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Books/Web publications

1.         Mashita Abdullah, Norita Mohamed and Zurida Hj Ismail,  Microscale Chemistry Experiments: Adaptation to Malaysian National Curriculum
on UNESCO website under UNESCO Global Project on Micrsocience
2.         C.W. Zanariah Ngah and Norita Mohamed, 2010, Gold Electroplating: Studies on Formulations for Gold Alloy Plating Bath to Produce Different Shades of Electrodeposits, VDM Verlag Dr Müller, Saarbrücken. Germany.
3.         Norita Mohamed, Mashita Abdullah, Zurida Ismail, 2012, Ensuring sustainability through microscale chemistry in Green Chemistry for environmental remediation, Eds, R. Sanghi and V. Singh. Schrivner Publishing, Wiley,USA. Schrivner Publishing, Wiley,USA.

Research Publications

1.         A.A. Schilt and N.Mohamed, 1979. 'Synthesis of certain pyridinyl and diaznyl hydrazones containing one or more ferroin groups and their chromogenic reactions with iron, copper, cobalt and nickel', Talanta, 26, 85 - 89
2.         Norita Mohamed dan R.C.Fry ,1981.'Slurry Atomization Direct Atomic Spectrochemical Analysis of Animal Tissue'., Anal. Chem., 53, 450 - 455.
3.         Norita Mohamed, R.C.Fry and D.L.Wetzel, 1981.'Laser Fraunhofer Diffraction Studies of Aerosol Droplet Size in Atomic Spectrochemical Analysis', Anal. Chem., 53, 639 - 645.
4.         Norita Mohamed and R.C.Fry, 1981.  'Optical Depth of Field Effects in Particle Size Analysis by Laser Diffractometry`, Appl. Spec., 35(4), 400 - 402.
5.         Norita Mohamed, R.M.Brown, Jr., and R.C.Fry, 1981. 'Slurry Atomization dc Plasma Emission Spectrometry and Laser Diffraction Studies of Aerosol Production and Transport'.  , Appl. Spec., 35(2), 153 - 164.
6.         M.D.Wichman, R.C.Fry and N.Mohamed, 1983. 'Teflon Slurry Nebulizer for Atomic Analysis' , Appl. Spec.,37(3), 254 - 258.
7.         N.Mohamed, D.L.McCurdy, M.D.Wichman, R.C.Fry and James E. O`Reilly, 1985.   'Rapid Coal Analysis. Part I: Particle Size Effects in Slurry Methods Based on Flame AA and Swing Mill Grinding' , Appl. Spec., 39(6), 979 - 983.
8.         S.H.Langer, N. Mohamed, B. Ludolph, C.Y. Jeng and L. Bartz, 1990.  'GCPLOT',   Project Trochos, Final Report, IBM Advanced Education Project, May 1990, p 257.
9.         N. Mohamed, Y.M. Chin and F.W. Pok, 1995.   ‘Leaching of lead from local ceramic tableware’, Food Chemistry, 54(3), 245 - 249.
10.       N. Mohamed, T.S. Wai, and H. Darus, 1996.   'Analysis of lead and tin in strong brine and high iron systems using the microsampling technique', Talanta, 43, 1539 - 1544.
11.       N. Mohamed and Z. Ismail, 1997.  ‘Attitudes of First Year Chemistry Undergraduates towards CAI’,  Journal of Science and Mathematics Education in Southeast Asia of SEAMEO RECSAM, Vol. XX, No.1, June 1997, 13 -19.
12.       B. Saad, R. Mohamad, N. Mohamed, G.D. Lawrence, M.S. Jab and M.I. Saleh, 2002.   ' Determination of Oxolonic Acid in Feeds and Cultured Fish using capillary electrophoresis', Food Chemistry, 78, 383 - 388.
13.       P.E.Lim, M.G. Tay, K.Y. Mak and N. Mohamed, 2003, ‘The effect of heavy metals on nitrogen and oxygen demand removal in constructed wetlands. The Science of the Total Environment, 301,13-21.
14.       Y.P. Hor and N. Mohamed, 2003.   'Removal and Recovery of Copper Via a Galvanic Cementation System Part I: Single-pass reactor', J. Appl. Electrochem., 33, 279-285.
15.       P.E. Lim, K.Y.Mak, N.Mohamed and A. Md. Noor, 2003, 'Removal and speciation of heavy metals along the treatment path of wastewater in subsurface-flow constructed wetlands', Water Science & Technology, 48(5), 307-313.
16.       Y.P. Hor and N. Mohamed, 2005.   'Removal and Recovery of Copper Via a Galvanic Cementation System Part II: Batch recycle reactor', J. Appl. Electrochem., 35(6), 609-613.
17.       P.H. Yiu, H. Darus and N. Mohamed, 2005. ' Recovery of copper from strong chloride-based solutions', J. Applied Sciences, 5(8), 1328-1333.
18        B.Saad, C.C. Chong, A.S.M. Ali, M.F. Bari, I.S. Rahman, N. Mohamed and M.I. Saleh, 2006.  'Selective removal of metal ions using sol-gel immobilized and SPE-coated thiacrown ethers., Anal. Chim. Acta, 555, 146-156.
19.       C.Y. Yap and N. Mohamed, 2007. ‘An electrogenerative process for the recovery of gold from cyanide solutions’, Chemosphere, 67, 1502-1510.
20.       Mashita Abdullah, Norita Mohamed, 2008. 'The effect of microscale experimentation on students’ attitude and motivation towards practical work', Journal of Science and Mathematics Education in Southeast Asia of SEAMEO RECSAM Vol. 30, No.2 , December 2007, 44-72
21.       Yap Chin Yean and Norita Mohamed, 2008. ‘Electrogenerative gold recovery from cyanide solutions using a flow-through cell with activated reticulated vitreous carbon’, Chemosphere, 73,685-691.
