Farzad of Sahand University of Technology

Abstract: Electrodeposition has recently attracted considerable attention towards the realization of nanometer size materials for functional applications. This seminar deals with our recent studies on the developments of surface coatings for highly sensitive electrochemical sensors and green energy devices including solar cells and electrolyzers. I will explain our works on the electrodeposition of Ni-base electrocatalysts including mesoporous films, Ni-rGO films, nanocrystalline nickel films and discuss their electrochemical activity for cyclic voltammetry sensors, HER and OER as well as methanol electrooxidation. In addition, I will demonstrate the capability of electrodeposition for producing halide metalorganic perovskite films for solar cell applications. After giving an overview on different novel functional electrodeposited nanostructures, I will focus on a new phenomenon called high-gradient magnetic force (HGMF) which imposed an extra-ordinary effect on electrochemistry at the nano-scale.

Biography:

Speaker biography: Farzad Nasirpouri was born in Shiraz, Iran in 1976. He received a B.Sc. degree in Materials Engineering with honor in 1998, an MSc. In 2000 and PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from Sharif University of Technology in 2006. During his PhD study, he won two visiting scholarships awarded by the British Council, UK and Iranian Ministry of Science to work as a Ph.D. visiting student at the Universities of Bristol and Bath, United Kingdom, in 2004 and 2005, respectively. He worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Bath, UK in 2007-2008.  His independent academic career has been started since he took up an Assistant Professorship at Sahand University of Technology where he was subsequently promoted to Associate Professor in 2012 and Full Professor in 2016 in a row. He was affiliated as a visiting fellow of the Royal Society at the Physics Department of the University of Bath, UK. He has held two visiting professorships at Materials Research Department GSI Helmholtz centre for heavy ion research during 2017-18 based on a Deutsche Akademische Auslandsdienst (DAAD) award and more recently in 2019, at the Physics Department of Simon Fraser University (SFU), Burnaby, Canada on a grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and most recently the David Bensted fellow at the School of Engineering Sciences at Simon Fraser University.  He has published over 100 refereed scientific papers, one fully authored book on electrodeposition, one edited book and several book chapters. His research interests mainly focus on Functional Nanomaterials, Electrodeposited Nanostructured Materials, Electrochemical Energy Harvesting/Storage, Spintronics and electronic materials, and Sustainable Materials and Coatings.

References

1.     F Nasirpouri, LJ Foruzin, Journal of The Electrochemical Society 170 (2023), 072511.

2.     S. Gozalzadeh, F. Nasirpouri, S. Seok, Scientific Reports (Nature), 11 (2021) 18561.

3.     N. Alinejadian, F. Nasirpouri, Joaquin Yus; Begona Ferrari, Mater Sci Eng B, Volume 271 (2021) 115259.

4.     S. Gozalzadeh, F. Nasirpouri, S. Seok, Chemical Engineering Journal, 411 (2021) 128460.

5.     A. Farmani, F. Nasirpouri, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 8 (2020) 24782.

Address:Sahand, Iran