Dr Sajjad Seifi Mofarah

Dr Sajjad Seifi Mofarah

Senior Research Associate
Science
School of Materials Science & Engineering

Sajjad S. Mofarah obtained his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering, UNSW Sydney, in 2020. His Ph.D. research area was mainly focused on applied electrochemistry for functional materials derived from ultrathin metal-based coordination polymers for catalysis and energy storage applications. He was also appointed as Research Assistant in 2019, at the same institution, extending his work on heterojunction nanostructures. Following the completion of his Ph.D., he obtained a Research Associate at SMaRT centre while working on cyclic reprocessing of battery materials into functional nanostructures, structural and architectural designs of nanostructures, and advanced characterisation of metal- and polymer-based materials.

Phone
0434423765
  • Journal articles | 2023
    De Villenoisy T; Zheng X; Wong V; Mofarah SS; Arandiyan H; Yamauchi Y; Koshy P; Sorrell CC, 2023, 'Principles of Design and Synthesis of Metal Derivatives from MOFs', Advanced Materials, 35, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adma.202210166
    Journal articles | 2023
    Jiang Y; Toe CY; Mofarah SS; Cazorla C; Chang SLY; Yin Y; Zhang Q; Lim S; Yao Y; Tian R; Wang Y; Zaman T; Arandiyan H; Andersson GG; Scott J; Koshy P; Wang D; Sorrell CC, 2023, 'Efficient Cocatalyst-Free Piezo-Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution of Defective BaTiO3-x Nanoparticles from Seawater', ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering, 11, pp. 3370 - 3389, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.2c06573
    Journal articles | 2023
    Jiang Y; Zhou S; Mofarah SS; Niu R; Sun Y; Rawal A; Ma H; Xue K; Fang X; Toe CY; Chen WF; Chen YS; Cairney JM; Rahman R; Chen Z; Koshy P; Wang D; Sorrell CC, 2023, 'Efficient and stable piezo-photocatalytic splitting of water and seawater by interfacial engineering of Na0.5Bi0.5TiO3/Na0.5Bi4.5Ti4O15 self-generated heterojunctions', Nano Energy, 116, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoen.2023.108830
    Journal articles | 2023
    Leung BAY; Joe W; Mofarah SS; Sorrell CC; Abbasi R; Azadeh M; Arsecularatne JA; Koshy P, 2023, 'Unveiling the mechanisms behind surface degradation of dental resin composites in simulated oral environments', Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 11, pp. 7707 - 7720, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d3tb00756a
    Journal articles | 2023
    Luo Y; Zheng X; Vutukuri CV; Ho N; Atanacio AJ; Manohar M; Arandiyan H; Wang Y; Sorrell CC; S. Mofarah S; Koshy P, 2023, 'Tailored Fabrication of Defect-Rich Ion Implanted CeO2-x Nanoflakes for Electrochemical Sensing of H2O2', Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 170, http://dx.doi.org/10.1149/1945-7111/acd41f
    Journal articles | 2023
    Mao P; Arandiyan H; Mofarah SS; Koshy P; Pozo-Gonzalo C; Zheng R; Wang Z; Wang Y; Bhargava SK; Sun H; Shao Z; Liu Y, 2023, 'A comprehensive review of cathode materials for Na-air batteries', Energy Advances, 2, pp. 465 - 502, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d2ya00340f
    Journal articles | 2023
    Salehi H; Maroufi S; Mofarah SS; Nekouei RK; Sahajwalla V, 2023, 'Recovery of rare earth metals from Ni-MH batteries: A comprehensive review', Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 178, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2023.113248
    Journal articles | 2023
    Tseng YF; Mofarah SS; Zheng X; Arandiyan H; Wang Y; Abbasi R; Gao Y; Sorrell CC; Koshy P, 2023, 'Engineering of Micro-mesoporous two-dimensional CeO2-based heterojunction oxides for energy storage applications', Surfaces and Interfaces, 42, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.surfin.2023.103520
    Journal articles | 2023
    Wong V; Zheng X; Jiang Y; Mofarah SS; Sorrell CC; Koshy P, 2023, '2D-3D metal oxide heterojunction nanostructures for catalytic applications', Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing, 163, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mssp.2023.107588
