{"id":15326,"date":"2026-10-02T15:41:33","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T15:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/uacl\/?p=15326"},"modified":"2026-10-02T15:44:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T15:44:48","slug":"dr-afreen-sultana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/uacl\/dr-afreen-sultana\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Afreen Sultana"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"15326\" class=\"elementor elementor-15326\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b82a571 e-flex e-con-boxed mk-enable-fade-animation-none mk-sticky-column-false mk-sticky-column-disable-tablet e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"b82a571\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;mk-animation-effect&quot;:&quot;none&quot;,&quot;mk_ext_is_sticky&quot;:&quot;false&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7fd99bf e-con-full e-flex mk-enable-fade-animation-none mk-sticky-column-false mk-sticky-column-disable-tablet e-con e-child\" data-id=\"7fd99bf\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;mk-animation-effect&quot;:&quot;none&quot;,&quot;mk_ext_is_sticky&quot;:&quot;false&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ac00d8b mk-enable-fade-animation-none elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-featured-image elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"ac00d8b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;mk-animation-effect&quot;:&quot;none&quot;,&quot;mk_ext_is_infinite&quot;:&quot;false&quot;,&quot;mk_ext_is_scrollme&quot;:&quot;false&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"theme-post-featured-image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/uacl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2026\/10\/Unknown-1024x1024.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-15327\" alt=\"Unknown\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/uacl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2026\/10\/Unknown-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/uacl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2026\/10\/Unknown-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/uacl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2026\/10\/Unknown-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/uacl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2026\/10\/Unknown-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/uacl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2026\/10\/Unknown-1536x1536.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/uacl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2026\/10\/Unknown-105x105.jpeg 105w, https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/uacl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2026\/10\/Unknown-750x750.jpeg 750w, https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/uacl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2026\/10\/Unknown-1300x1300.jpeg 1300w, https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/uacl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2026\/10\/Unknown.jpeg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f34499c e-con-full e-flex mk-enable-fade-animation-none mk-sticky-column-false mk-sticky-column-disable-tablet e-con e-child\" data-id=\"f34499c\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;mk-animation-effect&quot;:&quot;none&quot;,&quot;mk_ext_is_sticky&quot;:&quot;false&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ee2b32f mk-enable-fade-animation-none elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ee2b32f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;mk-animation-effect&quot;:&quot;none&quot;,&quot;mk_ext_is_infinite&quot;:&quot;false&quot;,&quot;mk_ext_is_scrollme&quot;:&quot;false&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>Dr. Afreen Sultana is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Clemson University, where she is working on a biomaterials and optimization of controlled release system of essential oil. She earned her Ph.D. in Packaging Sciences from Clemson University in 2025. Her research experience on sustainable, high-performance biopolymers, including lignocellulosic nanofibers from agricultural waste (such as peach pits), starch-based films, barrier coatings, and intelligent packaging that signals food freshness. She has five years of hands-on experience in material characterization and performance testing, using techniques such as FTIR, DSC\/TGA, XRD, SEM\/TEM, and OTR\/WVTR analysis.<br>Her work has been recognized with a Hitachi Fellowship for electron microscopy research and has been presented at AAAS and TAPPICon 2026. 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She has five years of hands-on experience in material characterization and performance testing, using techniques such as FTIR, DSC\/TGA, XRD, SEM\/TEM, and OTR\/WVTR analysis.Her work has been recognized with a Hitachi Fellowship for electron [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":15327,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[171,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-associated-scientist","category-people"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Dr. Afreen Sultana - Microanalytical Chemistry Lab<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/uacl\/dr-afreen-sultana\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dr. Afreen Sultana - Microanalytical Chemistry Lab\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dr. Afreen Sultana is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Clemson University, where she is working on a biomaterials and optimization of controlled release system of essential oil. 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