces of Au implemented as electrochemical glucose sensors
- 16 Feb 2016
- Investigation of Zinc and Titanium Oxide-based Nanoarrays for Light Assisted Acetone Sensing
- 1 Oct 2015
- Highly Selective and Sensitive Nano-Engineered Materials for Detection of Elemental Mercury Vapour
- 22 Feb 2013
Teaching interests
Chemical Engineering - Interface Science
Chemical Engineering - Heat and Mass Transfer
Environmental Engineering - Pollution Control
Chemical Engineering - Final Year Design projects
Engineering - Capstone projects
Research interests
Physical Chemistry (incl. Structural), Macromolecular and Materials Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Nanotechnology, currently focusing on pollution control and resource recovery with circular economy principles.