    Journal articles | 2023
    Xue K; Jiang Y; Mofarah SS; Doustkhah E; Zhou S; Zheng X; Huang S; Wang D; Sorrell CC; Koshy P, 2023, 'Composition-driven morphological evolution of BaTiO3 nanowires for efficient piezocatalytic hydrogen production', Chemosphere, 338, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2023.139337
    Journal articles | 2023
    Zhang L; Fan H; Dang Y; Zhuang Q; Arandiyan H; Wang Y; Cheng N; Sun H; Pérez Garza HH; Zheng R; Wang Z; S. Mofarah S; Koshy P; Bhargava SK; Cui Y; Shao Z; Liu Y, 2023, 'Recent advances in in situ and operando characterization techniques for Li7La3Zr2O12-based solid-state lithium batteries', Materials Horizons, 10, pp. 1479 - 1538, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d3mh00135k
    Journal articles | 2022
    Abbasi R; Tang J; Baharfar M; Zhang C; Allioux FM; Zhang J; Tajik M; Yang J; Biazik J; Centurion F; Han J; Mofarah SS; Esrafilzadeh D; Koshy P; Sorrell CC; Chan SLI; Rahim MA; Kalantar-Zadeh K, 2022, 'Induction heating for the removal of liquid metal-based implant mimics: A proof-of-concept', Applied Materials Today, 27, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apmt.2022.101459
    Journal articles | 2022
    Assefi M; S. Mofarah S; Maroufi S; Khayyam Nekouei R; Wang W; Kert E; Sahajwalla V, 2022, 'Regeneration of hydrogen through thermal micronisation of end-of-life polymers for sustainable reduction of iron oxide', Fuel Processing Technology, 226, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fuproc.2021.107038
    Journal articles | 2022
    Fan H; Mao P; Sun H; Wang Y; Mofarah SS; Koshy P; Arandiyan H; Wang Z; Liu Y; Shao Z, 2022, 'Recent advances of metal telluride anodes for high-performance lithium/sodium-ion batteries', Materials Horizons, 9, pp. 524 - 546, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d1mh01587g
    Journal articles | 2022
    Kabir II; Mofarah SS; Sorrell CC, 2022, 'Non-blockage of atomic-scale active sites in photocatalytic TiO2 thin films deposited on silica-based substrates', Materials Chemistry and Physics, 285, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.matchemphys.2022.126148
    Journal articles | 2022
    Khayyam Nekouei R; Mofarah S; Hossein R; Maroufi S; Sahajwalla V, 2022, 'Roles of experimental variables in optimised fabrication of microrecycled CuO-based photoelectrodes', Materials Today Sustainability, 18, pp. 100111 - 100111, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mtsust.2022.100111
    Journal articles | 2022
    Khayyam Nekouei R; S. Mofarah S; Maroufi S; Tudela I; Sahajwalla V, 2022, 'Determination of the optimum potential window for super- and pseudocapacitance electrodes via in-depth electrochemical impedance spectroscopy analysis', Journal of Energy Storage, 56, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.est.2022.106137
    Journal articles | 2022
    Khayyam Nekouei R; S. Mofarah S; Maroufi S; Wang W; Mansuri I; Sahajwalla V, 2022, 'Unraveling the Role of Oxides in Electrochemical Performance of Activated Carbons for High Voltage Symmetric Electric Double-Layer Capacitors', Advanced Energy and Sustainability Research, 3, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aesr.202100130
    Journal articles | 2022
    Maroufi S; Mofarah SS; Khayyam Nekouei R; Sahajwalla V, 2022, 'Tailoring of a highly stable Mn1−x−y(CexLay)O2−δ pseudocapacitor thin-film and rare earth oxide nanospheres through selective purification of rare earth oxides derived from Ni-MH batteries', Green Chemistry, 24, pp. 1659 - 1672, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d1gc02802b
    Journal articles | 2022
    Mehmood R; J. N. Amaldoss M; Mofarah SS; Zheng Q; Kaushik NK; Ariotti N; Rawal A; Yang JL; Koshy P; Sorrell CC, 2022, 'Green stealth engineering of lifetime-biocatalytic nanocatalyst', Applied Surface Science, 572, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2021.151464
