ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Alhamdulillah, by the name of Allah the Almighty, the Most Merciful and Most
Gracious, praise to Allah, the One and Only in providing me the physical and mental
ability in order to accomplish this thesis.

I would like to express my deep and sincere gratitude to my supervisor, Dr. Raja Razuan
Raja Deris for his guidance and enormous ideas and useful critics concerning my
research. Then I would like to show my gratitude to the Head of Programme of Applied
Chemistry, Dr. Noraini. I also would like to give my appreciation to Coordinator for
FSG 660, Dr. Che Puteh as she kindly spending her valuable time to manage us.

My appreciation also goes to Encik Ezzuan, Science Officer of Propulsion Laboratory,
Faculty Mechanical Engineering UiTM, Encik Zahir, Lab Technician of Foreinsic
UiTM Laboratory, Salifairus bin Mohamad Jafar ,Science Officer, NANO-SciTech
Centre (NST), Institute of Science (IOS) UiTM Shah Alam, Lab assistant, Pn. Shaheeda
and Pn Julia for their assistant during several analaysis in this research. I owed my
sincere gratitude to my University Technology MARA (UiTM) for providing my
research facilities and sponsoring the instrumentation fees.

I appreciate enormous sacrifies and hard work from my parents, especially Umi and
Abah, my siblings and my friends. Without their loving support, encouragement and
understanding, it would be difficult for me to complete this work.



Fakhrur Razi b. Sooti