22.       Mageswary Karpudewan, Zurida Hj Ismail and Norita Mohamed, 2008, ‘Impact of green chemistry experiments on pre-service teachers’ environmental values’.  The Chemical Education Journal (CEJ), Vol. 10, No. 2,
23.       Mashita Abdullah, Norita M ohamed and Zurida Hj Ismail, 2008, Development of microscale chemistry experimentation for secondary school students in Malaysia (Form Five), The Chemical Education Journal (CEJ), Vol. 10, No. 2, .
24.       Norita Mohamed and Yap Chin Yean, 2008.  ‘Review: Electrogenerative Processes for Environmental Applications, Clean- Soil, air and water, 36(5-6), 443-452.
25.       Mageswary Karpudewan, Zurida Hj Ismail and Norita Mohamed, 2009, ‘The integration of green chemistry experiments with sustainable development concepts in pre-service teachers' curriculum: Experiences from Malaysia’, ,  International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education,  vol 10  issue 2, 118-135.
26.       Mashita Abdullah, Norita Mohamed and Zurida Hj Ismail, 2009, ‘The effect of an individualized laboratory approach through microscale chemistry experimentation on students' understanding of chemistry concepts, motivation and attitudes'’, Chem. Educ. Res. Pract., 10, 53 – 61.
27.       M.H. Norziah, A. Al-Hassan, A.B. Khairulnizam, M.N. Mordi, M. Norita, 2009, ‘Characterization of fish gelatin from surimi processing wastes: Thermal analysis and effect of transglutaminase on gel properties’, Food Hydrocolloids, Volume 23, Issue 6, August 2009, Pages 1610-1616.
28.       Soheila Faraji, Afidah Abdul Rahim, Norita Mohamed, Coswald Stephen Sipaut, 2010, ’Effect of SiC on the corrosion resistance of electroless Cu-P-SiC composite coating’, .Journal of Coatings Technology and Research- In press(DOI:10.1007/s11998-010-9295-9) .Springer Science.
29.       Soheila Faraji, Afidah Abdul Rahim, Norita Mohamed, Coswald Stephen Sipaut, ‘A Study of electroless copper-phosphorus coatings reinforced with silicon carbide (SiC) particulates’,        International Journal of Minerals, Metallurgy and Materials ,Volume 18, Number 5, (2011)  615-  622.
30.       Soheila Faraji, Afidah Abdul Rahim, Norita Mohamed, Coswald Stephen Sipaut, Bothi Raja,    Corrosion resistance of electroless Cu-P and Cu-P-SiC composite coatings in 3.5 % NaCl’        Arabian Journal of Chemistry, In Press, doi:10.1016/j.arabjc.2010.10.014
31.       Tan Wan Xin and Norita Mohamed, ‘Electrogenerative removal of cobalt from sulphate solutions using a batch reactor’, Clean- Soil, Air, Water, 39 (2011) 460-469.
32.       Mageswary Karpudewan, Zurida Hj Ismail and Norita Mohamed, 2011, Green Chemistry: Educating Prospective Science Teachers in Education for Sustainable Development at School of Educational Studies, USM,  Journal of Social Sciences 7 (1): 45-53, 2011.
33.        M. Etesami, N. Mohamed,  Catalytic application of gold nanoparticles electrodeposited by fast scan cyclic voltammetry to glycerol electrooxidation in alkaline electrolyte, Int. J.   Electrochem. Sci. 6 (2011) 4676- 4689.
34.       M. Etesami, F. S. Karoonian, N. Mohamed, Electrochemical deposition of gold            nanoparticles on pencil graphite by fast scan cyclic voltammetry, J. Chin. Chem.             Soc. 58 (2011) 688- 693.
35.       M. Etesami, N. Mohamed, Electrooxidation of ethylene glycol using gold nanoparticles electrodeposited on pencil graphite in alkaline medium, Sci Chin Chem., 2011, doi: 10.1007/s11426-011-4402-z.
36.       Mageswary Karpudewan, Zurida Hj Ismail and Norita Mohamed, Greening a chemistry teaching  methods course at the School of Educational Studies, Universiti Sains Malaysia, J. Education for sustainable development, 5(2) 2011, 197-214
37.       Soheila Faraji, Afidah Abdul Rahim, Norita Mohamed, Coswald Stephen Sipaut, Bothi Raja, ‘A study of electroless copper–phosphorus coatings with the addition of silicon carbide (SiC) and graphite (Cg) particles, Surface coatings and technology, 206 (2011) 1259–1268
38.       Soheila Faraji, Afidah Abdul Rahim, Norita Mohamed, Coswald Stephen Sipaut,  ‘The influence of SiC particles on the corrosion resistance of electroless, Cu–P composite coating in 1 M HCl, Materials Chemistry and Physics 129 (2011) 1063– 1070.
39.       M.A. Hasnat, N. Ahamad, S.M. Nizam Uddin, N.Mohamed, Silver modified platinum surface/H+ conducting Nafion membrane for cathodic reduction of nitrate ions. Applied Surface Science 258 (2012) 3309-3314
40.       F.Salehi Karoonian, M. Etesami, M.A. Hasnat, N. Mohamed, Spontaneous Au electrodeposition on 3–D porous graphite for electrocatalytic applications. Catalysis Communications, doi: 10.1016/j.catcom.2012.01.023
41.       Fatemeh Salehi Karoonian, Mohammad Etesami, Norita Mohamed, Electrodeposition of Au on             reticulated vitreous carbon from chloride media by an electrogenerative process. Int. J. Electrochem. Sci., in press, 2012.

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