    Journal articles | 2022
    Pachuta KG; Zheng X; Mofarah SS; Sorrell CC; Tsounis C; Scott JA; Sehirlioglu A; Pentzer EB; Koshy P, 2022, 'Engineering Multifunctional Stratified LiCoO2Catalysts: Structural Disorder to Microstructural Exfoliation', ACS Applied Energy Materials, 5, pp. 14290 - 14300, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.2c02846
    Journal articles | 2022
    Xu Y; Koshy P; Mofarah SS; Sorrell CC, 2022, 'Morphological Mapping of Hydrothermally Synthesised Nanoceria at High Ce Concentrations', ChemNanoMat, 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cnma.202200132
    Journal articles | 2021
    Arandiyan H; Mofarah SS; Wang Y; Cazorla C; Jampaiah D; Garbrecht M; Wilson K; Lee AF; Zhao C; Maschmeyer T, 2021, 'Impact of Surface Defects on LaNiO3 Perovskite Electrocatalysts for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction', Chemistry - A European Journal, 27, pp. 14418 - 14426, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/chem.202102672
    Journal articles | 2021
    Arandiyan H; S. Mofarah S; Sorrell CC; Doustkhah E; Sajjadi B; Hao D; Wang Y; Sun H; Ni BJ; Rezaei M; Shao Z; Maschmeyer T, 2021, 'Defect engineering of oxide perovskites for catalysis and energy storage: Synthesis of chemistry and materials science', Chemical Society Reviews, 50, pp. 10116 - 10211, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d0cs00639d
    Journal articles | 2021
    Jiang Y; Chen WF; Ma H; Ren H; Lim S; Lu X; Bahmanrokh G; Mofarah SS; Wang D; Koshy P; Sorrell CC, 2021, 'Effect of Bi/Ti ratio on (Na0.5Bi0.5)TiO3/Bi4Ti3O12 heterojunction formation and photocatalytic performance', Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jece.2021.106532
    Journal articles | 2021
    Jiang Y; Mofarah SS; Koshy P; Chen WF; Fang X; Zheng X; Wang D; Sorrell CC, 2021, 'Na0.5Bi0.5TiO3 phase relations: Thermodynamics and phase equilibria in the systems Bi2O3 – TiO2, Na2O – TiO2, and Na2O – Bi2O3 – TiO2', Journal of the European Ceramic Society, 41, pp. 7005 - 7013, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jeurceramsoc.2021.07.048
    Journal articles | 2021
    Khayyam Nekouei R; S. Mofarah S; Maroufi S; Cazorla C; O'Mullane AP; Yao Y; Lim S; Tricoli A; Sahajwalla V, 2021, 'Self-adhesive flexible patches of oxide heterojunctions with tailored band alignments for electrocatalytic H2O2generation', Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 9, pp. 26727 - 26740, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d1ta06473h
    Journal articles | 2021
    Khayyam Nekouei R; Tudela I; Mofarah SS; Vahidi E; Maroufi S; Wang K; Pahlevani F; Sahajwalla V, 2021, 'Dual functionality of mixed Cu-based two-dimensional (2D) heterostructures derived from electronic waste', Green Chemistry, 23, pp. 5511 - 5523, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d1gc00354b
    Journal articles | 2021
    Maroufi S; Khayyam Nekouei R; S. Mofarah S; O'Mullane AP; Yao Y; Lim S; Cazorla C; Sahajwalla V, 2021, 'Transparent and Flexible Mn1−x−y(CexLay)O2−δ Ultrathin-Film Device for Highly-Stable Pseudocapacitance Application', Advanced Functional Materials, 31, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202100880
    Journal articles | 2021
    Maroufi S; Nekouei RK; Mofarah SS; Sahajwalla V, 2021, 'Nanoscale design of 1D metal oxides derived from mixed Ni-MH battery/transition metal dust', Journal of Hazardous Materials, 415, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2021.125645
    Journal articles | 2021
    Mofarah SS; Khayyam Nekouei R; Maroufi S; Biswal S; Lim S; Yao Y; Sahajwalla V, 2021, 'Controllable design of defect-rich hybrid iron oxide nanostructures on mesoporous carbon-based scaffold for pseudocapacitive applications', Nanoscale, 13, pp. 3662 - 3672, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d0nr06880b
    Journal articles | 2021
