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Shahidul Alam

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Time Magazine Person Of The Year 2018. National Geographic Explorer at Large. Photographer, writer, curator, human rights activist.

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Biography

Shahidul Alam is a Bangladeshi photographer, writer, and educator whose career has bridged photojournalism, curatorial practice, and the building of institutions that have reshaped how the Global South tells its own stories. Originally trained as a scientist, with a PhD in Organic Chemistry (London University, 1983) and a BSc in Biochemistry and Genetics (Liverpool University, 1976), Alam turned to photography as a means of documenting and challenging injustice, and ha…

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Impact of Donor and Acceptor Fluorination on Energy Landscape of Organic Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells

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By Shahidul Alam, Jafar I. Khan, Aurelien D. Sokeng
| Wiley Online Library Verified
Conflicts of Interest The authors declare no conflicts of interest. Data Availability Statement The data that support the findings of this study are available in the supplementary material of this article. Supporting Information Filename Description smll75008-sup-0001-SuppMat.pdf3.1 MB Supporting File: smll75008-sup-0001-SuppMat.pdf. References 1, , , et al., “A History and Perspective of Non-Fullerene Electron Acceptors for Organic Solar Cells,” Advanced Energy Materials 11, no.
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Charge Generation and Recombination Pathways in All-Polymer Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells

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By Shahidul Alam, Safakath Karuthedath, Wejdan Althobaiti
| Wiley Online Library Verified
1 Introduction Organic photovoltaics (OPV) is an emerging technology offering several advantages compared to other PV technologies [1-3]. The use of organic semiconductors allows processing of photoactive layers from solutions, fabricating semi-transparent devices for building integration, as well as lightweight devices, which could also be flexible [4-6].
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Why tensions are rising between Rohingya and Bangladeshis

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By Shahidul Alam
| The Daily Star (Bangladesh) Verified
Bangladesh’s response to the Rohingya influx has long been described through the language of emergency: shelter, relief, humanitarian duty, and eventual repatriation. In national and international discourse, the crisis is still often treated as temporary, awaiting a political settlement. Yet in Kutupalong, where the world’s largest refugee settlement now stands, that vocabulary no longer captures everyday reality.
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