    Mofarah SS; Schreck L; Cazorla C; Zheng X; Adabifiroozjaei E; Tsounis C; Scott J; Shahmiri R; Yao Y; Abbasi R; Wang Y; Arandiyan H; Sheppard L; Wong V; Doustkhah E; Koshy P; Sorrell CC, 2021, 'Highly catalytically active CeO2-: X-based heterojunction nanostructures with mixed micro/meso-porous architectures', Nanoscale, 13, pp. 6764 - 6771, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d0nr08097g
    Journal articles | 2021
    Sarmadi N; Gharabaghi M; Tamadoni Saray M; Darestani M; Garman D; Koshy P; S. Mofarah S; Sorrell CC, 2021, 'Highly Mesoporous Hybrid Transition Metal Oxide Nanowires for Enhanced Adsorption of Rare Earth Elements from Wastewater', Inorganic Chemistry, 60, pp. 175 - 184, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c02762
    Journal articles | 2021
    Shen P; Zhang B; Wang Y; Liu X; Yu C; Xu T; Mofarah SS; Yu Y; Liu Y; Sun H; Arandiyan H, 2021, 'Nanoscale niobium oxides anode for electrochemical lithium and sodium storage: a review of recent improvements', Journal of Nanostructure in Chemistry, 11, pp. 33 - 68, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40097-020-00367-5
    Journal articles | 2021
    Xu Y; Mofarah SS; Mehmood R; Cazorla C; Koshy P; Sorrell CC, 2021, 'Design strategies for ceria nanomaterials: Untangling key mechanistic concepts', Materials Horizons, 8, pp. 102 - 123, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d0mh00654h
    Journal articles | 2021
    Zheng X; Mofarah SS; Cazorla C; Daiyan R; Esmailpour AA; Scott J; Yao Y; Lim S; Wong V; Chen EY; Arandiyan H; Koshy P; Sorrell CC, 2021, 'Decoupling the Impacts of Engineering Defects and Band Gap Alignment Mechanism on the Catalytic Performance of Holey 2D CeO2−x-Based Heterojunctions', Advanced Functional Materials, 31, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202103171
    Journal articles | 2021
    Zheng X; Mofarah SS; Cen A; Cazorla C; Haque E; Chen EY; Atanacio AJ; Manohar M; Vutukuri C; Abraham JL; Koshy P; Sorrell CC, 2021, 'Role of Oxygen Vacancy Ordering and Channel Formation in Tuning Intercalation Pseudocapacitance in Mo Single-Ion-Implanted CeO2–x Nanoflakes', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 13, pp. 59820 - 59833, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsami.1c14484
    Journal articles | 2020
    Adabifiroozjaei E; Mofarah SS; Ma H; Jiang Y; Assadi MHN; Suzuki TS, 2020, 'Molecular dynamics simulation of vacancy cluster formation in β- and α-Si3N4', Computational Materials Science, 178, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.commatsci.2020.109632
    Journal articles | 2020
    Bahmanrokh G; Cazorla C; Mofarah SS; Shahmiri R; Yao Y; Ismail I; Chen WF; Koshy P; Sorrell CC, 2020, 'Band gap engineering of Ce-doped anatase TiO2 through solid solubility mechanisms and new defect equilibria formalism', Nanoscale, 12, pp. 4916 - 4934, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c9nr08604h
    Journal articles | 2020
    Kabir I; Sorrell CC; Mofarah SS; Yang W; Yuen ACY; Nazir MT; Yeoh GH, 2020, 'Alginate/Polymer-Based Materials for Fire Retardancy: Synthesis, Structure, Properties, and Applications', Polymer Reviews, pp. 1 - 58, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15583724.2020.1801726
    Journal articles | 2020
    Milićević JS; Ranđelović MS; Momčilović MZ; Zarubica AR; Mofarah SS; Matović B; Sorrel CC, 2020, 'Multiwalled carbon nanotubes modified with MoO2 nanoparticles for voltammetric determination of the pesticide oxyfluorfen', Microchimica Acta, 187, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00604-020-04406-4
    Journal articles | 2020
    S. Mofarah S; Adabifiroozjaei E; Wang Y; Arandiyan H; Pardehkhorram R; Yao Y; Assadi MHN; Mehmood R; Chen WF; Tsounis C; Scott J; Lim S; Webster R; Zhong V; Xu Y; Koshy P; Sorrell CC, 2020, 'Assembly of cerium-based coordination polymer into variant polycrystalline 2D-3D CeO2-x nanostructures', Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 8, pp. 4753 - 4763, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c9ta11961b
    Journal articles | 2019
    Adabifiroozjaei E; Koshy P; Emadi F; Mofarah SS; Ma H; Rastkerdar E; Lim S; Webster RF; Mitchell DRG; Sorrell CC, 2019, 'Ionic interdiffusion as interaction mechanism between Al and Si3N4', Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 102, pp. 4835 - 4847, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jace.16358
    Journal articles | 2019
    Ghasemian MB; Mayyas M; Idrus-Saidi SA; Jamal MA; Yang J; Mofarah SS; Adabifiroozjaei E; Tang J; Syed N; O'Mullane AP; Daeneke T; Kalantar-Zadeh K, 2019, 'Self-Limiting Galvanic Growth of MnO2 Monolayers on a Liquid Metal—Applied to Photocatalysis', Advanced Functional Materials, 29, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201901649
    Journal articles | 2019
    Mehmood R; Mofarah SS; Chen WF; Koshy P; Sorrell CC, 2019, 'Surface, Subsurface, and Bulk Oxygen Vacancies Quantified by Decoupling and Deconvolution of the Defect Structure of Redox-Active Nanoceria', Inorganic Chemistry, 58, pp. 6016 - 6027, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b00330
    Journal articles | 2019
    Mehmood R; Mofarah SS; Rawal A; Tomasetig F; Wang X; Yang JL; Koshy P; Sorrell CC, 2019, 'Green Synthesis of Zwitterion-Functionalized Nano-Octahedral Ceria for Enhanced Intracellular Delivery and Cancer Therapy', ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering, 7, pp. 9189 - 9201, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b06726
    Journal articles | 2019
    Mofarah SS; Adabifiroozjaei E; Pardehkhorram R; Assadi MHN; Hinterstein M; Yao Y; Liu X; Ghasemian MB; Kalantar-Zadeh K; Mehmood R; Cazorla C; Shahmiri R; Bahmanrokh G; Bhattacharyya S; Spadaro MC; Arbiol J; Lim S; Xu Y; Arandiyan H; Scott J; Koshy P; Sorrell CC, 2019, 'Coordination Polymer to Atomically Thin, Holey, Metal-Oxide Nanosheets for Tuning Band Alignment', Advanced Materials, 31, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adma.201905288
    Journal articles | 2019
    Motamedi M; Crisostomo F; Yao Y; Mofarah SS; Chen WF; Koshy P; Taylor RA, 2019, 'Single-layer, anti-reflective thin films of porous MgF2 for solar thermal applications', Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 52, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1361-6463/ab1f5e
    Journal articles | 2019
    Ranđelović MS; Momčilović MZ; Milićević JS; Đurović-Pejčev RD; Mofarah SS; Sorrel CC, 2019, 'Voltammetric sensor based on Pt nanoparticles suported MWCNT for determination of pesticide clomazone in water samples', Journal of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers, 105, pp. 115 - 123, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtice.2019.10.013
    Journal articles | 2019
    S. Mofarah S; Adabifiroozjaei E; Yao Y; Koshy P; Lim S; Webster R; Liu X; Khayyam Nekouei R; Cazorla C; Liu Z; Wang Y; Lambropoulos N; Sorrell CC, 2019, 'Proton-assisted creation of controllable volumetric oxygen vacancies in ultrathin CeO2−x for pseudocapacitive energy storage applications', Nature Communications, 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10621-2
    Journal articles | 2018
    Chen WF; Mofarah SS; Hanaor DAH; Koshy P; Chen HK; Jiang Y; Sorrell CC, 2018, 'Enhancement of Ce/Cr Codopant Solubility and Chemical Homogeneity in TiO2 Nanoparticles through Sol-Gel versus Pechini Syntheses', Inorganic Chemistry, 57, pp. 7279 - 7289, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b00926
    Journal articles | 2017
    Channei D; Phanichphant S; Nakaruk A; Mofarah SS; Koshy P; Sorrell CC, 2017, 'Aqueous and surface chemistries of photocatalytic Fe-doped CEO2 nanoparticles', Catalysts, 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/catal7020045
  • Preprints | 2023
    Wang Y; Arandiyan H; Mofarah SS; Shen X; Bartlett S; Koshy P; Sorrell C; Sun H; Pozo-Gonzalo C; Dastafkan K; Britto S; Bhargava S; Zhao C, 2023, Stacking Faults Defect-Rich MoNi Alloy for Ultrahigh-Performance Hydrogen Evolution, , http://dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-2537350/v1